Method Of Chemically, Radiologically, Or Spontaneously Mutating A Plant Or Plant Part Without Inserting Foreign Genetic Material Therein Patents (Class 800/276)
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Publication number: 20120284853Abstract: The present invention provides herbicide-tolerant plants. The present invention also provides methods for controlling the growth of weeds by applying an herbicide to which herbicide-tolerant plants of the invention are tolerant. Plants of the invention may express an acetyl-Coenzyme A carboxylase enzyme that is tolerant to the action of acetyl-Coenzyme A carboxylase enzyme inhibitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: BASF AGROCHEMICAL PRODUCTS, B.V.Inventors: Scots L. Mankin, Allan R. Wenck, Haiping Hong
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Publication number: 20120278943Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, wherein the plant has an increased homoserine level as compared to a plant that is not resistant to the said pathogen, in particular organisms of the phylum Oomycota. The invention further relates to a method for obtaining a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, comprising increasing the endogenous homoserine level in the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.Inventors: Agustinius Franciscus Johannes Maria VAN DEN ACKERVEKEN, Mireille Maria Augusta Van Damme
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Publication number: 20120272400Abstract: The invention relates to methods of increasing the photosynthesis rate of a plant cell and/or the production of biomass in a plant, as well as to plant cells and plants with increased photosynthesis rate/production of biomass. The present invention also relates to a phosphatase of the light-harvesting complex of photosystem II, to nucleic acids coding for such phosphatase, and to mutants of such nucleic acids. Moreover, the present invention relates to plant cells and plants, wherein the activity of said phosphatase is inhibited; in particular the present invention relates to plant cells and plants comprising the mutant nucleic acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventors: Dario Leister, Mathias Pribil
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Publication number: 20120266267Abstract: Rice having reduced levels of starch branching enzymes produce grain having a high relative amylose content in the endosperm. The rice grain of this invention can be of a non-shrunken phenotype despite a lesion in the amylopectin synthesis pathway and may be transgenic or nontransgenic.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Zhongyi Li, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Sadegur Rahman
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Publication number: 20120216309Abstract: The present disclosure describes tobacco varieties having reduced levels of DVTs, methods of making such varieties, and tobacco compositions including such varieties.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Mark T. Nielsen, Marcos F. Lusso, Francis Antoine
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Patent number: 8247661Abstract: A novel cotton variety, designated as FM 9150F, is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 9150F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 9150F and to plants of FM 9150F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 9150F.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventor: Michael Swindle
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Patent number: 8247660Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04324131 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04324131, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04324131, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04324131, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04324131. 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 04324131. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04324131, 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 04324131 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8237019Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, wherein the plant has an increased homoserine level as compared to a plant that is not resistant to the said pathogen, in particular organisms of the phylum Oomycota. The invention further relates to a method for obtaining a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, comprising increasing the endogenous homoserine level in the plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2006Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.Inventors: Augustinus Franciscus Johannes Maria Van Den Ackerveken, Mireille Maria Augusta Van Damme
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Publication number: 20120180156Abstract: Use of genes homologous to the FT gene of Arabidopsis thaliana of any vegetable species to modulate tuberization in plants that develop tubercles, nucleotide sequence that encodes the potato SP6A protein (homologous to the FT of Arabidopsis thaliana ), genetic constructs that express said gene and the use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2010Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventors: Salome Prat, Cristina Navarro, José A. Abelenda, J. E. Van Doorn
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Patent number: 8188344Abstract: A novel cotton variety, designated as FM 9180B2F, is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 9180B2F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 9180B2F and to plants of FM 9180B2F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 9180B2F.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventor: Michael Swindle
