Patents by Inventor Janice W. Edwards

Janice W. Edwards 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).

  • Tomato fruit promoters
    Patent number: 5536653
    Abstract: Promoters isolated from potato which cause expression of a gene of choice in tomato; tomato plant cells and plants containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Monsanto Company
    Inventors: Gerard F. Barry, Janice W. Edwards, Ganesh M. Kishore, David M. Stark
  • Organ-specific plant promoter sequences
    Patent number: 5391725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel plant organ-specific transcriptional promoter nucleic acid sequences, which regulate the expression of glutamine synthetase isoenzymes. Specifically, promoter sequences were isolated from the nuclear gene for chloroplast GS2 glutamine synthetase and from two nuclear genes for cytosolic GS3 glutamine synthetase in the pea plant, Pisum sativum. Accordingly, the present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of the GS2, GS3A and GS3B promoter sequences as well as functional portions thereof.The invention further provides for promoters homologous to GS2, GS3A and GS3B, or any portion thereof as well as gene fusions and transgenic plants in which genes that encode heterologous proteins are controlled by the promoter sequences of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: New York University Medical Center
    Inventors: Gloria M. Coruzzi, Janice W. Edwards, Elsbeth L. Walker, Timothy Brears