The Polynucleotide Contains A Tissue, Organ, Or Cell Specific Promoter Patents (Class 800/287)
  • Compositions and methods for altering flowering and plant architecture to improve yield potential
    Patent number: 12110495
    Abstract: The present invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, vectors and molecules comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a florigenic FT protein operably linked to a vegetative stage promoter, which may also be a meristem-preferred or meristem-specific promoter. Transgenic plants, plant cells and tissues, and plant parts are further provided comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a florigenic FT protein. Transgenic plants comprising a florigenic FT transgene may produce more bolls, siliques, fruits, nuts, or pods per node on the transgenic plant, particularly on the main stem of the plant, relative to a control or wild type plant. Methods are further provided for introducing a florigenic FT transgene into a plant, and planting transgenic FT plants in the field including at higher densities. Transgenic plants of the present invention may thus provide greater yield potential than wild type plants and may be planted at a higher density due to their altered plant architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Brent Brower-Toland, Rico A. Caldo, Shunhong Dai, Karen Gabbert, Alexander Goldshmidt, Miya D. Howell, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Sivalinganna Manjunath, Bradley W. McDill, Daniel J. Ovadya, Sasha Preuss, Elena A. Rice, Beth Savidge, Vijay K. Sharma
  • Iterative platform for the synthesis of alpha functionalized products
    Patent number: 11697830
    Abstract: The use of microorganisms to make alpha-functionalized chemicals and fuels, (e.g. alpha-functionalized carboxylic acids, alcohols, hydrocarbons, amines, and their beta-, and omega-functionalized derivatives), by utilizing an iterative carbon chain elongation pathway that uses functionalized extender units. The core enzymes in the pathway include thiolase, dehydrogenase, dehydratase and reductase. Native or engineered thiolases catalyze the condensation of either unsubstituted or functionalized acyl-CoA primers with an alpha-functionalized acetyl-CoA as the extender unit to generate alpha-functionalized ?-keto acyl-CoA. Dehydrogenase converts alpha-functionalized ?-keto acyl-CoA to alpha-functionalized ?-hydroxy acyl-CoA. Dehydratase converts alpha-functionalized ?-hydroxy acyl-CoA to alpha-functionalized enoyl-CoA. Reductase converts alpha-functionalized enoyl-CoA to alpha-functionalized acyl-CoA. The platform can be operated in an iterative manner (i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventors: Ramon Gonzalez, James M. Clomburg, Seokjung Cheong
  • Plants with shortened time to flowering
    Patent number: 11685929
    Abstract: There is described herein a mutant, non-naturally occurring or transgenic plant or part thereof having reduced expression of the gene encoding Terminal Flower 1 (TFL1) or reduced activity of the protein encoded by TFL1, said TFL1 comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of (i) a polynucleotide sequence comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 72% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:7 or SEQ ID NO:8 or SEQ ID NO:10 or SEQ ID NO:11 or SEQ ID NO:19 or SEQ ID NO:20; or (ii) a polypeptide encoded by the polynucleotide set forth in (i); or (iii) a polypeptide having at least 72% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:9 or SEQ ID NO:12 or SEQ ID NO:21; wherein the expression or activity of the polynucleotide or the polypeptide set forth in (i), (ii) or (iii) is reduced as compared to a control plant in which the expression or activity of the polynucleotide or the polypeptide set forth in (i), (ii) or (iii) has not been reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Lucien Bovet, Simon Goepfert, Helene Laparra
  • Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits
    Patent number: 11479783
    Abstract: This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Mark Scott Abad, Jeffrey E. Ahrens, Alice Clara Augustine, Erin Bell, Robert J. Bensen, Paolo Castiglioni, Richard Eric Cerny, Shobha Char, Xianfeng Chen, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Maureen Daley, Jill Deikman, Molian Deng, Todd DeZwaan, Stephen Duff, Michael D. Edgerton, Bradon J. Fabbri, Jason Fenner, Karen Gabbert, Barry S. Goldman, Deborah J. Hawkins, Steve He, Richard Johnson, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Garrett J. Lee, Paul Loida, Savitha Madappa, Robert J. Meister, Donald E. Nelson, Anand Pandravada, Obed Patty, Ming Peng, Marie Petracek, Rajani Monnanda Somaiah, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra, Monica P. Ravanello, Thomas G. Ruff, Rick A. Sanders, Beth Savidge, Steven H. Schwartz, Padmini Sudarshana, Jindong Sun, Rebecca L. Thompson-Mize, Virginia Ursin, Dale L. Vai, Srikanth Venkatachalayya, Tymagondlu V. Venkatesh, Kammaradi Vidya, K. Vijayalakshmi, Todd C. Weber, Jingrui Wu, Zhidong Xie, Wei Zheng
  • Formulation and methods for control of weedy species
    Patent number: 11434495