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Publication number: 20120129805Abstract: The invention provides barley gain comprising a reduced level or activity of starch synthase IIa protein and a starch content of at least 41% (w/w) and methods of producing, identifying and using same. The grain may comprise an amylase content of at least 50%, a ?-glucan content of 5-9% (w/w) or greater than 9% (w/w), and/or a fructan content of 3-11% (w/w). The fructan may comprise a degree of polymerization from about 3 to about 12. For example, the plant and grain comprises a sex6-292 allele and/or an amo1 mutation. A food or beverage product, and methods of producing a food or beverage product, comprising obtaining or producing the subject grain and processing the grain to produce the product. Also contemplated are methods of improving one or more indicators of health in a mammal comprising administering a composition comprising the subject barley grain or a product comprising same.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Zhongyi Li, Matthew Kennedy Morell
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Publication number: 20120131688Abstract: A method for efficiently producing homozygous organisms from a heterozygous non-human starting organism, comprising providing of a heterozygous starting organism; allowing the starting organism to produce haploid cells; creating homozygous organisms from the haploid cells thus obtained; and selecting the organisms having the desired set of chromosomes, wherein during production of the haploid cells no recombination occurs in order to obtain a limited number of genetically different haploid cells. Recombination can also be prevented or suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks, Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Kornelius Reinink, Jacobus Petrus Cornelis De Wit
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Publication number: 20120124696Abstract: The method of the present invention includes the step of excising one or more portions selected from a radicle, a germ, and an embryonic axis of a plant tissue inoculated with Agrobacterium after cultivation in a coculture medium. The present invention provides a method of gene introduction that can transform a Triticum plant at high efficiency compared to conventionally known Agrobacterium methods, and provides a method of producing a transformed plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Yuji Ishida, Yukoh Hiei
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Publication number: 20120117933Abstract: Compositions and methods for reducing the level of nornicotine and N?-nitrosonornicotine (NNN) in Nicotiana plants and plant parts thereof are provided. The compositions comprise isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides for cytochrome P450s that are involved in the metabolic conversion of nicotine to nornicotine in these plants. Expression cassettes, vectors, plants, and plant parts thereof comprising inhibitory sequences that target expression or function of the disclosed cytochrome P450 polypeptides are also provided. Methods for the use of these novel sequences to inhibit expression or function of cytochrome P450 polypeptides involved in this metabolic conversion are also provided. The methods find use in the production of tobacco products that have reduced levels of nornicotine and its carcinogenic metabolite, NNN, and thus reduced carcinogenic potential for individuals consuming these tobacco products or exposed to secondary smoke derived from these products.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicants: University of Kentucky Research Foundation, North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Ralph E. Dewey, Balazs Siminszky, Steven W. Bowen, Lily Gavilano
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Publication number: 20120102589Abstract: The present invention is drawn to novel genes from wild plants, such as wild potato and pepper plants, that confer potyvirus resistance to plants, such as in transformed cultivated plants. Also encompassed are cultivated plants transformed with the novel gene, food products made from the transformed cultivated plants, and methods for making such plants and food products.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: Caius Rommens, Hui Duan, Rekha Chawla
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Patent number: 8134054Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV158320. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV158320, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV158320 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV158320.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Kevin Cook
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Patent number: 8129587Abstract: The enzymes of the ACC synthase family are used in producing ethylene. Nucleotide and polypeptide sequences of ACC synthases, namely ACS2, ACS6, and ACS7 from Zea mays, are provided. Knockout plant cells having inhibition in expression and/or activity in an ACC synthase such as ACS2, ACS6, or ACS7 and knockout plants displaying a staygreen phenotype, a male sterility phenotype, or an inhibition in ethylene production are also provided, as are seeds obtained from such plants. Methods for modulating staygreen potential in plants, methods for modulating sterility in plants, and methods for inhibiting ethylene production in plants are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Daniel R. Gallie, Robert Meeley, Todd Young
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Publication number: 20120042408Abstract: The invention relates to plants wherein the protein OSD1, involved in the transition from meiosis I to meiosis II is inactive. These plants produce Second Division Restitution (SDR) 2n gametes. The invention further relates to plants wherein the inactivation of OSD1 is combined with the inactivation of a gene involved in meiotic recombination in plants, and of a gene involved in the monopolar orientation of the kinetochores during meiosis. These plants produce apomeiotic gametes. These plants are useful in plant breeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Inventors: Raphael Mercier, Isabelle D'Erfurth, Nicole Froger, Sylvie Jolivet, Laurence Cromer
