Patents by Inventor Salim Al-Babili
Salim Al-Babili 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).
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Patent number: 11903386Abstract: A strigolactone analog-based composition comprising at least one compound represented by: (I) wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rf, Re, and Rz are selected. The compositions can be used in, for example, plant growth regulation and weed control, including controlling the germination of parasitic root plants, inhibiting rice tillering, and triggering leaf senescence.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Salim Al-Babili, Tadao Asami, Tsuyoshi Ohta
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Patent number: 11839210Abstract: The present invention uses compound 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone (zaxinone) as a negative regulator of the plant hormone strigolactones (SLs). The compound 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone is a positive growth regulator which triggers the formation of crown roots and promotes growth in size and number of roots and shoots. Disclosed herein is a method of using 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone as a growth-promoting compound for cereal, grain and vegetable crops. The 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone compounds is also a negative regulator of strigolactone biosynthesis and release. Disclosed herein is a method of combating root parasitic weeds affecting cereal, grain and vegetable crops. Application of 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone to plant growth media down-regulates strigolactone production in cereal, grain and vegetable crops preventing root parasitic weed infestation of the crops by inhibiting germination of parasitic weed seeds.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Salim Al-Babili
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Publication number: 20230102593Abstract: Herbicides, systems, and methods for inhibiting germination of a root parasitic plant are provided. In particular, the herbicide includes an active compound represented by Formula I. In this regard, the active compound is selected to bind to an active site of strigolactone receptors in seeds of the root parasitic plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Salim Al-Babili, Stefan Theodor Arold, Umar Farook Shahul Hameed
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Publication number: 20230054152Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds and methods for regulating plant growth and/or combating root parasitic plants. Formulations containing one or more disclosed compounds or salts thereof, and one or more excipients are disclosed. Methods for regulating plant growth typically includes applying one or more formulations to a plant, a plant part, or a growing site of plant, where the one or more compounds or salts thereof can be in an effective amount to inhibit tillering, trigger senescence, and/or cause stunted growth of the plant. The plant can be a cereal, grain, or vegetable plant. Methods for combating root parasitic plants typically includes applying one or more formulations to a root parasitic plant, a plant part of root parasitic plant, or a growing site of root parasitic plant, where the one or more compounds or salts thereof can be in an effective amount to induce parasitic seed germination.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Salim Al-Babili, Tadao Asami
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Patent number: 11523610Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe diapocarotenoid plant growth regulators represented by formula (I): R-A-R (I) or a precursor, salt, solvate, stereoisomer or polymorph thereof; wherein R is a monovalent carbonyl moiety selected from the group consisting of aldehydes, ethers, diethers, carboxylic acids, alcohols, and ester carboxylates and A is a bivalent polyene represented by the bivalent moiety —(CRa?CRb)x—, wherein x is the number of double bonds in polyene moiety A, and Ra and Rb are, independently, hydrogen, a hydrocarbon, or an alkoxy group, and composition of the diapocarotenoid plant growth regulators in an agronomically acceptable carrier.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Duke UniversityInventors: Salim Al-Babili, Kunpeng Jia, Alexandra Jazz Dickinson
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Patent number: 11399538Abstract: The present invention uses compound 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone (zaxinone) as a negative regulator of the plant hormone strigolactones (SLs). The compound 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone is a positive growth regulator which triggers the formation of crown roots and promotes growth in size and number of roots and shoots. Disclosed herein is a method of using 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone as a growth-promoting compound for cereal, grain and vegetable crops. The 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone compounds is also a negative regulator of strigolactone biosynthesis and release. Disclosed herein is a method of combating root parasitic weeds affecting cereal, grain and vegetable crops. Application of 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone to plant growth media down-regulates strigolactone production in cereal, grain and vegetable crops preventing root parasitic weed infestation of the crops by inhibiting germination of parasitic weed seeds.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Salim Al-Babili
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Patent number: 11324216Abstract: Herbicides, systems, and methods for inhibiting germination of a root parasitic plant are provided. In particular, the herbicide includes an active compound represented by Formula I. In this regard, the active compound is selected to bind to an active site of strigolactone receptors in seeds of the root parasitic plant.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Salim Al-Babili, Stefan Theodor Arold, Umar Farook Shahul Hameed
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Publication number: 20210360918Abstract: The present invention uses compound 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone (zaxinone) as a negative regulator of the plant hormone strigolactones (SLs). The compound 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone is a positive growth regulator which triggers the formation of crown roots and promotes growth in size and number of roots and shoots. Disclosed herein is a method of using 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone as a growth-promoting compound for cereal, grain and vegetable crops. The 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone compounds is also a negative regulator of strigolactone biosynthesis and release. Disclosed herein is a method of combating root parasitic weeds affecting cereal, grain and vegetable crops. Application of 3-OH-?-apo-13-carotenone to plant growth media down-regulates strigolactone production in cereal, grain and vegetable crops preventing root parasitic weed infestation of the crops by inhibiting germination of parasitic weed seeds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventor: Salim Al-Babili
