The Rna Is Antisense Patents (Class 800/286)
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Patent number: 8716554Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants resistant to parasites that their normal life cycle includes feeding on the plant cytoplasm, including insects, nematodes and fungi, wherein the plants are engineered to produce small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) capable of silencing a parasite specific gene. Particularly the parasite gene is a stage-specific gene, more particularly a gene involved in essential, early developmental stages of the parasite in or on the plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Rahan Meristem (1998) Ltd. Plant Propagation & BiotechnologyInventors: Shulamit Michaeli, David Kenigsbuch, Orna Livneh, David Levy, Eli Khayat
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Patent number: 8716557Abstract: Methods for altering the N-glycosylation pattern of proteins in higher plants are provided. The methods comprise introducing into the plant a recombinant RNAi construct that provides for the inhibition of expression of ?1,3-fucosyltransferase (FucT) and ?1,2-xylosyltransferase (XylT) in a plant. 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 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: May 6, 2014Assignee: Synthon Biopharmaceuticals B.V.Inventors: Lynn F. Dickey, Kevin M. Cox, Charles G. Peele, Ming-Bo Wang
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Publication number: 20140123342Abstract: The role of extracellular nucleotides and apyrase enzymes in the guard cells that border stomata in regulating stomatal aperture and the plant's resistance to drought and pathogens is disclosed herein. Expression of apyrases APY1 and APY2, in guard cell protoplasts is strongly correlated with cell growth, cell secretory activity and with conditions that favor stomatal opening. Both short-term inhibition of ectoapyrase activity and long-term suppression of APY1 and APY2 transcript levels significantly disrupt normal stomatal behavior in light. Furthermore, two punnoceptor inhibitors in mammals, pyridoxalphosphate-6-azo-phenyl-2?,4?-disulphonic acid (PPADS) and Reactive Blue 2, block ATPS- and ADP?S-induced opening and closing, and also partially block the ability of abscisic acid (ABA) to induce stomatal closure, and light-induced stomatal opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEMInventors: Stanley J. Roux, Iris Steinebrunner, Gregory B. Clark
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Publication number: 20140123338Abstract: Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences and promoter sequences are useful in methods mediating male fertility in plants, as described. Vectors, plant cells, and plants comprising the nucleotide sequences and/or promoter regions are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: Marc C. Albertsen, Timothy Fox, Howard P. Hershey, Gary A. Huffman, Mary Trimnel, Yongzhong Wu
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Patent number: 8710311Abstract: A potato cultivar designated F10 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar F10, to the seeds of potato cultivar F10, to the plants of potato F10, to the plant parts of potato cultivar F10, to food products produced from potato cultivar F10, and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar F10 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety F10, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar F10 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: J. R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Pete Clark, Susan Fortier Collinge
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Patent number: 8692067Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V.Inventors: Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks, Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Kornelius Reinink, Jacobus Petrus Cornelis De Wit
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Publication number: 20140082767Abstract: A transgenic plant includes a first gene having a first polynucleotide and a recombinant construct having a second polynucleotide. The first polynucleotide is homologous to a Atclb gene fragment represented by nucleotide acids 963-1205 of SEQ ID NO:1. The first polynucleotide encodes a C2-like domain, and the Atclb gene fragment encodes a C2 domain represented by amino acids 265-345 of SEQ ID NO:2. The C2-like domain is homologous to the C2 domain. The second polynucleotide has at least 90% identity to the first polynucleotide or a sequence complimentary to the first polynucleotide. The recombinant construct is configured to silence the first gene such that the transgenic plant is tolerant to abiotic stress. A method to produce the transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASInventor: Mariya Khodakovskaya
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Patent number: 8669417Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for increasing the efficiency of genetic transformation of host cells, including plant cells, and other eukaryotic cells, by reducing the expression of a polypeptide active in a pathway, such as the NHEJ pathway, for repairing damage to the cellular genome. In certain embodiments, the polypeptide is active in repairing double strand breaks (DSB's) of a cellular genome, and may include XRCC4, KU70, KU80, the DNA-activated Protein Kinase (DNA-Pkcs), and ATM. Methods for enhancing the resistance of plant cells to Crown Gall disease are also provided. In another aspect, genetic regulatory elements are provided, including an XRCC4 promoter.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Zarir E. Vaghchhipawala, Kirankumar Mysore
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Patent number: 8658856Abstract: The present invention relates to p450 enzymes and nucleic acid sequences encoding p450 enzymes in Nicotiana, and methods of using those enzymes and nucleic acid sequences to alter plant phenotypes.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco CompanyInventor: Dongmei Xu
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Patent number: 8653331Abstract: A process for enhanced photobiological H2 production using transgenic alga. The process includes inducing exogenous genes in a transgenic alga by manipulating selected environmental factors. In one embodiment inducing production of an exogenous gene uncouples H2 production from existing mechanisms that would downregulate H2 production in the absence of the exogenous gene. In other embodiments inducing an exogenous gene triggers a cascade of metabolic changes that increase H2 production. In some embodiments the transgenic alga are rendered non-regenerative by inducing exogenous transgenes for proton channel polypeptides that are targeted to specific algal membranes.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Inventor: James Weifu Lee
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Publication number: 20140041076Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for modifying tocochromanol biosynthesis in plants. The present invention thus surprisingly and beneficially provides for increasing desired tocochromanol compounds in plants and enhancing the nutritional quality of human food and animal feed, without associate deleterious plant phenotypes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIInventors: GARY STACEY, MINVILUZ G. STACEY
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Publication number: 20140033366Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP (Growth-Related Protein). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. The GRP may be one of the following: Seed Yield Regulator (SYR), FG-GAP, CYP90B, CDC27, AT-hook transcription factors, DOF transcription factors and Cyclin Dependent Kinase Inhibitors (CKIs).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: CropDesign N.V.Inventors: Valerie Frankard, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Christian Dammann
