Patents by Inventor Karen Gabbert

Karen Gabbert 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).

  • Methods for manipulating yield of plants and identifying yield genes
    Patent number: 8935880
    Abstract: Methods for manipulating yield and generation time of plants, especially short day plants such as soybean are provided. The methods comprise manipulating external signals such as long day conditions, short day conditions, growth medium, and nutrient supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Ovadya, Bala Karunanandaa, Karen Gabbert, Qin Zeng
  • Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits
    Publication number: 20130283461
    Abstract: This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Mark Scott Abad, Jeffery E. Ahrens, Alice Clara Augustine, Erin Bell, Robert J. Bensen, Srikanth Venkatachalayya, Paolo Castiglioni, Richard E. Cerny, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Maureen Daley, Jill Deikman, Molian Deng, Todd DeZwaan, Stephen Duff, Michael D. Edgerton, Bradon J. Fabbri, Jason Fenner, Karen Gabbert, Meghan Galligan, Garrett J. Lee, Barry S. Goldman, Deborah J. Hawkins, Steve He, Xianfeng Chen, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Paul Loida, Savitha Madappa, Robert J. Meister, Ming Peng, Donald E. Nelson, Anand Pandravada, Obed Patty, Marie Petracek, Rajani Monnanda Somaiah, Monica P. Ravanello, Richard Johnson, Thomas G. Ruff, Rick A. Sanders, Beth Savidge, Steven H. Schwartz, Shobha Char, Padmini Sudarshana, Jindong Sun, Rebecca L. Thompson-Mize, Virginia Ursin, Dale L. Val, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Kammaradi R. Vidya, K. Vijayalakshmi, Todd C. Weber, Jingrui Wu, Wei Zheng, Zhidong Xie, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra
  • METHODS FOR MANIPULATING YIELD OF PLANTS AND IDENTIFYING YIELD GENES
    Publication number: 20110207615
    Abstract: Methods for manipulating yield and generation time of plants, especially short day plants such as soybean are provided. The methods comprise manipulating external signals such as long day conditions, short day conditions, growth medium, and nutrient supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Daniel J. Ovadya, Bala Karunanandaa, Karen Gabbert, Qin Zeng
  • Plants with improved yield and stress tolerance
    Patent number: 7939715
    Abstract: Polynucleotides incorporated into expression vectors 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 greater size, greater organ size, greater biomass, greater yield, curlier leaves, darker coloration, greater tolerance to water deprivation, delayed flowering, delayed development, delayed senescence, greater tolerance to cold, and/or greater tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jeffrey M. Libby, Robert Creelman, Peter P. Repetti, T. Lynne Reuber, Neal I. Gutterson, Ganesh Kumar, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Karen Gabbert
  • Plants with improved yield and stress tolerance
    Publication number: 20080301841
    Abstract: Polynucleotides incorporated into expression vectors 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 greater size, greater organ size, greater biomass, greater yield, curlier leaves, darker coloration, greater tolerance to water deprivation, delayed flowering, delayed development, delayed senescence, greater tolerance to cold, and/or greater tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jeffrey M. Libby, Robert Creelman, Peter P. Repetti, T. Lynne Reuber, Neal I. Gutterson, Ganesh Kumar, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Karen Gabbert
  • Drought responsive promoters HVA22e and PLDdelta identified from Arabidopsis thaliana
    Publication number: 20080040972
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the At.PLD? gene or the At.HVA22e gene of Arabidopsis thaliana and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Arabidopsis thaliana regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Subbaiah Chalivendra, Karen Gabbert, Wei Wu
  • Transgenic crop plants with improved stress tolerance
    Publication number: 20080040973
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel compositions of NF-YB proteins and recombinant DNA for expressing NF-YB proteins that are used to produce transgenic plants with enhanced yield and/or enhanced water deficit stress tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Donald Nelson, Jacqueline Heard, Shoba Cherian, Targolli Jayaprakash, Santanu Dasgupta, Wei Wu, Karen Gabbert