    Abstract: A formulation is provided for application to a host plant to reduce, inhibit or impair one or more of growth and development of the host plant. A method of inhibiting growth plant growth and development is also provided as a means of controlling weedy species. The method comprises: selecting a suitable gene for growth suppression in a target plant; identifying an at least one target site accessible to base pairing in the suitable gene; identifying an at least one divergent site in the at least one target site; designing a construct complementary to the at least one divergent site; adding an at least one RNAi inducer to the construct; and delivering the construct to the target plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Terramera, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Tuttle, Layne Woodfin
  • Increasing plant growth and yield by using a glutaredoxin
    Patent number: 11359207
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for improving plant growth are provided herein. Polynucleotides encoding glutaredoxin proteins, polypeptides encompassing glutaredoxin proteins, and expression constructs for expressing genes of interest whose expression may improve agronomic properties including but not limited to crop yield, biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, and early vigor, plants comprising the polynucleotides, polypeptides, and expression constructs, and methods of producing transgenic plants are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BENSON HILL, INC.
    Inventor: Benjamin Neil Gray
  • DIAT gene derived from controlling drought stress tolerance of a plant and uses thereof
    Patent number: 11046970
    Abstract: A method for controlling drought stress tolerance of a plant includes transforming a cell of the plant with a recombinant vector which includes a gene encoding Oryza sativa-derived DIAT (Drought-Induced AminoTransferase) protein to control expression of the gene encoding the DIAT protein. As the drought stress tolerance of a plant can be enhanced by the DIAT gene of the present invention, it is expected that a plant having drought stress tolerance is developed and used for enhancement of the productivity of crops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ju-Kon Kim, Youn Shic Kim, Jae Sung Shim, Hyein Jeong
  • Generation of biomass
    Patent number: 10968456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manipulating the growth and/or structure of a plant, for increasing biomass. The method of the invention is achieved by increasing the expression and/or activity of PXY and/or CLE in the vascular tissue of a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Stora Enso OYJ
    Inventors: Simon Turner, Laxmi Mishra, Manoj Kumar, Peter Etchells
  • Methods and compositions for enhanced biomass production and increased abiotic stress tolerance
    Patent number: 10907171
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for increasing carbon fixation, increasing biomass production and/or increasing abiotic stress tolerance in a plant comprising: introducing into a plant, plant part, and/or plant cell a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a ferredoxin polypeptide and/or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a biotin ligase polypeptide to produce a stably transformed plant, plant part, and/or plant cell, wherein said heterologous polynucleotides are from a bacterial and/or an archaeal species. Further provided are plants, plant parts and plant cells produced by the methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Amy Michele Grunden, Heike Sederoff, Caroline Michael Smith, Lola Denise Aslett
  • P-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferases
    Patent number: 10883090
    Abstract: The invention is directed to p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes, nucleic acids encoding p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes, and inhibitory nucleic acids adapted to inhibit the expression and/or translation of p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase RNA; expression cassettes, plant cells, and plants that have or encode such nucleic acids and enzymes; and methods of making and using such nucleic acids, enzymes, expression cassettes, cells, and plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: John Ralph, Steven D. Karlen, Rebecca Anne Smith, Brian Fox, Emily Beebe, Craig Bingman
  • Use of elongator genes to improve plant disease resistance
    Patent number: 10829779
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for producing plants displaying enhanced disease resistance by transgenic over-expression of Elongator Complex subunit ELP3 or ELP4 genes. Methods and compositions for production of plants with altered growth habit (e.g. runner development) are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Zhonglin Mou, Yezhang Ding, Xudong Zhang, Kevin M. Folta
  • Plant tolerance to low water, low nitrogen and cold II
    Patent number: 10815493
    Abstract: Polynucleotides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer earlier flowering, longer floral organ retention, increased cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, altered carbon-nitrogen balance sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, and/or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jose Luis Riechmann, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber, Katherine Krolikowski, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Robert A. Creelman, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Paul S. Chomet
