Nonplant Protein Is Expressed From The Polynucleotide Patents (Class 800/288)
  • Patent number: 8252984
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS01001. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS01001, to the plants of soybean RJS01001 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS01001 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS01001 with another soybean plant, using RJS01001 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Nadejda N. Krasheninnik, Martin A. Fabrizius, Michael T. Roach
  • Patent number: 8247652
    Abstract: The present invention relates to populations of trangenic plants encompassing a substantial part of all codogenic gene segments of a donor organism, and to biological material derived therefrom, plasmid collections and populations of transformed host organisms with which plants can be transformed in a suitable manner. There are also described methods for generating the plants and the material, and the use of the plants and of the material for functional studies. The codogenic gene segments are integrated into the genome of the plants. For example, there are described a population of plants of the species Arabidopsis thaliana into whose genome the codogenic gene segments from Saccharomyces cerevisiae are integrated, and their morphological analysis under normal conditions and stress conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Metanomics GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Astrid Blau, Mathieu Klein, Birgit Wendel
  • Patent number: 8247651
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. This invention further relates to transformed plant cells with altered metabolic activity compared to a corresponding non transformed wild type plant cell, wherein the metabolic activity is altered by transformation with a Stress-Related Protein (SRP) coding nucleic acid and results in increased tolerance and/or resistance to an environmental stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Amber Shirley, Xi-Qing Wang, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Bryan McKersie, Ruoying Chen
  • Patent number: 8247648
    Abstract: DSF-based microbial pathogens may be controlled by certain methods and compositions. A method of controlling diseases caused in a host organism by pathogenic microbial expression of ?,? unsaturated fatty acid signal (DSF) molecules involves inoculating the host organism with a non-pathogenic microbe that disrupts ?,? unsaturated fatty acid signal molecule-mediated cell-cell communication by the pathogenic microbe in the host organism. Microbes having protein expression that interferes with ?,? unsaturated fatty acid signal molecule-mediated cell-cell communication by the pathogenic microbe in the host organism can be identified and isolated or engineered by transformation with DSF-interference (inhibition or activation) gene or genes. Genes conferring DSF-interference activity can also be expressed in organisms (e.g., plants) susceptible to diseases caused by microbes that use DSF, resulting in genetically resistant organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Karyn L. Newman, Steven E. Lindow
  • Publication number: 20120210466
    Abstract: The present invention relates to non-mammalian ?-1,4-galactosyltransferases that can be used in their wild-type or in modified forms. The invention further relates to transformed plants and plant cells expressing non-mammalian ?-1,4-galacto-syltransferase and methods to produce glycoproteins with altered and preferably mammalian-type glycosylation. The invention additionally provides nucleic acid molecules and expression vectors of non-mammalian ?-1,4-galactosyltransferases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Plant Research International B.V.
    Inventors: Gerard Johan Adolph Rouwendal, Dionisius Elisabeth Antonius Florack, Hendrik Jan Bosch
  • Patent number: 8241909
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a glycoprotein having a human-type sugar chain comprising a step in which transformed plant cell is obtained by introducing to a plant cell the gene of glycosyltransfetase and the gene of an exogenous glycoprotein, and a step in which the obtained transformed plant cell is cultivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Phyton Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Tatsuji Seki, Kazuhito Fujiyama
  • Publication number: 20120204292
    Abstract: Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway from fungal or yeast like organisms other than Saccharomyces cereviseae, e.g., for overexpression in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Marc DE BLOCK, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
  • Patent number: 8237023
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS01002. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS01002, to the plants of soybean RJS01002 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS01002 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS01002 with another soybean plant, using RJS01002 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin A. Fabrizius, Michael T. Roach
  • Patent number: 8237015
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the use of multiple site-specific recombination systems for use in transgene containment in plants. More specifically, the present invention describes coordinated excisional DNA recombination by multiple (e.g., dual) recombinases to achieve excision of unwanted transgenic DNA as well as recombinase-coding sequences themselves by self-excision. Further, the simultaneous use of multiple site-specific recombination systems in combination with controllable total sterility technology (i.e., no or reduced sexual reproduction), provides the production of environmentally safe, clean transgenic plants, enhancing the capability and public acceptance of transgenic technology for plant trait modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Clemson University Research Foundation
    Inventor: Hong Luo
  • Patent number: 8237014
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to improved systems and methods for reducing costs and increasing yields of cellulosic ethanol. In particular, the present invention provides plants genetically transformed for increased biomass, expression of lignocellulolytic enzymes, and simplification of harvesting and downstream processing. Also provided are methods for using these transgenic plants in the production of clean, marketable feedstocks for production of renewable fuels and chemicals and in other applications including phytoremediation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Edenspace Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Blaylock, Bruce W. Ferguson, David A. Lee
