The Rna Is Antisense Patents (Class 800/286)
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Patent number: 8217231Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S090244 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090244, to the plants of soybean S090244, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S090244, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S090244 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 S090244, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090244, 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 S090244 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8217228Abstract: An allergen-free transgenic peanut seed is produced by recombinant methods. Peanut plants are transformed with multiple copies of each of the allergen genes, or fragments thereof, to suppress gene expression and allergen protein production. Alternatively, peanut plants are transformed with peanut allergen antisense genes introduced into the peanut genome as antisense fragments, sense fragments, or combinations of both antisense and sense fragments. Peanut transgenes are under the control of the 35S promoter, or the promoter of the Ara h2 gene to produce antisense RNAs, sense RNAs, and double-stranded RNAs for suppressing allergen protein production in peanut plants. A full length genomic clone for allergen Ara h2 is isolated and sequenced. The ORF is 622 nucleotides long. The predicted encoded protein is 207 amino acids long and includes a putative transit peptide of 21 residues. One polyadenilation signal is identified at position 951. Six additional stop codons are observed.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Inventors: Hortense W. Dodo, Charles J. Arntzen, Olga Martha Viquez, Koffi N'da Konan
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Patent number: 8217227Abstract: The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Edwards Allen, Larry A. Gilbertson, Shihshieh Huang, Thomas Malvar, James K. Roberts
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Publication number: 20120167253Abstract: The present invention relates to the specific silencing of the ? (alpha), ? (beta), ? (gamma) and ? (omega)-gliadins of hard wheat for flour by RNA interference (RNAi) through employment of a polynucleotide which is transcribed into an hpRNA (hairpin RNA). Furthermore the present invention additionally relates to a vector, cell, plant or seed comprising the polynucleotide, the expression whereof is specifically directed in particular tissues of wheat seeds through gene expression-regulating sequences such as, for example, the promoter of a gene of ?-gliadins or the promoter of the gene encoding for a D-hordein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientificasInventors: Francisco Barro Losada, Fernando Pistón Pistón, Javier Gil Humanes, Antonio Martin Muñoz
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Publication number: 20120157512Abstract: Methods and compositions for transforming plants to express polynucleotides capable of gene silencing gene expression in pathogens of beneficial insets such as IAPV, Nosema species and Varroa mites, and methods for using the transgenic plants for reducing infection and susceptibility of bees to Colony Collapse Disorder are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Eyal Ben-Chanoch, Nitzan Paldi, Gal Yarden
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Patent number: 8193413Abstract: 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: October 2, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Qi Wang, Lisa M. Weaver, Tim N. Oulmassov, Jeffrey Ahrens, Patrice Dubois, Jeffrey Q. Shen
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Patent number: 8188341Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 82264565 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 82264565, to the plants of soybean 82264565, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 82264565 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 82264565 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 82264565, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 82264565 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 82264565 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8188337Abstract: 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: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco CompanyInventor: Dongmei Xu
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Publication number: 20120124701Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels in plants, and plants containing such promoters or promoter control elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Tatiana Tatarinova, Yiwen Fang, Nickolai Alexandrov, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Noah Theiss, Danielle Grizard, Shawna Davis, Dennis Robles, Michael Portereiko, Emillo Margolles-Clark
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Patent number: 8173794Abstract: Compositions and methods for enhancing disease resistance in plants by modulating levels or activities of GmUBox1 polynucleotides and polypeptides are provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided having enhanced disease resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Madan K. Bhattacharyya, Shan Li
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Publication number: 20120096590Abstract: The present invention provides methods for modulating the growth and/or yield of plants. In particular the methods comprise the use of agents which functionally inhibit the expression of plant D-like cyclin inhibitors including isolated polynucleotide sequences which interact with DNA or RNA encoding proteins capable of binding plant D-like cyclins. Further, the present invention provides recombinant polynucleotide sequences, vectors and host cells which encode proteins capable of binding to and inactivating the activity of plant D-like cyclin/cyclin dependent kinase complexes preventing plant cells from exiting the cell cycle. Methods for determining and agents which are inhibitors of the BRO cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor proteins which are capable of modulating plant cell cycle progression are also provided. Methods for the production of transgenic plant cells and plants with increased growth rates and yields when compared to wild-type plants are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterInventors: James M. Roberts, Beth L. Kelly