  • Method and apparatus for analyzing medical image
    Patent number: 10810735
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for analyzing medical image. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring medical image data; generating multi-scale decision sample data based on the medical image data; inputting the multi-scale decision sample data into a deep neural network model to obtain an auxiliary diagnosis data of the medical image, the deep neural network model being trained according to a consistency principle between multi-scale training sample data and an output result of the deep neural network model. In the embodiment, a multi-scale training sample is used to accelerate the training process of the deep neural network model, thus the auxiliary diagnosis decision process can be accelerated, while the accuracy of the trained deep neural network model of the embodiment is improved according to a consistency principle of data between different scales and output results, thereby improving the accuracy of auxiliary diagnosis decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaoting Zhang, Qi Duan
  • Nucleic acid sequences and peptides/proteins of the FT family providing flower repressing properties in tobacco and transgenic plants transformed therewith
    Patent number: 10752912
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to nucleic acid sequences coding for a protein which, (1) under a respective promoter, is able to suppress or repress or delay flowering of a plant, and (2) includes the motive “NAPDIIDS” (SEQ ID NO: 10) or, in preferred cases, “VNAPDIIDS” SEQ ID NO: 67), with the exception of the nucleic acid of the gene StSP5G or a part thereof. Preferably, the nucleic acid sequence belongs phylogenetically to the FT-clade of the PEBP gene family, wherein the motive “(V)NAPDIIDS” (SEQ ID NO: 68) is in place of the “(V)YAPGW” motive (SEQ ID NO: 69) of the flowering promoting proteins AtFT and BvFT2. The invention is further directed to peptides or proteins, obtainable by expression of the nucleic acid of any of the preceding claims, vectors, comprising a nucleic acid sequence as defined above, and to plants, parts of plants, or seed of plants, the plants comprising such a nucleic acid sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Lena Harig, Dirk Pruefer, Rainer Fischer
  • TAL-effector assembly platform, customized services, kits and assays
    Patent number: 10745695
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to compositions and methods for designing and producing functional DNA binding effector molecules and associated customized services, tool kits and functional assays. In some aspects, the invention provides methods and tools for efficient assembly of customized TAL effector molecules. Furthermore, the invention relates to uses of TAL effector molecules and functional evaluation of such TAL by, for example, customized assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC GENEART GMBH
    Inventors: Jonathan Chestnut, Matthias Arnold, Kevin Hoff
  • Genes and uses for plant enhancement
    Patent number: 10696975
    Abstract: Transgenic seed for crops with enhanced agronomic traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA in the nucleus of cells of the seed where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more enhanced traits as compared to a control plant. Of particular interest are transgenic plants that have increased yield. The present invention also provides recombinant DNA molecules for expression of a protein, and recombinant DNA molecules for suppression of a protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Marie Coffin
  • Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing constitutive gene expression in plants
    Patent number: 10689657
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing constitutive promoters and the production of plants with enhanced constitutive expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to the promoters and/or introduced into plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Martin Kuhn, Linda Patricia Loyall, Malte Siebert, Elke Duwenig
  • plant comprising a mutant indehiscent allele
    Patent number: 10619165
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: BASF AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED, US LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Laga, Bart Den Boer, Bart Lambert
  • Management of corn rootworm and other insect pests
    Patent number: 10570413
    Abstract: Trap and/or refuge crops and methods of use in managing corn rootworm and other insect pests of maize are provided. Some methods involve using trap crops comprising plants with enhanced susceptibility to one or more insect pests to lure and kill insect pests. Other methods involve using refuge crops comprising plants with enhanced susceptibility to one or more insect pests to monitor insect pest populations in an area or to promote mating between insecticide resistant and insecticide non-resistant insects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: Purdue Research Foundation, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, INC.
