Patents by Inventor Michael M. Burrell

Michael M. Burrell 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).

  • Modification of plant metabolism
    Patent number: 5387756
    Abstract: A transgenic plant is prepared by a method in which a plant cell is transformed with a chimaeric gene comprising a promoter and a gene encoding a polypeptide which displays the activity of an enzyme which regulates the amount of a metabolic intermediate in glycolysis or in a pathway for the synthesis or degradation of starch, sucrose or reducing sugar from a glycotyltic intermediate.In stored potatoes the subject of the invention an increased level of phosphofructokinase results in reduced accumulations of sugars in the tubers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Inventors: Michael M. Burrell, Keith S. Blundy
  • Modification of starch production
    Patent number: 5365016
    Abstract: A process is provided whereby the constitution of starch produced in a plant is altered without there being a substantial change in the total amount of starch which is produced. In the process a plant cell is transformed using a chimaeric gene comprising an antisense coding sequence from the waxy locus of a plant genome or an antisense similar coding sequence from a non-plant genome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Limited
    Inventors: Michael M. Burrell, Stephen A. Coates