Plant Cell Or Cell Line, Per Se, Is Pest Or Herbicide Resistant Or Pest Lethal Patents (Class 435/418)
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Patent number: 8901372Abstract: This invention relates to a nucleic acid construct. The construct includes a nucleic acid molecule configured to silence Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV), a 5? DNA promoter sequence, and a 3? terminator sequence. The nucleic acid molecule, the promoter, and the terminator are operatively coupled to permit transcription of the nucleic acid molecule. The present invention also relates to expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants containing the nucleic acid construct of the present invention. Also disclosed are methods of imparting BBTV resistance to plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: University of HawaiiInventors: John Hu, Wayne Borth, Eden A. Perez, Kheng Cheah
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Publication number: 20140343131Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a pest from the Lygus genus, they are capable of decreasing the expression of a target sequence in the pest. In specific embodiments, the decrease in expression of the target sequence controls the pest and thereby the methods and compositions are capable of limiting damage to a plant. The present invention provides various target polynucleotides from specific polypeptide families as disclosed herein, and further provides target polynucleotides set forth in SEQ ID NOS:1-21 or active variants thereof, wherein a decrease in expression of one or more the sequences in the target pest controls the pest (i.e., has insecticidal activity). Further provided are silencing elements which when ingested by the pest decrease the level of the target polypeptide and thereby control the pest. In specific embodiment, the pest is Lygus Hesperus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: RAFAEL HERRMANN, Michael Lassner, Albert Laurence Lu, Mark Edward Nelson, James Kevin Presnail, Janet Ann Rice
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Patent number: 8889969Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated 1374594. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety 1374594, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety 1374594 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety 1374594.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics Inc.Inventor: Azzeddine Douiyssi
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Patent number: 8884126Abstract: This invention relates to polynucleotide sequences encoding a gene that can confer resistance to the plant pathogen Colletotrichum, which causes anthracnose stalk rot, leaf blight and top dieback in corn and other cereals. It further relates to plants and seeds of plants carrying chimeric genes comprising the polynucleotide sequences, which enhance or confer resistance to the plant pathogen Colletotrichum, and processes of making the plants and seeds. The invention further presents sequences that can be used as molecular markers that in turn can be used to identify the region of interest in corn lines resulting from new crosses and to quickly and efficiently introgress the gene from corn lines carrying the gene into other corn lines that do not carry the gene, in order to make them resistant to Colletotrichum and resistant to stalk rot.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc, E I du Pont de Nemours and Company, University of DelawareInventors: Karen E. Broglie, Karlene H. Butler, Marymar G. Butruille, Alexandre da Silva Conceição, Travis James Frey, James A. Hawk, Jennifer S. Jaqueth, Elizabeth S. Jones, Dilbag Singh Multani, Petra Johanna Christina Cecilia Wolters
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Patent number: 8878008Abstract: The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Stage Coach and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Eric Jon Votava, Keith Wayne Trammell
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Publication number: 20140325697Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant transformation with genes conferring tolerance to glyphosate. The invention particularly relates to a maize (corn) plant transformed with a gene encoding an EPSPS providing the plant tolerance to an application of glyphosate under conditions where this herbicide is effective in killing weeds. The invention particularly concerns an elite transformation event VCO-Ø1981-5 comprising the gene construct and means, kits and methods for detecting the presence of the said elite event.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: GenectiveInventors: Lori Artim Artim Mann, Vadim Beilinson, Nadine Carozzi, Rebekah Deter, Brian Vande Berg, Alain Toppan, Laurent Beuf, Georges Freyssinet
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Publication number: 20140325713Abstract: Recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides useful for improvement of plants are provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: David K. KOVALIC, Yihua ZHOU, Yongwei CAO, Scott E. ANDERSEN, Michael D. EDGERTON, Jingdong LIU
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Publication number: 20140325703Abstract: Described are genes and chimeric genes encoding anti-microbial peptides. These genes can be used to generate transgenic plants with an improved resistance to, for example, plant pathogenic fungi. Alternatively, the peptides encoded by these genes can be applied as agrochemical formulations to plants suffering from microbial diseases such as fungal diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: VIB VZWInventors: Frank Van Breusegem, Annelies Inze, Janick Mathys, Bruno Cammue
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Publication number: 20140304855Abstract: Provided are pesticidal, particularly insecticidal, proteins which resemble S-layer proteins, as well as variants or mutants thereof, and DNAs encoding them. Further provided are methods and means for using said DNA or protein for controlling pests, particularly plant insect pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE MEXICOInventors: Mario SOBERON-CHAVEZ, Alejandra BRAVO-DE-LA-PARRA
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Publication number: 20140304853Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for parallel or sequential transgene stacking in plants to produce plants with selected phenotypes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: W. Michael Ainley, Dmitry Y. Guschin, Matthew Hayden, Daniel Isenegger, John Mason, Jeffrey C. Miller, Joseph F. Petolino, Yidong Ran, Tim Sawbridge, German Spangenberg, Steven R. Webb
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Publication number: 20140298536Abstract: This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventors: Kenneth Narva, Huarong Li, Chaoxian Geng, Ignacio M. Larrinua, Monica B. Olson, Navin Elango, Matthew J. Henry, Aaron T. Woosley, Murugesan Rangasamy
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Patent number: 8847020Abstract: Provided is a method for screening a population of plants for the presence therein of individuals that show a reduced susceptibility to ethylene and physiological disorders, in particular Russet Spotting and Yellowing, as compared to a control plant, wherein a population of seeds is germinated in darkness and in the presence of ethylene to obtain seedlings that, when having a longer hypocotyl as compared to the original ethylene-sensitive control under ethylene, are selected as plants showing a reduced susceptibility to ethylene and physiological disorders, in particular Russet Spotting or Yellowing. Also provided are plants thus selected.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus van Dun, Joyce Sylvia Velterop, Johannes Wilhelmus Schut, Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks
