Patents by Inventor Jan de Meutter

Jan de Meutter 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).

  • Plants Having Improved Growth Characteristics And A Method For Making The Same
    Publication number: 20090222952
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield and/or increased stress resistance by decreasing the level of activity of a DEL1 polypeptide. One such method comprises introducing into a plant a nucleic acid comprising a variant DEL1 nucleic acid. Another method comprises downregulating expression of a DEL1 gene. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having introduced therein a variant DEL1 nucleic acid thereof, which plants have increased yield and/or increased stress resistance relative to control plants. The present invention also concerns a novel DEL1 protein and its encoding sequence, and constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicants: CropDesign N.V., VIB vzw, Universiteit Gent
    Inventors: Jan de Meutter, Vladimir Mironov, Christophe Reuzeau, Dirk Inze, Kobe Vlieghe, Lieven de Veylder