Patents by Inventor Jacqueline E. Heard
Jacqueline E. Heard 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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Patent number: 8558059Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs and orthologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference or wild-type plant. These properties include increased tolerance to environmental stresses, including salt stress, drought, osmotic stress, water deficit, cold and heat.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventor: Jacqueline E. Heard
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Patent number: 8541665Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Oliver Ratcliffe, Robert A. Creelman, Luc Adam, T. Lynne Reuber, Jose Luis Riechmann, Volker Haake, Arnold N. Dubell, James S. Keddie, Bradley K. Sherman
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Patent number: 8426685Abstract: The invention relates to plant AP2 protein family polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including greater tolerance to freezing, as compared to a reference plant.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Jose Luis Riechmann, Luc Adam, Jacqueline E. Heard, Marsha L. Pilgrim, Cai-Zhong Jiang, T. Lynne Reuber, Robert A. Creelman, Omaira Pineda, Guo-Liang Yu
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Patent number: 8426678Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Jose Luis Riechmann, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Robert Creelman, Oliver Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber, Peter P. Repetti, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Neal I. Gutterson, Omaira Pineda, Gregory Nadzan
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Publication number: 20130061345Abstract: Transcription factor polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs, including expression vectors, have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these constructs have been shown to have increased tolerance to an abiotic stress (in some cases, to more than one abiotic stress), increased growth, and/or increased biomass. The abiotic stress may include, for example, salt, hyperosmotic stress, water deficit, heat, cold, drought, and/or low nutrient conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: T. Lynne Reuber, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam, James S. Keddie, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Robert A. Creelman, Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Raymond R. Samaha, Pierre E. Broun, Magnus Hertzberg, Torgny Näsholm
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Publication number: 20130031669Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to plant regulatory polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant, including improved abiotic stress tolerance. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods to identify related sequences and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Jacqueline E. Heard, Robert A. Creelman, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Roderick W. Kumimoto, T. Lynne Reuber
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Patent number: 8283519Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, variants of naturally-occurring sequences, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including improved cold and other osmotic stress tolerance, as compared to wild-type or reference plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2004Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Oliver Ratcliffe, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Neal I. Gutterson, T. Lynne Reuber, Jeffrey M. Libby, Jacqueline E. Heard, Jose Luis Riechmann, Omaira Pineda
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Publication number: 20120144518Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Bradley K. Sherman, Jose Luis Riechmann, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Volker Haake, Robert A. Creelman, Oliver Ratcliffe, Luc J. Adam, T. Lynne Reuber, James Keddie, Pierre E. Broun, Marsha L. Pilgrim, Arnold N. DuBell, III, Omaira Pineda, Guo-Liang Yu
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Patent number: 8110725Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Oliver Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber
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Publication number: 20120005784Abstract: Polynucleotides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer earlier flowering, longer floral organ retention, increased cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, altered carbon-nitrogen balance sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, and/or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Jose Luis RIECHMANN, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynee Reuber, Katherine Krolikowski, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Robert A. Creelman, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Paul Chomet
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Publication number: 20110258742Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel variant bacterial cold shock proteins and recombinant DNA for expressing such proteins to produce transgenic plants with enhanced stress tolerance and/or enhanced yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Christopher P. Bonin, Paolo Castiglioni, Robert L. D'Ordine, Jacqueline E. Heard, Robert M. McCarroll, Sara Salvador, Michael J. Storek
