Patents by Inventor Coralie Lashbrook

Coralie Lashbrook 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).

  • Materials and methods for tissue-specific targeting of ethylene insensitivity in transgenic plants
    Publication number: 20080109918
    Abstract: The subject invention concerns materials and methods for controlling agricultural traits in plants that are mediated by the plant hormone ethylene. One aspect of the invention concerns a polynucleotide that comprises a sequence encoding a mutant ethylene receptor that is operably linked to a regulatory sequence that drives expression of the mutant receptor in a tissue-specific manner. In an exemplified embodiment, the mutant receptor sequence is an etr1-1 sequence, or a functional fragment or variant thereof, and the regulatory sequence is a promoter sequence from a cotton chitinase gene that can promote expression of the mutant ethylene receptor in abscission zone tissue of a plant. The subject invention also concerns plants and plant tissue transformed with the polynucleotide of the subject invention. Plants expressing the polynucleotide of the subject invention do not drop their flowers in response to exposure to ethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Harry Klee, Coralie Lashbrook, Lori Shrode
  • Materials and methods for tissue-specific targeting of ethylene insensitivity in transgenic plants
    Publication number: 20040128719
    Abstract: The subject invention concerns materials and methods for controlling agricultural traits in plants that are mediated by the plant hormone ethylene. One aspect of the invention concerns a polynucleotide that comprises a sequence encoding a mutant ethylene receptor that is operably linked to a regulatory sequence that drives expression of the mutant receptor in a tissue-specific manner. In an exemplified embodiment, the mutant receptor sequence is an etr1-1 sequence, or a functional fragment or variant thereof, and the regulatory sequence is a promoter sequence from a cotton chitinase gene that can promote expression of the mutant ethylene receptor in abscission zone tissue of a plant. The subject invention also concerns plants and plant tissue transformed with the polynucleotide of the subject invention. Plants expressing the polynucleotide of the subject invention do not drop their flowers in response to exposure to ethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Harry J. Klee, Coralie Lashbrook, Lori Shrode
  • Endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase genes and their use in plants
    Patent number: 5585545
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing fruit softening and cell wall polysaccharide degradation by inhibiting endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase activity using antisense nucleic acid constructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Alan B. Bennett, Robert L. Fischer, Coralie Lashbrook, James Giovannoni
  • Endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase genes and their use in plants
    Patent number: 5554743
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing fruit softening and cell wall polysaccharide degradation by inhibiting endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase activity using antisense nucleic acid constructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Alan B. Bennett, Robert L. Fischer, Coralie Lashbrook, James Giovannoni
  • Endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase genes and their use in plants
    Patent number: 5328999
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing fruit softening and cell wall polysaccharide degradation by inhibiting endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase activity using antisense DNA constructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Alan B. Bennett, Robert L. Fischer, Coralie Lashbrook, James Giovannoni
  • Endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase gene and its use in plants
    Patent number: 5168064
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing fruit softening and cell wall polysaccharide degradation by inhibiting endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase activity using antisense DNA constructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Alan B. Bennett, Robert L. Fischer, Coralie Lashbrook, James Giovannoni