The Polynucleotide Alters Plant Part Growth (e.g., Stem Or Tuber Length, Etc.) Patents (Class 800/290)
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Patent number: 11326179Abstract: Provided are isolated polynucleotides comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 422, 362-421, 423-601, 2429-4085 and 4086, such as a polynucleotide which is at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 260, 1-259, 261-361, 602-2427 and 2428, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, plant cells comprising same, transgenic plants expressing same, and methods of generating thereof for increasing the yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, nitrogen use efficiency and/or abiotic stress tolerance of a plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Evogene Ltd.Inventors: Noa Matarasso, Hagai Karchi
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Patent number: 11299747Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Joon-Huyn Park, Roger I. Pennell, Richard Flavell, Chuan-Yin Wu
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Patent number: 11229167Abstract: Provided are methods for growing a plant under certain stressed conditions that alter the morphology of the plant. In certain aspects, however, although the plant is altered and may be undesirable for commercial purposed, the plant still produces an adequate number of seeds for breeding purposes. Further, because plants may be smaller in size, they can be grown at higher densities, allowing the production of large populations of plants to be brought under controlled conditions which can exclude pollinating insects and thus increase the genetic purity achievable in a breeding program.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Juan Cordero, Daniel Ovadya, Kyle B. Smith, Adrian Vargas
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Patent number: 11214842Abstract: The present disclosure is in the field of plant breeding. The disclosure provides methods for breeding corn plants having a brachytic trait using marker-assisted selection. The disclosure further provides brachytic germplasm, markers associated with a brachytic trait for introgressing the trait into elite germplasm in a breeding program. This disclosure also provides brachytic or dwarf elite corn varieties having yield equal to or higher than conventional non-brachytic corn varieties.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Ty Jason Barten, Alana N. Brown, Edward James Cargill, Romain Fouquet, Jose Rafael Gomez, Matthew Sean Marengo, Manuel Oyervides Garcia, Jeanette M. Peevers, Dennis Hung Yang
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Patent number: 11174492Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides and polypeptides associated with increased resistance of plant to pathogenic fungi, particularly to fungi inducing root rot and stalk rot in plants, and use thereof for controlling plant fungal pathogens and for producing transgenic plants having increased resistance to pathogenic fungi.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: EVOGENE LTD.Inventors: Tidhar Turgeman, Ada Viterbo Fainzilber, Eyal Emmanuel
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Patent number: 10995341Abstract: Provided are methods of increasing tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increasing biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant. The methods are effected by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:201, 207, 212, 202-206, 208-211, 213-391, 1655, 961-1529, and 1660-1663. Also provided are polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, polypeptides and transgenic plants expressing same which can be used to increase tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increase biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Evogene Ltd.Inventors: Gil Ronen, Hagai Karchi, Alex Diber, Basia Judith Vinocur, Sharon Ayal, Eyal Emmanuel, Michael Gang, Dotan Dimet
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Patent number: 10907174Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules for use in inducing apomixis in a plant, transgenic cells, in particular transgenic plant cells, comprising said nucleic acid molecule, transgenic plants, in particular plant seeds, comprising said nucleic acid molecule, methods for inducing apomixis in a plant, methods for the production of apomictic plants and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR PFLANZENGENETIK UND KULTURPFLANZENFORSCHUNG GATERSLEBEN (IPK)Inventors: José M. Corral, Timothy Sharbel
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Patent number: 10905061Abstract: Nucleic acid and polypeptide sequences for predicting and controlling shell phenotype in palm.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Malaysian Palm Oil BoardInventors: Rajinder Singh, Leslie Low Eng Ti, Leslie Ooi Cheng Li, Meilina Ong Abdullah, Rajanaidu Nookiah, Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi, Andrew Van Brunt, Muhammad A. Budiman, Steven W. Smith, Nathan D. Lakey, Rob Martienssen, Jared Ordway
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Patent number: 10900052Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for increasing resistance or tolerance to a nematode plant pest in a plant or part thereof. Nucleotide sequences that confer resistance or tolerance to nematode plant pests when expressed in a plant are provided as well as compositions comprising the polypeptides encoded by the nucleotide sequences, and transgenic plants and parts thereof comprising the nucleotide sequences.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignees: Syngenta Participations AG, Evogene Ltd.Inventors: Dror Shalitin, Hagai Karchi, Xiang Huang