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Patent number: 8158854Abstract: The present invention relates to methodology and constructs for modifying plant architecture and enhancing plant biomass and/or sucrose yield.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Monsanto do Brasil LTDA.Inventors: Paula Gonçalves De Araujo, Jesus Aparecido Ferro, Marcos Alegria, Ricardo Augusto Dante
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Patent number: 8143476Abstract: Transgenic soybean seed having increased total fatty acid content of at least 20% and altered fatty acid profiles when compared to the total fatty acid content of non-transgenic, null segregant soybean seed are described. DGAT genes from Yarrowia lipolytica combined with plastidic phosphoglucomutase down regulation are used to achieve the increase in seed storage lipids.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Knut Meyer, Kevin L. Stecca
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Patent number: 8143477Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: J. R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Publication number: 20120073018Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation of Jatropha curcas curcin genes and tissue-specific promoters and to the production of curcin-deficient Jatropha plants. More specifically, the present invention relates to the isolation of Jatropha curcas Curcin 1, Curcin 2 and Curcin 2 A. The present invention further relates to of the Curcin 1, Curcin 2 A and Curcin 2 genes and more particularly to tissue specific promoters of the Curcin 1 and Curcin 2A genes. The present invention further relates to production of curcin-deficient transgenic jatropha plants by using RNAi technology to suppress curcin gene expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY LIMITEDInventors: Zhong Chao Yin, Li Fang Wu, Hui Zhu Mao, Cheng Xiang Qiu
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Patent number: 8138392Abstract: The invention provides transgenic plants with resistance to infection by a root-infecting fungal plant pathogen such as Phymatotrichopsis omnivora. Also provided are methods of making such plants. Further provided are nucleic acid vectors for producing such a plant. Additionally, methods are provided for growing a dicotyledonous plant that is resistant to root rot disease in soil that comprises Phymatotrichopsis omnivora, or another pathogen.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Srinivasa Rao Uppalapati, Kirankumar Mysore, Wensheng Li, Lloyd Sumner, Richard A. Dixon
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Patent number: 8134050Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S080180 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S080180, to the plants of soybean S080180, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S080180 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S080180 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 S080180, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S080180 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 S080180 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8134047Abstract: Maize plants with reduced gene silencing are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Jennifer L. Stonaker, Christopher J. Hale, Jay B. Hollick
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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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Patent number: 8124860Abstract: 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: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Daniel R. Gallie, Robert Meeley, Todd Young
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Patent number: 8119865Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 85210625 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 85210625, to the plants of soybean 85210625, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 85210625 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 85210625 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 85210625, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 85210625 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 85210625 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8115054Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of the improvement of the tolerance of maize to fungal pathogens and in particular to fusariosis by the qualitative and/or quantitative modification of the lignin biosynthesis pathway.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: BiogemmaInventors: Christophe Tatout, Bruno Grezes-Besset, Pierre George
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Patent number: 8110726Abstract: Novel plant polysaccharide synthesis genes and polypeptides encoded by such genes are provided. These genes and polynucleotide sequences are useful regulating polysaccharide synthesis and plant phenotype. Moreover, these genes are useful for expression profiling of plant polysaccharide synthesis genes. One aspect of the present invention therefore are polynucleotides encoding cellulose synthase from Pinus radiata and methods of using such a polynucleotide to regulate polysaccharides of a plant.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Arborgen Inc.Inventors: Leonard N. Bloksberg, Marie B. Connett-Porceddu, Sarah Jane Emerson, Michael J. Frost, Richard Llewellyn Syndey Forster, Murray Robert Grigor, Ilkka Havukkala, Colleen M. Higgins, Robert J. Kodrzycki, Steven Troy Lund, Andreas Magusin
