Mushroom Patents (Class 800/297)
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Publication number: 20150150159Abstract: The present invention relates to new antifungal compositions and their use in the method for controlling fungal diseases in mushrooms.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventor: Jacobus Stark
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Publication number: 20150052639Abstract: The invention discloses a culture method for Antrodia cinnamomea to elevate the amounts and types of the bioactive components in Antrodia cinnamomea through controlling the wavelength and intensity of the light. Furthermore, the modification of the environmental factors such as water content, composition and relative amount of the culture medium, and the culture temperature are capable of increasing the amounts and types of the bioactive components in Antrodia cinnamomea.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicants: Greenyn Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Tunghai UniversityInventors: Fan-Chiang YANG, Chia-Li WU, Ya-Chen CHI
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Patent number: 8907165Abstract: Mushrooms genetically engineered to produce provitamin A carotenoids including ?-carotene, ?-carotene, ?-carotene, and ?-cryptoxanthin are provided. In some embodiments, mushrooms are transformed with genes that encode enzymes that have phytoene synthase, pyhtoene dehydrogenase and lycopene cyclase activities and function to convert GGPP to one or more provitamin A carotenoids. Mushrooms are transformed using known methods, including Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Transgenic mushrooms producing provitamin A carotenoids are useful to treat, alleviate, reduce, and/or inhibit one or more symptoms of a disease or disorder associated with vitamin A deficiency (VAD).Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Medicine In Need CorporationInventor: Voranaddha Vacharathit
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Publication number: 20140345003Abstract: A novel strain of Pleurotus nebrodensis (Daewang No. 1, Accession No.: KACC93181P) and a method for cultivating it are provided. The novel strain of Pleurotus nebrodensis is different from the existing Pleurotus ferulae in shape and physiological characteristic, has an extra after-ripening period, can be grown at a low temperature of 22 to 25° C. and a low water content (RH) of 60 to 650, can be cultivated in slightly acid environment of pH 5.5 to 6.5, can utilize bottle cultivation, and has a good shape not to be easily damaged in packaging. Thus, the novel strain of Pleurotus nebrodensis according to the present invention have good commercial value, are more resistant to environmental change, and can be mass produced by automation system and used for creating high value-added business in the food and agriculture industry.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventor: You Song Kim
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Publication number: 20140283210Abstract: The promoter of a soybean translation elongation factor EF1 alpha and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: ZHONGSEN LI
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Publication number: 20140134153Abstract: [Problem] To provide: an antimicrobial agent which utilizes an antimicrobial activity and a pharmacological activity of a plant belonging to the family Juncaceae, comprises a material produced by seeding a seed culture of mushroom mycelia to a plant belonging to the family Juncaceae, culturing the mycelium while adding a nutrient source to thereby proliferate the mycelium and then drying the proliferated mycelium, can exhibit an excellent antimicrobial activity even when used in a small amount, can be added to a food, can be sprayed onto an agricultural crop or soil, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for athlete's foot; and a method for producing the antimicrobial agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA OUJU SEIYAKUInventors: Masayoshi Iwahara, Hiroshi Morita, Kazuyuki Miyata
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Publication number: 20140130209Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to the field of anti-pathogenic agents, including a modified defensin molecule with anti-pathogen activity. Genetically modified plants and their progeny or parts expressing or containing the modified defensin and anti-pathogen compositions for use in horticulture and agriculture and as animal and human medicaments are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: HEXIMA LIMITEDInventors: Nicole Van Der Weerden, Marily Anne Anderson
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Publication number: 20140123345Abstract: The invention found that partial deletion of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpd) promoter can enhance gene expression (even heterologous gene expression) in basidiomycetous fungi. With the discovery of these gpd promoters, an expression system can be constructed for the expression of a heterologous gene in mushroom. Accordingly, the invention provides a truncated glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter and a construct comprising the promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous transcribable polynucleotide molecule and a mushroom comprising the construct.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: MYCOMAGIC BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Ying-Tzu Lyu
