Patents by Inventor Herbert S. Aldwinckle

Herbert S. Aldwinckle 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).

  • Constitutive ?-Tubulin promoter from coffee plants and uses thereof
    Patent number: 6903247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a constitutive ?-tubulin promoter from a coffee plant. The isolated promoter of the present invention is capable of inducing the expression of a protein encoded by a DNA molecule that is operably linked to the promoter in a DNA construct. The present invention also relates to DNA constructs expression systems, host cells, and transgenic plants and plant seeds containing the promoter of the invention. The present invention also relates to a method of making a transgenic plant and a method of directing protein expression in plants that involve transforming a plant cell with a DNA construct containing the promoter of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, Alvaro L. Gaitan
  • Constitutive and inducible promoters from coffee plants
    Publication number: 20030163837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation of two DNA promoters from a coffee plant. The isolated promoters, one inducible and one constitutive, are capable of inducing the expression of a second DNA operably linked to the promoter. The present invention also relates to host cells, expression systems and transgenic plants containing the promoters of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, Alvaro L. Gaitan
  • Constitutive and inducible promoters from coffee plants
    Patent number: 6441273
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation of two DNA promoters from a coffee plant. The isolated promoters, one inducible and one constitutive, are capable of inducing the expression of a second DNA operably linked to the promoter. The present invention also relates to host cells, expression systems and transgenic plants containing the promoters of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, Alvaro L. Gaitan
  • Transgenic pomaceous fruit with fire blight resistance
    Patent number: 6100453
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of conferring resistance against fire blight to pomaceous fruit scion or rootstock cultivars by transforming such cultivars with a gene which encodes for lytic proteins. Such transformation can be effected by bacterial infection or propulsion of particles into cell interiors. Once transformation has taken place, the cultivar is regenerated to a transgenic pomaceous fruit tree. This technique is particularly useful in treating apple and pear cultivars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, John L. Norelli
  • Transgenic pomaceous fruit with fire blight resistance
    Patent number: 5824861
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of conferring resistance against fire blight to pomaceous fruit scion or rootstock cultivars by transforming such cultivars with a gene which encodes for lytic proteins. Such transformation can be effected by bacterial infection or propulsion of particles into cell interiors. Once transformation has taken place, the cultivar is regenerated to a transgenic pomaceous fruit tree. This technique is particularly useful in treating apple and pear cultivars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert S. Aldwinckle, John L. Norelli
  • Apple rootstock named ‘Geneva 16’
    Patent number: PP12443
    Abstract: A new and distinct apple rootstock, ‘Geneva 16’ is a dwarfing rootstock that is resistant to fire blight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Cummins, Herbert S. Aldwinckle
  • Flowering crab apple/apple rootstock `Geneva 65`
    Patent number: PP8543
    Abstract: A new and unique apple rootstock `Geneva 65` that is very dwarfing and resistant to crown rot and fire blight. The tree is also useful as a small ornamental flowering crab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Cummins, Herbert S. Aldwinckle
  • Apple rootstock named `Geneva 11`
    Patent number: PP11070
    Abstract: A new and unique apple rootstock, `Geneva 11` that is dwarfing and resistant to crown rot and fire blight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Cummins, Herbert S. Aldwinckle