Patents Examined by Matthew Keogh
  • Patent number: 9185861
    Abstract: Brassica plants producing oils with a low alpha-linolenic acid content and methods for producing such plants are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cargill, Incorporated
    Inventors: Daren Kenneth Coonrod, Kevin Brandt, Honggang Zheng, Zhizheng Chen, Richard Fletcher
  • Patent number: 9187758
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are zinc fingers comprising CCHC zinc coordinating residues. Also described are zinc finger proteins and fusion proteins comprising these CCHC zinc fingers as well as polynucleotides encoding these proteins. Methods of using these proteins for gene editing and gene regulation are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Qihua C. Cai, Vipula K. Shukla, Joseph F. Petolino, Lisa W. Baker, Robbi J. Garrison, Ryan C. Blue, Jon C. Mitchell, Nicole L. Arnold, Sarah E. Worden, Jeffrey Miller, Fyodor Urnov
  • Patent number: 9173359
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH1DG3 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1DG3 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1DG3 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1DG3 or a locus conversion of PH1DG3 with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Gustavo Marcelo Garcia
  • Patent number: 9169488
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to search for a gene having a novel function that can cause an increase or decrease in material productivity, and particularly, fat and oil content. In the present invention, a chimeric protein obtained by fusing a transcription factor consisting of a protein comprising an amino acid sequence shown in any of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 158 and a functional peptide capable of converting an arbitrary transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor is expressed in a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Kondo, Chikara Ohto, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Masaru Takagi, Kyoko Matsui
  • Patent number: 9167774
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH613081. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH613081, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH613081 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH613081.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Ochs, Slobodan Trifunovic
  • Patent number: 9167772
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH657855. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH657855, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH657855 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH657855.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Richard G. Stelpflug
  • Patent number: 9161504
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated ID6053, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line ID6053 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line ID6053, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line ID6053, and plants produced according to these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Michael Dragonuk, Dwight Bostwick
  • Patent number: 9125359
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH394502. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH394502, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH394502 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH394502.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Bhatnagar, Mark J. Brinkman, Kevin D. Eichelberger, Sarah Gehlhar, Gregory J. Holland, Daniel J. Lubich, Jeffrey L. McElroy, Laron L. Peters, Duane A. Potrzeba, Hector Ramirez de Leon
  • Patent number: 9127288
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing lipids. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of increasing the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content in a transgenic organism or part thereof. In one particular embodiment, the present invention relates to the use of an acyltransferase, for example, a monoacylglycerol acyltransferase (MGAT) to increase the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content in plants, plant seed and/or leaves, algae and fungi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Thomas Vanhercke, Pushkar Shrestha, Oing Liu, Surinder Pal Singh
  • Patent number: 9115370
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding adult plant pathogen resistance proteins. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing these polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of the plants to pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignees: Grains Research and Development Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, University of Zurich
    Inventors: Evans Lagudah, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Beat Keller, Simon Krattinger
  • Patent number: 9109208
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule that improves aroma production in a plant, and a cell and a transgenic plant comprising the nucleic acid molecule. A protein and a protein complex for catalyzing the synthesis of a monoterpene and a precursor thereof and uses for improving the production of aroma in a plant are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong-Hwa Chen, Yu-Yun Hsiao, Wen-Chieh Tsai, Wen-Huei Chen
  • Patent number: 9090903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a nucleic acid fragment or part thereof encoding ?-ketoacyl ACP synthase II (KASII), particularly which derived from Jessenia bataua to enhance the production and the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) in a plant, oil crops of particular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARD
    Inventors: Umi Salamah Ramli, Ooi Kock Teh
  • Patent number: 9090902
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids derived from Drechslera tritici-repentis, Cylindorcarpon herteronema, Diploida natalensis, Stagonospora nodorum, Microdochium nivalae and Periplaneta americana. The invention also relates to the individual coding sequences and to proteins encoded by these sequences in combination with other sequences as well as to a process for converting oleic acid to linoleic acid to Iinoleic acid and the production of arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid in a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignees: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.
    Inventors: Jörg Bauer, Toralf Senger, Thorsten Zank, Xiao Qiu, Guohai Wu
  • Patent number: 9078406
    Abstract: The present invention provides the transgenic soybean event MON87754, and the cells, seeds, plant parts, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for this transgenic soybean event. The event itself functions to increase the oil content of soybeans carrying the event in their genome relative to commodity versions of soy. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for said soybean event in a sample, methods for detecting the presence of said soybean event nucleotide sequences in a sample, probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of said soybean event in a sample, growing the seeds of such soybean event into soybean plants, and breeding to produce soybean plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the soybean event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Eric Aasen, David Chi, Can Duong
  • Patent number: 9068194
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for increasing the leaf-to-root ratio of the signal metabolite 2-oxoglutaramate and related proline molecules in plants by modulating levels of ?-amidase to increase nitrogen use efficiency, resulting in enhanced growth, faster growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignees: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, University of Maine System Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
  • Patent number: 9068193
    Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Masaru Takagi, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui
  • Patent number: 9062322
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT (Asparatate AminoTransferase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown ASPAT-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventor: Yves Hatzfeld
  • Patent number: 9062318
    Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Masaru Takagi, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui
  • Patent number: 9060489
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 30451113 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 30451113, to the plants of soybean cultivar 30451113, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 30451113, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 30451113. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 30451113. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 30451113, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 30451113 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 9057075
    Abstract: The present specification relates to the production of cotton plants and seeds and oil prepared therefrom having elevated levels of oleic and reduced levels of palmitic and linoleic acids. Furthermore, cottonseeds having low levels of cyclopropane and/or cyclopropene fatty acids and/or reduced levels of gossypol are described herein. The specification also describe FatB and CPA-FAS nucleotide and amino acid sequences derived from cotton facilitating, inter alia the direct modification of plant oil content and/or composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Qing Liu, Allan Graham Green, Surinder Pal Singh