Encodes A Plant Polypeptide Patents (Class 536/23.6)
  • Patent number: 11939589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to control of pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control, By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pest, a reduction in pest infestation is obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James A. Baum, Claire A. CaJacob, Pascale Feldmann, Gregory R. Heck, Irene Maria Antonia Nooren, Geert Plaetinck, Wendy T. Maddelein, Ty T. Vaughn
  • Patent number: 11925164
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 07370900 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 07370900, to the plants of soybean cultivar 07370900, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 07370900, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 07370900. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 07370900. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 07370900, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 07370900 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: M.S. Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11913008
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means which inhibit the level of PK220 gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased water use efficiency relative to a wild type control plant. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences and constructs useful such methods and methods of generating and isolating plants having decreased PK220 expression or activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Performance Plants, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang, Shujun Yang, Monika Maria Kuzma
  • Patent number: 11905518
    Abstract: Disclosed are modified plants and methods for producing modified plants having a modified 5?-untranslated region of small auxin upregulated protein flooding tolerance (SAUR_FT) gene. Modified plants disclosed herein have at least one of an increased root system architecture, an increased waterlogging tolerance, an increased drought tolerance, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Henry T. Nguyen, Heng Ye, Babu Valliyodan
  • Patent number: 11903397
    Abstract: There is provided a method of treating hay for preventing and/or reducing heat damage in high moisture hay and as well to preserve the same, the method including adding to hay a hay preservative including a hay preserving and heat reducing effective amount of at least one enzyme having a chitinase activity, either alone or in combination with a hay preserving and heat reducing effective amount of a yeast of the genus Pichia or a bacteria of the genus Pediococcus. There is also provided a method of treating hay for preventing and/or reducing heat damage in high moisture hay and as well to preserve the same, the method including adding to hay a hay preservative including a hay preserving and heat reducing effective amount of yeast of the genus Pichia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DANSTAR FERMENT AG
    Inventors: Julien Sindou, Henri Durand
  • Patent number: 11877553
    Abstract: Rice is described that is tolerant/resistant to AHAS/ALS inhibitors because of a plurality of mutations that act synergistically in providing resistance/tolerance to the herbicide. Tolerance/resistance is due to presence of combined mutations in the rice leading to amino acid substitutions (A205V and G654E) in the AHAS/ALS enzyme. Use of the rice for weed control and methods of producing tolerant/resistant rice are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: RiceTec, Inc.
    Inventors: Dario Bernacchi, Caleb Knepper
  • Patent number: 11873503
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with saline and/or oxidative stress conditions. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline and/or oxidative stress conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 11873502
    Abstract: This disclosure provides recombinant DNA constructs and transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency, and enhanced drought tolerance or water use efficiency. Transgenic plants may include field crops as well as plant propagules and progeny of such transgenic plants. Methods of making and using such transgenic plants are also provided. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed, and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Edwards M. Allen, Bettina Darveaux, Stephen M. Duff, Mary Fernandes, Barry S. Goldman, Cara L. Griffith, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Saritha V Kuriakose, Paul J. Loida, Linda L Lutfiyya, Robert J. Meister, Monnanda S. Rajani, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra, Elena A. Rice, Daniel Ruzicka, Anagha M. Sant, Jon J. Schmuke, Rebecca L. Thompson, Srikanth Babu Venkatachalayya, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Huai Wang, Xiao Yang, Qin Zeng, Jianmin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11873498
    Abstract: The present invention provides an expression cassette comprising a polynucleotide that encodes a protein that diverts a monolignol precursor from a lignin biosynthesis pathway in the plant, which is operably linked to a heterologous promoter. Also provided are methods of engineering a plant having reduced lignin content, as well as plant cells, plant parts, and plant tissues from such engineered plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Dominique Loque, Aymerick Eudes
  • Patent number: 11866720
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.
    Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
  • Patent number: 11859192
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and compositions for improving leaf quality in low-alkaloid tobacco plants, e.g., by combining inducible promoters and non-coding RNAs for suppression of an ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) gene. Also provided are low alkaloid tobacco plants with normal, suppressed, or otherwise altered polyamine levels. Further provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid, nicotine levels, commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, James A. Strickland, Jesse Frederick, Dongmei Xu, Chengalrayan Kudithipudi
  • Patent number: 11859195
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Nestor Apuya, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Patent number: 11840698
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rice PAL1 gene, an encoding protein and use thereof. The rice PAL1 gene has the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 1, and the rice PAL1 protein has the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 4. Mutation of the gene leads to reduction of rice plant height and panicle length, while decreasing the number of primary branches, secondary branches and grains per panicle. It is found that the PAL1 gene can restore a mutant panicle type to a normal phenotype. The present disclosure provides a PAL1 gene functioning as a regulator of the rice panicle length and an encoding protein thereof. A rice panicle type is an important trait influencing rice yield. Therefore, it will be desired to directionally design a plant type and improve the rice yield by regulating panicle traits of rice with the PAL1 gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventors: Xueyong Li, Yan Chun, Jinfeng Zhao, Jingjing Fang, Shoujiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11834481
    Abstract: A salty taste enhancing peptide derived from dry-cured ham is provided, and the amino acid sequences thereof are Asp-Leu; Phe-Met-Ser-Ala-Leu-Phe, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; and His-Val-Arg-Arg-Lys, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. The salty taste enhancing peptide in the present disclosure is of small molecular weight, features easy separation and purification, has strong salty taste enhancing effect and simple sequences, and is easy to synthesize, therefore, the salty taste enhancing peptide can be applied to the fields of food, health products, medicine and biology, and is expected to replace salt substitute products currently available on the market.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei University of Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University
    Inventors: Feiran Xu, Baocai Xu, Xuefeng Wang, Zhaoming Wang, Bao Zhang, Fei Ma, Ying Wu, Kai Zhou, Hui Zhou, Kezhou Cai
  • Patent number: 11833185
    Abstract: Therapeutic peptides of the following sequence are disclosed: Xaa1-Xaa2-Xaa3-Xaa4-Xaa5, and optionally further comprising Xaa6, wherein Xaa represents an amino acid; Xaa3 is proline; and subscripts represent the positions of each amino acid in the peptide sequence starting from the amino terminus of said peptide extending to the C-terminus. A therapeutic peptide optionally includes a linker that cyclizes the peptide. Also described are methods of treating a neurodegenerative disorder and/or injury in a human subject in need of such treatment by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic peptide as disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Luke H. Bradley, Don M. Gash, Greg A. Gerhardt, Raymond T. Bartus, Sr.
  • Patent number: 11833504
    Abstract: Methods and devices for single cell analysis using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) are disclosed. The methods utilize microfluidic devices which use traps to immobilize cells for FLIM analysis. The analysed cells may be sorted before or after imaging and may be plant, animal, or bacterial cells. Analysis of the FLIM data may use a phasor plot and may be used to identify a metabolic pattern of the single cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Abraham P. Lee, Michelle A. Digman, Dohyun Lee, Xuan Li, Ning Ma, Yue Yun
  • Patent number: 11827895
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means which inhibit the level of PK220 gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased water use efficiency relative to a wild type control plant. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences and constructs useful such methods and methods of generating and isolating plants having decreased PK220 expression or activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Performance Plants, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang, Shujun Yang, Monika Kuzma
  • Patent number: 11825850
    Abstract: Pesticidal proteins exhibiting toxic activity against Lepidopteran pest species are disclosed, and include, but are not limited to, TIC4029, TIC4029_1, and TIC4029_8. DNA constructs are provided which contain a recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding one or more of the disclosed pesticidal proteins. Transgenic plants, plant cells, seed, and plant parts resistant to Lepidopteran infestation are provided which contain recombinant nucleic acid sequences encoding pesticidal proteins of the TIC4029 class. Methods for detecting the presence of the recombinant nucleic acid sequences or the proteins of the TIC4029 class in a biological sample, and methods of controlling Lepidopteran species pests using any of the TIC4029, TIC4029_1, and TIC4029_8 pesticidal proteins are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: David J. Bowen, Catherine A. Chay, Arlene R. Howe, Matthew S. Marengo, Jason Meyer, Jason S Milligan, Brian E. Weiner
  • Patent number: 11818998
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 05370116 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 05370116, to the plants of soybean cultivar 05370116, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 05370116, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 05370116. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05370116. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05370116, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 05370116 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11814634
    Abstract: Novel sugarcane-derived flowering-inducing genes each encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4 (the ScFT6 gene and the ScZCN16 gene), by which the flowering time is accelerated more slowly than conventionally known flowering-inducing genes, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akari Nakasone, Yasuyo Shimamoto, Madoka Abe, Satoshi Kondo, Sumire Fujiwara, Tomoko Niki, Kaoru Suzuki, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Yoshimi Nakano
  • Patent number: 11807860
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides the identification of genes involved in sucker growth in tobacco. Also provided are promoters that are preferentially active in tobacco axillary buds. Also provided are modified tobacco plants comprising reduced or no sucker growth. Also provided are methods and compositions for producing modified tobacco plants comprising reduced or no sucker growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Chengalrayan Kudithipudi, Yanxin Shen, Jaemo Yang, Jesse Frederick, James Strickland
  • Patent number: 11773404
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Nadzan, Richard Schneeberger, Han Suk Kim, David Van-Dinh Dang, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Patent number: 11773403
    Abstract: High throughput methods are described for identifying combinations of mutations that can be used to improve a phenotypic feature in an organism. Large populations of organisms (e.g., plants) containing different combinations of mutations can be assessed using the methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger I. Pennell, Richard Hamilton, Delin Liang
  • Patent number: 11746356
    Abstract: Methods comprising DNA constructs and polynucleotides of functional transcription factors for improving photosynthetic capacity, biomass and/or grain yield and stress tolerance in various crop and model plants, dicots and monocots with the C3 or C4 photosynthetic pathways are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: YIELD10 BIOSCIENCE, INC.
    Inventors: Madana M. R. Ambavaram, Mariya Somleva
  • Patent number: 11739341
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides genetic constructs containing a promotor that is useful in driving fruit-specific expression in plants. Further provided are expression vectors, transgenic plants, and plant parts containing such genetic constructs, as well as uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: James G. Thomson, Roger L. Thilmony, Kasturi Dasgupta, Christopher D. Dardick
  • Patent number: 11739342
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Nestor Apuya, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Patent number: 11732272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides and polypeptides derived from plants and bacteria which are associated with increased resistance of plants to pathogenic fungi and/or Oomycetes. The fungicidal polypeptides of the invention are particularly effective in combating fungi inducing root rot and stalk rot in plants. The present invention further provides methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention for controlling plant fungal/Oomycetes pathogens and for producing transgenic plants having increased resistance to the pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: EVOGENE LTD.
    Inventors: Tidhar Turgeman, Ada Viterbo-Fainzilber, Eyal Emmanuel
  • Patent number: 11718864
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of cell culture where the cells are modified to reduce the level of synthesis of growth and/or productivity inhibitors by the cell. The invention also relates to a method of cell culture for improving cell growth and productivity, in particular in fed-batch culture of mammalian cells at high cell density. The invention further relates to a method of producing cells with improved cell growth and/or productivity in cell culture and to cells obtained or obtainable by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Walter Hiller, Jeffrey Joseph Mitchell, Bhanu Chandra Mulukutla, Pamela Mary Pegman
  • Patent number: 11712016
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 05101723 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 05101723, to the plants of soybean cultivar 05101723, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 05101723, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 05101723. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05101723. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05101723, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 05101723 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11708584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the order Pucciniales, preferably the family Phacopsoraceae, in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of an RLK2 protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the order Pucciniales, preferably the family Phacopsoraceae, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding an RLK2 protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Schultheiss, Tobias Mentzel, Ralf Flachmann
  • Patent number: 11674149
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with saline and/or oxidative stress conditions. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline and/or oxidative stress conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 11667926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with saline and/or oxidative stress conditions. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline and/or oxidative stress conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 11659803
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated 1PFLQ21 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PFLQ21 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PFLQ21 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PFLQ21 or a locus conversion of 1PFLQ21 with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Mark David Hoffbeck
  • Patent number: 11629351
    Abstract: Plants are created with desired traits by conveniently and rapidly inhibiting methylation of target DNA in plants, without using recombination technology. Scaffold RNA produced by transcription of target DNA is cleaved in an RNA-directed DNA methylation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chikara Masuta, Tsuyoshi Inukai, Wataru Matsunaga, Reika Isoda, Takeshi Matsumura, Go Atsumi
  • Patent number: 11617338
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTH3053. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTH3053 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTH3053 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.