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Patent number: 10876132Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with one or more nucleic acid sequence encoding insecticidal protein(s) and one or more silencing element(s). In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The molecular and breeding stacks find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Scott Henry Diehn, Xu Hu, Albert L. Lu, Lu Liu, James Kevin Presnail, Gary A. Sandahl, Ute Schellenberger, Gusui Wu
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Patent number: 10865406Abstract: The present invention relates to an ALS inhibitor herbicide tolerant Beta vulgaris plant and parts thereof comprising a mutation of an endogenous acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene, wherein the ALS gene encodes an ALS polypeptide containing an amino acid different from tryptophan at a position 569 of the ALS polypeptide.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignees: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH, KWS SAAT AGInventors: Ruediger Hain, Juergen Benting, Guenter Donn, Nathalie Knittel-Ottleben, Bernd Holtschulte, Andreas Loock, Clemens Springmann, Rudolf Jansen
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Patent number: 10858404Abstract: Disclosed herein are method of altering CAM pathways in plants. In some examples, a disclosed method includes overexpressing one or more genes encoding one or more enzymes that carry out the basic biochemical sequence of nocturnal CO2 fixation (carboxylation) into C4 acids (malate), store C4 acids in the vacuole of the plant, and/or then decarboxylate and refix the released CO2 by C3 photosynthesis during the subsequent day in a plant cell, thereby altering CAM in the plant cell. Also disclosed herein are isolated polynucleotide sequences, transformation vectors, transgenic plant cells, plant part, and plants. The disclosed methods and compositions can be used to improve the water-use efficiency and drought tolerance and durability of plants, such as in plants in arid environments, and also enhance the ability of plants to perform.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENOInventors: John C. Cushman, Sung Don Lim, Won Cheol Yim
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Patent number: 10837025Abstract: The invention relates to nucleic acids, proteins and methods for modulating the cellulose content of plants.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Kyung-Hwan Han, Jae-Heung Ko, Won-Chan Kim, Joo-Yeol Kim
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Patent number: 10822616Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Joon-Hyun Park, Roger I. Pennell, Richard Flavell, Chuan-Yin Wu
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Patent number: 10822612Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of enhancing the activity of a transcription factor in a plant comprising expressing in said plant a chimeric protein comprising a GIF moiety comprising a GIF domain or fragment thereof, and a DNA binding domain (DBD) moiety. The chimeric proteins comprise a GIF moiety comprising a GIF domain or fragment thereof, or a polypeptide with an amino acid sequence having at least 85%, preferably at least 90%, even more preferably at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of a GIF domain or fragment thereof; and a DBD moiety comprising the DBD or plant transcription factor whose activity enhancement is intended, or a binding protein which is capable of forming a tertiary complex with the DBD or transcription factor whose activity modification and/or enhancement is intended. The invention also relates to polynucleotides and polypeptides useful in the method of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignees: CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS Y TÉCNICAS (CONICET), UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIOInventors: Carla Schommer, Javier Palatnik, Juan Manuel Debernardi, Ramiro Esteban Rodriguez Virasoro
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Patent number: 10808259Abstract: The assimilated C and N largely influence plant growth and crop yields. Previous attempts to alter the carbon and nitrogen status of the plants attempted with one or two genes The present invention involves simultaneous co-overexpression of three genes wherein one gene (PEPCase) efficiently capture CO2 whereas the other two encode for enzymes (Asp AT and GS) involved in nitrogen assimilation. The combined effect is the enhancement of carbon and nitrogen status of the plant and the productivity.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial ResearchInventors: Anish Kaachra, Surender Kumar Vats, Paramvir Singh Ahuja, Sanjay Kumar
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Patent number: 10752911Abstract: This invention relates to methods for increasing carbon fixation and/or increasing biomass production in a plant, comprising: introducing into a plant, plant part, and/or plant cell heterologous polynucleotides encoding (1) a succinyl CoA synthetase, (2) a 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase, (3) a 2-oxoglutarate carboxylase, (4) an oxalosuccinate reductase, or (5) an isocitrate lyase, or (6) a succinyl CoA synthetase and a 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase, (7) a 2-oxoglutarate carboxylase and an oxalosuccinate reductase polypeptide, and/or (8) a 2-oxoglutarate carboxylase polypeptide, an oxalosuccinate reductase polypeptide and an isocitrate lyase 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. Additionally, transformed plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells are provided as well as products produced from the transformed plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Amy Michele Grunden, Heike Sederoff