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Publication number: 20120030784Abstract: A Genomic DNA and a cDNA of a ?-glucan-deficient gene in a barley and of a ?-glucan synthesis gene in a barley, a barley having the genomic DNA of a ?-glucan-deficient gene and a method for breeding the same, a method for producing an alcohol or a fermented food using barley kernels decreasing or deficient in ?-glucan, and an animal feed composition are provided. A Genomic DNA of a ?-glucan-deficient gene consisting of a base sequence having 90% or more homology to the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and producing a protein lacking a ?-glucan synthesis activity when transcribed and translated, and a breeding method comprising a step of selecting a barley by determining the barley as having a ?-glucan-deficient gene when the base corresponding to position 4,275, or corresponding to position 2,385, of the gene consisting of the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 located near the centromere of chromosome 7H of the barley is mutated from G to A.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Incorporated Administration Agency National Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationInventors: Takuji Tonooka, Toji Yoshioka, Emiko Aoki, Shin Taketa
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Publication number: 20120023603Abstract: This invention relates to crop plants of which the fruit dehiscence properties are modulated. More specifically the invention relates to improved methods and means for reducing seed shattering, or delaying seed shattering until after harvest, while maintaining at the same time an agronomically relevant treshability of the pods, and for increasing yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2009Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Benjamin Laga, Bart den Boer, Bart Lambert
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Patent number: 8097776Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a double low restorer line of Brassica napus for Ogura cytoplasmic male sterility (cms) presenting a radish introgression carrying the Rfo restorer gene deleted of the radish Pgi-2 allele and recombined with the Pgi-2 gene from Brassica oleracea, and having a good agronomic value characterized by female fertility, a good transmission rate of Rfo and a high vegetative vigour. The invention relates also to a method of forming Brassica napus hybrid seeds and progeny thereof and to the use of markers for selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Institut National de la Recherche AgronomiqueInventors: Catherine Primard-Brisset, Régine Delourme, Jean-Pierre Poupard, Nicolas Pierre Poupard, legal representative, Marion Hélène Poupard, legal representative, Raymonde Horvais, Françoise Budar, Georges Pelletier, Michel Renard
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Publication number: 20120005770Abstract: The present invention is related to a set of genes, which when modified in plants gives altered lignin properties. The invention provides DNA construct such as a vector useful in the method of the invention. Further, the invention relates to a plant cell or plant progeny of the plants and wood produced by the plants according to the invention Lower lignin levels will result in improved saccharification for bio-refining and ethanol production and improved pulp and paper. Increased lignin levels will utilise lignin properties for energy production. The genes and DNA constructs may be used for the identification of plants having altered lignin characteristics as compared to the wild-type. According to the invention genes and DNA constructs may also be used as candidate genes in marker assisted breeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2009Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: Swetree Technologies ABInventors: Magnus Hertzberg, Björn Sundberg, Göran Sandberg, Jarmo Schrader, Tuula Teeri, Henrik Aspeborg, Lars Wallbäcks, Rishikeshi Bhalerao, Johan Trygg, Karin Johansson, Ann Karlsson, Pär Jonsson
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Publication number: 20110314569Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination of two genetic elements for controlling the development of the floral type of a dicotyledonous plant, said combination comprising, respectively: a first genetic control element (A/a) present in a dicotyledonous plant, in the form of a dominant allele (A), and of a recessive allele (a), and a second genetic control element (G/g) present in a dicotyledonous plant, in the form of a dominant allele (G), and of a recessive allele (g), it being understood that at least the second genetic control element was introduced artificially into said dicotyledonous plant. The above combination makes it possible to control and/or modify the sex of the flowers of dicotyledonous plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2009Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Adnane Boualem, Christelle Troadec, Martin Antoine, Catherine Dogimont
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Publication number: 20110293779Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided barley-derived beverages characterized by notably reduced levels of both dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or its precursor S-methyl-L-methionine (SMM), or lacking said compounds. In addition, the invention relates to methods for producing the above-mentioned beverages—and also to barley plants useful in the preparation of such beverages, as well as other plant products prepared from said plants. Utilization of the invention clears the way for making improved production procedures of beverages with improved taste profiles, and promises also for notable reductions in the thermal energy input for production of beer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2009Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicants: Heineken Supply Chain B.V., Carlsberg Breweries A/SInventors: Søren Knudsen, Gustav Hambraeus, Lene Molskov Bech, Steen Bech Sorensen, Birgitte Skadhauge, Klaus Breddam, Ole Olsen