    Inventors: John Lindsey Flexner, Gurmukh S. Johal, Dilbag S. Multani, James K. Presnail, Scott V. Tingey
  • Transgenic soybean plants and chromosomes
    Patent number: 10487339
    Abstract: Described herein are transgenic soybean chromosomes containing a recombinant DNA that transcribes to an RNA molecule that hybridizes to and forms a cleavage-resistant duplex with either a mature miR171 miRNA or a transcript of a target gene having a recognition site for a mature miR171 miRNA whereby the function of the miR171 miRNA is inhibited and thereby imparts enhanced agronomic traits to soybean plants such as increased pods per node, increased number of nodes, a decreased distance between nodes, and a twisted stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Isaac Richard Banks, Sergey Ivashuta, Barbara Elizabeth Wiggins, Yuanji Zhang
  • Methods and means for modulating flowering time in monocot plants
    Patent number: 10472645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the identification of monocot FLC sequences, such as wheat FLC sequences, as well as their uses in modulating flowering time, seed development and seed germination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: BASF SE, BAYER CROPSCIENCE NV
    Inventors: Koen Geuten, Kerstin Kaufmann, Philip Ruelens
  • Stay green cucumber plant
    Patent number: 10321652
    Abstract: Provided herein is a Cucumber plant (Cucumis sativus) which provides fruits having an improved shelf life, wherein said plant comprises a stay green gene providing the improved fruit shelf life, wherein said stay green gene encodes a protein comprising the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID No. 2, or amino acid sequences with more than 90% identity, preferably more than 94% identity, more preferably more than 96% identity, even more preferably more than 98% identity; and wherein the expression of said stay green gene is reduced as compared to the expression of said stay green gene in a cucumber plant not providing fruits having an improved shelf life or the enzymatic activity of said protein is reduced as compared to the enzymatic activity of said protein in a cucumber plant not providing fruits having an improved shelf life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.
    Inventors: Geert Johannes De Boer, Mattheus Nicolaas Groot, Jeanine Danielle Louwerse, Wilhelmina Antonia Cornelia Anna Leijten
  • Compositions and methods comprising male fertility sequences
    Patent number: 10155962
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating male fertility in a plant are provided. Compositions comprise nucleotide sequences, and active fragments and variants thereof, which modulate male fertility. Further provided are expression cassettes comprising the male fertility polynucleotides, or active fragments or variants thereof, operably linked to a promoter, wherein expression of the polynucleotides modulates the male fertility of a plant. Various methods are provided wherein the level and/or activity of the sequences that influence male fertility is modulated in a plant or plant part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Marc C. Albertsen, Andrew Mark Cigan, Howard P. Hershey, Michael Lassner, Yongzhong Wu
  • Tomato plants with improved agronomic traits
    Patent number: 10034442
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tomato plants exhibiting improved fruit quality and disease resistance. Such plants may comprise novel introgressed genomic regions associated with improved fruit quality or disease resistance. In certain aspects, compositions, including novel polymorphic markers and methods for producing, breeding, identifying, and selecting plants or germplasm with an improved fruit quality or disease resistance phenotype are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventors: Harriette Aarden, Ami Bar, Bernardus van den Bosch, Albert Grit, Amit Hotzev, Arnon Osri, Maria Fernanda Rodriguez, Bram Rozier, Alberto Vecchietti, Ruth Wagner
  • Use of silk number assay to screen for genes enhancing corn yield
    Patent number: 9970917
    Abstract: The invention provides a rapid and efficient method and assay for monitoring yield enhancement in a plant using a measure of silk number. The plant is transformed with a prospective gene associated with yield enhancement. The transformed plant is grown along with non-transformed control plants until silk growth is apparent. The change in the number of silks in the transformed plant correlated to the change in yield for the plant. Therefore, changes in yield enhancement can be estimated in the transformed plant prior to harvest of mature plant tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Guofu Li, Junli Ji
  • Gene IbENOD93 and transgenic plants using the same
    Patent number: 9963712
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel gene, IbENOD93, and transgenic plants using the same. More specifically, the present invention provides an IbENOD93 gene, an open reading frame (ORF) of the IbENOD93 gene, a recombinant vector comprising the gene or the ORF, and a transformant transformed with the vector. Moreover, the present invention provides a composition for enhancing root thickening growth and promoting maturation in a plant having storage root(s). Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for producing a transgenic plant having storage root(s) with enhanced thickening growth, and a method for regulating or enhancing root thickening growth and maturation in a plant having storage root(s). According to the present invention, it is possible to promote the thickening growth of storage roots as well as the growth of aerial part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Jung Myung Bae, Seol Ah Noh, Jeong Sheop Shin
  • Compositions and methods conferring resistance of maize to corn rootworm 1
    Patent number: 9944949
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for increasing a plant's resistance to an insect pest such as the corn rootworm are provided. Methods are provided for overexpression of Crw1, or variants thereof, in a host plant or plant cell to increase resistance to an insect pest in a plant such as maize. Moreover, methods are provided for identifying variants of Crw1 that when incorporated into a plant via transgenic or traditional breeding means increase resistance to an insect pest in a plant such as maize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Dilbag S. Multani, Gurmukh S. Johal, Bala K. P. Venkata
  • Plant suitable for increasing production of phloem tissue and use of same
    Patent number: 9879274
    Abstract: A method for producing a plant includes growing a plant from plant cells in which a promoter and a coding sequence under the control of the promoter have been artificially introduced; and selecting the plant in which an amount of phloem tissue is increased 2.0 times or more in comparison with a wild type plant of the same species. The promoter is a promoter for a gene encoding a protein having at least 60% identity with the amino acid sequence of tracheary element differentiation inhibitory factor (TDIF) receptor (TDR) of Arabidopsis thaliana. The coding sequence encodes either (i) a protein having three common sequences composed of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 3 in this order starting from the N-terminal side, or (ii) a protein having 95% or more identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Tomoko Tanaka, Hiroki Sugimoto, Ritsuko Yogo, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Kazufumi Tabata
  • Transgenic soybean plants and chromosomes
    Patent number: 9873888
    Abstract: Described herein are transgenic soybean chromosomes containing a recombinant DNA that transcribes to an RNA molecule that hybridizes to and forms a cleavage-resistant duplex with either a mature miR171 miRNA or a transcript of a target gene having a recognition site for a mature miR171 miRNA whereby the function of the miR171 miRNA is inhibited and thereby imparts enhanced agronomic traits to soybean plants such as increased pods per node, increased number of nodes, a decreased distance between nodes, and a twisted stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Isaac Richard Banks, Sergey Ivashuta, Barbara Elizabeth Wiggins, Yuanji Zhang
  • SB-UBI terminator sequence for gene expression in plants
    Patent number: 9725731
    Abstract: The present invention discloses polynucleotide sequences that can be used to regulate gene expression in plants. Terminator sequences from Sorghum bicolor that are functional in plants are disclosed. Nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression constructs, plants and seed comprising these terminator sequences are further disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Shane E. Abbitt
  • Plants with useful traits and related methods
    Patent number: 9708672
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for obtaining plants that exhibit useful traits by transient suppression of the MSH1 gene of the plants. Methods for identifying genetic loci that provide for useful traits in plants and plants produced with those loci are also provided. In addition, plants that exhibit the useful traits, parts of the plants including seeds, and products of the plants are provided as well as methods of using the plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NUtech Ventures
    Inventors: Sally Ann Mackenzie, Roberto De la Rosa Santamaria
  • Broccoli plant and use thereof
    Patent number: 9480210
    Abstract: The present invention deals with new type of broccoli plant suitable for the industrial manufacture of broccoli heads and florets. The invention relates to broccoli plants producing a head that is flat, comprises multiple individualized florets and protrudes above the leaves making it easy to harvest by machine. The invention further deals with methods and uses of the broccoli plants, heads and florets for the manufacture of broccoli processed and/or packaged food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: John Denison Hewitt, Xiaoguang Liang, Mathieu Sanvoisin, Emmanuel Deschamp, Jiagang Si, Wenhua Lv
  • High efficiency plant expression promoter from serine hydroxymethyl transferase gene and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9458455
    Abstract: A high efficiency plant expression promoter from Capsicum annuum serine hydroxymethyl transferase gene and uses thereof. This high efficiency plant expression promoter and 5?-untranslated region (5?-UTR) from Capsicum annuum serine hydroxymethyl transferase gene, a high efficiency plant expression vector having the same, a plant transformed with the vector, a process for high efficiency expression of a foreign gene by using the vector and a transformed plant which expresses with high efficiency a foreign gene based on the process and seeds of the transformed plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Do Il Choi, Sang Hyeob Lee, Young Hee Joung
  • Molecular engineering of a floral inducer for crop improvement
    Patent number: 9238820
    Abstract: A plant comprising a modified Flowering Locus (FT) polynucleotide expressing a modified polypeptide exhibits altered flowering time, floral numbers and/or increased seed production. Different mutant sequences conferring different phenotypes are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: Yiguo Hong, Steve Jackson, Chunyang Li
