Potato Cell Or Cell Line, Per Se Patents (Class 435/417)
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Publication number: 20100281570Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a seed-preferred promoter associated with the maize 18 KD OLE (18 kilodalton oleosin) coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Shane Abbitt, Jinrui Shi
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Publication number: 20100275325Abstract: The present invention provides several promoters isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, which promoters are capable of driving and/or regulating the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid in a plant. The expression patterns of the promoters according to the present invention have been studied in Arabidopsis thaliana and some of the promoters displayed specific activity in particular cells, tissues or organs of the plant, while others displayed constitutive expression throughout substantially the whole plant. Some promoters showed weak expression, while others were strongly active.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: CROPDESIGN N.V.Inventors: WILLEM BROEKAERT, YVES HATZFELD
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Publication number: 20100269217Abstract: Compounds, methods for producing them and methods for varying the morphology of plants are disclosed. More particularly, a SUN gene can be used to alter the shape of fruit in a plant such as a tomato plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventor: Esther van der Knaap
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Publication number: 20100251416Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress and increased biomass production as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
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Patent number: 7795398Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acids from potato encoding LRR polypeptides that confer late blight disease resistance in plants of the Solanaceae family and vectors and transgenic plants comprising the nucleic acids. The invention also provides a method for providing a plant or its progeny with resistance against an oomycete infection comprising providing said plant or part thereof with a gene or functional fragment thereof comprising a nucleic acid, said nucleic acid encoding a gene product that is capable of providing a member of the Solanaceae with resistance against an oomycete fungus.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Kweek-En Researchbedrijf Agrico B.V.Inventors: Josephus Jacobus Hendricus Maria Allefs, Edwin Andries G. van der Vossen
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Publication number: 20100205690Abstract: The present invention disclosed herein provides a method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising increasing or generating one or more activities in a plant or a part thereof. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids enhancing or improving one or more traits of a transgenic plant, and cells, progenies, seeds and pollen derived from such plants or parts, as well as methods of making and methods of using such plant cell(s) or plant(s), progenies, seed(s) or pollen. Particularly, said improved trait(s) are manifested in an increased yield, preferably by improving one or more yield-related trait(s), e.g. low temperature tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Bläsing, Piotr Puzio, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Potzdam, Hardy Schön
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Publication number: 20100197503Abstract: 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: January 22, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Timothy Robert Hawkes, Michael Phillip Langford, Russell Colin Viner, Bernardus Theodorus Maria Vernooij, Richard Dale
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Publication number: 20100189706Abstract: The invention provides polypeptides having a lignocellulolytic activity, e.g., a glycosyl hydrolase, a cellulase, an endoglucanase, a cellobiohydrolase, a beta-glucosidase, a xylanase, a mannanse, a xylosidase (e.g., a ?-xylosidase), an arabinofuranosidase, and/or a glucose oxidase activity, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention provides polypeptides that can enzymatically process (hydrolyze) sugarcane bagasse, i.e., for sugarcane bagasse degradation, or for biomass processing, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one embodiment, the invention provides thermostable and thermotolerant forms of polypeptides of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Cathy Chang, Justin T. Stege, Nahla Aboushadi, Gordana Djordjevic, Ellen Burke, Peter Luginbuhl, Mark Dycaico, Toby Richardson, John Poland, Ying Hefner, Stacy Marie Miles
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Publication number: 20100192264Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing transformed plant cells or organisms by transforming a population of plant cells which comprises at least one marker protein having a direct or indirect toxic effect for the population, with at least one nucleic acid sequence to be inserted in combination with at least one compound, preferably a DNA construct, capable of reducing the expression, amount, activity and/or function of the marker protein, with the transformed plant cells having a growth advantage over nontransformed cells, due to the action of the compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Sciences GmbHInventors: Michael Kock, Markus Frank, Ralf Badur
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Publication number: 20100186129Abstract: Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Richard S. Hussey, Guozhong Huang
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Publication number: 20100162437Abstract: The invention relates to a resistance gene and functional homologues or fragments thereof isolated from S. bulbocastanum. More over, the invention relates to the use of said resistance gene, for example the use of said resistance gene in a method to increase or confer at least partial resistance in a plant to an oomycte infection. The invention provides an isolated or recombinant nucleic acid sequence comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding one of the amino acid sequences of FIG. 6 or a functional fragment or a functional homologue thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicants: Wageningen Universiteit, Kweek- En Researchbedrijf Agrico B.V.Inventors: Edwin Andries Gerard Van Der Vossen, Anoma Akuvi Lokossou, Richard Gerardus Franciscus Visser, Evert Jacobsen