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Patent number: 8093451Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, flavonoid biosynthesis in plants, and more specifically the modification of the content of condensed tannins. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of chalcone synthase (CHS) and/or dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (BAN) and/or leucoanthocyanidine reductase (LAR) in plants to modify, for example, flavonoid biosynthesis or more specifically the content of condensed tannins.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd, AgResearch LimitedInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Jason Simmonds, Amanda Winkworth, Stephen Panter
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Patent number: 8088979Abstract: The invention provides methods of identifying herbicidal auxins. The invention further provides auxin-herbicide-resistant plants and genes conferring auxin-herbicide resistance. This invention also provides a method of identifying other proteins that bind picolinate auxins from additional plant species. The invention further provides a method to identify the molecular binding site for picolinate auxins. The invention also includes the use of the picolinate herbicidal auxin target site proteins, and methods of discovering new compounds with herbicidal or plant growth regulatory activity. The invention also includes methods for producing plants that are resistant to picolinate herbicidal auxins. Specific examples of novel proteins associated with herbicide binding include AFB5, AFB4, and SGT1b.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventors: Terence A. Walsh, Glenn Hicks, Mary Honma, John P. Davies
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Patent number: 8088976Abstract: The present invention is directed to controlling plant pest infestation, and particularly plant nematode infestation, by inhibiting one or more biological functions in the plant pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling plant pest infestation by providing one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules in the diet of the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of pest gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, to methods for detecting cells comprising the disclosed sequences, and to methods for detecting the disclosed sequences in biological samples.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Andrey A. Boukharov, Zijin Du, Liang Guo, David K. Kovalic, Maolong Lu, James P. McCarter, Nancy M. Miller, Mark Vaudin, Deryck Jeremy Williams, Wei Wu
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Patent number: 8084667Abstract: The present invention provides a method of modifying a plant phenotype by transforming a plant to alter the level of expression of non-symbiotic plant hemoglobin in the plant, whereby the transformed plant exhibits, under normal oxygen conditions, a plant phenotype that is modified as compared to a non-transformed plant. Plants exhibiting modified phenotypes under normal oxygen conditions also are provided. Methods of modifying the response to a plant hormone in a plant also are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2004Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: The University of ManitobaInventors: Robert D. Hill, Kevin Baron
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Patent number: 8084668Abstract: A nucleic acid sequence is provided which encodes a gibberellin 2-oxidase gene which catalyses the 2?-oxidation of a gibberellin molecule to introduce a hydroxyl group at C-2 and further catalyses the oxidation of the hydroxyl group introduced at C-2 to yield the ketone derivative. Such sequences can find application in the preparation of transgenic plants with altered levels of gibberellin 2-oxidase.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Rothamsted Research LimitedInventors: Stephen Gregory Thomas, Peter Hedden, Andrew Leonard Phillips
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Publication number: 20110314571Abstract: A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Inventors: James C. Carrington, Edwards Allen
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Patent number: 8076536Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for identifying transgenic seed that contain a transgene of interest, but lack a marker gene. Use of an identification sequence that results in a detectable phenotype increases the efficiency of screening for seed and plants in which transgene sequences not linked to a gene of interest have segregated from the sequence encoding a gene of interest.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Xudong Ye, Michael W. Petersen, Larry Gilbertson, David Walters, Susan Johnson, Shihshieh Huang, Paul S. Chomet
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Patent number: 8071847Abstract: The invention provides methods of identifying herbicidal auxins. The invention further provides auxin-herbicide-resistant plants and genes conferring auxin-herbicide resistance. This invention also provides a method of identifying other proteins that bind picolinate auxins from additional plant species. The invention further provides a method to identify the molecular binding site for picolinate auxins. The invention also includes the use of the picolinate herbicidal auxin target site proteins, and methods of discovering new compounds with herbicidal or plant growth regulatory activity. The invention also includes methods for producing plants that are resistant to picolinate herbicidal auxins. Specific examples of novel proteins associated with herbicide binding include AFB5, AFB4, and SGT1b.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Agrigenetics Inc.Inventors: Terence A. Walsh, Glenn Hicks, Mary Honma, John P. Davies