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Patent number: 10724047Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for altering gibberellin (GA) content in corn or other cereal plants. Methods and compositions are also provided for altering the expression of genes related to gibberellin biosynthesis through suppression, mutagenesis and/or editing of specific subtypes of GA20 or GA3 oxidase genes. Modified plant cells and plants having a suppression element or mutation reducing the expression or activity of a GA oxidase gene are further provided comprising reduced gibberellin levels and improved characteristics, such as reduced plant height and increased lodging resistance, but without off-types.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Edwards M. Allen, Jayanand Boddu, Charles R. Dietrich, Alexander Goldshmidt, Miya Howell, Kevin R. Kosola, Sivalinganna Manjunath, Anil Neelam, Linda Rymarquis, Thomas L. Slewinski, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Huai Wang
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Patent number: 10683515Abstract: Compositions and methods useful in identifying and counter-selecting maize plants with having enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants under abiotic stress conditions such as salt stress and/or drought are provided herein. The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct salt stress tolerant and/or drought tolerant maize plants. Also provided are methods to enhance tolerance to salt stress and/or drought in crop plants by transforming crop plants with the Zea mays antiporter/sodium ion transporter or by introducing favorable allelic variants of the Zea mays antiporter/sodium ion transporter gene via gene editing.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignees: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Jennifer S. Jaqueth, Bailin Li, Zhizeng Liu
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Patent number: 10526611Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for enhancing the efficiency of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of host cells, such as plant cells, wherein the host cells overexpress light-dependent short hypocotyls 10 (LSH10) protein. The methods of the invention comprise Agrobacterium-mediated transfer of T-DNA to a plant cell, wherein the T-DNA contains a DNA of interest to be inserted into a plant genome at a homologous position.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Stanton B Gelvin, Lan-Ying Lee, Yaling Wang
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Patent number: 10472684Abstract: The present disclosure is in the field of plant breeding. The disclosure provides methods for breeding corn plants having a brachytic trait using marker-assisted selection. The disclosure further provides brachytic germplasm, markers associated with a brachytic trait for introgressing the trait into elite germplasm in a breeding program. This disclosure also provides brachytic or dwarf elite corn varieties having yield equal to or higher than conventional non-brachytic corn varieties.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Ty Jason Barten, Alana N. Brown, Edward James Cargill, Romain Fouquet, Jose Rafael Gomez, Matthew Sean Marengo, Manuel Oyervides Garcia, Jeanette M. Peevers, Dennis Hung Yang
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Patent number: 10426118Abstract: 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, in plants, while maintaining at the same time an agronomically relevant threshability of the pods.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: BASF AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED, US LLCInventors: Benjamin Laga, Bart den Boer, Bart Lambert
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Patent number: 10421973Abstract: The invention relates to a novel chemically inducible plant viral amplicon (CMViva) expression system that permits controllable, high level expression of foreign genes in plant hosts. This system employs agro-infiltration of plants to provide a transient production of a protein of interest, such as a human blood protein. This system provides a major advantage over existing plant expression systems because it allows for consistent expression of foreign or heterologous proteins in plant hosts.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: The Regents Of The University Of CaliforniaInventors: Karen A. McDonald, Abhaya Dandekar, Bryce W. Falk, Mysore R. Sudarshana, Sandra L. Uratsu, Michael A. Plesha, Ting-Kuo Huang
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Patent number: 10323256Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Joon-Huyn Park, Roger I. Pennell, Richard Flavell, Chuan-Yin Wu
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Patent number: 10294486Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: 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
