Patents by Inventor Girma Tabor

Girma Tabor 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).

  • MULTIPLE DISEASE RESISTANCE GENES AND GENOMIC STACKS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20230295650
    Abstract: The field is molecular biology, and more specifically, methods for chromosomal engineering of multiple native genes, such as disease resistance genes in a genomic locus using site-specific editing to produce plants. Also described herein are methods of generating heterologous genomic locus in a plant that comprises a plurality of intraspecies polynucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: MARY J. FRANK, HUIRONG GAO, JEFFREY HABBEN, SABRINA HUMBERT, NANDINI KRISHNAMURTHY, MICHAEL LASSNER, BAILIN LI, ROBERT B. MEELEY, LEANDRO DANIEL PERUGINI, GIRMA TABOR, PETRA J. WOLTERS
  • Compositions and methods for identifying and selecting maize plants with resistance to northern leaf blight
    Patent number: 10513742
    Abstract: Compositions and methods useful in identifying and/or selecting maize plants having resistance to northern leaf blight are provided herein. The resistance may be newly conferred or enhanced relative to a control plant. The methods use markers to identify, select and/or construct resistant plants. Maize plants identified, selected, and/or generated by the methods described herein are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Enrique Domingo Kreff, Girma Tabor
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING MAIZE PLANTS WITH RESISTANCE TO NORTHERN LEAF BLIGHT
    Publication number: 20170198362
    Abstract: Compositions and methods useful in identifying and/or selecting maize plants having resistance to northern leaf blight are provided herein. The resistance may be newly conferred or enhanced relative to a control plant. The methods use markers to identify, select and/or construct resistant plants. Maize plants identified, selected, and/or generated by the methods described herein are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Enrique Domingo Kreff, Girma Tabor