Patents by Inventor Michael Nicholas Mindrinos

Michael Nicholas Mindrinos 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 of identifying plant disease-resistance genes
    Patent number: 7179601
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of identifying a plant disease-resistance gene that includes the steps of (a) providing a plant tissue sample; (b)introducing by biolistic transformation into the plant tissue sample a candidate plant disease-resistance gene; (c) expressing the candidate plant disease-resistance gene within the plant tissue sample; and (d) determining whether the plant tissue sample exhibits a disease-resistance response, whereby a response identifies a plant disease-resistance gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Inventors: Frederick M. Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu, Barbara Baker, Jeffrey Ellis, John Salmeron
  • RPS gene family, primers, probes, and detection methods
    Publication number: 20040172673
    Abstract: Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an Arabidopsis thaliana Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Frederick M. Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu, Barbara Baker, Jeffrey Ellis, John Salmeron
  • RPS gene family, primers, probes, and detection method
    Publication number: 20040088756
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of identifying a plant disease-resistance gene that includes the steps of (a) providing a plant tissue sample, (b)introducing by biolistic transformation into the plant tissue sample a candidate plant disease-resistance gene; (c) expressing the candidate plant disease-resistance gene within the plant tissue sample; and (d) determining whether the plant tissue sample exhibits a disease-resistance response, whereby a response identifies a plant disease-resistance gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Frederick M. Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu, Barbara Baker, Jeffrey Ellis, John Salmeron
  • RPS gene family, primers, probes, and detection methods
    Publication number: 20020147324
    Abstract: Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an Arabidopsis thaliana Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Frederick M. Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu, Barbara Baker, Jeffrey Ellis, John Salmeron
  • RPS gene family, primers, probes, and detection methods
    Patent number: 6262248
    Abstract: Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an Arabidopsis thaliana Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignees: Massachusetts General Hospital Corporation, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Frederick M. Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu, Barbara Baker, Jeffrey Ellis, John Salmeron
  • Plant resistance gene family encoding resistance polypeptides having P-loop and LRR motifs
    Patent number: 6127607
    Abstract: Disclosed is a new plant resistance gene family, the members of which encode plant resistance polypeptides having P-loop and LRR structural motifs. Also disclosed are substantially pure plant DNAs encoding such polypeptides. The invention further involves transgenic plants and transformed host cells that express these DNAs and exhibit enhanced disease resistance to plant pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignees: The General Hospital Corporation, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Frederick Michael Ausubel, Brian J. Staskawicz, Andrew F. Bent, Douglas Dahlbeck, Fumiaki Katagiri, Barbara N. Kunkel, Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Guo-Liang Yu