Patents by Inventor Roger Pennell

Roger Pennell 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).

  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7214789
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Pennell
  • Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics in response to cold
    Publication number: 20070083953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby that are useful for making transgenic plants. The transgenic plants produced have increased tolerance to cold, low temperature or chilling conditions. Such plants have a higher and/or faster germination rate, and produce more biomass compared to wildtype plants grown under the same cold, low temperature or chilling conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Jack Okamuro, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20070042387
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, Kenneth Feldmann, Yu-Ping Lu, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Van-Dinh Dang, Zhihong Cook, Jack Okamuro, Nestor Apuya, Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Edward Kiegle, Leonard Medrano
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20070006335
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane Jofuku, Jonathan Donson
  • Secondary metabolite production via manipulation of genome methylation
    Publication number: 20060236421
    Abstract: Methods for modulating the rate of production and accumulation of secondary metabolites, e.g., alkaloid, terpenoid or phenylpropanoid compounds, are disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions useful in such methods, e.g., a plant containing a recombinant nucleic acid that is effective for reducing the level of general DNA methylation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, David Dang, Nestor Apuya
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20060090216
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Shing Kwok, Nickolai Alexandrov, Tatiana Tatarinova, Yiwen Fang, Roger Pennell, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Zhihong Cook, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Methods and materials for improving plant drought tolerance
    Publication number: 20060064785
    Abstract: Isolated NCED3 nucleic acids and polypeptides are described herein, together with methods for using such nucleic acids and polypeptides for making transgenic plants with improved drought tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Yiwen Fang, Roger Pennell
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20060021083
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane Jofuku, Jonathan Donson
  • Methods for modifying plant characteristics
    Publication number: 20060021089
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides, polypeptides, and transgenic plants are described. The transgenic plants can exhibit one or more altered phenotypic characteristics relative to a control plant, including increased height, increased seed weight, increased photosynthetic rates, decreased levels of campestanol, or increased levels of 6-deoxocathasterone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Yiwen Fang, Roger Pennell, Chuan-Yin Wu, Zhihong Cook, Tatiana Tatarinova, Hongyu Zhang
  • Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics
    Publication number: 20060015970
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: Cers, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, Jack Okamuro, Richard Schneeberger, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Diane Jofuku, Edward Kiegle, Jonathan Donson, Nestor Apuya
  • Promoter, Promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20060008816
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Yu-Ping Lu, Roger Pennell, Jack Okamuro, Richard Schneeberger, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20050246785
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20050223422
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Methods and compositions for altering seed phenotypes
    Publication number: 20050081261
    Abstract: Plants are disclosed that express a cytosine DNA methyltransferase and that can be used to confer an altered seed phenotype, e.g., an increase in seed weight. Also disclosed are plants in which expression of an endogenous cytosine DNA methyltransferase is inhibited and that exhibit an altered seed phenotype, e.g., an increase in seed weight. Also disclosed are nucleic acids and polypeptides suitable for conferring such phenotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, Van-Dinh Dang