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Publication number: 20110289621Abstract: A series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one non-ripening (NOR) gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their NOR genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the NOR gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that ripen more slowly, rot more slowly, are firmer, and have a longer shelf life post-harvest as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their NOR genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2009Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: ARCADIA BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventors: Susan R. Hurst, Dayna L. Loeffler, Michael N. Steine
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Publication number: 20110239322Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manipulating plant development that allows for partial or complete male sterility in grasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Sairam Venkata Rudrabhatla, Rebekah Ellen Templin, Shobha Devi Potlakayala
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Patent number: 8017828Abstract: To provide an agricultural chemical and the like with the use of an effect of inducing systemic acquired resistance in a plant. To provide a growth inhibitor of not only a plant pathogenic bacterium but also a harmful microorganism. Utilization of a rare sugar for inducing systemic acquired resistance in a plant or inhibiting the growth of a microorganism. Utilization thereof as an agricultural chemical with the use of the effect of inducing systemic acquired resistance in a plant, a plant disease inhibitor, an inducer of a plant growth regulatory factor (i.e., an inducer of plant hormone-like actions consisting of disease resistance, insect resistance, fruit maturation, breaking of dormancy, regulation of germination, drying resistance, and other than this, resistance to environmental stresses such as low temperature resistance, high temperature resistance, salt resistance and heavy metal resistance and promotion of flowering) and a microorganism growth inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignees: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated, National University Corporation Kagawa UniversityInventors: Ken Izumori, Kazuya Akimitsu, Shigeyuki Tajima, Mika Agarie, Tomohiro Yanagi, Ryosuke Mochioka
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Publication number: 20110214201Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing haploid H, doubled haploid HD and/or dihaploid DH plants, the HD and DH being homozygous or essentially homozygous, this method being a method such as those which come under the technique of gynogenesis induced by irradiated pollen. This method comprises a step of irradiating the reproductive material of the male parent at a dose of between 160 and 190 gamma ray and/or a step of selecting the haploid H and/or DH plants by using one or more molecular marker(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: CLAUSEInventors: Muriel Archipiano, Daniele Hosemans, Eric Lionneton, Agnes Vermuelen
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Patent number: 8008548Abstract: The present invention relates to a for obtaining a plant showing a reduced susceptibility towards infection with a pathogen, in particular an oomycete, comprising treating MO seeds of a plant species to be modified with a mutagenic agent to obtain M1 seeds and growing plants therefrom the thus obtained M1 seeds to obtain M1 plants, inoculation of the thus obtained M1+n plants with the pathogen and selecting plants that show a reduction or absence of sporulation of the pathogen as plants having a reduced susceptibility phenotype. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, pollen, cells and tissues that have the reduced susceptibility towards oomycetes.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en ZaadhandelInventors: Jacobus Petrus Cornelis De Wit, Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Johannes Wilhelmus Schut, Petrus Lambertus J. Egelmeers, Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks
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Publication number: 20110197306Abstract: Various aspects provide for genetically modifying photosynthetic cells. In some cases, an integrated light harvesting efficiency of photosynthetic cells may be increased by reducing the amount of incident light that is absorbed but not used for photosynthesis. In some cases, an increased transparency may be associated with an increased light harvesting efficiency when absorption due to non-photosynthetic processes is reduced. A reduced capacity of various light-harvesting antenna apparatus may increase transparency. In some cases, a capacity of an organism to adapt to varying light levels may be reduced, and in certain cases, a modified organism may have a reduced ability to acclimate to a low light irradiance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Shaun Bailey, Yuen Yee Tam, Bertrand Vick
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Publication number: 20110191877Abstract: A method for deleting a region of DNA in a plant. In some embodiments, the method comprises transforming a plant with a nucleic acid molecule, wherein the nucleic acid molecule encodes one or more zinc finger nuclease(s) (ZFNs) operably linked to one or more tissue-specific promoter(s), e.g., a pollen-specific promoter. Methods include excising native genes in a plant. Accordingly, in some embodiments, ZFNs are engineered that recognize sequences that flank native plant genes. In further embodiments, ZFNs are expressed under the control of developmental stage-specific promoters, such that, for example, nucleic acid sequences are specifically excised in plants during relatively late stages of development. Nucleic acid molecules useful for carrying out disclosed methods and plants produced by the methods are included.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventors: Sean M. Russell, Joseph F. Petolino