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Publication number: 20210112807Abstract: Herbicides, systems, and methods for inhibiting germination of a root parasitic plant are provided. In particular, the herbicide includes an active compound represented by Formula I. In this regard, the active compound is selected to bind to an active site of strigolactone receptors in seeds of the root parasitic plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Salim Al-Babili, Stefan Theodor Arold, Umar Farook Shahul Hameed
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Patent number: 10888090Abstract: New plant growth regulators, including compounds and compositions, and methods of use including for promoting root growth. The compounds are carotenoid oxidation products, and a preferred example is 3-OH-?-apo-13-Carotenone. A method comprising promoting the growth of at least one plant with use of an effective amount of at least one composition comprising an effective amount of at least one compound which is represented by A-B-C, wherein B is a bivalent polyene moiety, A is a monovalent moiety linked to B by a six-membered carbon ring, wherein the ring has at least one substituent linked to the ring by an oxygen atom, and C is a monovalent moiety linked to B by a carbonyl group. Synergistic effects can be used with combinations of compounds.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventor: Salim Al-Babili
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Publication number: 20210000108Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe diapocarotenoid plant growth regulators represented by formula (I): R-A-R (I) or a precursor, salt, solvate, stereoisomer or polymorph thereof; wherein R is a monovalent carbonyl moiety selected from the group consisting of aldehydes, ethers, diethers, carboxylic acids, alcohols, and ester carboxylates and A is a bivalent polyene represented by the bivalent moiety —(CRa?CRb)x—, wherein x is the number of double bonds in polyene moiety A, and Ra and Rb are, independently, hydrogen, a hydrocarbon, or an alkoxy group, and composition of the diapocarotenoid plant growth regulators in an agronomically acceptable carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Salim AL-BABILI, Kunpeng JIA, Alexandra Jazz DICKINSON
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Publication number: 20190357534Abstract: A strigolactone analog-based composition comprising at least one compound represented by: (I) wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rf, Re, and Rz are selected. The compositions can be used in, for example, plant growth regulation and weed control, including controlling the germination of parasitic root plants, inhibiting rice tillering, and triggering leaf senescence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Salim Al-Babili, Tadao Asami, Tsuyoshi Ohta
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Publication number: 20180184651Abstract: New plant growth regulators, including compounds and compositions, and methods of use including for promoting root growth. The compounds are carotenoid oxidation products, and a preferred example is 3-OH-?-apo-13-Carotenone. A method comprising promoting the growth of at least one plant with use of an effective amount of at least one composition comprising an effective amount of at least one compound which is represented by A-B-C, wherein B is a bivalent polyene moiety, A is a monovalent moiety linked to B by a six-membered carbon ring, wherein the ring has at least one substituent linked to the ring by an oxygen atom, and C is a monovalent moiety linked to B by a carbonyl group. Synergistic effects can be used with combinations of compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventor: Salim AL-BABILI
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Patent number: 9969989Abstract: The present invention relates to a new carotenoid dioxygenase and methods for the biological production in microorganisms and plants of compounds with high added value derived from saffron.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENER- GIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (ENEA)Inventors: Giovanni Giuliano, Paola Ferrante, Sarah Frusciante, Gianfranco Diretto, Marco Pietrella, Salim Al-Babili
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Patent number: 9326510Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I) their use as germination trap for parasitic weeds, for the regulation of branching, tillering and root development, for enhancement of cambium growth, for the regulation of hyphal growth of mycorrhizal fungi and compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and insecticides and/or fungicides.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Salim Al-Babili, Adrian Alder
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Publication number: 20150250170Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I) their use as germination trap for parasitic weeds, for the regulation of branching, tillering and root development, for enhancement of cambium growth, for the regulation of hyphal growth of mycorrhizal fungi and compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and insecticides and/or fungicides.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Salim AL-BABILI, Adrian ALDER
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Patent number: 8980795Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I) their use as germination trap for parasitic weeds, for the regulation of branching, tillering and root development, for enhancement of cambium growth, for the regulation of hyphal growth of mycorrhizal fungi and compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and insecticides and/or fungicides.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Salim Al-Babili, Adrian Alder
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Publication number: 20140287924Abstract: Novel compounds of formula (I) their use as germination trap for parasitic weeds, for the regulation of branching, tillering and root development, for enhancement of cambium growth, for the regulation of hyphal growth of mycorrhizal fungi and compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and insecticides and/or fungicides.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Salim Al-Babili, Adrian Alder