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Publication number: 20100162432Abstract: The invention relates generally to transformed plant cells and plants comprising an in-activated or down-regulated gene resulting in increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress and increased biomass production as compared to non-transformed wild type cells and methods of producing such plant cells or plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
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Publication number: 20100154074Abstract: Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules isolated from coffee (Coffea spp.) comprising sequences that encodes various sucrose metabolizing enzymes, along with their encoded proteins. Specifically, three types of invertase and four invertase inhibitors and their encoding polynucleotides from coffee are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides for gene regulation and manipulation of the sugar profile of coffee plants, to influence flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2006Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicants: NESTEC S.A., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Isabelle Privat, James Gérard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Steven D. Tanksley, Chenwei Lin
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Publication number: 20100144529Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring tolerance to glyphosate in bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, designated Class III, and polynucleotides encoding such enzymes, vectors comprising those polynucleotides, and host cells comprising the vectors. The novel proteins comprise at least one sequence domain selected from the Class III domains provided herein. These sequence domains can be used to identify EPSP synthases with glyphosate resistance activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Athenix CorporationInventors: Nadine Carozzi, Brian Carr, Philip E. Hammer
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Publication number: 20100144530Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring tolerance to glyphosate in bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, designated Class III, and polynucleotides encoding such enzymes, vectors comprising those polynucleotides, and host cells comprising the vectors. The novel proteins comprise at least one sequence domain selected from the Class III domains provided herein. These sequence domains can be used to identify EPSP synthases with glyphosate resistance activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Athenix CorporationInventors: Nadine Carozzi, Brian Carr, Philip E. Hammer
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Publication number: 20100120620Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the At.PLD? gene or the At.HVA22e gene of Arabidopsis thaliana and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Arabidopsis thaliana regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Subbaiah CHALIVENDRA, Karen K. GABBERT, Wei WU
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Publication number: 20100064394Abstract: A novel Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth of Lygus insects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein in Lygus insect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: James Baum, Stanislaw Flasinski, Gregory R. Heck, Stephen R. Penn, Uma Rao Sukuru, Xiaohong Shi
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Publication number: 20100037357Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for phenylpropanoids and flavonoids in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides and polypeptides for the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans, as well as the manipulation resistance to pathogen, herbivore, and insect attack in the coffee plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2006Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicants: NESTEC S.A., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Maud Lepelley, Gerald Cheminade, James Gerard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Chenwei Lin, Steven D. Tanksley
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Publication number: 20100011468Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method for increasing the resitance of a plant, in particular of a Solanaceae, preferably of potato and tomato, to plant pathogens of the phylum Oomyceta comprising increasing the activity of the polypeptide of the present invention. The invention further relates to polynucleotides and vectors comprising these polynucleotides. The invention furthermore relates to corresponding vectors, cells, transgenic plants and transgenic propagation material derived from them, methods to produce them and to their use for the production of foodstuffs, feeding stuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: KWEEK-EN RESEARCHBEDRIJF AGRICO B.V.Inventors: Edwin Andries Gerard Van Der Vossen, Josephus Jacoubs Henricus Maria Allefs, Marina Woutera Maria Muskens
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Publication number: 20090313728Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for lignins in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides and polypeptides for the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans, as well as the manipulation resistance to pathogen, herbivore, and insect attack in the coffee plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2006Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicants: NESTEC S. A., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Maud Lepelley, James Gérard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Gerald Cheminade, Steven D. Tanksley, Chenwei Lin
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Publication number: 20090297495Abstract: The invention provides hydrolases, polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase activity, e.g., an esterase, acylase, lipase, phospholipase (e.g., phospholipase A, B, C and D activity, patatin activity, lipid acyl hydrolase (LAH) activity) or protease activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant hydrolase activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The hydrolase activities of the polypeptides and peptides of the invention include esterase activity, lipase activity (hydrolysis of lipids), acidolysis reactions (to replace an esterified fatty acid with a free fatty acid), transesterification reactions (exchange of fatty acids between triglycerides), ester synthesis, ester interchange reactions, phospholipase activity and protease activity (hydrolysis of peptide bonds).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Janne S. Kerovuo, Ryan McCann, David Weiner, Arne I. Solbak, JR.