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Patent number: 8067670Abstract: The present invention relates to genetically modified plant cells and plants in which the genetic modification leads to a reduction in GBSSI, SSIII and BEI activity in comparison to the activity in corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods for the production of such plant cells and plants. The present invention also relates to the starch produced by the plant cells of the invention or plants of the invention, as well as to methods for the production of this starch and derivatised starch.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Bayer CropScience AGInventors: Volker Landschuetze, Jens Pilling, Stephan Soyka
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Publication number: 20110271402Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the increase in yield in a plant organism by reducing gene expression. The invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, antisense molecules, antibodies, host cells, plant tissue, propagation material, harvested material and plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: Metanomics GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens
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Patent number: 8049063Abstract: The present invention provides a kind of rice endogenous bentazon and sulfonylurea herbicide resistant gene (Cyp81A6 gene), and its functional conservative variants, the biological activity subfragments or derivatives with the same function. It also provides a kind of method to prevent the selling mixtures during hybrid seed production. It also provides the novel means of the directional genetic manipulation and the improvement of biological traits.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2005Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignees: Zhejiang University, Wuhan Fortune Science and Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jumin Tu, Jiwen Zhang, Gang Pan, Xianyin Zhang, Xiaozhi Wu
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Publication number: 20110258739Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding ?-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase. The present invention further provides DNA construct comprising the polynucleotide sequence coding for ?-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase in sense or anti-sense orientation, RNAi construct, recombinant vector comprising the construct and host cells comprising the recombinant vector disclosed in the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Asis Datta, Subhra Chakraborty, Niranjan Chakraborty, Vijaykumar Meli Siddesh, Sumit Ghosh
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Patent number: 8026418Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 301202006 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 301202006, to the plants of soybean 301202006, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 301202006 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 301202006 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 301202006, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 301202006 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 301202006 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: William H. Eby
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Publication number: 20110231955Abstract: Methods and means are provided to increase the efficiency of gene silencing when using dsRNA sequences which have a stem length shorter than about 200 base pairs by providing chimeric genes encoding such dsRNA sequences with a promoter recognized by DNA dependent RNA polymerase III comprising all cis-acting promoter elements which interact with DNA dependent RNA polymerase III.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Ming Bo WANG, Christopher A. HELLIWELL, Peter M. WATERHOUSE
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Patent number: 8017832Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant cell which is genetically modified, the genetic modification leading to the reduction of the activity of one or more SSIII proteins which occur endogenously in the plant cell and to the reduction of the activity of one or more BEI proteins which occur endogenously in the plant cell and to the reduction of the activity of one or more BEII proteins which occur endogenously in the plant cell in comparison with corresponding plant cells, of wild-type plants, which have not been genetically modified. Further aspects of the invention relate to plants containing such plant cells, to a method for generating the plant cells and plants, and to the starch obtainable from them.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventors: Michaela Hoehne, Claus Frohberg, Volker Landschuetze
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Patent number: 8017833Abstract: The invention provides polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences isolated from P. radiate and E. grandis that are involved in wood and cell wall biosynthesis. Methods for using the sequences, along with constructs and transgenic plants, are provided also.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2006Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Arborgen, LLCInventors: Leonard N. Bloksberg, Michael J. Frost, Richard Forster, Colleen Higgins, William H. Rottmann, Kim Norris-Caneda
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Patent number: 8017831Abstract: The present disclosure concerns methods and compositions relating to UXS polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding UXS polypeptides. In certain claims, the methods and compositions are of use to improve digestibility and/or ease of grain processing. Such improvements relate to a modulation in arabinoxylan and/or hemicellulose content in transgenic plants. Such plants can, for example, comprise one or more nucleic acid sequences that inhibit expression of one or more UDP-Xylose Synthase (UXS) genes.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, George W. Singletary, Deborah J. Wetterberg, Ramesh Nair, Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Matthias Liebergesell, David A. Selinger
