Patents by Inventor Stephanie K. Clendennen

Stephanie K. Clendennen 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).

  • Generation of plants with altered oil content
    Patent number: 7750205
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of a HIO102 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Agrinomics, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Lightner, Stephanie K. Clendennen
  • Generation of plants with altered oil content
    Patent number: 7705204
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of a citrate synthase nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Agrigenetics Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Lightner, Stephanie K. Clendennen, Jeremy E. Coate, Nancy Anne Federspiel
  • Generation of plants with altered oil content
    Patent number: 7566816
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of a HIO30 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Lightner, Stephanie K. Clendennen
  • GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH ALTERED OIL CONTENT
    Publication number: 20090099378
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of ICL nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Jonathan Lightner, Jeremy E. Coate, Stephanie K. Clendennen, Nancy Anne Federspiel, Debra K. Schuster
  • Generation of plants with altered oil content
    Patent number: 7476779
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of an ICL nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Agrinomics LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Lightner, Jeremy E. Coate, Stephanie K. Clendennen, Nancy Anne Federspiel, Debra K. Schuster
  • Seed-associated promoter sequences
    Patent number: 7179960
    Abstract: Plant promoters that exhibit seed-associated expression are described, including bi-directional promoters capable of directing seed-associated expression in either orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Exelixis Plant Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Jonathan Lightner, Debra K. Schuster
  • CTR1 homologue from melon
    Patent number: 6720476
    Abstract: The invention relates to the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a melon constitutive triple response (CTR1) homologue, called mCTR, vectors, cells and transgenic plants which comprise the coding sequence for mCTR or a biologically active fragment thereof and methods of producing transgenic plants which express mCTR or a biologically active fragment thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Exelixis Plant Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Debra K. Schuster
  • Seed-associated promoter sequences
    Publication number: 20040064854
    Abstract: Plant promoters that exhibit seed-associated expression are described, including bi-directional promoters capable of directing seed-associated expression in either orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Jonathan Lightner, Debra K. Schuster
  • Senescence-associated plant promotors
    Publication number: 20040049803
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to MTI and GS promoters capable of promoting the senescence-associated expression of nucleic acid coding sequences operably linked thereto, together with heterologous nucleic acid constructs, vectors, kits, transformation methods, transgenic plant cells and transgenic plants comprising such promoters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Jill A. Kellogg, Debra K. Schuster, Stephanie K. Clendennen
  • DNA regulatory elements associated with fruit development
    Publication number: 20030226175
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated and purified genes which are differentially expressed during banana fruit development, and the protein products of these genes. The present invention further provides DNA regulatory elements which are differentially expressed during banana fruit development, chimeric genes comprising these DNA regulatory elements operably linked to heterologous DNA molecules, and plants transformed with said chimeric genes, providing for controlled expression of said heterologous DNA molecules during the development and ripening of the fruit of said plants, or in response to exogenous ethylene signals in said plants. The present invention also provides a method for expression of a heterologous protein in fruit comprising transforming fruiting plants with one or more chimeric genes according to the present invention, exposing said fruit to an endogenous or exogenous ethylene signal, and harvesting fruit containing said heterologous protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Gregory D. May, Stephanie K. Clendennen, Hugh S. Mason, Miguel A. Gomez Lim, Charles J. Arntzen
  • Melon promoters for expression of transgenes in plants
    Patent number: 6642438
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a melon actin promoter capable of providing expression of heterologous genes, and nucleic acid constructs, vectors, transformation methods, transgenic plant cells, and transgenic plants comprising said promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Exelixis Plant Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Jill A. Kellogg, Chau B. Phan, Helena V. Mathews, Nancy M. Webb
  • Banana and melon promoters for expression of transgenes in plants
    Publication number: 20030182690
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to banana fruit-associated promoters, a melon actin promoter and banana fusion promoters capable of providing expression of heterologous genes in addition to heterologous nucleic acid constructs, vectors, transformation methods, transgenic plant cells and transgenic plants comprising such promoters. The invention is also directed to methods for screening plant promoters in various types of plant tissue using a transient expression assay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Jill A. Kellogg, Chau B. Phan, Helena V. Mathews, Nancy M. Webb
  • Melon promoters for expression of transgenes in plants
    Publication number: 20020133850
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to melon promoters capable of promoting the expression of heterologous genes in transformed melon fruit. The invention provides melon fruit-associated promoters, heterologous nucleic acid constructs, vectors, kits, transformation methods, transgenic plant cells and transgenic plants comprising such promoters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Jill A. Kellogg
  • CTR1 homologue from melon
    Publication number: 20020129404
    Abstract: The invention relates to the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a melon constitutive triple response (CTR1) homologue, called mCTR, vectors, cells and transgenic plants which comprise the coding sequence for mCTR or a biologically active fragment thereof and methods of producing transgenic plants which express mCTR or a biologically active fragment thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Debra K. Schuster
  • Apple promoters for expression of transgenes in plants
    Patent number: 6392122
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to apple fruit-associated and Thi 1.3:actin fusion promoters capable of promoting the expression of heterologous genes. The invention provides apple fruit-associated and Thi 1.3:actin fusion promoters together with heterologous nucleic acid constructs, vectors, kits, transformation methods, transgenic plant cells and transgenic plants comprising such promoters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Agritope, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Clendennen, Debra K. Schuster
  • Banana DNA associated with fruit development
    Patent number: 6284946
    Abstract: The present invention provides isolated and purified genes which are differentially expressed during banana fruit development, and the protein products of these genes. The present invention further provides DNA regulatory elements which are differentially expressed during banana fruit development, chimeric genes comprising these DNA regulatory elements operably linked to heterologous DNA molecules, and plants transformed with said chimeric genes, providing for controlled expression of said heterologous DNA molecules during the development and ripening of the fruit of said plants, or in response to exogenous ethylene signals in said plants. The present invention also provides a method for expression of a heterologous protein in fruit comprising transforming fruiting plants with one or more chimeric genes according to the present invention, exposing said fruit to an endogenous or exogenous ethylene signal, and harvesting fruit containing said heterologous protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory D. May, Stephanie K. Clendennen