Patents by Inventor Timothy Robert Hawkes
Timothy Robert Hawkes 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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Publication number: 20200270588Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance upon plants towards certain classes of herbicide are provided. In particular these are amine, alcohol and aminal herbicides. The compositions include nucleotide and amino acid sequences for wild-type and mutant glucosyl transferase polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention are mutant or wild type glucosyl transferases that are capable of catalyzing the transfer of glucose to certain herbicidal structures and that, thereby, confer resistance or tolerance in plants to amine, alcohol and aminal PSII herbicides. Particularly, polypeptides of the invention include mutant or wild-type bx-type UDP glucosyl transferases.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Richard Dale, John Paul Evans, Michael Phillip Langford, Sabrina Guillemer, Shujie Dong, Qiudeng Que, Zhongying Chen, Yingping Lucy Qin
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Patent number: 10053675Abstract: Novel hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) polypeptides, variants and fragments thereof, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same, capable of conferring commercial levels of conferring HPPD herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for HPPD polypeptides, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same. Methods for the production and use of HPPD herbicide resistant plants that express these novel HPPD polypeptides, methods for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus, and methods for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of these novel HPPDs are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Richard Dale
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Publication number: 20160222360Abstract: Novel hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) polypeptides, variants and fragments thereof, as as well as polynucleotides encoding the same, capable of conferring commercial levels of conferring HPPD herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for HPPD polypeptides, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same. Methods for the production and use of HPPD herbicide resistant plants that express these novel HPPD polypeptides, methods for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus, and methods for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of these novel HPPDs are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 9388393Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 9347046Abstract: Novel hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) polypeptides, variants and fragments thereof, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same, capable of conferring commercial levels of conferring HPPD herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for HPPD polypeptides, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same. Methods for the production and use of HPPD herbicide resistant plants that express these novel HPPD polypeptides, methods for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus, and methods for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of these novel HPPDs are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale, Shradha Singh, Vance Kramer
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Patent number: 9175305Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 9074177Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 9057050Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 9051545Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 9051546Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 8980792Abstract: The present invention relates to methods comprising applying to a useful plant, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of abscisic acid and a fungicidally active compound, which fungicidally active compound is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor, in particular for increasing the potency of a fungicidally active compound. The invention also relates to compositions comprising abscisic acid and the fungicidally active compounds as well as seeds comprising the combinations.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignees: Syngenta Participations AG, Syngenta LimitedInventors: Elizabeth Pearson, Jose Luis Calvo, Robin Wesley, Jeremy R. Godwin, Ryan Jon Langs Ramsey, Timothy Robert Hawkes
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Patent number: 8946507Abstract: A method of producing male or female sterile plants comprising the steps of transforming plant material with a polynucleotide which encodes at least one enzyme which reacts with a non-phytotoxic substance to produce a phytotoxic one, and regenerating the thus transformed material into a plant, wherein the said non-phytotoxic substance is applied to the plant up to the time of male or female gamete formation and/or maturation, so that the non-phytotoxic substance provides for the production of a phytotoxic one which selectively prevents the formation of or otherwise renders the said gametes non-functional, wherein the enzyme is expressed preferentially in either male or female reproductive structures, characterised in that (i) the non-phytotoxic substance is D-phosphinothricin and (ii) the enzyme is a D-amino acid oxidase.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Glynn Mitchell, Stephen Thomas Hadfield, Paul Anthony Thompson, Russell Viner, Yan Zhang
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Patent number: 8771959Abstract: Methods for making transgenic plants that are resistant to HPPD herbicides are presented. Polynucleotides other than those from Pseudomonas fluorescens that encode resistant HPPD enzymes are enclosed for use in the process of making transgenic plants that are tolerant to HPPD-inhibiting herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Christopher John Andrews, Simon Anthony James Warner, Timothy Robert Hawkes
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Patent number: 8735660Abstract: Methods for making transgenic plants that are resistant to HPPD herbicides are presented. Polynucleotides other than those from Pseudomonas fluorescens that encode resistant HPPD enzymes are enclosed for use in the process of making transgenic plants that are tolerant to HPPD-inhibiting herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Christopher John Andrews, Simon Anthony James Warner, Timothy Robert Hawkes
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Publication number: 20140053295Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Patent number: 8642836Abstract: A method of producing male or female sterile plants comprising the steps of transforming plant material with a polynucleotide which encodes at least one enzyme which reacts with a non-phytotoxic substance to produce a phytotoxic one, and regenerating the thus transformed material into a plant, wherein the said non-phytotoxic substance is applied to the plant up to the time of male or female gamete formation and/or maturation, so that the non-phytotoxic substance provides for the production of a phytotoxic one which selectively prevents the formation of or otherwise renders the said gametes non-functional, wherein the enzyme is expressed preferentially in either male or female reproductive structures, characterized in that (i) the non-phytotoxic substance is a D-alpha amino acid, and (ii) the enzyme is a D-amino acid oxidase.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Glynn Mitchell, Stephen Thomas Hadfield, Paul Anthony Thompson, Russell Viner, Yan Zhang
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Publication number: 20130274307Abstract: The present invention relates to methods comprising applying to a useful plant, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of abscisic acid and a fungicidally active compound, which fungicidally active compound is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor, in particular for increasing the potency of a fungicidally active compound. The invention also relates to compositions comprising abscisic acid and the fungicidally active compounds as well as seeds comprising the combinations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITEDInventors: Elizabeth Pearson, Jose Luis Calvo, Robin Wesley, Jeremy R. Godwin, Ryan Jon Langs Ramsey, Timothy Robert Hawkes
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Publication number: 20120331580Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Publication number: 20120311738Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Publication number: 20120311740Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for mutant HPPD polypeptides. Nucleic acids that encode the mutant HPPD polypeptides are also provided. Methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance, particularly resistance or tolerance to certain classes of herbicides that inhibit HPPD, in plants are further provided. Methods are also provided for selectively controlling weeds in a field at a crop locus and for the assay, characterization, identification and selection of the mutant HPPDs of the current invention that provide herbicide tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale