Patents by Inventor Erik T. Mirkov

Erik T. Mirkov 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).

  • Methods and constructs for producing transgenic plants and methods of recovering expressed proteins
    Publication number: 20070130655
    Abstract: This invention relates to a regulatory element useful for genetically engineering sugarcane or other monocots, to the transformation of the monocots with the regulatory element so that they produce a desired product, and to the regeneration of the monocots transformed with the regulatory element. In particular the present invention provides a nucleic acid encoding the promoter of a sugarcane proline rich protein as shown in Seq ID #3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Erik T. Mirkov, Andrew Paterson, Meizhu Yang
  • Regulatory element from a sugarcane proline rich protein and used thereof
    Publication number: 20040073965
    Abstract: This invention relates to a regulatory element useful for genetically engineering sugarcane or other monocots, to the transformation of the monocots with the regulatory element so that they produce a desired product, and to the regeneration of the monocots transformed with the regulatory element. In particular the present invention provides a nucleic acid encoding the promoter of a sugarcane proline rich protein as shown in Seq ID #3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Erik T. Mirkov, Andrew Paterson, Meizhu Yang