  • Use of silk number assay to screen for genes enhancing corn yield
    Patent number: 9206437
    Abstract: The invention provides a rapid and efficient method and assay for monitoring yield enhancement in a plant using a measure of silk number. The plant is transformed with a prospective gene associated with yield enhancement. The transformed plant is grown along with non-transformed control plants until silk growth is apparent. The change in the number of silks in the transformed plant correlated to the change in yield for the plant. Therefore, changes in yield enhancement can be estimated in the transformed plant prior to harvest of mature plant tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: Guofu Li, Junli Ji
  • Green tissue-preferred promoter from maize
    Patent number: 9150624
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a green tissue-preferred promoter from maize. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stabling incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignees: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Lynne E. Sims
  • Crop grain filling gene (GIF1) and the applications thereof
    Patent number: 9139840
    Abstract: Novel crop grain filling genes (GIF1) and the applications thereof are presented in the invention. The GIF1 genes can be applied to control grain filling, enhance crop yield or quality, or improve disease resistance or storage stability of crop grains. A method for improving crops is also presented in the invention. The GIF1 genes shows valuable potentials in controlling crop yield, quality, storage, and resistance to diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Zuhua He, Hongxia Zhang, Bei Li, Hua Liu
  • Polynucleotides encoding trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 9121033
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and regards various polynucleotides, polypeptides and methods that may be employed to enhance yield in transgenic plants. Specifically the transgenic plants may exhibit any one of the traits consisting of increased yield, increased tolerance to abiotic stress, increased cell growth and increased nutrient use efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Kateri Duncan, Michael L. Nuccio, Weining Gu
  • Enhanced transformation of recalcitrant monocots
    Patent number: 9121027
    Abstract: Provided herein are improved methods for transforming monocotyledonous plants, as well as an improved phosphomannose-isomerase (PMI) protein coding region and transformation vectors including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Qiudeng Que, David Nicholl
  • Flowering inhibition
    Patent number: 9120864
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for proteins involved in the control of flowering in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flowering, particularly inhibiting flowering. In particular, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT), TERMINAL FLOWER (TFL), GIGANTEA (GI) and SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignees: Agricultural Victoria Services PTY LTD, AgResearch Limited
    Inventors: Igor Kardailsky, Bruce Edward Veit, Natasha Talei Forester, Milan Gagic, Kim Archer Richardson, Martin John Faville
  • Stable, fertile, high polyhydroxyalkanoate producing plants and methods of producing them
    Patent number: 9096861
    Abstract: Transgenic plants that produce high levels of polyhydroxybutyrate and methods of producing them are provided. In a preferred embodiment the transgenic plants are produced using plastid transformation technologies and utilize genes which are codon optimized. Stably transformed plants able to produce greater than 10% dwt PHS in tissues are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Metabolix, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen Bohmert-Tatarev, Susan McAvoy, Oliver P. Peoples, Kristi D. Snell
  • Methods of increasing plant growth
    Patent number: 9074217
    Abstract: 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 PtSHR1. Manipulation of SHORT-ROOT expression may be useful, for example, in accelerating growth and increasing biomass production in transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SWETREE TECHNOLOGIES AB
    Inventors: Brian Jones, Jiehua Wang, Goran Sandberg
  • Use of HUB1 polynucleotides for improving growth characteristics in plants
    Patent number: 9074006
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving various economically important growth characteristics in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns inter alia a method for modifying growth characteristics in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a HUB1 (Histone Monoubiquitination 1) polypeptide or encoding another protein useful in the methods of the present invention. The modified growth characteristics comprise a modification of light regulated phenotypes, such as modified circadian clock and/or circadian clock responses, or modified plant architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignees: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Universiteit Gent, VIB vzw
    Inventors: Kristiina Himanen, Maria Van Lijsebettens, Christophe Reuzeau, Tommaso Matteo Boccardi
  • PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150150158
