Patents by Inventor Neal Gutterson

Neal Gutterson 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).

  • MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR HYBRID SEED PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20010007154
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for producing plants containing alternate expression cassettes at a single locus in the plant genome. The two expression cassettes encode polypeptides which, when present in the same cell, are lethal to the cell. In preferred embodiments, the plant cell is an anther cell and the plant is male sterile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 1998
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Applicant: DNA PLANT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: DIANE BURGESS, NEAL GUTTERSON
  • Method of genetically transforming banana plants
    Patent number: 6133035
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a transformed banana plant (genus,Musa), in particular by tranforming embroygenic material, or the somatic embryos derived from a banana plant, through incubation with Agrobacterium cells carrying exogenous DNA sequence(s), and obtaining regenerated plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignees: DNA Plant Technology Corporation, Zeneca, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dean Engler, Neal Gutterson, Garry S. Nisbet
  • Genetically transformed pineapple plants and methods for their production
    Patent number: 5952543
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for the genetic transformation of pineapple plant tissue with Agrobacterium. The present invention also provides for the regeneration of intact pineapple plants from the transformed tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: DNA Plant Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ebrahim Firoozabady, Neal Gutterson