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Patent number: 8704040Abstract: Provided is an isolated polypeptide having triterpene methyltransferase activity. Also provided is an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes the triterpene methyltransferase polypeptides; a vector comprising the nucleic acid molecules that encode the triterpene methyltransferase polypeptides; and a host cell(s) transfected with the aforementioned nucleic acid molecule or vector. In another aspect, a method of producing a methylated triterpene is provided. The method comprises providing a metabolizable carbon source to a host cell transfected with a nucleic acid molecule that encodes a triterpene methyltransferase under conditions sufficient for production of a methylated triterpene. The method optionally further comprises isolating the methylated triterpene produced by the host cell.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: University of Kentucky Research FoundationInventors: Joseph Chappell, Shigeru Okada, Scott Kinison, Tom Niehaus
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Publication number: 20140075600Abstract: The present invention relates to a valencene synthase, to a nucleic acid encoding such valencene synthase, to a host cell comprising said encoding nucleic acid sequence and to a method for preparing valencene, comprising converting farnesyl diphosphate to valencene in the presence of a valencene synthase according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Isobionics B.V.Inventors: Jihane Achkar, Theodorus Sonke, Martinus Julius Beekwilder, Hendrik Jan Bouwmeester, Hendrik Jan Bosch
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Patent number: 8663969Abstract: A mushroom culture of Agaricus bisporus produced by hybridization of a first strain and a second strain of Agaricus bisporus, wherein at least one of said first and second strains of Agaricus is a hybrid mushroom culture of Agaricus bisporus designated strain J9277. Diverse additional strains can be developed from J9277 by various means including somatic and tissue culture selection, basidiospore selection, and hybridization to other strains of Agaricus bisporus, and the resulting derivative strains can be screened for desirable commercial characteristics. One resultant class of the mushroom Agaricus bisporus (J. Lange) Imbach is the hybrid strain J10165. It exhibits an attractive appearance that includes a smooth, bright white cap, and is biologically incompatible with strains of the ‘U1’ lineage group. A method for improving facility hygiene and reducing disease incidence at any commercial Agaricus bisporus mushroom production facility is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sylvan America, Inc.Inventors: Richard W. Kerrigan, Mark P. Wach
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Publication number: 20140030288Abstract: A method of protecting a host grass from stress, such as caused by insect pests, by artificially inoculating the host grass with an endophyte-containing composition is disclosed. The endophyte produces loline at a level sufficient to confer protection to the endophyte-infected host grass and does not produce detectable levels of alkaloids having toxicity to ruminant animals such as sheep, cattle, goats, or deer. In vitro cultures of the endophyte Neotyphodium uncinatum, var. U2 are disclosed as well as infected plants and seeds. The infected plants and seeds produce 5.0-20,000 ?g lolines per gram dry weight of grass and do not produce detectable levels of alkaloids having toxicity to ruminant animals such as ergovaline, peramine, lolitrem B and epoxy-Janthitrems.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Cropmark Seeds LtdInventor: Nicholas Evan Cameron
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Publication number: 20130333066Abstract: The present specification teaches the generation of drought tolerant plants. The present disclosure enables manipulation of a phenotypic characteristic referred to herein as “stay-green” to generate drought tolerant plants by recombinant, mutagenic and/or breeding and selection methods. Plant management practice systems to increase crop yield and harvest efficiency in water-limited environments are also taught herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicants: THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION, GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: Andrew Kenneth Borrell, David Robert Jordan, John Mullet, Patricia Klein
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Publication number: 20130291225Abstract: A novel shiitake strain Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Pegler GNA01 (accession No: KCCM11135P) and a fruit body produced by culturing the same. The shiitake mushroom may have no distinct pilei and stipes, but is generally similar to a spherical shape, with both the pileus and the stipe integrating into a globe or sphere-like shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventor: Young Chan Kim
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Patent number: 8557585Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion polynucleotides for biosynthesis of beta-carotene and a method for producing beta-carotene using the same. More particularly, it relates to fusion polynucleotides encoding phytoene synthase, connective sequences of FMDV-derived 2A sequence or internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and carotene desaturase, and a method for producing beta-carotenes using the same. Fusion polynucleotides and the recombinant vector using the same of the present invention have the effect of expression both phytoene synthase gene and carotene desaturase gene stably within cell transformants. Accordingly, fusion polynucleotides of the present invention can be used to regulate the biosynthetic metabolism of plant producing beta-carotene. Furthermore, it can be applied to effectively increase the content of beta-carotene, a useful metabolite.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Republic of Korea, Rural Development AdministrationInventors: Sun Hwa Ha, Ju Kon Kim, Ha Rin Jung, Jung Bong Kim, Young Mi Kim, Seok-Cheol Suh, Liang Ying Shi, Soon Jong Kweon, Dong Hern Kim