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Publication number: 20140289906Abstract: Compositions and methods comprising polynucleotides and polypeptides having dicamba decarboxylase activity are provided. Further provided are nucleic acid constructs, host cells, plants, plant cells, explants, seeds and grain having the dicamba decarboxylase sequences. Various methods of employing the dicamba decarboxylase sequences are provided. Such methods include, for example, methods for decarboxylating an auxin-analog, method for producing an auxin-analog tolerant plant, plant cell, explant or seed and methods of controlling weeds in a field containing a crop employing the plants and/or seeds disclosed herein. Methods are also provided to identify additional dicamba decarboxylase variants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Eric Althoff, Yih-En Andrew Ban, Linda A. Castle, Daniela Grabs, Jian Lu, Phillip A. Patten, Yumin Tao, Alexandre Zanghellini
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Publication number: 20140289907Abstract: The invention relates to a lettuce plant (Lactuca sativa L.), which may comprise a genetic determinant, which confers resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) and/or impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV), and which is as found in plants grown from seeds of which a representative sample was deposited under NCIMB accession number NCIMB 42023. The invention further provides seeds, progeny, propagation material and food products from the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Schut, Arnaud Paul Pierre Thabuis, Marc Villevieille
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Publication number: 20140274714Abstract: To identify a cytochrome P450 involved in the detoxification and metabolism of a specific growth inhibitor. Provided is a gene encoding a cytochrome P450 classified into Indica rice-derived CYP72A31, comprising a polynucleotide encoding a protein comprising an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Hiroaki Saika, Fumio Taguchi, Kiyosumi Hori, Takashi Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Junko Horita, Koichiro Kaku, Tsutomu Shimizu
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Publication number: 20140275213Abstract: The present invention comprises methods and compositions for controlling nematode parasitism in host plant. The present invention comprises novel polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences disclosed herein having a nucleotide sequence comprising any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-142, a fragment or variant thereof, or a complement thereof, or a polypeptide sequence comprising any one of SEQ ID NOs: 143-159, a fragment or variant thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicants: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., The Curators of the University of Missouri, University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Jun-zhi Wei, Gusui Wu, Carl R. Simmons, Thomas Baum, Eric Davis, Richard Hussey, Melissa G. Mitchum
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Publication number: 20140283208Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are isolated insecticidal proteins and nucleic acids. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The insecticidal proteins find use in controlling or killing lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONALInventors: Andre R Abad, Zhenglin Hou, Lu Liu, Brad Poland, Ute Schellenberger, Ingrid Udransky, Jimei Wang, Jun-Zhi Wei, Thomas C. Wolfe, Lan Zhou, Zhu Genhai, Weiping Xie
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Publication number: 20140283224Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants that have increased nitrogen use efficiency, stress tolerance, and/or alleviating a limitation such that yield is increased, or a combination of these and that have been transformed using a novel vector construct including a synthetic isocitrate dehydrogenase (icdh) gene that modulates nitrogen use in plants. The invention also relates to stacking the icdh gene with other exogenous or heterologous genes that modulate nitrogen use in the plant, including a N-acetylglutamate kinase gene. The invention also relates to methods of expressing in plants the nucleic acid molecules corresponding to the nucleic acid sequences that modulate nitrogen use in plants or are modulated by nitrogen conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Iowa Corn Promotion BoardInventors: James McLaren, Brian Vande Berg
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Publication number: 20140275208Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a Coleopteran plant pest or a Diabrotica plant pest, decrease the expression of a target sequence in the pest. In specific embodiments, the decrease in expression of the target sequence controls the pest and thereby the methods and compositions are capable of limiting damage to a plant. The present invention provides various target polynucleotides set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: disclosed herein, (but not including the forward and reverse primers.) or active variants and fragments thereof, or complements thereof, wherein a decrease in expression of one or more of the sequences in the target pest controls the pest (i.e., has insecticidal activity). Further provided are silencing elements which when ingested by the pest decrease the level of the target polypeptide and thereby control the pest. In specific embodiments, the pest is D. virgifera virgifera, D. barberi, D. virgifera zeae, D. speciosa, D.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: XU HU, JAMES PRESNAIL, NINA Richtman, SCOTT DIEHN, MICHELLE HARNACK, LISA PROCYK
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Publication number: 20140259220Abstract: The present invention provides methods for increasing plant biomass and plant seed yield through overexpression of a PHB gene. Also provided are plants with increased biomass and seed yield comprising overexpression of a PHB gene produced by such methods. Plants described herein may be used, for example, for improved production of biofuels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: The Texas A&M University SystemInventor: Shuhua Yuan
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Publication number: 20140259213Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a mutated HPPD protein, wherein said mutated HPPD protein has HPPD activity, wherein in said mutated HPPD protein at least one amino acid has been replaced so that the resulting amino acid sequence comprises at least one amino acid selected from certain amino acids at specific positions important for conferring an increased HPPD inhibitor tolerance. The present invention also relates to proteins encoded by the nucleic acid of the invention, to chimeric genes, plant cells comprising the nucleic acid of the invention operably linked to a plant-expressible promoter and optionally a transcription termination and polyadenylation region, plants essentially consisting of the plant cells of the invention and methods of obtaining transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AGInventors: Gudrun Lange, Fabien Poree, Bernd Laber, Joerg Freigang, Arno Schultz
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Patent number: 8829279Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Athenix CorporationInventors: Nadine Carozzi, Michael G. Koziel, Nicholas Duck, Nalini M. Desai, Rong Guo, Daniel John Tomso, Rebekah Deter, Tracy Hargiss