  • Patent number: 8237016
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Xudong Ye, Michael W. Petersen, Larry Gilbertson, David Walters, Susan Johnson, Shihshieh Huang, Paul S. Chomet
  • Publication number: 20120195883
    Abstract: The invention is directed to blood proteins produced in monocot seeds and isolated therefrom for use in therapeutic compositions, as well as to methods of making these isolated blood proteins and to therapeutic compositions comprising them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: VENTRIA BIOSCIENCE
    Inventors: NING HUANG, RAYMOND L. RODRIQUEZ, FRANK E. HAGIE, DAVID M. STALKER
  • Patent number: 8232458
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 93360433 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 93360433, to the plants of soybean 93360433, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 93360433, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 93360433 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 93360433, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 93360433, 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 93360433 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8232462
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S100300 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100300, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100300, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100300, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100300. 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 S100300. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100300, 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 S100300 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8232453
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a promoter (SEQ ID NO.: 1) inducing high level expression of a target gene in plant tissue cultured cells, derived from the sweetpotato gene of Ran GTPase, small GTP binding protein, a plant transformation vector for carrying the same and a method for expressing a foreign gene in plant cell using the vector. The activity of promoter according to the present invention is higher than that of universal CaMV 35S promoter in transgenic suspension cultured cell lines, calluses and adventitious roots. Thus, the promoter is useful in the generation of transgenic cell lines including cultured roots to produce valuable materials such as medicinal or industrial proteins in a large quantities with plant tissue cultured cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: INJE University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Gyung Hye Huh, Young Hwa Kim, Bo Mi Kim
  • Patent number: 8232460
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 94124374 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 94124374, to the plants of soybean 94124374, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 94124374, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 94124374 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 94124374, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 94124374, 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 94124374 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8222488
    Abstract: A method of enhancing expression of at least one desired gene product in a plant, comprises transgenically introducing a Tombusvirus p19/R43W mutant gene (SEQ. ID NO: 3) into the plant, expressing at least one desired gene product in the plant, wherein expression of said product is susceptible to RNA silencing; and co-expressing the transgenically introduced p19/R43W, to produce an amount of P19/R43W mutant protein (SEQ. ID NO: 4) sufficient to suppress silencing of expression of said desired gene product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Texas A&M University System
    Inventor: Herman B. Scholthof
  • Patent number: 8217232
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S100003 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100003, to the plants of soybean S100003, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S100003, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S100003 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 S100003, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100003, 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 S100003 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8217237
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 06031715 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 06031715, to the plants of soybean cultivar 06031715, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 06031715, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 06031715. 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 06031715. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 06031715, 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 06031715 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8212124
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S090250 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090250, to the plants of soybean S090250, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S090250, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S090250 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 S090250, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090250, 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 S090250 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8207408
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS03002. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS03002, to the plants of soybean RJS03002 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS03002 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS03002 with another soybean plant, using RJS03002 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin A. Fabrizius, Michael T. Roach
  • Patent number: 8207414
