Patents by Inventor Gopi K. Podila

Gopi K. Podila 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).

  • Transgenic trees having increased resistance to imidazolinone herbicides
    Publication number: 20030028919
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to transgenic trees having increased resistance to an imidazolinone herbicide. In particular, the present invention relates to larch and poplar trees transformed with an altered AHAS gene, wherein such transformation results in the trees' increased resistance to an imidazolinone herbicide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: David F. Karnosky, Gopi K. Podila, Bixia Xiang
  • Genetic transformation and regeneration of plants
    Patent number: 5922928
    Abstract: An Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and regeneration method for plants including a transformation method to produce transgenic plants with an altered lignin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University
    Inventors: Vincent Lee C. Chiang, Chung Jui Tsai, Gopi K. Podila
  • Genetic engineering of wood color in plants
    Patent number: 5886243
    Abstract: The invention relates to genetically engineering the wood color of woody plants by incorporation of the lignin pathway gene O-methyltransferase into the genome of the plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University
    Inventors: Vincent Lee C. Chiang, Chung Jui Tsai, Gopi K. Podila