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Patent number: 8013211Abstract: The invention relates to stinging cells or isolated capsules and to their use in compositions and methods for efficient delivery of biologically active agents into a plant cell or plant tissue. The biologically active agent to be delivered by the methods of the present invention is selected from a nucleic acid, a peptide, a polypeptide, a plant hormone, an enzyme, an herbicidal agent, an anti-viral agent, an anti-bacterial agent and an anti-fungal agent. Particularly, the invention is related to compositions and methods for the efficient transformation of polynucleotide construct into a plant cell or tissue, to obtain transgenic plants.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: FuturaGene Israel, Ltd.Inventor: Ziv Shani
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Publication number: 20110214206Abstract: Polynucleotides useful for improvement of plants are provided. In particular, polynucleotide sequences are provided from plant sources. Polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotide sequences are also provided. The disclosed polynucleotides and polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Thomas J. La Rosa, Yihua Zhou, David K. Kovalic, Yongwei Cao, Jingdong Liu, Nordine Cheikh, Hridayabhiranjan Shukla, Thomas G. Ruff, Kristine J. Hardeman, Michael D. Edgerton, Marguerite Varagona, Wei Wu, Timothy W. Conner
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Patent number: 7985890Abstract: The present invention provides a sweet sorghum plant characterized by altered lignin content and/or altered lignin composition compared to a wild plant and this is achieved by manipulating the expression of caffeoylCoA-O-methyltransferae (CCoAOMT) in particular and optionally caffeic acid-O-methyltranferase (COMT) in sweet sorghum by incorporation of a construct comprising an isolated DNA sequence represented by SEQ ID NO 2 and optionally SEQ ID NO 1.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Nagarjuna Energy Private LimitedInventors: Asitava Basu, Mrinal Kumar Maiti, Satarupa Kar, Soumitra Kumar Sen, Banibrata Pandey
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Publication number: 20110173721Abstract: Embodiments provided herein concern tobacco and tobacco products having a reduced amount of a harmful compound. More specifically, several embodiments concern approaches to modify the expression of a gene that is involved in the production of a harmful compound in tobacco, tobacco products made using these approaches and methods of determining whether the removal of said compounds using said approaches yields a tobacco and/or a tobacco product that has a reduced potential to contribute to a tobacco-related disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2006Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Anthony P. Albino, Wendy Jin, Ellen Jorgensen
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Patent number: 7968764Abstract: Methods for increasing yield of fermentable sugars from plant stover are provided. The methods include using plants homozygous for two brown midrib mutations, bm1 and bm3. The methods also include using plants homozygous for a mutation in a gene that results in reduced cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity, and a mutation in a gene that results in reduced 5 -hydroxyconiferaldehyde/5-hydroxyconiferyl alcohol O-methyltransferase activity. The methods also include using transgenic plants that have reduced cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity and reduced 5 -hydroxyconiferaldehyde/5-hydroxyconiferyl alcohol O-methyltransferase activity in comparison with wild-type plants.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Willem Evert Vermerris, Michael R. Ladisch, Nathan S. Mosier
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Publication number: 20110154539Abstract: The present application provides methods and compositions that modulate fruit dehiscence in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Martin F. Yanofsky, Sarah Liljegren
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Publication number: 20110126321Abstract: Anti-sense-oriented RNA gene suppression agents in the form of a loop of anti-sense-oriented RNA is produced in cells of transgenic organisms, e.g. plants, by transcription from a recombinant DNA construct which comprises in 5? to 3? order a promoter element operably linked to an anti-sense-oriented DNA element and a complementary DNA element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Shihshieh Huang, Thomas M. Malvar, Michael H. Luethy
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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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Patent number: 7943819Abstract: The present invention relates to control of pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pest, a reduction in pest infestation is obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James A. Baum, Claire A. Cajacob, Pascale Feldmann, Gregory R. Heck, Irene Nooren, Geert Plaetinck, Wendy Maddelein, Ty T. Vaughn
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Patent number: 7928289Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of transgenic plants and/or plant cells with increased pathogenic resistance, whereby the transgenic plants or plant cells have an altered content or an altered activity of at least one actin-depolymerising factor (ADF) with relation to the wild type. The invention also relates to the use of nucleic acids, coding for at least one ADF, for the production of transgenic plants or plant cells with increased pathogenic resistance and, furthermore, nucleic acid sequences coding for an ADF.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignees: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zür Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.Inventors: Ralph Panstruga, Marco Miklis, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Markus Frank