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Patent number: 10155957Abstract: Provided are methods of increasing tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increasing biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant. The methods are effected by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:201, 207, 212, 202-206, 208-211, 213-391, 1655, 961-1529, and 1660-1663. Also provided are polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, polypeptides and transgenic plants expressing same which can be used to increase tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increase biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Evogene Ltd.Inventors: Gil Ronen, Hagai Karchi, Alex Diber, Basia Judith Vinocur, Sharon Ayal, Eyal Emmanuel, Michael Gang, Dotan Dimet
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Patent number: 10131919Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules for use in inducing aponnixis in a plant, transgenic cells, in particular transgenic plant cells, comprising said nucleic acid molecule, transgenic plants, in particular plant seeds, comprising said nucleic acid molecule, methods for inducing apomixis in a plant, methods for the production of apomictic plants and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUR PFLANZENGENETIK UND KUL TURPFLANZENFORSCHUNG GATERSLEBEN (IPK)Inventors: José M. Corral, Timothy Sharbel
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Patent number: 10125371Abstract: The present invention discloses isolated polynucleotides encoding WUSCHEL-related homeobox4 proteins from two species of jute plants, namely, the Corchorus olitorius (“C. olitorius”) and Corchorus capsularis (“C. capsularis”), and corresponding polypeptides derived therefrom. The disclosed polynucleotide sequences encode WUSCHEL-related homeobox4 polypeptides (WOX4), which possess catalytic activities in enhancing fiber production in jute. The present invention also relates to the plants having a modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a WOX4 polypeptide, which have enhanced fiber yield relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. Vectors, expression constructs and host cells comprising and/or consisting of the nucleotide sequences of the protein are also provided. Also disclosed are methods for producing the proteins and methods for modifying the proteins in order to improve their desirable characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Bangladesh Jute Research InstituteInventors: Maqsudul Alam, Mohammed Shahidul Islam, Borhan Ahmed, Mohammed Samiul Haque, Mohammed Monjurual Alam
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Patent number: 9890389Abstract: Provided are isolated polypeptides which are at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NOs: 202-219, 221-292, 295-327, 4064-4175, 4177-4210, 4212-4580, 4582-4603, 4605-4749, 4751-4778, 4780-5223, 5225-5493, 5522-5807, 5812, 5815-5816, 5828-6679, 6689-6690, 6708-6785, 6792-6892 or 6893, isolated polynucleotides which are at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NOs: 1-91, 94-201, 328-2317, 2320-2321, 2323, 2326-3835, 3838-3840, 3842-3843, 3848, 3850-3852, 3854, 3856-3953, 3955-4061 or 4062, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, transgenic cells expressing same, transgenic plants expressing same and method of using same for increasing yield, abiotic stress tolerance, growth rate, biomass, vigor, oil content, photosynthetic capacity, seed yield, fiber yield, fiber quality, fiber length, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Evogene Ltd.Inventors: Michal Shoresh, Hagai Karchi
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Patent number: 9879236Abstract: A method for increasing growth or biomass of a plant in a shorter period of time, compared to a control plant, includes transforming a plant cell using a recombination vector including a geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase (GGPS) gene. A method for preparing a transgenic plant having higher growth or biomass in a shorter period of time, compared to a control plant, includes transforming a plant cell using the recombination vector having the GGPS gene. A composition for promoting higher growth or biomass of a plant, compared to a plant body, includes a GGPS gene. A plant or seed of the plant having higher growth or biomass, compared to the control plant, is prepared using the method.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGYInventors: Beung Tae Ryu, Kumar Tata Sandeep
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Patent number: 9725728Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Bradley K. Sherman, Jose Luis Riechmann, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Volker Haake, Robert A. Creelman, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Luc J. Adam, T. Lynne Reuber, James S. Keddie, Pierre E. Broun, Marsha L. Pilgrim, Arnold N. DuBell, III, Omaira Pineda, Guo-Liang Yu
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Patent number: 9605270Abstract: The invention relates to a novel chemically inducible plant viral amplicon (CMViva) expression system that permits controllable, high level expression of foreign genes in plant hosts. This system employs agro-infiltration of plants to provide a transient production of a protein of interest, such as a human blood protein. This system provides a major advantage over existing plant expression systems because it allows for consistent expression of foreign or heterologous proteins in plant hosts.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2007Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Karen A. McDonald, Abhaya Dandekar, Bryce W. Falk, Mysore R. Sudarshana, Sandra L. Uratsu, Michael A. Plesha, Ting-Kuo Huang