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Publication number: 20130219554Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in fungi. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a tissue preferred promoter isolated from the Agaricus bisporus lectin gene. The sequences drive expression preferentially to fruit body tissue. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence in fungi using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a fungal cell to comprise a nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed fungus from the transformed cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: INTREXON CORPORATIONInventors: Zhixin Shi, Jack Q. Wilkinson, Donald S. Walters, C. Peter Romaine
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Patent number: 8487158Abstract: Provided is an isolated polypeptide having triterpene methyltransferase activity. Also provided is an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes the triterpene methyltransferase polypeptides; a vector comprising the nucleic acid molecules that encode the triterpene methyltransferase polypeptides; and a host cell(s) transfected with the aforementioned nucleic acid molecule or vector. In another aspect, a method of producing a methylated triterpene is provided. The method comprises providing a metabolizable carbon source to a host cell transfected with a nucleic acid molecule that encodes a triterpene methyltransferase under conditions sufficient for production of a methylated triterpene. The method optionally further comprises isolating the methylated triterpene produced by the host cell.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: University of Kentucky Research FoundationInventors: Joseph Chappell, Shigeru Okada, Scott Kinison, Tom Niehaus
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Publication number: 20130142820Abstract: A new and distinct variety of higher Basidiomycetes mushroom Cyathus striatus HAI-1302, and extracts thereof are provided. These extracts as well as pharmaceutical composition comprising them are capable of inhibiting growth of cancer cells, arresting cancer cell cycle, reducing DNA synthesis in cancer cells and inducing apoptosis in cancer cells, and are thus useful for the treatment of cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: CARMEL-HAIFA UNIVERSITY ECONOMIC CORPORATION LTDInventors: Fuad Fares, Lital Sharvit, Solomon P. Wasser
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Publication number: 20130139275Abstract: Methods of producing hybrid Agaricus bisporus mushrooms strains derived or descended from at least one wild mushroom strain and having the specified traits of either greatly diminished sporulation or an absence of sporulation, and of obtaining postmeiotic offspring of nonsporlating basidiomycete fungi including Agaricus bisporus, are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: SYLVAN AMERICA INCInventors: Richard W. Kerrigan, Anthony J. Velcko, JR., Mark C. Spear, Mark P. Wach
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Publication number: 20130078272Abstract: Antifungal compounds, an antifungal compound extracted from Epicoccum purpurascens, also known as Epicoccum nigrum, methods of producing the antifungal compounds, isolates and compositions comprising the antifungal compounds, and methods of using the antifungal compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2010Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: Auckland UniServices LimitedInventor: Silas Granato Villas-Boas
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Publication number: 20120311741Abstract: The invention relates to a transporter protein involved in the transport of sophorolipids. More specifically, it relates to a Candida bombicola sophorolipid transporter protein, and the use of this transporter to modulate the secretion and/or production of glycolipids, preferably sophorolipids in organisms, preferably in fungi.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2010Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Wim Soetaert, Inge Van Bogaert
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Publication number: 20120276588Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods comprising genes and peptides associated with cyclic peptides and cyclic peptide production in mushrooms. In particular, the present invention relates to using genes and proteins from Galerina species encoding peptides specifically relating to amatoxins in addition to proteins involved with processing cyclic peptide toxins. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention also relates to methods for making small peptides and small cyclic peptides including peptides similar to amanitin. Further, the present inventions relate to providing kits for making small peptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Heather E. Hallen-Adams, John S. Scott-Craig, Jonathan D. Walton, Hong Luo
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Publication number: 20120258498Abstract: High yield antibiotics producing fungus strain, preparation method and use thereof are provided. The fungus strain is a mutant derived from Glarea lozoyensis, and deposited in CGMCC with the accession number of CGMCC 2933. The preparation method concludes following steps: (a) mixing the culture media of Glarea lozoyensis strain ATCC 20957 with nitrosoguanidine, and obtaining mixture a; (b) mixing lywallzyme with the mixture a, and obtaining protoplasts; (c) regenerating the protoplasts, and obtaining single clones; and (d) culturing the single clones, then obtaining the mutant strain. This fungus strain has stable genetic and producing property, produces little impurities in fermentation, and is suitable to be used in industry.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: SHANGHAI TECHWELL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Jing Xu, Yi Chen, Xiaoming Ji, Xiaoliang Gao, Shidong Liu, Zhaoli Zhang
