Patents by Inventor German Spangenberg
German Spangenberg 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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Publication number: 20120005783Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in plants. More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for ice recrystallisation inhibition proteins (IRIPs) in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of plant response to freezing and/or low temperature stress. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in Deschampsia and Festuca species.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventors: German Spangenberg, Ulrik Peter John, Renata Martina Polotonianka
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Publication number: 20110277186Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of TRANSPARENT TESTA 12 (TT12), TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1), TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2), TRANSPARENT TESTA 8 (TT8), leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20110277187Abstract: The present invention relates to the modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to methods of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells, and to related nucleic acids and constructs. The present invention also relates to increasing plant biomass and, more particularly, to methods of enhancing biomass yield and/or yield stability, including shoot and/or root growth in a plant, and to related nucleic acids and constructs. The present invention also relates to methods of enhancing the productivity of biochemical pathways and, more particularly, to fusion proteins in plants, and to related nucleic acids and constructs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicants: MOLECULAR PLANT BREEDING NOMINEES LTD, AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Megan Elizabeth Griffith, Luciano Gaston Martelotto
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Patent number: 8017370Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for organic acid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, organic acid biosynthesis and secretion in plants. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of citrate synthase (CS) and/or malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and/or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) in plants to modify, for example, organic acid synthesis and secretion.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Eng Kok Ong, Ramiro Mendez, Stephen Panter, Marcel Labandera
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Publication number: 20110219475Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for organic acid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, organic acid biosynthesis and secretion in plants. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of citrate synthase (CS) and/or malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and/or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) in plants to modify, for example, organic acid synthesis and secretion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Eng Kok Ong, Ramiro Mendez, Stephen Panter, Marcel Labandera
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Patent number: 8008543Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, more particularly flavonoid biosynthesis-regulating transcription factors, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the present invention relates to a PURPLE ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT 1 (PAP1) or PAP1-like transcription factor.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LtdInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20110209228Abstract: The present invention provides peptides and analogs and derivatives thereof having antimicrobial activity at least against Streptococcus uberis for the treatment of a range of infectious disease mastitis, otitis externa, clostridial intestinal disease and respiratory disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Benjamin Cocks, German Spangenberg, Jianghui Wang
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Patent number: 7960608Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of TRANSPARENT TESTA 12 (TT12), TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1), TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2), TRANSPARENT TESTA 8 (TT8), leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTDInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20110055974Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids and nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. More particularly, the flavonoid biosynthetic enzyme is selected from the group consisting of chalcone isomerase (CHI), chalcone synthase (CHS), chalcone reductase (CHR), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR), leucoanthocyanidin reductase (LCR), flavonoid 3?,5? hydrolase (F3?5?H), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), flavonoid 3?-hydroxylase (F3?H), phenylalanine ammonia-olyase (PAL) and vestitone reductase (VR), and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: German Spangenberg, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Eng-Kok Ong, Michael Emmerling
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Patent number: 7880054Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (1) like (CAD1L) polypeptides. CAD1L polypeptides are produced in a plant in the same organs and the same developmental stages and processes of CAD1 and are likely to be involved in the same developmental processes as CAD enzymes. CAD1L-like sequences are also disclosed. They can be used for modification of, for example, lignification, cellulose, degradation, plant cell walls or plant defense response.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Eng Kok Ong, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge
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Publication number: 20100287660Abstract: The present invention relates to the modification of lignin biosynthesis in plants, to enzymes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway and nucleic acids encoding such enzymes and, more particularly, to methods of modifying lignin biosynthesis via sense suppression and to related nucleic acids and constructs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicants: DAIRY AUSTRALIA LIMITED, MOLECULAR PLANT BREEDING NOMINEES LTD.Inventors: German Spangenberg, Angela Jane Lidgett, Robyn Louise Heath, Russell Leigh McInnes, Damian Paul Lynch, Ulrik Peter John, Aidyn Mouradov, Megan Elizabeth Griffith
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Publication number: 20100275330Abstract: Genetic constructs capable of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells of a plant, said genetic constructs include a promoter operatively linked to a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial FT enzyme. These constructs can be used in modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, for manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells. The constructs can also be used for increasing plant biomass and, more particularly, for enhancing biomass yield and/or yield stability, including shoot and/or root growth in a plant, and for enhancing the productivity of biochemical pathways.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge
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Patent number: 7767416Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids and nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. More particularly, the flavonoid biosynthetic enzyme is selected from the group consisting of chalcone isomerase (CHI), chalcone synthase (CHS), chalcone reductase (CHR), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR), leucoanthocyanidin reductase (LCR), flavonoid 3?, 5? hydrolase (F3?5?H), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), flavonoid 3?-hydroxylase (F3?H), phenylalanine ammonia-olyase (PAL) and vestitone reductase (VR), and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd, Agresearch LimitedInventors: German Spangenberg, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Eng-Kok Ong, Michael Emmerling
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Publication number: 20100192259Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of manipulating senescence in plants. The invention also relates to vectors useful in such methods, transformed plants with modified senescence characteristics and plant cells, seeds and other parts of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicants: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD, LA TROBE UNIVERSITYInventors: German Spangenberg, Carl McDonald Ramage, Melissa Ann Palviainen, Roger W. Parish, Joshua Heazlewood
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Publication number: 20100186114Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of: MADS box factor, WRKY box factor, MYC factor, TT1, HLH factor, MYB factor, FMT, UG3E, GST, OMT, RT, CYTb5, laccase, and ABC transporter proteins, and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov
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Publication number: 20090191636Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a transgenic graminaceous plant cell, said method comprising: (i) obtaining embryonic cells from a mature graminaceous grain; and (ii) contacting said embryonic cells with a bacterium capable of transforming a plant cell, said bacterium comprising transfer-nucleic acid to be introduced into the embryonic cells, said contacting being for a time and under conditions sufficient for said bacterium to introduce said transfer-nucleic acid into one or more of the embryonic cells, thereby producing a transgenic graminaceous plant cell. The present invention also provides a method for producing a transgenic graminaceous plant. The present invention also provides a transgenic graminaceous plant cell and/or a transgenic graminaceous plant produced by said method. The present invention also provides a method for expressing a nucleic acid in a transgenic graminaceous plant cell or a transgenic graminaceous plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Carl McDonald Ramage, German Spangenberg, Dalia Vishnudasan
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Publication number: 20090133155Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of TRANSPARENT TESTA 12 (TT12), TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1), TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2), TRANSPARENT TESTA 8 (TT8), leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20090113573Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, more particularly flavonoid biosynthesis-regulating transcription factors, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the present invention relates to a PURPLE ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT 1 (PAP1) or PAP1-like transcription factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20080313774Abstract: The present invention relates to the modification of lignin biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to enzymes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway and nucleic acids encoding such enzymes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicants: MOLECULAR PLANT BREEDING NOMINEES LTD., DAIRY AUSTRALIA LIMITEDInventors: German Spangenberg, Angela Jane Lidgett, Robyn Louise Heath, Russell Leigh McInnes, Damian Paul Lynch, Ulrik John, Aidyn Mouradov
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Publication number: 20080163393Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (1) like (CAD1L) polypeptides. CAD1L polypeptides are produced in a plant in the same organs and the same developmental stages and processes of CAD1 and are likely to be involved in the same developmental processes as CAD enzymes. CAD1L-like sequences are also disclosed. They can be used for modification of, for example, lignification, cellulose, degradation, plant cell walls or plant defence response.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2005Publication date: July 3, 2008Applicants: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD, AGRESEARCH LIMITEDInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Eng Kok Ong, Timothy Sawbridge