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Publication number: 20140250543Abstract: The present invention provides for compositions and methods for producing crop plants that are resistant to herbicides. In particular, the present invention provides for wheat plants, plant tissues and plant seeds that contain altered acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) genes and proteins that are resistant to inhibition by herbicides that normally inhibit the activity of the ACCase protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Colorado Wheat Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Michael Hal Ostlie, Scott Haley, Philip Westra, Victoria Ashley Valdez
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Publication number: 20140249027Abstract: Novel proteins are provided herein, including proteins capable of catalyzing the acetylation of glyphosate and other structurally related proteins. Also provided are novel polynucleotides capable of encoding these proteins, compositions that include one or more of these novel proteins and/or polynucleotides, recombinant cells and transgenic plants comprising these novel compounds, diversification methods involving the novel compounds, and methods of using the compounds. Some of the novel methods and compounds provided herein can be used to render an organism, such as a plant, resistant to glyphosate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicants: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC, E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: LINDA A. CASTLE, Yong Hong Chen, Nicholas Duck, Lorraine J. Giver, Rebecca Gorton, Cristina Ivy, Roger Kemble, Bill F. McCutchen, Jeremy Minshull, Phillip A. Patten, Daniel L. Siehl
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Patent number: 8822772Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated XB73A13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB73A13, cells from soybean variety XB73A13, plants of soybean XB73A13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB73A13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB73A13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB73A13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB73A13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB73A13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB73A13 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Welcimar Goncalves da Cunha, Luis C. Prado
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Patent number: 8822762Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International IncInventors: Lu Liu, Takashi Yamamoto, Yi Zheng
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Patent number: 8822789Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated BB86, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line BB86, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line BB86 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line BB86 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line BB86 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BB86.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignees: Limagrain Europe S.A., KWS SAAT AGInventor: Freeman C. Whitehead
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Patent number: 8822771Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated XB64E13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB64E13, cells from soybean variety XB64E13, plants of soybean XB64E13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB64E13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB64E13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB64E13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB64E13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB64E13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB64E13 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Welcimar Goncalves da Cunha, Luis C. Prado
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Publication number: 20140245491Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-30, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Athenix Corp.Inventors: Kimberly Sampson, Daniel Tomso
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Patent number: 8816159Abstract: The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Inferno and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Yaojin Peng, Min Lin
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Patent number: 8816167Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated XB73B13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB73B13, cells from soybean variety XB73B13, plants of soybean XB73B13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB73B13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB73B13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB73B13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB73B13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB73B13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB73B13 are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Welcimar Goncalves da Cunha, Luis C. Prado
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Patent number: 8809652Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated LM3, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line LM3, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line LM3 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line LM3 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line LM3 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line LM3.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignees: Limagrain Europe S.A., KWS SAAT AGInventor: Antoon Van Der Reijden
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Patent number: 8809651Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated BB93, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line BB93, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line BB93 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line BB93 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line BB93 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BB93.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignees: Limagrain Europe S.A., KWS Saat AGInventor: Antoon Van Der Reijden
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Patent number: 8809653Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated BC110, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line BC110, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line BC110 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line BC110 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line BC110 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BC110.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignees: Limagrain Europe S.A., KWS SAAT AGInventor: Thomas C. Koch
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Patent number: 8809634Abstract: The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Crispita and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Miguel Roca, Jason Michael Argyris
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Patent number: 8802937Abstract: Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean cultivar, designated 21232, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120876. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the cultivar, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 21232 cultivar, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventor: Hunt B. Wiley
