Patents by Inventor Yiwen Fang

Yiwen Fang 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).

  • Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics
    Publication number: 20070174936
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolai Alexandrov, Cook Zhihong, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Plant Myb Transcription Factor Homologs
    Publication number: 20070161035
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a Myb-related transcription factor. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the Myb-related transcription factor, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the Myb-related transcription factor in a transformed host cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Rebecca Cahoon, Yiwen Fang, Joan Odell, Zude Weng
  • Methods and materials for improving plant drought tolerance
    Patent number: 7241937
    Abstract: Isolated NCED3 nucleic acids and polypeptides are described herein, together with methods for using such nucleic acids and polypeptides for making transgenic plants with improved drought tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Yiwen Fang, Roger I. Pennell
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20070136839
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20070124834
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20070042387
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, Kenneth Feldmann, Yu-Ping Lu, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Van-Dinh Dang, Zhihong Cook, Jack Okamuro, Nestor Apuya, Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Edward Kiegle, Leonard Medrano
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7173121
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc
    Inventor: Yiwen Fang
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20070006335
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane Jofuku, Jonathan Donson
  • Par-related protein promoters
    Publication number: 20060260004
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Yiwen Fang, Leonard Medrano, Noah Theiss
  • Polynucleotides encoding proteins involved in plant metabolism
    Publication number: 20060242729
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated YABBY transcription factor nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering YABBY transcription factor levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Edgar Cahoon, Rebecca Cahoon, Saverio Falco, Yiwen Fang, Jian-Ming Lee, Guo-Hua Miao, Michele Morgante, Joan Odell, J. Rafalski, Hajime Sakai, Quinn Zhu, Sabine Hantke, Xiping Niu, Zheng Peizhong, Zhongsen Li
  • Drought inducible promoters and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20060143739
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to drought responsive promoter sequences, polynucleotide constructs comprising the drought responsive promoters and methods of identifying the drought responsive promoters or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present drought responsive promoters to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Medrano, Kenneth Feldmann, Nickolai Alexandrov, Yiwen Fang, Nester Apuya
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20060090216
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Shing Kwok, Nickolai Alexandrov, Tatiana Tatarinova, Yiwen Fang, Roger Pennell, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Zhihong Cook, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Methods and materials for improving plant drought tolerance
    Publication number: 20060064785
    Abstract: Isolated NCED3 nucleic acids and polypeptides are described herein, together with methods for using such nucleic acids and polypeptides for making transgenic plants with improved drought tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Yiwen Fang, Roger Pennell
  • Plant disease resistance genes
    Publication number: 20060037097
    Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an Mlo homolog. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the Mlo homolog, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the Mlo homolog in a transformed host cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Rebecca Cahoon, Yiwen Fang, Graziana Taramino, Hajime Sakai, J. Rafalski, Guo-Hua Miao
  • Methods for modifying plant characteristics
    Publication number: 20060021089
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides, polypeptides, and transgenic plants are described. The transgenic plants can exhibit one or more altered phenotypic characteristics relative to a control plant, including increased height, increased seed weight, increased photosynthetic rates, decreased levels of campestanol, or increased levels of 6-deoxocathasterone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Yiwen Fang, Roger Pennell, Chuan-Yin Wu, Zhihong Cook, Tatiana Tatarinova, Hongyu Zhang
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20060021083
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Kenneth Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu, Nestor Apuya, Diane Jofuku, Jonathan Donson
  • Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics
    Publication number: 20060015970
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: Cers, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, Jack Okamuro, Richard Schneeberger, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Diane Jofuku, Edward Kiegle, Jonathan Donson, Nestor Apuya
  • Promoter, Promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20060008816
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Yu-Ping Lu, Roger Pennell, Jack Okamuro, Richard Schneeberger, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20050246785
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Publication number: 20050223422
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu