Abstract: A method, a container, and a planting device are provided for improving seedling emergence from seeds through soil and improving yield of plants in a field. The method includes selectively planting two seeds next to one another within the soil to provide sufficient emergence energy so the seedlings emerge together through the soil. One of the seedlings is then selectively destroyed to provide a desired spacing between plants in the field. A capsule is provided to contain plantable agricultural products. The capsule enables uniform and consistent planting plantable agricultural products, enables close proximity planting of multiple plantable agricultural products next to one another, and enables uniform and consistent engagement and dispensing of the seeds by planting equipment. A planting device, defined by a planter plate, is designed to consistently and uniformly plant the capsules containing agricultural products within the field.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns the use of endogenous plant RNAi machinery to preferentially or specifically reduce transgene expression. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns specific reduction of transgene expression in male plant tissues, for example, to provide an economical male sterility system of hybrid seed production.

Abstract: The invention provides novel recombinant DNA molecules, compositions, and methods for selectively regulating the expression of a transcribable polynucleotide molecule or recombinant protein in a male reproductive tissue of a transgenic plant. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products comprising such DNA molecules and compositions.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns the use of endogenous plant RNAi machinery to preferentially or specifically reduce transgene expression. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns specific reduction of transgene expression in male plant tissues, for example, to provide an economical male sterility system of hybrid seed production.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for chemical selection of female gametes that do not contain a transgene of interest in plants. The methods result is increased efficiency of a breeding program to provide increased trait purity by ensuring that inbreds and plants are homozygous for a transgene of interest. Herbicides such as glyphosate can be used as the chemical gametocide to selectively eliminate female gametes that do not contain the gene conferring glyphosate resistance, resulting in seed or progeny substantially homozygous for such herbicide resistance on a large scale in a single generation.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for selectively suppressing the expression of a recombinant protein in a male reproductive tissue of a transgenic plant. The invention also provides methods and compositions for inducing male sterility in a transgenic plant. Plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products including such compositions are aspects of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of herbicide treatment of selected female and male parents in a hybrid seed production system. The system results in enhanced trait purity and efficiency in the hybrid seed production system.

Abstract: The invention relates to isolated diacylglycerol acyltransferases and polynucleotide sequences encoding the DGAT enzymes; polynucleotide constructs, vectors and host cells incorporating the polynucleotide sequences; and methods of producing and using same. Also provided are transformed cells and transgenic plants, especially Camelina sativa plant, with enhanced oil accumulation and quality.

Abstract: Methods and compositions relating to glyphosate resistant maize plants, including the GA21, GG25, GJ11 and FI117 transformation events, are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of using herbicide resistance transformation events in plant breeding procedures. The invention further includes methods of ensuring plant seed purity.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I116412. This invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I116412, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety I116412 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. This invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety I116412 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line, and to crosses with related species. This invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety I116412, and also to the genetic marker profiles of corn variety I116412.

Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided methods for producing novel corn plants with enhanced quality grain traits comprising using the corn accession REN 001 and plants derived therefrom. Also provided by the invention are the plants produced by such methods. The invention further provides methods for producing corn grain with improved quality grain traits comprising pollinating elite hybrid corn varieties with pollen from the corn accession REN 001 and plants produced therefrom.

Abstract: This patent pertains to a method of producing a waxy maize starch derived from a plant which is heterozygous for the recessive sugary-2 allele by interplanting waxy maize seed which is homozygous for the dominant sugary-2 allele and waxy maize which is homozygous for the recessive sugary-2 allele, one hybrid being male sterile. The maize is harvested and processed together to obtain starch with excellent low temperature and freeze-thaw stability, high pasting temperature, and intact granules.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of breeding maize using female plants having a transgene encoding an EPSPS enzyme where the female plants are female reproductively tolerant to treatment with glyphosate but can be made male sterile upon treatment with glyphosate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of breeding plants that are glyphosate resistant due to a transgene whereby all of the resulting progeny plants or seed are also glyphosate resistant due to inheritance of the transgene by elimination of male gametes that do not carry a resistance transgene.

Abstract: Nucleic acid molecules that encode a plant promoter involved in photoperiodism and circadian rhythms are disclosed. These molecules may be introduced into plants in order to alter the photoperiodic and/or circadian clock-based gene expression of the plants.

Abstract: Plant development can be altered by transforming a plant with a genetic construct that includes regulatory elements and DNA sequences capable of acting in a fashion to inhibit pollen formation or function, thus rendering the transformed plant reversibly male-sterile. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of dominant negative genes and an anther-specific promoter. Male sterility is reversed by incorporation into a plant of a second genetic construct which represses the dominant negative gene. The invention also relates to novel DNA sequences which exhibit the ability to serve as anther-specific promoters in plants.