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Patent number: 9499836Abstract: Plants having modulated expression of a HAF or BEE polypeptide and which modulate aspects of plant fertility, such as parthenocarpy, fertilization efficiency, and/or fruit size, are described. Methods of modulating fertility characteristics in a plant by modulating the expression of a HAF or BEE polypeptide in the plant are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Brian C. W. Crawford, Martin F. Yanofsky
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Patent number: 9475849Abstract: 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, in plants, while maintaining at the same time an agronomically relevant threshability of the pods.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.Inventors: Benjamin Laga, Bart den Boer, Bart Lambert
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Patent number: 9434957Abstract: The invention provides for compositions and methods for producing plants that have higher yield in drought conditions by manipulating the G-proteins such as the rice alpha subunit gene, RGA1.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Sarah Assmann, Angel Ferrero-Serrano, David Chakravorty
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Patent number: 9334506Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State UniversityInventors: James C. Carrington, Edwards Allen
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Patent number: 9322070Abstract: The instant description provides reporter constructs, transgenic cells, and transgenic organisms and methods for identifying agents that can regulate gene expression and improve plant performance and yield. Compounds that increase plant performance or yield are identified by contacting a test compound with a plant cell that comprises a target promoter sequence operably linked to a polynucleotide sequence encoding a DNA sequence-specific transactivator, and a reporter polynucleotide that is operably linked to a promoter sequence that is recognized by the DNA sequence-specific transactivator. The target promoter sequence can be recognized by a transcriptional regulatory polypeptide capable of modulating specific signaling pathways that enhance plant performance or yield.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Koch Biological Solutions, LLCInventors: Joshua I. Armstrong, Hans E. Holtan, Masa-aki Ohto, Adina M. Bailey
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Patent number: 9296998Abstract: Glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) proteins, nucleic acid molecules encoding GPT proteins, and uses thereof are disclosed. Provided herein are various GPT proteins and GPT gene coding sequences isolated from a number of plant species. As disclosed herein, GPT proteins share remarkable structural similarity within plant species, and are active in catalyzing the synthesis of 2-hydroxy-5-oxoproline (2-oxoglutaramate), a powerful signal metabolite which regulates the function of a large number of genes involved in the photosynthesis apparatus, carbon fixation and nitrogen metabolism.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignees: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, University of Maine System Board of TrusteesInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Patent number: 9234206Abstract: This invention relates to the identification and characterization of poplar PFT genes and their role in the induction of early flowering and repression of short-day induced growth cessation in perennial plant species. This has important applications for forestry, for example in tree breeding programs.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Swetree Technologies ABInventors: Ove Nilsson, Henrik Bohlenius
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Patent number: 9228182Abstract: In angiosperm and gymnosperm plants, overexpressing a SAMdc nucleotide sequence can decrease lignin content and, for plants with woody tissue, increase wood density.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Fibria Celulose S.A.Inventors: Fabio Papes, Paulo Arruda, Isabel Rodrigues Gerhardt
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Patent number: 9212373Abstract: A gene expression system for controllable expression of ethylene response in a plant cell includes an activation cassette comprising a DNA-binding domain that recognizes a response element; an ecdysone receptor ligand binding domain; and an activation domain; and a target cassette comprising an inducible promoter, which comprises, in operative association, the response element and a minimal promoter responsive to the activation domain. The inducible promoter controls the expression of a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a selected regulatory protein that modifies sensitivity to ethylene of certain signal proteins in the plant. Interaction among the components of the activation cassette and target cassette, when in a plant cell, in the presence of an inducing composition, increases expression of the selected regulatory protein, and in turn decreases expression and accumulation of the signal protein in the plant, thereby and decreasing ethylene sensitivity in the plant cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: AgroFresh Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey L. Rosichan