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Patent number: 8637735Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining a plant with increased stress resistance relative to a wild-type plant, comprising: (a) introducing at least one mutation or exogenous nucleic acid into the genome of one or more plant cells which results in reduced activity associated with SAL1 or a homologue thereof in said one or more plant cells; (b) regenerating one or more plants from said one or more plant cells; and (c) selecting one or more plants that have increased stress resistance relative to a wild-type plant.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: The Australian National UniversityInventors: Barry James Pogson, Philippa Bronwyn Wilson, Jan Bart Rossel
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Patent number: 8629331Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 7113111 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 7113111, to the plants of soybean 7113111, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 7113111 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 7113111 with itself or with another soybean variety. 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. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 7113111, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 7113111 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 the cultivar 7113111 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.Inventor: William H. Eby
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Publication number: 20140007266Abstract: The invention provides for compositions and methods for producing plants that have higher yield in drought conditions by manipulating the G-proteins such as the rice alpha subunit gene, RGA1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Sarah Assmann, Angel Ferrero-Serrano, David Chakravorty
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Patent number: 8614370Abstract: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from the Western Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, are disclosed. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules that encode D. v. virgifera protein homologs and fragments thereof. In addition, antibodies capable of binding the proteins are encompassed by the present invention. The disclosed ESTs have particular utility in isolating genes and promoters, identifying and mapping the genes involved in developmental and metabolic pathways, and determining gene function. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The invention also relates to methods of using the disclosed nucleic acid molecules, proteins, fragments of proteins, and antibodies, for example, for gene identification and analysis, and preparation of constructs.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Scott E. Andersen, Glenn R. Hicks, Joseph E. Huesing, Charles P. Romano, Clayton S. Vetsch
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Patent number: 8609942Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S090089 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090089, to the plants of soybean cultivar S090089, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S090089, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S090089. 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 S090089. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090089, 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 S090089 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 8609953Abstract: Methods for obtaining soybean plants that produce seed with low linolenic acid levels and moderately increased oleic levels are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for producing seed with low linolenic acid levels, moderately increased oleic levels and low saturated fatty acid levels. These methods entail the combination of transgenes that provide moderate oleic acid levels with soybean germplasm that contains mutations in soybean genes that confer low linolenic acid phenotypes. These methods also entail the combination of transgenes that provide both moderate oleic acid levels and low saturated fat levels with soybean germplasm that contains mutations in soybean genes that confer low linolenic acid phenotypes. Soybean plants and seeds produced by these methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Joanne J. Fillatti, Greg E. Keithly, Toni Voelker, Tim Ulmasov
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Patent number: 8604293Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 12004711 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 12004711, to the plants of soybean cultivar 12004711, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 12004711, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 12004711. 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 12004711. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 12004711, 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 12004711 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.Inventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8604285Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S100107 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100107, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100107, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100107, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100107. 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 S100107. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100107, 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 S100107 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Publication number: 20130326731Abstract: Novel compositions for use to enhance weed control. Specifically, methods and compositions that modulate dihydropteroate synthase in weed species. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods that enhance weed control.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Daniel Ader, John J. Finnessy, Zhaoling Li, Christina Marie Taylor, Jennifer Chou Taylor, Ronak Hasmukh Shah, Nengbing Tao
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Publication number: 20130326732Abstract: The present invention relates to p450 enzymes and nucleic acid sequences encoding p450 enzymes in Nicotiana, and methods of using those enzymes and nucleic acid sequences to alter plant phenotypes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco CompanyInventor: Dongmei Xu
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Patent number: 8598420Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S090088 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090088, to the plants of soybean cultivar S090088, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S090088, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S090088. 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 S090088. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090088, 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 S090088 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 8598419Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S100104 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100104, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100104, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100104, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100104. 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 S100104. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100104, 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 S100104 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 8598421Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S090081 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090081, to the plants of soybean cultivar S090081, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S090081, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S090081. 