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Publication number: 20090265808Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of genetic modification of a TGB-3 wild type viral sequence for reducing or suppressing the possible deleterious effects of the agronomic properties of a transformed plant or plant cell by said TGB-3 viral sequence. The invention further relates to genetically modified TGB-3 viral sequences suitable to induce gene silencing. In particular hairpin constructs based on such sequences proved highly efficient to induce a PTGS mechanism and degradation of the whole of RNA2 thereby. When plants are transformed accordingly the spread of the virus in the plant is significantly reduced or blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicant: SESVANDERHAVE, N.V.Inventors: Emmanuelle Lauber, Hubert Guilley, Ken Richards, Gerard Jonard, Elodie Klein, David Gilmer
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Publication number: 20090241224Abstract: The present invention provides thermostable polypeptides related to Arabidopsis Rubisco Activase polypeptides. Nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention are also provided. Methods for using the polypeptides and nuclei acids of the invention to enhance resistance of plants to heat stress are encompassed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Itzhak Kurek, Lu Liu, Genhai Zhu
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Publication number: 20090217406Abstract: This invention relates generally to transformed plant cells and plants comprising an inactivated or down-regulated gene resulting in increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress as compared to non-transformed wild type cells and methods of producing such plant cells or plants. This invention further relates generally to transformed plant cells with increased tolerance and/or resistance to an environmental stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell, methods of producing, screening for and breeding such plant cells or plants and method of detecting stress in plants cells or plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2005Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Harry Wild, Gunnar Plesch, Bryan McKersie
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Patent number: 7569744Abstract: Nucleic acid molecules are described encoding a starch granule-bound protein as well as methods and recombinant DNA molecules for the production of transgenic plant cells and plants synthesizing a modified starch with modified viscosity properties and a modified phosphate content. Moreover, the plant cells and plants resulting from those methods as well as the starch obtainable therefrom are described.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Bayer Bioscience GmbHInventors: Jens Kossmann, Ruth Lorberth
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Publication number: 20090178156Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for carotenoids and apocarotenoids in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are a promoter sequence from a coffee carotenoid gene, and methods for using these polynucleotides, polypeptides, and promoter sequences for gene regulation and the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans, as well as the manipulation of photosynthesis in the coffee plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2006Publication date: July 9, 2009Applicants: NESTEC S.A., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Steven D. Tanksley, Chenwei Lin, Andrew Simkin, James Gerard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard
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Publication number: 20090172834Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins and homologs that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, heat, cold, and/or salt tolerance to plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Florian Schauwecker, Amber Shirley
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Publication number: 20090165153Abstract: Methods and means for efficiently downregulating the expression of any gene of interest in eukaryotic cells and organisms are provided. To this end, the invention provides modified antisense and sense RNA molecules, chimeric genes encoding such modified antisense or sense RNA molecules and eukaryotic organisms such as plants, animals or fungi, yeast or molds, comprising the modified antisense and/or sense RNA molecules or the encoding chimeric genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION (CSIRO)Inventors: Ming-Bo Wang, Peter Waterhouse
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Publication number: 20090165170Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a phosphatase stress-related protein (PHSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PHSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PHSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2009Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Manabu Ishitani
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Publication number: 20090158456Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides involved in the biosynthetic pathway of chlorogenic acids in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides and polypeptides for the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans, as well as for the protection of coffee plants against diseases or oxidative stress.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicants: NESTEC S.A., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Steven D. Tanksley, Chenwel Lin
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Publication number: 20090138987Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a phosphatase stress-related protein (PHSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PHSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PHSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Manabu Ishitani