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Patent number: 7985901Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated BD9122BM, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line BD9122BM, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line BD9122BM with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line BD9122BM with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BD9122BM, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BD9122BM and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Agrigenetics IncInventors: Scott Norman Kelly, Dale H. Storck
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Publication number: 20110179516Abstract: The invention relates to methods for obtaining plants that produce 2n pollen. These plants are useful in plant breeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Raphael Mercier, Isabelle D'Erfurth, Laurence Cromer
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Patent number: 7968765Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for improving growth characteristics of plants by increasing expression and/or activity in a plant of an LRR receptor kinase or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant an RLK827 nucleic acid molecule or functional variant thereof. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having improved growth characteristics, which plants have modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an LRR receptor kinase. The present invention also concerns constructs useful in the methods of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: CropDesign N.V.Inventors: Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Vladimir Mironov
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Publication number: 20110154529Abstract: Methods to generate doubled haploid plants and plant components using low mammalian toxicity chromosome doubling agents are disclosed. Chromosome doubling agents provide low mortality rates and higher chromosome doubling rate in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Yunxing C. Cui, Paul R. Schmitzer, David H. Young
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Publication number: 20110154530Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of Yield-Related Proteins (YRP) and/or Yield and Stress-Related Proteins (YSRP) in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Piotr Puzio
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Publication number: 20110131678Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide methods for differential regulation of fatty acid unsaturation in seed oil and membrane lipids of plants based on modulation of a previously unknown biosynthetic pathway involving a novel phosphatidylcholine: diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase (PDCT) that regulates phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis in developing oil seed plants. Specific aspects relate to inventive PDCT polypeptides including, for example, variants, deletions, muteins, fusion proteins, and orthologs thereof (collectively PDCT proteins), to nucleic acids encoding same, to plants comprising such PDCT sequences or proteins or devoid or depleted of such PDCT proteins or sequences, and to methods for generating plants having altered or no PDCT expression and/or activity, including but not limited to methods comprising mutagenesis, recombinant DNA, transgenics, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: John A. Browse, Chaofu Lu, Zhanguo Xin
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Publication number: 20110119786Abstract: This invention relates to newly identified polynucleotides and polypeptides in the phytic acid biosynthetic pathways, variants and derivatives of the same; methods for making the polynucleotides, polypeptides, variants, derivatives and antagonists. In particular, the invention relates to polynucleotides encoding inositol polyphosphate 2-kinase (IPP2-K) and polypeptides exhibiting such activity to modulate the phytic acid biosynthesis in such a way as to decrease phytic acid and/or increase the non-phytic acid phosphorous, especially in corn or soy animal feedstuffs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Mark Allen Thompson, Holly Jean Butler, Yuejin Sun, Vipula Kiran Shukla
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Publication number: 20110113507Abstract: A series of independent human-induced non-transgenic mutations found in an expansin gene (LeExp1) of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in their LeExp1 genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the LeExp1 gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that soften more slowly post-harvest without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: ARCADIA BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventors: Trent G. Colbert, Susan R. Hurst, Ann J. Slade
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Publication number: 20110107454Abstract: A method is provided for preparing infertility-induced, genetically modified grass. It comprises a) exposing a flower of genetically modified grass to a physical mutagen; (b) culturing the genetically modified grass exposed to the physical mutagen to produce seeds thereof; and (c) culturing the seeds to select an infertility-induced species.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: Cheju National University Industry-Academic Coop- eration FoundationInventors: Tae Woong Bae, Joon Ki Kim, In Ja Song, Pyung Ok Lim, Pill Soon Song, Hyo Yeon Lee, Si Yong Kang, Hong-Gyu Kang, Young-Pyo Lim
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Publication number: 20110078816Abstract: A method of regulating plant genes is provided. The method provides improved drought stress or salinity stress for plants. The method comprises treating a part of a plant or the locus thereof with a composition of matter, the composition of matter comprising an agriculturally acceptable mixture of compounds of natural organic material of defined composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventor: Brian B. Goodwin