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 S090081. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090081, 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 S090081 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 8598418Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S100315 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100315, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100315, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100315, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100315. 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 S100315. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100315, 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 S100315 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Publication number: 20130318658Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions for use to enhance weed control. Specifically, the present invention provides for methods and compositions that modulate Acetyl-CoA carboxylase in weed species. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods that enhance weed control.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Daniel Ader, Matt W. Dimmic, Zhaolong Li, Robert Douglas Sammons, Ronak Hasmukh Shah, Nengbing Tao, Dafu Wang
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Patent number: 8592652Abstract: The invention relates to a method of generating or increasing a pathogen resistance in plants by reducing the expression of at least one subtilisin polypeptide or a functional equivalent thereof. The invention relates to novel nucleic acid sequences coding for a Hordeum vulgare subtilisin (HvRNR9) and Triticum aestivum subtilisin (TaRNR9) polynucleotide and describes homologous sequences (RNR9) thereof, and to their use in methods for obtaining a pathogen resistance in plants, and to nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes and vectors which comprise these sequences and which are suitable for mediating a fungal resistance in plants. The invention furthermore relates to transgenic organisms, in particular plants, which are transformed with these expression cassettes or vectors, and to cultures, parts or transgenic propagation material derived therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Markus Frank, Patrick Schweizer, Dimitar Douchkov
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Patent number: 8592658Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S100323 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100323, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100323, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100323, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100323. 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 S100323. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100323, 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 S100323 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 8581044Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to seed specific gene expression during a defined period of embryogenesis. The present invention provides promoters capable of transcribing heterologous nucleic acid sequences in seeds, and methods of modifying, producing, and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Qi Wang, Lisa M. Weaver, Tim N. Oulmassov, Jeffrey Ahrens, Patrice Dubois, Jeffery Q. Shen
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Patent number: 8581043Abstract: The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLCInventors: Dongmei Xui, Mark T. Nielsen
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Publication number: 20130298286Abstract: The present invention relates to 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: March 10, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Robert Helene Ghislaine Dirks, Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Kornelius Reinink, Jacobus Petrus Cornelis De Wit
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Publication number: 20130269062Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for increasing seed yield in a plant, the method comprising disruption of endogenous AHP6 gene in cells of the plant, wherein said disruption inhibits expression and/or activity of a product of said endo genus AHP6 gene compared to a corresponding control plant lacking such a disruption.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Thomas Schmülling, Tomas Werner
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Patent number: 8552273Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 15332100 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 15332100, to the plants of soybean cultivar 15332100, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 15332100, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 15332100. 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 15332100. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 15332100, 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 15332100 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.Inventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8546646Abstract: The present invention is directed to compositions and methods for altering the levels of seed proteins in cereal grain. The invention is directed to the alteration of seed protein levels in plant grain, resulting in grain with increased digestibility/nutrient availability, improved amino acid composition/nutritional value, increased response to feed processing, improved silage quality, and increased efficiency of wet milling.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International IncInventors: Rudolf Jung, Wang-Nan Hu, Robert B Meeley, Vincent J. H. Sewalt, Ramesh Nair
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Publication number: 20130254940Abstract: Provided are novel compositions for use to enhance weed control. Specifically, the present invention provides for methods and compositions that modulate Phytoene desaturase in weed species. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods that enhance weed control.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: DANIEL ADER, John J. Finnessy, Zhaolong Li, Hong Liu, James D. Masucci, Ronak Hasmukh Shah, Nengbing Tao, Dafu Wang
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Publication number: 20130254941Abstract: Novel compositions for use to enhance weed control. Specifically, the present invention provides for methods and compositions that modulate protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase in weed species. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods that enhance weed control.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: DANIEL ADER, John J Finnessy, Zhaolong Li, Mahak Kapoor, Ronak Hasmukh Shah, Nengbing Tao, Dafu Wang
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Publication number: 20130227723Abstract: Improvement of fiber quality of Upland cultivars (Gossypium hirsutum), while maintaining early maturity and productivity, is a fundamental problem in conventional cotton breeding. Phytochromes play a fundamental role in plant development, flowering and cotton fiber length. Targeted RNAi of PHYA1 genes in cotton suppressed expression of PHYA1 and/or PHYB, resulting in over-expression of the remaining PHYA2/B/C/E genes. This altered expression induced a number of phytochrome-associated phenotypes, including increased root length and mass, increased anthocyanin-pigment, vigorous shoot development and vegetative growth, early flowering, early boll maturity, increased fiber length and increased seed cotton yield compared to control plants. These RNAi phenotypes were stably inherited and expressed through four generations (T0-3) and were transferable from RNAi Coker-312 plants to Upland cultivars via conventional hybridization.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov, Zabardast T. Buriev, Abdusattor Abdukarimov, Sukumar Saha, Johnie N. Jenkins, Alan E. Pepper