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Publication number: 20110252501Abstract: This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Mark Abad, Molian Deng, Sephen Duff, Mary Fernandes, Karen K. Gabbert, Julie A. Alvarez, Kristen A. Bennett, Paolo Castiglioni, Jill Deikman, Jason Fenner, Danyang Ke, Barry S. Goldman, Qungang Qi, Thomas G. Ruff, Rebecca L. Thompason-Mize, Jingrui Wu, Thomas R. Adams, Robert Bensen, Jacqueline E. Heard, Donald E. Nelson, Erin Bell, R. Eric Cerny, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Bradon J. Fabbri, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, John R. LeDeaux, Xianfeng Chen, Meghan Galligan-Donnarummo, Deborah J. Hawkins, Garrett J. Lee, Obed Patty, Rick A. Sanders, Beth Savidge, Dale L. Val, Wei Zheng, Thomas J. Savage, Rajani Monnanda Somaiah, Sreekanta Suma, Jindong Sun, Tymagondlu Venkatesh, Nanfei Xu, Mahindra Anuradha, Alice Clara Augustine, Farah Deeba, Ramachandra Dhanalakshmi, Savitha Madappa, Badami S. Pranesh, M. S. Rajani, G. Ramamohan, S. Sangeetha, Char Shobha, Padmini Sudarshana, K. R. Vidva, Srikanth Venkatachalayya, Tymagondlu Venkatesh
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Patent number: 8022274Abstract: Polynucleotides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer earlier flowering, longer floral organ retention, increased cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, altered carbon-nitrogen balance sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, and/or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Jose Luis Riechmann, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber, Katherine Krolikowski, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Robert A. Creelman, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Paul Chomet
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Publication number: 20110119789Abstract: The invention is directed to transgenic plants transformed with nucleic acids that encode a plant transcription factor that increases the transgenic plant's size and yield and/or delays flowering in the plant, and methods of using and producing the transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Luc J. Adam, Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber
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Publication number: 20110078806Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGYInventors: CAI-ZHONG JIANG, JACQUELINE E. HEARD, OLIVER RATCLIFFE, ROBERT A. CREELMAN, LUC ADAM, T. LYNNE REUBER, JOSE LUIS RIECHMANN, VOLKER HAAKE, ARNOLD N. DUBELL, JAMES S. KEDDIE, BRADLEY K. SHERMAN
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Patent number: 7897843Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased biomass or improved cold or other osmotic stress tolerance, as compared to wild-type or reference plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Oliver Ratcliffe, Neal I. Gutterson, Frederick D. Hempel, Roderick W. Kumimoto, James S. Keddie, Bradley K. Sherman, Jeffrey M. Libby, Jindong Sun, Kimberly Faye Zobrist-Duff, Jingrui Wu, Changlin Fu, Stanton B. Dotson, Linda L. Lutfiyya
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Publication number: 20110004955Abstract: This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Mark Abad, Erin Bell, R. Eric Cerny, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Molian Deng, Michael D. Edgerton, Karen K. Gabbert, Barry S. Goldman, Brian Hauge, Steve He, Jacqueline E. Heard, Ping Li, Linda Lutfiyya, Bradley McDill, Robert J. Meister, Peter Morrell, Anil Neelam, Marie Petracek, John Pitkin, M. S. Rajani, Maria F. Rodriguez, Thomas Ruff, T. V. Venkatesh, Xiaoyun Wu, Jianmin Zhao, Albert Iandolino, Monica Ravanello, Kraig Brustad, Paul Chomet, Julie Davis, Virginia Ursin, T. Ambika, Shobha Char, Savitha Madappa, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra, S. Sangeetha, K. R. Vidya, K. Vijayalakshmi, Todd Dezwaan
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Patent number: 7825296Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Oliver Ratcliffe, Robert A. Creelman, T. Lynne Reuber, Jose Luis Riechmann
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Publication number: 20100175145Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having improved tolerance to drought, shade, and low nitrogen conditions, as compared to wild-type or reference plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2010Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGYInventors: JACQUELINE E. HEARD, JOSE LUIS RIECHMANN, ROBERT A. CREELMAN, OLIVER RATCLIFFE, ROGER D. CANALES, PETER P. REPETTI, RODERICK W. KUMIMOTO, NEAL I. GUTTERSON, T. LYNNE REUBER, OMAIRA PINEDA, CAI-ZHONG JIANG, KAREN S. CENTURY, LUC ADAM, JAMES Z. ZHANG, FREDERICK D. HEMPEL, JEFFREY M. LIBBY
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Publication number: 20100162427Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2010Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Jose Luis RIECHMANN, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Robert Creelman, Oliver Ratcliffe, Luc J. Adam, T. Lynne Reuber, Peter P. Repetti, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Neal I. Gutterson, Marsha L. Pilgrim, Omaira Pineda, James Zhang, Gregory Nadzan