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Patent number: 8802945Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated CB15, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line CB15, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line CB15 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line CB15 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line CB15 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line CB15.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignees: Limagrain Europe S.A., KWS SAAT AGInventor: Freeman C. Whitehead
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Publication number: 20140223597Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a mutated hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD), to a chimeric gene which comprises this sequence as the coding sequence, and to its use for obtaining plants which are resistant to HPPD inhibitor herbicides.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicants: Bayer CropScience AG, Bayer BioScience N.V.Inventors: Marco Busch, Kerstin Fischer, Bernd Laber, Alain Sailland
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Patent number: 8796026Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation and characterization of nucleotide sequences encoding novel insecticidal proteins secreted into the extracellular space from Bacillus thuringiensis and related strains. The proteins are isolated from culture supernatants of Bacillus thuringiensis and related strains and display insecticidal activity against coleopteran insects including Colorado potato beetle (Lymantria dispar) and Southern Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica undecempunctata). Insecticidal proteins encoded by nucleotide sequences that hybridize to the isolated and characterized nucleotide sequences are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making and using transgenic cells and plants comprising the novel nucleotide sequence of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2004Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James A. Baum, Judith C. Donovan, William P. Donovan, James T. Engleman, Karina Krasomil-Osterfeld, John W. Pitkin, James K. Roberts
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Patent number: 8791326Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions including a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules having nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Athenix Corp.Inventors: Kimberly S. Sampson, Daniel J. Tomso, Volker Heinrichs
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Patent number: 8791341Abstract: Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean cultivar, designated 20895, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120878. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the cultivar, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 20895 cultivar, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventor: Robert E. Moore
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Patent number: 8791332Abstract: A lettuce cultivar, designated Carini, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Carini, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Carini and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Carini with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Carini, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Carini and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Carini with another lettuce cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Jason Argyris
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Patent number: 8791325Abstract: The invention provides for identification and use of certain chloroplast transit peptides for efficient processing and localization of dicamba monooxygenase (DMO) enzyme in transgenic plants. Methods for producing dicamba tolerant plants, methods for controlling weed growth, and methods for producing food, feed, and other products are also provided, as well as seed that confers tolerance to dicamba when it is applied pre- or post-emergence.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Paul C. C. Feng, Marianne Malven, Stanislaw Flasinski
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Patent number: 8791342Abstract: Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean cultivar, designated 21202, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120877. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the cultivar, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 21202 cultivar, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventor: Hunt B. Wiley
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Patent number: 8791331Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid RX 06692157 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid RX 06692157 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Bernardus Baerends
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Patent number: 8791340Abstract: Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean cultivar, designated 76983, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120858. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the cultivar, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 76983 cultivar, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventor: Robert E. Moore
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Publication number: 20140208461Abstract: The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules derived from Nicotiana alata, which encode defensin-like molecules. The present invention contemplates the use of such nucleic acid molecules in the generation of transgenic plants having resistance or at least reduced sensitivity to plant pests including insects, microorganisms, fungi and/or viruses and the of the encoded defensin-like molecules in compositions for topical application to a plant or a plant part so as to reduce prevent or reduce infestation of the plant or plant part by plant pests. The transgenic plants provided by the present invention include monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants, and particularly include crop plants and ornamental flowering plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: HEXIMA LIMITEDInventors: Marilyn Anne ANDERSON, Fung Tso LAY, Robyn Louise HEATH
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Patent number: 8785744Abstract: Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean cultivar, designated 1000731, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121010. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the cultivar, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 1000731 cultivar, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventor: Hunt B. Wiley
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Patent number: 8785742Abstract: Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean cultivar, designated 1000729, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-121009. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the cultivar, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 1000729 cultivar, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventor: Hunt B. Wiley
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Patent number: 8785730Abstract: A lettuce cultivar, designated Paulita, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Paulita, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Paulita and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Paulita with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Paulita, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Paulita and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Paulita with another lettuce cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Jason Argyris