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 99144935 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 99144935, to the plants of soybean 99144935, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 99144935, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 99144935 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 99144935, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 99144935, 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 99144935 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8207403
    Abstract: An EPSP synthase (5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase) with high glyphosate resistance and a nucleotide sequence encoding the synthase are disclosed. The gene encoding the EPSP synthase has low homology with the reported EPSP synthase. A transgenic plant obtained by the expression of the gene in plant has an increased resistance to glyphosate after experimental confirmation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Biotechnology Research Institute The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventors: Min Lin, Aimin Liang, Wei Lu, Liang Li, Ming Chen, Wei Zhang, Shuzhen Ping
  • Patent number: 8207400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Novozymes, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfredo Lopez de Leon, Hanshu Ding, Kimberly Brown
  • Patent number: 8207399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing syringyl lignin in gymnosperms. The production of syringyl lignin in gymnosperms is accomplished by genetically transforming a gymnosperm genome, which does not normally contain genes which code for enzymes necessary for production of syringyl lignin, with DNA which codes for enzymes found in angiosperms associated with production of syringyl lignin. The expression of the inserted DNA is mediated using host promoter regions in the gymnosperm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Arborgen Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent L. Chiang, Daniel T. Carraway, Richard H. Smeltzer
  • Patent number: 8203047
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 91384284 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 91384284, to the plants of soybean 91384284, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 91384284, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 91384284 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 91384284, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 91384284, 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 91384284 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8203048
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 90202016 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 90202016, to the plants of soybean 90202016, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 90202016, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 90202016 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 90202016, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90202016, 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 90202016 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignees: Stine Seed Farm, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8203032
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for generation of a transformed plant capable of emitting fluorescence by introducing a gene encoding a non-plant-derived fluorescent protein into a plant such that the fluorescent protein is recombinantly expressed in the active form of its mature protein in the leaf or petal of the plant, and also provides a transformed garden plant capable of emitting fluorescence that is generated by using the process. For example, cDNA encoding the full-length amino acid sequence of a Chiridius poppei-derived fluorescent protein CpYGFP or its H52F modified protein CpYGFP H52F is inserted into a T-DNA-based expression vector system, which is in turn introduced into the chromosomal DNA of a plant. As a result, the transformed plant thus generated can exhibit fluorescence attributed to these fluorescent proteins and exhibit no substantial difference in the other phenotypes from wild-type one of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Soft, Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Waga, Hiromi Takenaka, Shu Muto
  • Publication number: 20120144530
    Abstract: A nucleic acid molecule encoding a 5-enolpyruvyl-3-phosphoshikimic acid synthase (EPSPS) that provides resistance to glyphosate is provided, that has been optimized for expression in both monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants and preferably in soybeans. Methods of use are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: MS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Held, Vaithilingam Sekar, Terry Wright, Sean Russell
  • Patent number: 8193410
    Abstract: A process of producing a transgenic multi-cellular plants or parts thereof expressing a trait of interest, said trait having a controlled distribution of said trait to progeny, wherein said process comprises (i) producing a first plant or a cell thereof having in a first locus of a nuclear chromosome a first heterologous nucleotide sequence comprising a first fragment of a nucleotide sequence encoding said trait of interest, (ii) producing a second plant or a cell thereof having in a second locus of a nuclear chromosome homologous to said nuclear chromosome of step (i), a second heterologous nucleotide sequence comprising a second fragment of the nucleotide sequence encoding said trait of interest, and (iii) hybridising said first and said second plant or cells thereof to generate progeny exhibiting said functional trait of interest due to binding between a protein or polypeptide encoded by said first heterologous nucleotide sequence and a protein or polypeptide encoded by said second heterologous nucleotide
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Icon Genetics GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Werner, Anatoly Giritch, Serik Eliby, Sylvestre Marillonnet, Victor Klimyuk, Yuri Gleba
  • Patent number: 8193415
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of glycoprotein processing in transgenic plants used as cost efficient and contamination safe factories for the production of recombinant biopharmaceutical proteins or pharmaceutical compositions comprising these. The invention provides a plant comprising a functional mammalian enzyme providing N-glycan biosynthesis that is normally not present in plants, said plant additionally comprising at least a second mammalian protein or functional fragment thereof that is normally not present in plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzock
