Patents by Inventor Rajagopal Subramaniam

Rajagopal Subramaniam 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).

  • Expressing GLK in plants
    Publication number: 20110099668
    Abstract: The present invention provides, in part, GLK1 nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides that can be used to confer resistance to a pathogen in a plant. The present invention also provides methods of detecting disease resistance genes and plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Jasbir Singh, Ghislaine C. Allard, Leonid V. Savitch, Rajagopal Subramaniam
  • Plant transcriptional activator and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20070074306
    Abstract: The present invention relates to plant transcriptional activators and mutants thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to uses of plant transcriptional activators and mutants thereof for increasing plant defence responses to pathogens. In particular, the present invention relates to a peptide which confers increased pathogen resistance upon a plant expressing said peptide, said peptide having a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:3, and SEQ ID NO:4 mutated at a position selected from the group consisting of Glu271, Trp272 and residues between and including Pro123 to Gly128, an ortholog thereof, a homolog thereof, a functionally active fragment thereof or a functionally active variant thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Normand Brisson, Darrell Desveaux, Rajagopal Subramaniam, Jurgen Sygusch