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Publication number: 20090123967Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of modifying a spider silk protein and a spider silk protein obtainable by said method. The invention further pertains to a nucleic acid sequence coding for a modified spider silk protein, a vector containing said sequences and host cells transformed with this vector. The invention furthermore is directed to a pharmaceutical or cosmetical composition containing a modified spider silk protein as defined herein and the use of said modified sequences in various fields, in particular in the fields of medicine, cosmetics and technical applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2006Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventor: Thomas Scheibel
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Publication number: 20090106863Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for increasing the phosphate content of starches of genetically modified plant cells in comparison with starches from corresponding wild-type plant cells by introducing a foreign nucleic acid molecule which codes for a soluble starch synthase II. The present invention furthermore relates to the overexpression of this soluble starch synthase II in the genetically modified plant cells. Furthermore, the present invention relates to rice starch and rice flour with improved quality characteristics, to rice grains comprising this rice starch, and to rice plants on which these rice grains grow.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Claus Frohberg, Ralf-Christian Schmidt
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Publication number: 20090106866Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Yu-Ping Lu, Roger Pennell, Jack Okamuro, Richard Schneeberger, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok
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Publication number: 20090077687Abstract: Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Richard S. Hussey, Guozhong Huang
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Publication number: 20090068159Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding ET37, TIC810 and TIC812 proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis, and nucleotide sequences for use in expressing TIC809, ET37, TIC810 and TIC812, and fusions of various insecticidally effective combinations of these proteins such as TIC 127, in plants. Methods of making and using the polynucleotide sequences and the proteins in the development of transgenic plant cells and transgenic plants exhibiting improved insect resistance against (1) Coleopteran insects including Western Corn Rootworm (Dibrotica virgifera), Southern Corn Rootworm (Dibrotica undecempunctata), Northern Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica barbed), Mexican Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera zeae), Brazilian Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica balteata) and Brazilian Corn Rootworm complex (Diabrotica viridula and Diabrotica speciosa), and against Hemipteran insects such as Lygus bugs, are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2006Publication date: March 12, 2009Inventors: James A. Baum, James K. Roberts, Bei Zhang, Heather Anderson, Catherine A. Chay
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Patent number: 7482508Abstract: The present invention provides novel genes involved in cellulose biosynthesis and methods using such genes to modulate cellulose biosynthesis in fiber-producing plants such as cotton. The invention also provides methods for identifying and isolating alleles of these genes in a population of fiber-producing plants that correlate with the quality of the produced fibers.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Australian National UniversityInventors: Joanne Elizabeth Burn, Richard Edward Williamson
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Patent number: 7456334Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a root-preferred promoter for the gene encoding Cr1Bio. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method includes stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2007Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Lynne E. Sims, Kim R. Ward
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Publication number: 20080276331Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid construct having a nucleic acid molecule configured to silence ?-carotene hydroxylase expression, and host cells, expression systems, plants, and plant seeds having the nucleic acid construct. The present invention also relates to a method of enhancing beta-carotene content by growing a transgenic plant from a plant or seed transformed with the construct.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2005Publication date: November 6, 2008Inventors: Joyce Van Eck, David F. Garvin
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Publication number: 20080276336Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying proteins involved in the phosphorylation of starch and nucleic acids which code for such proteins. The present invention further relates to plant cells and plants which exhibit an altered activity of a protein which can be identified using the method according to the invention. Plant cells and plants of this type synthesise a modified starch. The present invention therefore also relates to the starch synthesised by the plant cells and plants according to the invention as well as to methods for the manufacture of this starch and to the manufacture of starch derivatives of this modified starch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2005Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE GMBHInventors: Claus Frohberg, Oliver Koetting, Gerhard Ritte, Martin Steup
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Publication number: 20080263725Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a phosphatase stress-related protein (PHSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PHSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PHSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCES LLCInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Rouying Chen, Manabu Ishitani