    Inventors: Hendrikus Antonius Cornelis Bakker, Hendrik Jan Bosch
  • Publication number: 20120135038
    Abstract: Vaccines for conferring immunity in mammals to infective pathogens are provided, as well as vectors and methods for plastid transformation of plants to produce protective antigens and vaccines for oral delivery. The invention further provides transformed plastids having the ability to survive selection in both the light and the dark, at different developmental stages by using genes coding for two different enzymes capable of detoxifying the same selectable marker, driven by regulatory signals that are functional in proplastids as well as in mature chloroplasts. The invention utilizes antibiotic-free selectable markers to provide edible vaccines for conferring immunity to a mammal against Bacillus anthracis, as well as Yersina pestis. The vaccines are operative by parenteral administration as well. The invention also extends to the transformed plants, plant parts, and seeds and progeny thereof. The invention is applicable to monocot and dicot plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventor: Henry Daniell
  • Patent number: 8183433
    Abstract: A method of controlling a genetically-modified plant or plant cells, said method comprising the following steps: (a) providing a genetically-modified plant or plant cells, said plant or plant cells containing a heterologous nucleic add encoding a first polypeptide containing or consisting of a first fragment of a protein, (b) introducing a second polypeptide into cells of said genetically-modified plant or plant cells, said second polypeptide containing (i) a second fragment of said protein and (ii) a peptide sequence enabling the introduction of said second polypeptide into cells of said genetically-modified plant or plant cells, whereby said first fragment and said second fragment jointly generate a predetermined function of said protein only when jointly present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Icon Genetics GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Werner, Sylvestre Marillonnet, Victor Klimyuk, Yuri Gleba
  • Patent number: 8178752
    Abstract: A peanut cultivar designated UFT113 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, the plants, and the plant parts of peanut cultivar UFT113, and to methods for producing a peanut plant by crossing peanut cultivar UFT113 with itself or with another peanut variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a peanut plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic peanut plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to peanut cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from peanut cultivar UFT113, to methods for producing other peanut cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from peanut cultivar UFT113, and to the peanut plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid peanut seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar UFT113 with another peanut cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry Lawrence Tillman, Daniel Wayne Gorbet
  • Patent number: 8178749
    Abstract: The present application relates to the provision of process for producing at least one protein, comprising the cultivation of a carnivorous plant, characterized in that said plant has been genetically modified to express said protein or proteins, and said protein or proteins are collected from the digestive secretions of said carnivorous plant traps, in particular glue, pitcher, trumpet or bladder traps. The proteins of interest are functional, despite the existence of digestive enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Plant Advanced Technologies PAT SAS
    Inventors: Flore Biteau, Frédéric Bourgaud, Eric Gontier, Jean-Paul Fevre
  • Patent number: 8168863
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for increasing the expression and/or accumulation of cellobiohydrolase enzyme in the vacuoles of plant cells are provided. The method involves targeting the enzyme to the vacuoles through the use of a barley polyamine oxidase (BPAO) vacuole sorting signal peptide. Plants transformed with an expression construct encoding the vacuole sorting signal peptide operably linked to the cellobiohydrolase enzyme direct expression of the polypeptide to the vacuoles of the plant cells. Transgenic plants, seeds, and plant tissues, and plant parts are provided. Downstream uses of transgenic plants or plant material expressing the constructs of the invention include agronomical and industrial uses, for example, human food, animal feed, biofuel, industrial alcohol, fermentation feedstocks, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Stacy Miles
  • Publication number: 20120096591
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for identifying and validating plant targets for agrochemicals, comprising the steps of determining gene or protein expression profiles in function of the progression of an essential biological process in a plant subsequent downregulation of expression of said gene or protein in a plant cell. More particularly, the effects of downregulation of the candidate target gene were directly monitored on plants locally infected with a vector mediating viral induced gene suppression in that infected plant area. The invention also relates to isolated plant genes encoding proteins involved in plant growth and development. The invention also relates to plants tolerant to agrochemicals such as herbicides or pesticides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Dirk Inze, Willem Broekaert
  • Patent number: 8158856
    Abstract: Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway from fungal or yeast like organisms other than Saccharomyces cereviseae, e.g., for overexpression in plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience NV
    Inventors: Marc De Block, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
  • Patent number: 8158855
    Abstract: Plants are produced that express an amino acid sequence that, when administered to a fish, produce an antigenic or immune response in the fish. The amino acid sequence in one embodiment is an antigen from an organism that causes pathology in fish. The plant tissue may be fed to the fish, or mixed with other materials and fed to fish, or extracted and administered to the fish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignees: ProdiGene, Inc., Novartis A.G.
