Patents by Inventor Kater Davis Hake

Kater Davis Hake 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).

  • SEED-OIL SUPPRESSION TO ENHANCE YIELD OF COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT MACROMOLECULES
    Publication number: 20120144535
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for making a genetically modified cotton plant by regenerating a whole plant from a plant cell that has been transfected with DNA sequences including a gene, the expression of which results in suppression of oil biosynthesis in the developing seed. Plants made according to this method exhibit increased production of fiber. Also disclosed is a method for making a non-genetically modified cotton plant with reduced seed-oil content by selecting native alleles or alleles produced through mutagenesis that result in reduced oil content with resulting enhanced fiber yield. Methods are disclosed for developing commercially acceptable cultivars that contain the cottonseed-oil suppression trait. Plant cells, plant tissues, plant seed and whole plants containing the above DNA sequences and alleles form part of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: DELTA AND PINE LAND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kater Davis HAKE, Thomas Arthur KERBY, Harry Benjamin COLLINS, Don Lee KEIM
  • Method of enhancing quality factors in cotton
    Patent number: 8097768
    Abstract: Preferred embodiments of this invention relate to a method for increasing fiber yield in a cotton plant by regenerating a whole cotton plant from a plant cell that has been transformed with a dominant negative allele for an endoplasmic reticulum located gene. The expression of this gene results in suppression of oil and protein biosynthesis in the developing seed and increased production of fiber in the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: University of North Texas
    Inventors: Kater Davis Hake, Kent Dean Chapman, Thomas Arthur Kerby, Thomas Rainey Speed
  • Seed oil suppression to enhance yield of commercially important macromolecules
    Publication number: 20040133944
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for making a genetically modified cotton plant by regenerating a whole plant from a plant cell that has been transfected with DNA sequences including a gene, the expression of which results in suppression of oil biosynthesis in the developing seed. Plants made according to this method exhibit increased production of fiber. Also disclosed is a method for making a non-genetically modified cotton plant with reduced seed-oil content by selecting native alleles or alleles produced through mutagenesis that result in reduced oil content with resulting enhanced fiber yield. Methods are disclosed for developing commercially acceptable cultivars that contain the cottonseed-oil suppression trait. Plant cells, plant tissues, plant seed and whole plants containing the above DNA sequences and alleles form part of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: Delta and Pine Land Company
    Inventors: Kater Davis Hake, Thomas Arthur Kerby, Harry Benjamin Collins, Don Lee Keim