    Inventor: Alan Krivanek
  • Patent number: 11617339
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTM9025. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM9025 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM9025 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Kramer
  • Patent number: 11613749
    Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide includes: (a) a polynucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; or (b) a polynucleotide sequence having at least 15, 17, 19 or 21 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein the growth of a pest of the order Coleoptera is inhibited when the pest of the order Coleoptera ingests double-stranded RNA comprising at least one strand that is complementary to the described polynucleotide sequence; or (c) any polynucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 3 to SEQ ID NO: 6; or (d) a polynucleotide sequence which hybridizes under stringent conditions with the polynucleotide sequence as defined in (a), (b) or (c). A plurality of target sequences are used for controlling a target gene c4506 of Monolepta hieroglyphica, which is a pest of the order Coleoptera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventors: Aihong Zhang, Derong Ding, Qing Tao, Xiaojiao Li
  • Patent number: 11597940
    Abstract: Recombinant DNA constructs, for use in plants and plant cells, have site-specific recombination sites that allow assessing phenotypes and modes of action by over expression or suppression of endogenous genes. In an aspect, a single DNA construct can be switched between over expression and suppression by the action of a recombinase such as the Cre recombinase on constructs having lox recombination sites. Other useful recombination systems include the Flp/frt system, the R/Rs system, the Dre/rox system, and the GIN/gix system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Larry A. Gilbertson, Shihshieh Huang, Thomas Malvar
  • Patent number: 11591580
    Abstract: The invention provides a plant EPSPS mutant (i.e. 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase mutant), which is derived from plant, and has glyphosate resistance after mutation. Also provided is an encoding gene, which can encode the above plant EPSPS mutant; and a vector containing the above encoding gene; and a cell containing the above vector. Further provided are uses of the above plant EPSPS mutant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GEVOTO LLC
    Inventors: Rong Chen, Longqun Deng, Qingjiang Hou, Yuangen Lu, Qian Ou, Xiaorong Feng, Ling Li, Xin Huang, Nanfei Xu
  • Patent number: 11578337
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
  • Patent number: 11564371
    Abstract: A new and distinct tomato variety NUN 00309 TOP is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 00309 TOP is a processing tomato variety, comprising high resistance to Verticillium dahliae, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici Race 0, Race 1, and Race 2, and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, and intermediate resistance to Meloidogyne incognita.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
    Inventor: Steven H. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11560573
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides which are at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 474-643, 645-679, 681-755, 757-760, 4806-6390, 6395-6396, 6401-6895, 6897-7249, 7251-7685, 7687-7693, 7695-7700, 7702-7708, 7710-7796, 7798-7816, 7818, 7820-7837, 7839-7840, 7842-7861, 7863-8134, 8136-8163 or 8164, isolated polynucleotides which are at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NOs: 1-170, 172-267, 269-424, 426-473, 761-2486, 2489-2494, 2496-4803 or 4804, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, transgenic cells expressing same, transgenic plants expressing same and method of using same for increasing yield, harvest index, abiotic stress tolerance, growth rate, biomass, vigor, oil content, photosynthetic capacity, seed yield, fiber yield, fiber quality, fiber length, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Evogene Ltd.
    Inventors: Ilya Pankratov, Hagai Karchi
  • Patent number: 11553684
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line PSQ-9Z17-9453V. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z17-9453V and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ-9Z17-9453V comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Chad Kramer
  • Patent number: 11542521
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased cold tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Bonnie Hund
  • Patent number: 11530418
    Abstract: Polynucleotides and isolated polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs comprising the isolated polynucleotides, transgenic plants expressing same and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance, yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Evogene Ltd.
    Inventors: Sharon Ayal, Basia Judith Vinocur, Alex Diber, Hagai Karchi, Limor Poraty-Gavra
  • Patent number: 11525142
    Abstract: The present invention clones a gene ZmNLP5 from maize, which plays an important regulatory role in nitrogen assimilation, and the open reading frame of which has a DNA sequence shown as SEQ ID NO:1. The transcription factor protein encoded by the ZmNLP5 gene has an amino acid sequence shown as SEQ ID NO:2. The uses of the maize NLP transcription factor ZmNLP5 mentioned above in promoting expression of a nitrogen metabolic key enzyme gene ZmNIR1.1, in promoting expression of a nitrogen metabolic key enzyme gene ZmNIR1.2, in promoting expression of a nitrogen metabolic key enzyme gene ZmNR1.1, in promoting expression of a nitrogen metabolic key enzyme gene ZmNR1.2, in improving nitrogen assimilation in maize, and in promoting elongation growth of maize root in deficient nitrogen environment are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Min Ge, Yuancong Wang, Yuhe Liu, Han Zhao
  • Patent number: 11470806
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH48DK and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH48DK with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH48DK through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH48DK or a locus conversion of PH48DK with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Travis Korry Coleman, Leonardus Johannes Maria Hendrickx, Steven Paul King
  • Patent number: 11453889
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means which inhibit the level of PK220 gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased water use efficiency relative to a wild type control plant. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences and constructs useful such methods and methods of generating and isolating plants having decreased PK220 expression or activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Performance Plants, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang, Shujun Yang, Monika Kuzma
  • Patent number: 11446354
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the control of fungal infection of horn-like envelopes covering dorsal and terminal phalanges in humans and animals and related cerebral protrusions in animals as well as keratin comprising material on surfaces of humans and animals. Agents and natural and synthetic formulations and extracts useful for the control of fungal infection of these envelopes and related protrusions and keratin comprising material are also encompassed by the subject disclosure. In an embodiment, the present disclosure teaches the treatment of fungal infection of nails and in particular onychomycosis in humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hexima Limited
    Inventors: Nicole Louise van der Weerden, Marilyn Anne Anderson
  • Patent number: 11419302
    Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato line FDR9Q14-0279. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDR9Q14-0279 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato line FDR9Q14-0279 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC
    Inventor: James D. Frantz