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Patent number: 8278508Abstract: The present invention provides a fungal bed culture of a hon-shimeji mushroom inoculated with a liquid seed culture wherein the surface of a culture medium for cultivation has a liquid seed culture inoculated portion and a liquid seed culture non-inoculated portion as well as provides a fungal bed cultivation method of a hon-shimeji mushroom which generates a fruit body from the fungal bed culture. According to the present invention, the formation rate of budlet in the fungal bed cultivation of a hon-shimeji mushroom is improved, thereby enabling stable production of a hon-shimeji mushroom in large scale commercial cultivation.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Takara Bio Inc.Inventors: Takashi Kawai, Katsuhiko Kusakabe, Akihiko Kita, Ikunoshin Kato
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Publication number: 20120180167Abstract: The purpose is to provide the truffle mycelium and fruiting body cultivated by the medium that are developed for cultivating the truffles with a very high radical oxygen scavenging capacity. A medium for cultivating truffles includes a mixture of at least one carbohydrate source selected from a group consisting of rice bran, wheat bran, and glucose, and at least one edible ingredient selected from a group consisting of burdock, nuts, and berries. A weight ratio of the edible ingredient to the carbohydrate source is between 0.5 and 5. As for one of the ingredients, it is preferable that the burdock is granulated. The medium may exist in a liquid state. By injecting truffle seeds for cultivation into such a medium, the truffle mycelium and fruiting body with the high reactive oxygen scavenging capacity could be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventor: Ken USAMI
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Publication number: 20120167256Abstract: A novel hybrid fungus culture, designated J9277, of the mushroom species Agaricus bisporus produces crops of mushrooms having white, rounded, thick-fleshed caps and proportionally long stems in a relatively short interval of time. Diverse additional strains can be developed from J9277 by various means including somatic and tissue culture selection, basidiospore selection, and hybridization to other strains of Agaricus bisporus, and the resulting derivative strains can be screened for desirable commercial characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Richard W. Kerrigan, Jeffrey W. Smathers, Mark P. Wach
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Patent number: 8188335Abstract: The present disclosure relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding a delta 9-elongase, delta 9-elongases encoded by the isolated polynucleotides, expression vectors comprising the isolated polynucleotides, host cells comprising the expression vectors, and methods for producing delta 9-elongase and polyunsaturated fatty acids.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Abbott LaboratoriesInventors: Suzette Pereira, Tapas Das, Padmavathy Krishnan, Pradip Mukerji
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Publication number: 20120124703Abstract: New and distinct varieties of higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms selected from Coprinus comatus HAI-1237 and Tremella mesenterica HAI-17 deposited under The Budapest Treaty with the Centralbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) under Accession Nos. CBS 123401 and.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: PALMED TEVA LTDInventor: Solomon P. Wasser
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Publication number: 20120096596Abstract: The invention relates to a fungus or a mushroom and to a method of producing it wherein the fungus/mushroom has an increased expression level of a polypeptide and/or has a decreased expression level of a polypeptide, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence that has at least 40% amino acid identity or similarity with a sequence selected from SEQ ID NO:1-200 and/or that has at least 50% amino acid identity or similarity with a sequence selected from SEQ ID NO:201-208.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Robin Arthur Ohm, Jan Fokke De Jong, Luis Gaston Lugones, Herman Abel Bernard Wösten
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Patent number: 8101819Abstract: Transgenic oilseeds having increased total fatty acid content of at least 10% and altered fatty acid profiles when compared to the total fatty acid content of null segregant oilseeds are described. Novel DGAT genes are used to achieve the increase in seed storage lipids.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignees: E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Keith Roesler, Knut Meyer, Howard Glenn Damude, Bo Shen, Changjiang Li, Ericka Bermudez, Mitchell C. Tarczynski
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Publication number: 20120005788Abstract: Provided is a method for producing xylonic acid from xylose with a recombinant fungal strain that is genetically modified to express a xylose dehydrogenase gene, which is able to convert xylose to xylonolactone, which is spontaneously or enzymatically hydrolysed to xylonic acid. The xylonic acid is excreted outside the host cell. Xylonate production may be coupled with xylitol production. Alternatively, if xylitol production is not desired, its production is reduced by removing the aldose reductase (or specific xylose reductase) enzyme, which converts xylose to xylitol. Expression of a heterologous lactonase encoding gene may result in higher acid concentrations. The method is suitable for producing xylonic acid from a hemicellulose hydrolysate such as hydrolysed lignocellulosic plant biomass.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTTInventors: Peter Richard, Marilyn Wiebe, Mervi Toivari, Dominik Mojzita, Laura Ruohonen, Merja Penttilä