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Patent number: 7884264Abstract: Methods for altering the N-glycosylation pattern of proteins in higher plants are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise introducing into a duckweed plant a recombinant RNAi construct that provides for the inhibition of expression of ?1,3-fucosyltransferase (FucT) and ?1,2-xylosyltransferase (XylT). Use of these RNAi constructs to inhibit or suppress expression of both of these enzymes, and isoforms thereof, advantageously provides for the production of endogenous and heterologous proteins having a “humanized” N-glycosylation pattern without impacting plant growth and development. Stably transformed higher plants, including duckweed plants, having this protein N-glycosylation pattern are provided. Glycoprotein compositions, including monoclonal antibody compositions, having substantially homogeneous glycosylation profiles, and which are substantially homogeneous for the G0 glycoform, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Biolex Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Lynn F. Dickey, Kevin M. Cox, Charles G. Peele
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Publication number: 20100319080Abstract: The invention provides Brassica rapa plants and seeds thereof that are self-compatible, rapid-cycling and lack inbreeding depression. For instance, the invention provides plants and seeds of the Brassica rapa line designated B3. The invention thus relates to plants, seeds and tissue cultures of Brassica rapa plants that are self-compatible, rapid-cycling and lack inbreeding depression, such as Brassica rapa line B3, and methods to produce and propagate said plants by crossing such a Brassica rapa plant with itself, or another Brassica rapa plant. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Educational materials, such as a kit comprising said Brassica rapa plants are also provided by the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: RICHARD M. AMASINO, Scott Woody
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Publication number: 20100287654Abstract: This invention relates to methods of increasing the growth and/or biomass of plants by partially suppressing the expression of a SHORT-ROOT (SHR) polypeptide, such as AtSHR or PtSHR. Manipulation of SHORT-ROOT expression may be useful, for example, in accelerating growth and increasing biomass production in transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Brian Jones, Jiehua Wang, Goran Sandberg
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Publication number: 20100251397Abstract: A polyploid castor plant being at least as fertile as a diploid castor plant isogenic to the polyploid castor plant when grown under similar conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Kalima Bio Agritech Ltd.Inventors: Amit Avidov, Alon Lerner
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Publication number: 20100242133Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a mutation for the generation of virus-resistant mutant plants and, specifically, to the use of mutation 8.1 of the AtDBP1 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana in order to modify the phenotype of the plant as a regulator of plant potyvirus resistance, as well as to the resulting genetically modified plants having greater potyvirus infection resistance than unmodified plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicants: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIAInventors: José Luis Carrasco Jiménez, María José Castello Llopis, Pablo Vera Vera
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Publication number: 20100218270Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANYInventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
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Publication number: 20100212043Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the provision of mutagenised populations by the introduction of mutations by chemically and or physically mutagens in a selected region of the genome of a plant and the subsequent selection of inheritable mutations by analysis of at least one section of a mutagenised primary M1 plant for the presence of a mutation in the region of interest using high throughput sequencing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventor: Jeroen Stuurman
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Publication number: 20100199372Abstract: The present invention relates to improved cultivars, varieties, lines or plants of annual medics (Medicago genus) wherein the majority of seed pods, upon reaching maturity, remain attached to their respective pedicels. In particular, the present invention relates to improved cultivars, varieties, lines or plants of annual medics (Medicago genus), having a mutant form of the gene for pod shedding, thereby resulting in a “pod holding” trait. The invention also extends to methods for isolating such plants. A yet further aspect of the invention relates to a method of transferring the “pod holding” trait from an annual medic having this trait to another annual medic of the genus Medicago by a process of controlled cross-breeding. A still further aspect of the invention relates to a method of obtaining plants having the “pod holding” trait from a population of annual medics of the genus Medicago.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Andrew Wylde Hingston Lake, Rickie Elizabeth Drewry
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Publication number: 20100192250Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of certain fungicides for obtaining a chronologically more uniform development of oil crops. Furthermore, it relates to a method of increasing the quality and optionally the quantity of oil crop products.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: BASF SEInventor: Herve R. Vantieghem