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Publication number: 20080263722Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide capable of giving a plant tolerance to drought and/or salt stress, which comprises a polynucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1, and to a promoter capable of giving a plant tolerance to drought and/or salt stress. The present invention also relates to an expression vector comprising the said polynucleotide and/or the said promoter, and to a host cell transformed or transfected by the said expression vector. The present invention further relates to a use of the said polynucleotide or promoter sequence in improvement of plant tolerance to drought and/or salt stress.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2005Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Huzahong Agricultural UniversityInventors: Honghong Hu, Xiong Lizhong
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Publication number: 20080254989Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the ribosomal protein L18A and heat shock cognate HSC71 genes of Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Oryza sativa regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2006Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventor: Shoba Cherian
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Publication number: 20080256666Abstract: Methods for identifying one or more amino acid substitutions in a Rubisco large subunit polypeptide (variant) that confer increased Rubisco activity in a unicellular photosynthetic organism and transferring those substitutions to a Rubisco large subunit polypeptide of a higher plant cell are described herein. Methods and compositions for modulating plant productivity using the modified Rubisco large subunit polypeptide variants are provided. The Rubisco large subunit sequences are used in a variety of methods including increasing plant productivity in a plant. Transformed plants, plant cell, tissues, seed, and expression vectors are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: GENHAI ZHU, ITZHAK KUREK, LU LIU
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Publication number: 20080250528Abstract: A nucleic acid containing a glutelin gene promoter. Disclosed are transformed plant cells and transgenic plants containing a nucleic acid that includes the promoter operably linked to a sequence encoding heterologous protein. Also disclosed are methods of making the transformed plant cells and transgenic plants and methods for expressing a polypeptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: Academia SinicaInventors: Su-may Yu, Chwan-yang Hong
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Publication number: 20080229449Abstract: Disclosed are Bacillus thuringiensis strains comprising novel crystal proteins which exhibit insecticidal activity against lepidopteran insects. Also disclosed are novel B. thuringiensis genes and their encoded crystal proteins, as well as methods of making and using transgenic cells comprising the novel nucleic acid sequences of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventors: James A. Baum, Chih-Rei Chu, William P. Donovan, Amy J. Gilmer, Mark J. Rupar
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Transformed Plant Cell Expressing Tandem Repeats of Beta-Amyloid Gene and Plant Produced by the Same
Publication number: 20080213340Abstract: The present invention relates to a transformed plant cell expressing ?-amyloid gene, which is known as a causal substance of senile dementia in human, a transformed plant and a preparation method of the same, more particularly, to a transformed plant cell expressing tandem repeats of ?-amyloid gene, a transformed plant produced by tissue-culturing the above cells and a preparation method of the same. The transformed plant of the present invention expresses multiple ?-amyloid protein, so that the plant can be effectively used for the preparation of an oral vaccine composition for the prevention of senile dementia in human.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2004Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Hyun Soon Kim, Jung Won Youm, Jae Heung Jeon, Mi Sun Kim, Inhee Mook, Hyouk Joung -
Publication number: 20080216192Abstract: A potato cultivar designated FL 2086 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar FL 2086, to the seeds of potato cultivar FL 2086, to the plants of potato FL 2086, to the plant parts of potato cultivar FL 2086 and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar FL 2086 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety FL 2086, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar FL 2086 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
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Publication number: 20080216186Abstract: A potato cultivar designated FL 2085 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar FL 2085, to the seeds of potato cultivar FL 2085, to the plants of potato FL 2085, to the plant parts of potato cultivar FL 2085 and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar FL 2085 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety FL 2085, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar FL 2085 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
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Publication number: 20080193417Abstract: The present invention relates to new DNA sequences encoding an insecticidal Cry9Fa protein and insecticidal parts thereof, which are useful to protect plants from insect damage. Also included herein are micro-organisms and plants transformed with a DNA sequence encoding an insecticidal Cry9Fa protein and processes for controlling insects and to obtain a plant resistant to insects.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.Inventors: Greta Arnaut, Annemie Boets, Nicole Damme, Eva Mathieu, Stijn Vanneste, Jeroen Van Rie