    Inventors: Linda Bootland, Katherine Beifuss
  • Patent number: 8158857
    Abstract: The invention is directed to monocot plant seed products comprising human serum albumin, and to methods of making said monocot plant seed products comprising human serum albumin and to therapeutic compositions comprising them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ventria Bioscience
    Inventors: Ning Huang, Raymond L. Rodriguez, Frank E. Hagie, David M. Stalker
  • Patent number: 8148609
    Abstract: Methods of in vitro propagation of plants of the genus Eriodictyon are described, including, in particular embodiments, plants of the species E. californicum, E. trichocalyx and E. sessilifolium. Methods of producing transgenic plants of the genus Eriodictyon are also described, along with methods of producing recombinant proteins in such plants. Compositions and methods for administering recombinant proteins produced in these plants are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Inventors: Hilary Koprowski, Natalia Pogrebnyak, Maxim Golovkin
  • Patent number: 8148605
    Abstract: A eukaryotic input circuit: computationally designed receptors, synthetic eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, and a synthetic signal sensitive promoter that allow highly specific transcriptional induction in response to an externally provided ligand is disclosed. The input circuit is able to specifically bind a targeted substance and transmit a signal to the nucleus where transcription of a gene is activated. An output circuit serves as a simple readout system of the substance detected by the input circuit. The readout circuit exemplified here is a degreening circuit which causes plants to turn white. Activation of the degreening circuit can be detected by eye, or remotely with a variety of machines (hand-held, aircraft or satellite based) and is also resettable. When linked the input circuit if operably linked to the output circuit, produces a functional plant detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: Colorado State University Research Foundation, Duke University
    Inventors: June Medford, Mauricio S. Antunes, Kevin J. Morey, Homme W. Hellinga, James Jefferson Smith
  • Patent number: 8148607
    Abstract: A method is described for the exact removal of a selected subfragment from a DNA molecule by intrachromosomal recombination between two directly repeated DNA sequences using a rare-cleaving double stranded break inducing DNA endonuclease expressed under control of a micro-spore specific promoter. This method can be applied in a method for the exact exchange of a target DNA fragment for a DNA fragment of interest in plant cells and plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Kathleen D'Halluin, Rene Ruiter
  • Patent number: 8148604
    Abstract: Methods and materials for conferring pest resistance to plants are provided. Plants are transformed with a silencing construct homologous to a gene of a plant pest that is essential for the survival, development, or pathogenicity of the pest. This results in the plant producing RNAi to the selected gene, which, when ingested by the pest results in silencing of the gene and a subsequent reduction of the pest's ability to harm the plant. In other embodiments, the pest's reduced ability to harm the plant is passed on to pest progeny. Methods and materials for depathogenesis of pests is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Venganza Inc.
    Inventor: Charles L. Niblett
  • Patent number: 8148608
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for generating clonal root lines, clonal root cell lines, clonal plant cell lines, and clonal plants and for expressing gene products in such cell lines and plants. In some embodiments, a viral vector containing a polynucleotide of interest operably linked to a promoter is introduced into a plant or portion thereof to generate clonal root lines, clonal root cell lines, clonal plant cell lines, and clonal plants. According to certain inventive methods, a viral vector containing a polynucleotide of interest operably linked to a promoter is introduced into cells of a plant cell line that is maintained in culture to generate clonal plant cell lines and clonal plants. The invention provides clonal root lines, clonal root cell lines, clonal plant cell lines, and clonal plants generated using inventive methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer USA, Inc
    Inventors: Vidadi Yusibov, Marina Skarjinskaia
  • Patent number: 8143482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Novozymes, Inc., Novozymes Als
    Inventors: Søren Flensted Lassen, Paul Harris, Elena Vlasenko, Kristian Bertel Romer Morkeberg Krogh
  • Patent number: 8143493
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of soybean variety S07-BA045418 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety S07-BA045418 and its progeny, and methods of making S07-BA045418.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Glenn R Bowers, Karen M Gallo
  • Publication number: 20120073013
    Abstract: A lettuce cultivar, designated Paulita, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Paulita, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Paulita and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Paulita with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Paulita, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Paulita and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Paulita with another lettuce cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventor: Jason Argyris
  • Publication number: 20120073012
    Abstract: A lettuce cultivar, designated Carini, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Carini, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Carini and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Carini with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Carini, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Carini and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Carini with another lettuce cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventor: Jason Argyris
  • Publication number: 20120066786
    Abstract: A lettuce cultivar, designated Rio Bravo, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Rio Bravo, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Rio Bravo and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Rio Bravo with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Rio Bravo, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Rio Bravo and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Rio Bravo with another lettuce cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: YAOJIN PENG