Patents by Inventor Shang Fa Yang

Shang Fa Yang 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).

  • High efficiency plant transformation of brassica oleracea
    Patent number: 6667428
    Abstract: A method of introducing a nucleic acid into Brassica oleracea cells by enriching or selection for a plant cell population having a nuclear DNA phase of 4C; and contacting the plant cell population with a bacterium of the genus Agrobacterium to form a mixed culture, the bacterium having a T-DNA which includes the nucleic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Academia Sinica
    Inventors: Long-Fang O. Chen, Shang-Fa Yang, Jia-Yuan Huang
  • Transiently activated stress-inducible plant promoters
    Patent number: 6414221
    Abstract: The present invention provides new rapidly induced promoters. The promoters can be induced in response to various stimuli, such as flooding and wounding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Juerg H. Oetiker, Oy Yin Shiu, Shang Fa Yang, Win Kin Yip