    Abstract: A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid up-regulated upon overexpression of a NAC1 or NAC5-encoding gene, referred to herein as a NUG or NAC up-regulated gene, is provided. Plants having modulated expression of a NUG, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants, are also provided. A method for conferring abiotic stress tolerance in plants, comprising modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a NAC1 or NAC5 polypeptide in plants grown under abiotic stress conditions, is also provided. Plants expressing a nucleic acid encoding a NAC1 or NAC5 polypeptide, aside from having increased abiotic stress tolerance, have enhanced yield-related traits and/or modified root architecture compared to corresponding wild type plants. Constructs useful in the methods and plants produced by the methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicants: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH, Crop Functional Genomic Center
    Inventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Yang Do Choi, Ju Kon Kim, Jin Seo Jeong
  • Cambium/xylem-preferred promoters and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9029637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules corresponding to regulatory portions of genes whose expression is predominant in cambium and/or xylem. The invention also relates to compositions and methods of using the same to regulate the expression, in a cambium/xylem-preferred manner, of genes and/or any kind of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Nucleic acid molecules and its compositions include novel nucleotide sequences for cambium/xylem-preferred promoters identified and isolated from poplar (Populus spp). Methods for expressing genes and/or any kind of nucleotide sequences in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein are provided. The methods comprise stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to a cambium/xylem-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Fibria Celulose S.A.
    Inventors: Fabio Papes, Isabel Rodrigues Gerhardt, Paulo Arruda
  • Methods and materials for deconstruction of biomass for biofuels production
    Patent number: 9024111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids, peptides, vectors, cells, and plants useful in the production of biofuels. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to nucleic acid sequences and peptides from extremophile organisms, such as SSO1949 and Ce1A, that are useful for hydrolyzing plant cell wall materials. In further embodiments, the invention relates to modified versions of such sequences that have been optimized for production in one or both of monocot and dicot plants. In other embodiments, the invention provides for targeting peptide production or activity to a certain location within the cell or organism, such as the apoplast. In further embodiments, the invention relates to transformed cells or plants. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to methods of producing biofuel utilizing such nucleic acids, peptides, targeting sequences, vectors, cells, and/or plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph S. Schoeniger, Masood Zia Hadi
  • OVULE SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20150121568
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for an Arabidopsis thaliana (AT SVL3) promoter. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Alan Chamberlin, Shai Joshua Lawitt
  • METHOD FOR INCREASING PHOTOSYNTHETIC CARBON FIXATION IN RICE
    Publication number: 20150118385
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stimulating the growth of the plants and/or improving the biomass production and/or increasing the carbon fixation by the plant comprising introducing into a rice plant cell, rice plant tissue or rice plant one or more nucleic acids, wherein the introduction of the nucleic acid(s) results inside the chloroplast of a de novo expression of one or more polypeptides having the enzymatic activity of a glycolate dehydrogenase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Bayer BioScience N.V.
    Inventors: Rashad Kebeish, Fritz Kreuzaler, Michael Metzlaff, Markus Niessen, Christoph Peterhaensel, Jeroen Van Rie
  • Woody plants having improved growth characteristics and method for making the same
    Patent number: 9018448
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a novel and extensive analytical platform for selecting genes with a possible commercial phenotype from a large group of candidate genes identified using tools in bioinformatics, data from EST sequencing and DNA array. An aspect of the invention provides a method of producing a transgenic plant having an increased growth compared to its wild type. The method comprises altering in the plant the level of a gene product of at least one gene specifically expressed during different phases of wood formation. Further aspects of the invention provide a plant cell or plant progeny of a transgenic plant comprising a recombinant polynucleotide according to the invention. Other aspects pertain a DNA construct comprising a nucleotide sequence of the invention and a plant cell or plant progeny comprising the DNA construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: SweTree Technologies AB
    Inventors: Magnus Hertzberg, Göran Sandberg, Jarmo Schrader, Carl David Jonsén
  • Process of producing male sterile monocotyledonous plants
    Patent number: 9012729
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of producing male sterile monocotyledonous plants by introducing into said plants fragments of a nucleotide sequence coding for a protein which provides for male sterility and reconstituting the complete protein which provides for male sterility by intein-mediated trans-splicing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Nordsaat Saatzuchtgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Mario Gils