Patents by Inventor Robert Fluhr

Robert Fluhr 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).

  • Method for protecting plants from stress and senescence
    Patent number: 10238113
    Abstract: The present invention relates to regulation of ureide levels for optimal plant survival during nutrient remobilization such as occurs during normal growth, dark stress and senescence. Plants can be genetically engineered or selected using a suitable gene marker to have enhanced ureide accumulation. The present invention further provides methods of protecting plants, or extending the shelf life of fresh plant produce by application of exogenous ureides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. at The Weizmann Institute of Science, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev research and Development Authority
    Inventors: Robert Fluhr, Moshe Sagi
  • METHOD FOR PROTECTING PLANTS FROM STRESS AND SENESCENCE
    Publication number: 20150181884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to regulation of ureide levels for optimal plant survival during nutrient remobilization such as occurs during normal growth, dark stress and senescence. Plants can be genetically engineered or selected using a suitable gene marker to have enhanced ureide accumulation. The present invention further provides methods of protecting plants, or extending the shelf life of fresh plant produce by application of exogenous ureides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Fluhr, Moshe Sagi
  • CONTROL OF SO2 METABOLISM IN PLANTS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20110265224
    Abstract: SO-transgenic plants overexpressing or lacking SO activity, having modified tolerance or susceptibility to toxicity of sulfite-producing substances, methods for their production and the use thereof for bioremediation of pollutants, as sentinel plants, for enhancing post-harvest quality of plants, plant tissues and plant products and for therapeutic applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicants: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Authority, Yeda Research And Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Fluhr, Moshe Sagi
  • METHOD FOR PROTECTING PLANTS FROM STRESS AND SENESCENCE
    Publication number: 20100333237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to regulation of ureide levels for optimal plant survival during nutrient remobilization such as occurs during normal growth, dark stress and senescence. Plants can be genetically engineered or selected using a suitable gene marker to have enhanced ureide accumulation. The present invention further provides methods of protecting plants, or extending the shelf life of fresh plant produce by application of exogenous ureides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Fluhr, Moshe Sagi
  • Rhamnosyl-tranferase gene and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20050089882
    Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having a flavanone-7-O-glucoside-2?-O-rhamnosyl-transferase catalytic activity and its uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Jonathan Gressel, Yoram Eyal, Robert Fluhr
  • Rhamnosyl-transferase gene and uses thereof
    Patent number: 6734343
    Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having a flavanone-7-O-glucoside-2″-O-rhamnosyl-transferase catalytic activity and its uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center
    Inventors: Jonathan Gressel, Yoram Eyal, Robert Fluhr
  • Transgenic tomato plants containing a fusarium resistance gene
    Patent number: 6100449
    Abstract: The invention provides genes from the I2 Fusarium resistance locus of tomato belonging to a multigene family herein designated I2C. The DNA molecules of the invention are useful as a tomato resistance gene to plant vascular diseases caused by Fusarium pathogens, particularly Fusarium oxysporium f.sp. lycopersici race 2, or as probes for breeding Fusarium-resistant tomato lines or for screening of news diseases in plants of the Solanaceae family. Further provided are Fusarium-resistant tomato lines transformed by an I2C resistance gene of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., Yissum Research and Development Company
    Inventors: Robert Fluhr, Yuval Eshed, Naomi Ori, Ilan Paran, Daniel Zamir