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Patent number: 9212369Abstract: A method for providing a transgenic plant, including transforming a plant cell or plant material with a nucleotide sequence coding for a BBM protein, wherein activity of the BBM protein is induced during transformation and/or regeneration of the transformed plant cell or plant material, and wherein the plant cell or plant material originates from a recalcitrant plant is provided. In addition, a transgenic plant or material thereof having a BBM protein, wherein the transgenic plant is a recalcitrant plant is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V., Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig OnderzoekInventors: Iris Heidmann, Kimberly Anne Boutilier, Brenda Johanna Maria De Lange
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Patent number: 9145563Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a transgenic plant on which a useful phenotype is conferred by regulating expression of pseudo-response regulator (PRR) genes with an approach that is different from deletion of PRR genes. According to the present invention, there is provided a transgenic plant into which a polynucleotide encoding a protein comprising a CCT motif and a pseudo-receiver domain which is a common motif of plant pseudo-response regulator genes, a fusion polynucleotide of said polynucleotide and a polynucleotide encoding at least one transcription activation domain of a transcription factor, or a recombinant vector comprising said polynucleotide or fusion polynucleotide has been introduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: RIKENInventors: Hitoshi Sakakibara, Norihito Nakamichi, Nobue Makita
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Patent number: 9062323Abstract: The invention provides a wheat cell, part, tissue culture or whole plant comprising at least one disrupted KRP gene of the present invention. The present invention also provides methods of increasing weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield of a wheat plant by utilizing the disrupted KRP genes of the present invention. Furthermore, methods of breeding wheat plants to produce new wheat plants having increased weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield are provided. The present invention provides isolated Kinase Inhibitor Protein (KIP) Related Protein (KRP) polynucleotide sequences and isolated KRP polypeptide sequences and methods of their use.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Targeted Growth, Inc.Inventors: Jean Paul Olivier, Tom Todaro, Jorge Dubcovsky, Wenjun Zhang
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Patent number: 9062322Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT (Asparatate AminoTransferase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown ASPAT-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventor: Yves Hatzfeld
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Publication number: 20150150158Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicants: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH, Crop Functional Genomic CenterInventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Yang Do Choi, Ju Kon Kim, Jin Seo Jeong
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Patent number: 9040776Abstract: The invention relates to genes coding for TCP family transcription factors and having a biological role in the development of axillary buds and branch growth. Furthermore, the invention relates to the promoters of the transcription of said genes, to the genetic constructs containing same and to the uses thereof, including the use of agents that modulate the expression of these genes in order to modify plant architecture.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientificasInventors: Mar Martín Trillo, María Luisa Rodríguez Buey, Pilar Cubas Domínguez
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Publication number: 20150143586Abstract: A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. A protein phosphatase 2C gene having 3 consensus sequences comprising the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-3 from the N-terminal side in such order is over-expressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, OKAYAMA PREFECTUREInventors: Satoshi KONDO, Chikara Ohto, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Kenichi Ogawa, Hiroki Sugimoto, Tomoko Tanaka, Madoka Yonekura
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Publication number: 20150143585Abstract: The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, a gene for increasing biomass production isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, and a method for producing a transgenic plant by using the same. More specifically, the present disclosure provides, inter alia, a composition for increasing production of plant biomass, a recombinant expression vector and a transgenic plant, comprising a base sequence encoding for the amino acid sequence of sequence number 2. Consequently, by using the gene for increasing biomass production of the present disclosure, it is possible to obtain a transgenic plant with which the amount of biomass production is increased and, ultimately, by using the same, it can be expected to be possible to increase starting materials for the pulp and papermaking industries, and starting materials for bioethanol.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Il Doo Hwang, Kang Min Kim, Hyun Suk Kim
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Publication number: 20150143581Abstract: 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: December 23, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Jingdong Liu, Yihua Zhou, David K. Kovalic, Steven E. Screen, Jack E. Tabaska, Yongwei Cao, Scott E. Andersen, Michael D. Edgerton, Karen L. Fincher, Kim Hammond-Kosack, Thomas J. Larosa, James D. Masucci, Martin Urban, Jinhua Xiao, Todd E. Ziegler