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Patent number: 8084244Abstract: A novel hybrid fungus culture, designated J9277, of the mushroom species Agaricus bisporus produces crops of mushrooms having white, rounded, thick-fleshed caps and proportionally long stems in a relatively short interval of time. Diverse additional strains can be developed from J9277 by various means including somatic and tissue culture selection, basidiospore selection, and hybridization to other strains of Agaricus bisporus, and the resulting derivative strains can be screened for desirable commercial characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Sylvan America, Inc.Inventors: Richard W. Kerrigan, Jeffrey W. Smathers, Mark P. Wach
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Publication number: 20100299783Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion polynucleotides for biosynthesis of beta-carotene and a method for producing beta-carotene using the same. More particularly, it relates to fusion polynucleotides encoding phytoene synthase, connective sequences of FMDV-derived 2A sequence or internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and carotene desaturase, and a method for producing beta-carotenes using the same. Fusion polynucleotides and the recombinant vector using the same of the present invention have the effect of expression both phytoene synthase gene and carotene desaturase gene stably within cell transformants. Accordingly, fusion polynucleotides of the present invention can be used to regulate the biosynthetic metabolism of plant producing beta-carotene. Furthermore, it can be applied to effectively increase the content of beta-carotene, a useful metabolite.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Republic of Korea, Rural Development AdministrationInventors: Sun Hwa Ha, Ju Kon Kim, Ha Rin Jung, Jung Bong Kim, Young Mi Kim, Seok-Cheol Suh, Liang Ying Shi, Soon Jong Kweon, Dong Hern Kim
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Publication number: 20100275329Abstract: Mushrooms genetically engineered to produce provitamin A carotenoids including ?-carotene, ?-carotene, ?-carotene, and ?-cryptoxanthin are provided. In some embodiments, mushrooms are transformed with genes that encode enzymes that have phytoene synthase, pyhtoene dehydrogenase and lycopene cyclase activities and function to convert GGPP to one or more provitamin A carotenoids. Mushrooms are transformed using known methods, including Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Transgenic mushrooms producing provitamin A carotenoids are useful to treat, alleviate, reduce, and/or inhibit one or more symptoms of a disease or disorder associated with vitamin A deficiency (VAD).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventor: VORANADDHA VACHARATHIT
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Patent number: 7777021Abstract: The invention relates to discovery of an isolated glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter in Pleurotus and a construct comprising the promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous transcribable polynucleotide molecule.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Mycomagic Biotechnology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chun-Yi Kuo
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Publication number: 20100154079Abstract: A mushroom culture of Agaricus bisporus produced by hybridization of a first strain and a second strain of Agaricus bisporus, wherein at least one of said first and second strains of Agaricus is a hybrid mushroom culture of Agaricus bisporus designated strain J9277. Diverse additional strains can be developed from J9277 by various means including somatic and tissue culture selection, basidiospore selection, and hybridization to other strains of Agaricus bisporus, and the resulting derivative strains can be screened for desirable commercial characteristics. One resultant class of the mushroom Agaricus bisporus (J. Lange) Imbach is the hybrid strain J10165. It exhibits an attractive appearance that includes a smooth, bright white cap, and is biologically incompatible with strains of the Ur lineage group. A method for improving facility hygiene and reducing disease incidence at any commercial Agaricus bisporus mushroom production facility is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2010Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Richard W. Kerrigan, Mark P. Wach
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Patent number: 7608760Abstract: Hybrid Agaricus bisporus mushroom strains having one or more genetic characteristics of a wild mushroom strain deposited under ATCC accession No. PTA-6903 or a progeny thereof and having specified physical and genetic characteristics are disclosed along with methods of producing brown mushrooms for commercial use.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Amycel Inc.Inventors: Christopher William Robles, Stephen Christopher Lodder
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Publication number: 20090193544Abstract: The invention relates to discovery of an isolated glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase promoter in Pleurotus and a construct comprising the promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous transcribable polynucleotide molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: MYCOMAGIC BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: CHUN-YI KUO
