Patents by Inventor Valerie France Gabrielle Hecht

Valerie France Gabrielle Hecht 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).

  • Apomixis conferred by expression of serk interacting proteins
    Publication number: 20020069433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the probability of vegetative reproduction of a new plant generation by transgenic expression of a gene encoding a protein acting in the signal transduction cascade triggered by the Somatic Embryogenesis Receptor Kinase (SERK). Apomictic seeds resulting therefrom, plants and progeny obtained through germination of such seeds, and genes encoding proteins acting in the signal transduction cascade triggered by SERK constitute further subject matters of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Eduard Daniel Leendert Schmidt, Sape Cornelis De Vries, Valerie France Gabrielle Hecht