Patents by Inventor Manoel Teixeira Souza, Jr.

Manoel Teixeira Souza, Jr. 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).

  • Papaya ringspot virus genes
    Patent number: 7553668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation and identification of nucleic acid sequences encoding the coat protein of papaya ringspot virus in the Kapoho (KA), Keaau (KE), Thailand (TH), Brazil (BR), Jamaica (JA), Mexico (ME), Venezuela (VE), and Oahu (OA) strains, and the uses thereof to impart viral resistance to papaya plants. The present invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs containing individual or multiple papaya ringspot virus coat protein-encoding nucleic acid sequences, and host cells and transgenic plants and seeds containing such constructs. The present invention is also directed to a method of using such constructs to impart to plants resistance to papaya ringspot virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Gonsalves, Chu-Hui Chiang, Paula F. Tennant, Carol V. Gonsalves, Nonglak Sarindu, Manoel Teixeira Souza, Jr., Osmar Nickel, Gustavo Alberto Fermin-Munoz, Sanjay Saxena, Wenqi Cai
  • Papaya ringspot virus genes
    Patent number: 7078586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation and identification of nucleic acid sequences encoding the coat protein of papaya ringspot virus in the Kapoho (KA), Keaau (KE), Thailand (TH), Brazil (BR), Jamaica (JA), Mexico (ME), Venezuela (VE), and Oahu (OA) strains, and the uses thereof to impart viral resistance to papaya plants. The present invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs containing individual or multiple papaya ringspot virus coat protein-encoding nucleic acid sequences, and host cells and transgenic plants and seeds containing such constructs. The present invention is also directed to a method of using such constructs to impart to plants resistance to papaya ringspot virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Gonsalves, Chu-Hui Chiang, Paula F. Tennant, Carol V. Gonsalves, Nonglak Sarindu, Manoel Teixeira Souza, Jr., Osmar Nickel, Gustavo Alberto Fermin-Munoz, Sanjay Saxena, Wenqi Cai