Patents by Inventor Nuria Duran Vila

Nuria Duran Vila 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).

  • Procedure for the genetic transformation of adult plants of woody species
    Patent number: 6103955
    Abstract: The procedure is based on the use, as vegetable starting material for the transformation, of the first shoots from the graft of buds of adult trees onto stock, the genetic transformation of explants from the adult shoots by mean of co cultivation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens in mother plaques, and the obtaining of complete adult woody plants by means of in vitro micrografting of the transgenic buds, apices or shoots, regenerated by means of the explants, by means of in vitro micrograft onto stock cultivated in vitro.This procedure makes it possible to avoid the juvenile period and the high heterozygosis which affects most woody species, blossoming and fruiting of the transgenic plants are brought forward, and it permits the direct genetic transformation of commercially interesting varieties.It has argicultural applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignees: Instituto Nacional De Investigacion Y Technologia Agraria Y Alimentaria (INIA), Instituto Valencia De Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA)
    Inventors: Leandro Pena Garcia, Magdalena Cervera Ocana, Jose Juarez Roldan, Antonio Navarro Lucas, Carmen Ortega Calabuig, Jose Antonio Pina Lorca, Nuria Duran Vila, Luis Navarro Lucas