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Patent number: 8519246Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated SJ909-371, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar SJ909-371, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar SJ909-371 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-371, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-371, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar SJ909-371 with another wheat cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Inventor: Kim Clifford Shantz
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Patent number: 8519225Abstract: The invention relates to identifying and evaluating target coding sequences for control of plant parasitic nematodes by inhibiting one or more biological functions, and their use. The invention provides methods and compositions for identification of such sequences and for the control of a plant-parasitic nematode population. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the nematode, a reduction in disease may be obtained through suppression of nematode gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2007Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Andrey A. Boukharov, Zijin Du, Liang Guo, Michelle C. Hresko, David K. Kovalic, Zhaolong Li, Maolong Lu, James P. McCarter, Nancy M. Miller, Mark Vaudin, Deryck J. Williams, Wei Wu
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Publication number: 20130219558Abstract: The invention relates to a method for interfering with processes in the male meiocytes of a plant, by combining a first plant which may comprise a rootstock, which transgenically harbours a nucleic acid sequence, with a scion from a second plant grafted onto the rootstock of the said first plant, whereby the said transgenic nucleic acid sequence generates polynucleotide molecules in the rootstock of the first plant, which polynucleotide molecules are transported systemically across the graft junction to enter the male meiocytes produced by the scion of the second plant, and wherein the said systemically transported polynucleotide molecules are at least partially complementary to a transcript expressed in the male meiocytes produced by the scion of the second plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Friedrich KRAGLER, Gregor Kollwig, Robert Hélène Ghislain Dirks
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Patent number: 8513505Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-196, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-196, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-196 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-196, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-196, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-196 with another wheat cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
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Patent number: 8513503Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-112, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-112, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-112 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-112, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-112, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-112 with another wheat cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
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Patent number: 8513506Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated YU908-017, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar YU908-017, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar YU908-017 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar YU908-017, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar YU908-017, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar YU908-017 with another wheat cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Inventor: Kim Clifford Shantz
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Patent number: 8513504Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-139, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-139, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-139 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-139, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-139, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-139 with another wheat cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
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Publication number: 20130212740Abstract: A DNA molecule is provided which comprises a sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 having an open reading frame from base pair 211 to base pair 1740 or having at least 50% homology to the above-indicated sequence, or hybridizing with the above-indicated sequence under stringent conditions, or comprising a sequence which has degenerated to the above-indicated DNA sequence because of the genetic code, the sequence coding for a plant protein having fucosyltransferase activity or being complementary thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: August 15, 2013Inventors: Friedrich ALTMANN, Jan Mucha, Haralt Leiter, Josef Glossl, Erika Staudacher
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Publication number: 20130212741Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for altering the concentration or composition of lignin in a plant; a method of making a mutant plant having an altered level of MTHFR protein compared to that of a nonmutant plant; plants, mutant plants, and mutant plant seeds produced by these methods; a method of identifying a candidate plant suitable for breeding that displays an altered lignin concentration or composition phenotype; a transgenic plant having an altered level of MTHFR protein capable of determining the lignin concentration or composition in a plant compared to that of a nontransgenic plant; and seed produced from a transgenic plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventor: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
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Patent number: 8507776Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-249, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-249, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-249 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-249, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-249, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-249 with another wheat cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
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Patent number: 8507775Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated SJ909-369, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar SJ909-369, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar SJ909-369 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-369, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-369, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar SJ909-369 with another wheat cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Inventor: Kim Clifford Shantz
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Patent number: 8507754Abstract: The present invention discloses gene targets and methods for the genetic control of lipid accumulation in vegetative (non-seed) portions of plants. Enhanced lipid, e.g. triacylglycerol (TAG), accumulation in vegetative portions of plants may be obtained by down-regulation of activity of At4g24160 or a homolog thereof. Plants, plant parts, seeds comprising down-regulated AT4G24160 activity, or activity of a homolog thereof, are also provided, as well as products prepared therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignees: University of North Texas, The Board of Regents of the University of Texas SystemInventors: Kent D. Chapman, Richard G. W. Anderson