Patents by Inventor Yoshiki Kuraya

Yoshiki Kuraya 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).

  • Rice restorer gene to the rice BT type cytoplasmic male sterility
    Patent number: 7544856
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide the rice restorer gene to the rice BT type cytoplasmic male sterility. The gene of the present invention comprises a nucleic acid encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 75, or an amino acid sequence which is identical to at least 70% of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 75, and which functions to restore fertility. Preferably, the gene of the present invention has the base sequence of SEQ ID NOS:69-74, 80-85 or the bases 43907-46279 of SEQ ID NO:27.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Komori, Yoshimitsu Takakura, Yukoh Hiei, Shoichi Suzuki, Yoshiki Kuraya
  • The rice restorer gene to the rice bt type cytoplasmic male sterility
    Publication number: 20060179517
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide the rice restorer gene to the rice BT type cytoplasmic male sterility. The gene of the present invention comprises a nucleic acid encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.75, or an amino acid sequence which is identical to at least 70% of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO.75, and which functions to restore fertility. Preferably, the gene of the present invention has the base sequence of SEQ ID NOS:69-74, 80-85 or the bases 43907-46279 of SEQ ID NO:27.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Komori, Yoshimitsu Takakura, Yukoh Hiei, Shoichi Suzuki, Yoshiki Kuraya
  • Vectors for transforming plants
    Patent number: 7087812
    Abstract: Vectors for transforming plants with the use of agrobacteria which have been modified so as to elevate the possibility of the recognition of the border sequences of the vectors by vir proteins of the agrobacteria, thereby lowering the possibility of the transfer of DNAs other than T-DNA into plant chromosomes. More particularly, the above-vectors are those to be used in transforming plants which have right and left border sequences which can be recognized by the vir proteins of the agrobacteria, a T-DNA sequence which is located between these border sequences and into which a gene to be transferred into plants can be inserted, and a replication origin enabling the replication of the vectors in bacteria, characterized by having a plural number of left border sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Kuraya, Toshihiko Komari, Yukoh Hiei
  • Method for the expressing foreign genes and vectors therefor
    Patent number: 6214578
    Abstract: A method for expressing a foreign gene, by which the foreign genes can be expressed more strongly than by the conventional methods, as well as a recombinant vector therefor, is disclosed. In the method for expressing a foreign gene according to the present invention, the foreign gene is inserted into a site downstream of a promoter and the foreign gene is expressed in a cell, wherein a plurality of intron-originated DNA fragments which are the same or different and are capable of promoting expression of foreign genes are inserted into one or more sites upstream of the foreign gene, and said foreign gene is expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Ueki, Shozo Ohta, Shinji Morioka, Yoshiki Kuraya