Patents by Inventor Fiona Doohan

Fiona Doohan 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).

  • Fusarium head blight disease resistance
    Patent number: 11111501
    Abstract: A recombinant construct comprising a nucleotide sequence of SEQUENCE ID NO. 1 or a functional variant or functional fragment thereof is provided. Also provided are plant cells transformed with the gene and plant material, including plant cell cultures, seeds and plants, comprising the transformed plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventors: Fiona Doohan, Ganesh Thapa, Lokandha Rao Gunupuru, Gerard Hehir, Ewen Mullins
  • Fusarium head blight disease resistance
    Publication number: 20210054400
    Abstract: A recombinant construct comprising a nucleotide sequence of SEQUENCE ID NO. 1 or a functional variant or functional fragment thereof is provided. Also provided are plant cells transformed with the gene and plant material, including plant cell cultures, seeds and plants, comprising the transformed plant cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Fiona DOOHAN, Ganesh THAPA, Rao GUNUPURU LOKANDHA, Gerard HEHIR, Ewen MULLINS
  • Method for improving the mean dry shoot weight, mean dry grain weight, and suppressing seed-borne infection in a cereal crop
    Patent number: 10765084
    Abstract: A seed coating composition comprising a mixture of a fungal root endophyte isolated from a root of the plant found in low-nutrient, drought-stressed or multiply-stressed conditions and a carrier medium for application of said composition to a target seed, wherein the endophyte is characterised in having a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nr ITS) with at least a 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignees: The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars & the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy & Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin
    Inventors: Brian Murphy, Trevor Hodkinson, Fiona Doohan
  • Gene capable of enhancing salicylic acid-induced cell death in a plant cell and contributing to resistance to the fungal virulence factor deoxynivalenol, resistance to fusarium fungi and fusarium head blight disease, and a recombinant construct including the gene
    Patent number: 10221427
    Abstract: The Applicant has identified a novel DON-responsive orphan gene (ENST1—SEQ ID NO: 1), and its promoter, which features DON-responsive elements, which can be used to drive the expression of FHB resistance genes. The Applicant has isolated two variants of the gene from wheat that share approximately 94% homology with ENST1. The Applicant has shown that this gene has homologs of >62% nucleotide sequence identity exist in Aegilops tauschii, Brachypodium distachyon, Festuca pratensis, Hordeum vulgare and Triticum aestivum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin
    Inventors: Fiona Doohan, Guillaume Erard, Alexandre Perochon, Khairul Ansari, Arunachalam Chanemougasoundharam, Joanna Kacprzyk
  • A GENE CAPABLE OF ENHANCING SALICYLIC ACID-INDUCED CELL DEATH IN A PLANT CELL AND CONTRIBUTING TO RESISTANCE TO THE FUNGAL VIRULENCE FACTOR DEOXYNIVALENOL, RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM FUNGI AND FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT DISEASE, AND A RECOMBINANT CONSTRUCT INCLUDING THE GENE
    Publication number: 20180016594
    Abstract: The Applicant has identified a novel DON-responsive orphan gene (ENST1—SEQ ID NO: 1), and its promoter, which features DON-responsive elements, which can be used to drive the expression of FHB resistance genes. The Applicant has isolated two variants of the gene from wheat that share approximately 94% homology with ENST1. The Applicant has shown that this gene has homologs of >62% nucleotide sequence identity exist in Aegilops tauschii, Brachypodium distachyon, Festuca pratensis, Hordeum vulgare and Triticum aestivum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Fiona Doohan, Guillaume Erard, Alexandre Perochon, Khairul Ansari, Arunachalam Chanemougasoundharam, Joanna Kacprzyk
  • Method of transforming cells
    Patent number: 9822375
    Abstract: Use of an isolated Ensifer adhaerens strain OV14 deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 4177, or an isolated variant thereof characterized by a 16S rRNA gene having at least 98.6% sequence homology with SEQUENCE ID NO: 1, as a gene delivery system in the genetic transformation of a plant cell or plant material is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Agriculture and Food Development Authority (“TEAGASC”)
    Inventors: Ewen Mullins, Toni Wendt, Fiona Doohan
  • A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE MEAN DRY SHOOT WEIGHT, MEAN DRY GRAIN WEIGHT, AND SUPPRESSING SEED-BORNE INFECTION IN A CEREAL CROP
    Publication number: 20170273271
    Abstract: A seed coating composition comprising a mixture of a fungal root endophyte isolated from a root of the plant found in low-nutrient, drought-stressed or multiply-stressed conditions and a carrier medium for application of said composition to a target seed, wherein the endophyte is characterised in having a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nr ITS) with at least a 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Murphy, Trevor Hodkinson, Fiona Doohan
  • METHOD OF TRANSFORMING CELLS
    Publication number: 20160376603
    Abstract: Use of an isolated Ensifer adhaerens strain OV14 deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 4177, or an isolated variant thereof characterised by a 16S rRNA gene having at least 98.6% sequence homology with SEQUENCE ID NO: 1, as a gene delivery system in the genetic transformation of a plant cell or plant material is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Ewen Mullins, Toni Wendt, Fiona Doohan
  • Method of transforming cells
    Patent number: 9365858
    Abstract: Use of an isolated Ensifer adhaerens strain OV14 deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 4177, or an isolated variant thereof characterized by a 16S rRNA gene having at least 98.6% sequence homology with SEQUENCE ID NO: 1, as a gene delivery system in the genetic transformation of a plant cell or plant material is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND
    Inventors: Ewen Mullins, Toni Wendt, Fiona Doohan
  • METHOD OF TRANSFORMING CELLS
    Publication number: 20130078706
    Abstract: Use of an isolated Ensifer adhaerens strain OV14 deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 4177, or an isolated variant thereof characterised by a 16S rRNA gene having at least 98.6% sequence homology with SEQUENCE ID NO: 1, as a gene delivery system in the genetic transformation of a plant cell or plant material is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: University College Dublin, National University of Ireland
    Inventors: Ewen Mullins, Toni Wendt, Fiona Doohan