Patents by Inventor Joel Kreps

Joel Kreps 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).

  • Publication number: 20230189857
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions with enhanced protein content, compositions with functional proteins, protein combinations and methods for the preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kritika Mahadevan, Eric Lin, Alexandre Chapeaux, Sridharan Govind, Weixi Zhong, Farnoosh Ayoughi, Isha Joshi, Joel Kreps, Harshal Kshirsagar, Frank Douglas Ivey
  • Patent number: 8115058
    Abstract: The present invention provides promoters from plants capable of driving gene expression in plant cells. The promoters vary in strength and in tissue specificity, and can be used to facilitate the development of transgenic plants in which tissue preferred expression, constitutive expression, and the strength of transgene expression is either more or less critical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Paul Budworth, Todd Moughamer, Steven P. Briggs, Bret Cooper, Jane Glazebrook, Stephen A. Goff, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicholas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Patent number: 8039690
    Abstract: Clusters of plant genes that are regulated in response to one or more stress conditions are provided, as are isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, is provided, as are transgenic plants, which contain a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. Also provided are methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition, methods of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, and methods of determining whether a plant has been exposed to a stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Harper, Joel Kreps, Xun Wang, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20110225678
    Abstract: The present invention provides promoters from plants capable of driving gene expression in plant cells. The promoters vary in strength and in tissue specificity, and can be used to facilitate the development of transgenic plants in which tissue preferred expression, constitutive expression, and the strength of transgene expression is either more or less critical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Paul Budworth, Todd Moughamer, Steven P. Briggs, Bret Cooper, Jane Glazebrook, Stephen A. Goff, Fumlaki Kataglri, Joel Kreps, Nicholas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20100287671
    Abstract: Clusters of plant genes that are regulated in response to one or more stress conditions are provided, as are isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, is provided, as are transgenic plants, which contain a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. Also provided are methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition, methods of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, and methods of determining whether a plant has been exposed to a stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Harper, Joel Kreps, Xun Wang, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20100275333
    Abstract: Abiotic stress responsive polynucleotides and polypeptides are disclosed. Also disclosed are vectors, expression cassettes, host cells, and plants containing such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods for using such polynucleotides and polypeptides, for example, to alter the responsiveness of a plant to abiotic stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Joel Kreps, Steven P. Briggs, Stephen A. Goff, Fumiaki Katagiri, Todd Moughamer, Nicholas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu, Robert Dietrich, Bret Cooper
  • Patent number: 7777097
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing plants with increased resistance to pathogen infection by expressing disease resistance genes in the plants and transgenic plants having enhanced pathogen resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Jane Glazebrook, Steven P. Briggs, Bret Cooper, Stephen A. Goff, Todd Moughamer, Fumiyaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicholas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Patent number: 7692065
    Abstract: Clusters of plant genes that are regulated in response to one or more stress conditions are provided, as are isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, is provided, as are transgenic plants, which contain a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. Also provided are methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition, methods of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, and methods of determining whether a plant has been exposed to a stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: The Scripps Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Harper, Joel Kreps, Xun Wang, Tong Zhu
  • Patent number: 7550578
    Abstract: The present invention provides promoters from plants capable of driving gene expression in plant cells. The promoters vary in strength and in tissue specificity, and can be used to facilitate the development of transgenic plants in which tissue preferred expression, constitutive expression, and the strength of transgene expression is either more or less critical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Paul Budworth, Todd Moughamer, Steven P. Briggs, Bret Cooper, Jane Glazebrook, Stephen A. Goff, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicholas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20070089180
    Abstract: Plant DISR genes the expression of which in a plant increases resistance of the plant to pathogen infection, compositions comprising the genes or encoded polypeptides, and methods for their use, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Jane Glazebrook, Steven Briggs, Bret Cooper, Stephen Goff, Todd Moughamer, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicolas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20070056055
    Abstract: The present invention provides promoters from plants capable of driving gene expression in plant cells. The promoters vary in strength and in tissue specificity, and can be used to facilitate the development of transgenic plants in which tissue preferred expression, constitutive expression, and the strength of transgene expression is either more or less critical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Paul Budworth, Todd Moughamer, Steven Briggs, Bret Cooper, Jane Glazebrook, Stephen Goff, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicholas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Patent number: 7186887
    Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide encoding a full-length rice cap binding protein 80 (CBP80) is provided. The reduction in expression or activity of CBP80 in a transgenic rice plant cell may be accomplished by antisense sequences which can inhibit expression or activity of endogenous CBP80 in a rice plant cell which may lead to alterations in hormone signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Joel Kreps, Pamela S. Nero
  • Patent number: 7109033
    Abstract: Clusters of plant genes that are regulated in response to one or more stress conditions are provided, as are isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, is provided, as are transgenic plants, which contain a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. Also provided are methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition, methods of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, and methods of determining whether a plant has been exposed to a stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignees: The Scripps Research Institute, Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Harper, Joel Kreps, Xun Wang, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20060183137
    Abstract: Clusters of plant genes that are regulated in response to one or more stress conditions are provided, as are isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous nucleotide sequence, is provided, as are transgenic plants, which contain a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. Also provided are methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition, methods of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element, and methods of determining whether a plant has been exposed to a stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Jeffrey Harper, Joel Kreps, Xun Wang, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20060075523
    Abstract: Abiotic stress responsive polynucleotides and polypeptides are disclosed. Also disclosed are vectors, expression cassettes, host cells, and plants containing such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods for using such polynucleotides and polypeptides, for example, to alter the responsiveness of a plant to abiotic stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Joel Kreps, Steven Briggs, Stephen Goff, Fumiaki Katagiri, Todd Moughamer, Nicholas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu, Robert Dietrich, Bret Cooper
  • Publication number: 20050235375
    Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding transcription factors of cereals and in particular rice are provided. Also provided are re-combinant vectors, expression cassettes, host cells and plants containing the polynucleotides. Methods for using the polynucleotides to alter resistance or tolerance of plants to stress, alter biological pathways, and alter gene expression are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Wenqiong Chen, Steven Briggs, Bret Cooper, Jane Glazebrook, Stephen Goff, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Todd Moughamer, Nicolas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20050177901
    Abstract: The invention discloses a set of genes the expression products of which are up-regulated during the grain filling process in rice and active in different metabolic pathways involved in nutrient partitioning. The invention also discloses the use of said genes to modify the compositional and nutritional characteristics of the plant grain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Tong Zhu, Wengiong Chen, Steven Briggs, Bret Cooper, Stephen Goff, Todd Moughamer, Jane GlazeBrook, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicolas Provart, Darrell Ricke
  • Publication number: 20050097639
    Abstract: The present subject matter provides a method for enhancing the abiotic stress tolerance of a plant. Polynucleotides isolated from rice (Oryza sativa) and encoding polypeptides for abiotic stress tolerance are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Henry Nguyen, Joel Kreps
  • Publication number: 20050032156
    Abstract: The invention relates to proteins that are involved in the transport and translocation of phosphorous in plants and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those proteins. The invention further provides the means and tools for modifying the uptake and translocation of phosphorous in photosynthetic organisms such as plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Uta Paszkowski, Steven Briggs, Bret Cooper, Stephen Goff, Todd Moughamer, Jane Glazebrook, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicolas Provart, Darrell Ricke, Tong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20040096861
    Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide encoding a monocot cap binding protein 80 (CBP80) is provided. Further provided are methods of using an inhibitor of monocot CBP80 to increase the drought tolerance of plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Joel Kreps, Pamela S. Neru