Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH1TB, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH1TB, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH1TB with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH1TB with another maize line or plant.

Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LH277, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LH277, to the plants of inbred corn line LH277 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line LH277 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LH277 with another corn line.

Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LH229, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LH229, to the plants of inbred corn line LH229 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line LH229 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LH229 with another corn line.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 36A43, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 36A43, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 36A43.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of producing a cereal plant cell or protoplast useful for regeneration of a water stress or salt stress tolerant cereal plant by transforming the cereal plant cell or protoplast with a nucleic acid encoding a late embryogenesis abundant protein. A transgenic cereal plant or cereal plant cell or protoplast transformed with a nucleic acid encoding a late embryogenesis abundant protein is also provided. An LEA protein gene, HVA1, from barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) was transformed into rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants. The resulting transgenic rice plants accumulate the HVA1 protein in both leaves and roots. Transgenic rice plants showed significantly increased tolerance to water stress (drought) and salt stress.

Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LH301, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LH301, to the plants of inbred corn line LH301 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line LH301 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LH301 with another corn line.

Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LH266, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LH266, to the plants of inbred corn line LH266 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line LH266 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LH266 with another corn line.

Abstract: A cDNA molecule encoding for a particular 33 kD cysteine proteinase derived from maize is provided. When expressed in a plant, particularly corn or cotton, the protein provides insect resistance to the plant, and when expressed in the anther, the 33 kD cysteine proteinase provides sterility in the male of the plant species. The cDNA molecule can also be used as a probe to isolate suitable promoters for regulating expression of a 33 kD cysteine proteinase in callus or to provide a transformed baculovirus, which confers insect resistance upon a plant when the plant is infectted with the transformed baculovirus. Additionally, a DNA sequence of 264 base pairs in length is provided that provides enhanced enzymatic/catalytic activity in proteins expressed when the 264 base pair sequence is operably linked to a DNA molecule encoding for a cysteine proteinase.

Abstract: A method for making a genetically modified plant comprising regenerating a whole plant from a plant cell that has been transfected with DNA sequences comprising a first gene whose expression results in an altered plant phenotype linked to a transiently active promoter, the gene and promoter being separated by a blocking sequence flanked on either side by specific excision sequences, a second gene that encodes a recombinase specific for the specific excision sequences linked to a repressible promoter, and a third gene that encodes the repressor specific for the repressible promoter.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided an inbred corn plant designated 91CSI-1. This invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the inbred corn plant 91CSI-1, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred plant 91CSI-1 with itself or with another corn plant, such as another inbred. This invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred plant 91CSI-1 with another corn plant, such as another inbred, and to crosses with related species. This invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of the inbred corn plant 91CSI-1, and also to the RFLP and genetic isozyme typing profiles of inbred corn plant 91CSI-1.

Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LH303, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LH303, to the plants of inbred corn line LH303 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line LH303 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LH303 with another corn line.

Abstract: Hybrid maize seeds which yield a starch having an amylose content of 80% or more are disclosed as are starches having that amylose content. Compositions including these high amylose starches are also disclosed. Fractions of high amylose starches which have been formed on the basis of granule size are shown to have enhanced dietary fiber and/or resistant starch content. Such fractions enable the preparation of food compositions of enhanced dietary fiber and/or resistant starch content.

Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LH302, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LH302, to the plants of inbred corn line LH302 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line LH302 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LH302 with another corn line.

Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LH265, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LH265, to the plants of inbred corn line LH265 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line LH265 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LH265 with another corn line.

Abstract: An Agrostis palustris (stolonifera) turfgrass variety is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, the plants, and to methods of producing an Agrostis plant having the characteristic of average leaf blade width of less than one mm wide.

Abstract: A vector for introducing a desired gene into a planet, which comprises the desired gene and at least one morphological abnormally induction (MAI) gene as a marker gene, or which comprises the desired gene, at least one MAI gene and a removable element. A method for producing a transgenic plant free from the influence of a marker gene. A method for multitudinously introducing desired genes into one plant.

Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid sequences encoding a metal ion resistance protein, which are expressible in plant cells. The metal resistance protein provides for the enzymatic reduction of metal ions including but not limited to divalent Cu, divalent mercury, trivalent gold, divalent cadmium, lead ions and monovalent silver ions. Transgenic plants which express these coding sequences exhibit increased resistance to metal ions in the environment as compared with plants which have not been so genetically modified. Transgenic plants with improved resistance to organometals including alkylmercury compounds, among others, are provided by the further inclusion of plant-expressible organometal lyase coding sequences, as specifically exemplified by the plant-expressible merB coding sequence.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 36K50, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 36K50, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 36K50.

Abstract: The present invention relates to expression and assembly of foreign multimeric proteins--e.g., antibodies--in plants, as well as to transgenic plants that express such proteins. In one of several preferred embodiments, the generation and assembly of functional secretory antibodies in plants is disclosed. The invention also discloses compositions produced by the transgenic plants of the present invention and methods of using same.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to the production of fertile transformed wheat plants. The method involved subjecting wheat tissues to high velocity microprojectile bombardment, selecting for transformed cells, and regenerating stably transformed fertile plants from the transformed cells.