Patents by Inventor Caius Rommens
Caius Rommens has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8502027Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Publication number: 20130074222Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying and isolating native plant nucleic acid sequences that may function as T-DNAs or T-DNA border-like sequences, effecting the transfer of one polynucleotide into another polynucleotide. The present invention also provides a modified tuber, such as a genetically modified mature tuber, that comprises at least one trait that is not exhibited by a non-modified tuber of the same species.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: CAIUS ROMMENS, Jingsong Ye, Jaime Menendez-Humara, Hua Yan, Kathy Swords
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Publication number: 20120297500Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventor: Caius Rommens
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Publication number: 20120258233Abstract: The present invention relates to unique strategies and constructs for producing a nucleic acid product that downregulates or prevents expression of a desired target polynucleotide.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: CAIUS ROMMENS, Hua Yan, Oleg Bougri, Kathy M.M. Swords
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Patent number: 8273949Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying and isolating native plant nucleic acid sequences that may function as T-DNAs or T-DNA border-like sequences, effecting the transfer of one polynucleotide into another polynucleotide. The present invention also provides a modified tuber, such as a genetically modified mature tuber, that comprises at least one trait that is not exhibited by a non-modified tuber of the same species.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius Rommens, Jingsong Ye, Jaime Menendez-Humara, Hua Yan, Kathy Swords
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Patent number: 8252974Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: J.R. Simplot ComanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Patent number: 8193412Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius Rommens, Jingsong Ye, Hua Yan
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Publication number: 20120137389Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules and sequences, particularly those identified and obtained from plants, that are useful for transferring and integrating one polynucleotide into another via plant transformation techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2005Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Caius Rommens, Oleg V. Bougri, Hua Yan
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Publication number: 20120102589Abstract: The present invention is drawn to novel genes from wild plants, such as wild potato and pepper plants, that confer potyvirus resistance to plants, such as in transformed cultivated plants. Also encompassed are cultivated plants transformed with the novel gene, food products made from the transformed cultivated plants, and methods for making such plants and food products.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: Caius Rommens, Hui Duan, Rekha Chawla
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Patent number: 8158414Abstract: The present invention relates to unique strategies and constructs for producing a nucleic acid product that down-regulates or prevents expression of a desired target polynucleotide. Such construct may include an expressing cassette having two convergently-oriented promoters each operably linked to a polynucleotide, but not to a terminator. The two polynucleotides are fully identical in sequence over at least 23 nucleotides.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius Rommens, Hua Yan, Oleg Bougri, Kathy M. M. Swords
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Patent number: 8143477Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: J. R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Patent number: 8137961Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules and sequences, particularly those identified and obtained from plants, that are useful for transferring and integrating one polynucleotide into another via plant transformation techniques.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Publication number: 20110191876Abstract: The present invention relates to a new, distinct and stable variety of glyphosate tolerant perennial ryegrass, botanically known as Lolium perenne L. of the Poaceae family, and hereinafter referred to by the variety denomination ‘Jacklin 501’. The present invention relates to glyphosate tolerant perennial ryegrass ‘Jacklin 501’ plants, as well as, progeny or hybrid plants, seed, plant parts, harvested products, tissue cultures of regenerable cells, and protoplasts obtained from the glyphosate tolerant perennial ryegrass plants or plant tissues of ‘Jacklin 501’, and containing morphological and physiological characteristics of ‘Jacklin 501’.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Inventors: Andrew Douglas Brede, Susan H. Samudio, Caius Rommens, Jingsong Ye
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Patent number: 7947868Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius Rommens, Kathy M. M. Swords
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Publication number: 20110107470Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventor: Caius ROMMENS
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Publication number: 20110093969Abstract: The present invention relates to a new, distinct and stable variety of glyphosate tolerant perennial ryegrass, botanically known as Lolium perenne L. of the Poaceae family, and hereinafter referred to by the variety denomination ‘Replay’. The present invention relates to glyphosate tolerant perennial ryegrass ‘Replay’ plants, as well as, progeny or hybrid plants, seed, plant parts, harvested products, tissue cultures of regenerable cells, and protoplasts obtained from the glyphosate tolerant perennial ryegrass plants or plant tissues of ‘Replay’, and containing morphological and physiological characteristics of ‘Replay’.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Andrew Douglas Brede, Susan H. Samudio, Caius Rommens, Jingsong Ye
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Patent number: 7928292Abstract: The present invention provides methods for producing transgenic plants based on an optimized transfer of DNA from Agrobacterium to plant cells, and/or on an optimized integration of the transferred DNAs into plant cell genomes. It also provides Agrobacterium-transformation vectors that can be used to limit or eliminate the transfer of undesirable DNA. The present invention can be applied to essentially any species of plants, including many recalcitrant plant species.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius Rommens, J Troy Weeks
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Patent number: 7880057Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius Rommens, Kathy M. M. Swords
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Patent number: 7855319Abstract: The present invention relates to increasing at least one antioxidant level in a plant or plant product by expressing a polynucleotide that encodes a transcription factor, which is active in a flavonoid pathway. Overexpression of, for instance, a novel and newly-identified gene, the mCai gene, in a plant, results in increased accumulation of chlorogenic acid and other related phenolics, which, in turn, increases the levels of beneficial antioxidant in the plant.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Publication number: 20100310754Abstract: The present technology concerns the creation of healthy and appealing new foods made from tubers, such as healthy French Fries, and potato rings that have low surface area-to-volume ratios than the surface area-to-volume ratio of conventional potato products.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Caius ROMMENS, Mark Heap, Roshani Shakya