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Publication number: 20080248058Abstract: The present invention provides a plant disease control agent which is stable and safe in terms of leaving no residue and a method for controlling plant diseases using the same. The plant disease control agent comprises a fragment of an inky cap mushroom, and plant diseases are controlled by using the plant disease control agent. The plant disease control agent may be a suspension comprising the fragment of the inky cap mushroom or a solid material composed of the suspension and a carrier to which the suspension is absorbed. The inky cap mushroom is preferably Coprinus curtus or the like, especially preferably Coprinus curtus GM-21 (NITE BP-37).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2006Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: National University Corporation Shizouka UniversityInventors: Kiyohiko Nakasaki, Miyuki Saito
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Publication number: 20040115791Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel salt tolerant oyster mushroom strain Pleurotus ostreatus DH-1012; a method of producing a novel strain Pleurotus ostreatus DH-1012; a method of disposing food wastes using salt tolerant mushroom strains, in particular, a novel strain Pleurotus ostreatus DH-1012, comprising a food wastes pre-processing step, a mushroom cultivating step, and a specialty bio-feed and organic fertilizer, and manure producing step; a mushroom cultivated according to the method: and a specialty bio-feed and organic fertilizer, and manure produced according to the method. The present invention also relates to a system of disposing food wastes using salt tolerant mushroom strains, comprising a food wastes pre-processing system, a mushroom cultivating, and a specialty bio-feed and organic fertilizer, and manure producing system; a mushroom cultivated by the system; and a specialty bio-feed and organic fertilizer, and manure produced by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2004Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Suk-Ku Sim, Eun-Kwan Lee
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Patent number: 6655081Abstract: A substrate for mushroom cultivation comprises a polyene fungicide, in particular, natamycin. Mushrooms cultivated in such substrates can be harvested earlier than mushrooms cultivated in substrates which do not include polyene fungicides. Alternatively, mushrooms grown in a substrate comprising a polyene fungicide achieve a greater size than mushrooms grown for the same amount of time in a substrate which does not include a polyene fungicide.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2000Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignees: DSM N.V., Sylvan, Inc.Inventors: Jacobus Stark, Mark Peter Wach, Edith Magda Lucia Geijp, Ferdinand Theodorus Jozef Van Rijn, Lori Ann MacDonald, Jeffrey Wayne Smathers
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Publication number: 20030208796Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing mushroom mycelia and uses of the mushroom mycelia. Mushroom mycelia can be cultured at low cost in a broth made of the water from the washing of grains. Also, mushroom mycelia rich in trace minerals can be cultured in a broth supplemented with trace minerals. Feeding of feedstuffs mixed with the mushroom mycelia culture produces duck meats with excellent taste and quality and low cholesterol content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2001Publication date: November 6, 2003Inventors: Jae-Mahn Song, Se-Youn Han, Yun-Sun Na
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Patent number: 6521817Abstract: “Novel hybrid strains of Agaricus bisporus, the germination of the spores of which provides mostly homocaryons, their production and their use”. Hybrid strain of Agaricus having the following traits: it is interfertile with Agaricus bisporus, its fructifications have basidia of which less than 15% are bisporous, and most of the spores on said fructifications are homocaryotic, and whose traits can be genetically transmitted; method of obtaining such a strain, and its use for obtaining modified strains of Agaricus bisporus.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1998Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignees: C.T.C. Centre Technique du Champignon et Institut, National de la Recherche AgronomiqueInventors: Philippe Callac, Micheline Imbernon, Christophe Billette
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Publication number: 20030005488Abstract: A fungus belonging to the order of Agaricales, such as mushroom, is cultured with good efficiency by using a liquid culture medium in such a way as to prepare the mycelia separated from the culture medium and the culturing liquid thereof can be served as such for food use. A liquid culture medium containing 3 to 16 g/liter of sucrose and 1 to 6 g/liter of maltose as the carbon source and 0.3 to 1.2 g/liter of yeast extract as the nitrogen source is inoculated with Agaricus mycelia and culturing is conducted by blowing thereinto sterilized air of 20 to 90% of the oxygen concentration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Takaaki Maekawa, Hiroko Isoda
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Publication number: 20020148009Abstract: This invention provides a method for enhancing the cellobiase activity of the strain Termitimyces clypeatus using 2-deoxy-D-glucose as glycosylation inhibitor, said process comprises inoculating and growing mycelial culture of (the edible mushroom) Termitimyces clypeatus, in sterilized medium containing 0.05 to 5.0% of 2-deoxy-D-glucose in addition to 0.5 to 2.0 % of cellobiose, succinate—0.5%, 2 to 3% of ammonium di hydrogen phosphate and conventional micro-nutrients at pH between 3 to 8 and incubating at temperatures between 20-35° C. under shaking in aerobic conditions, and separating the culture medium by known methods, and using the culture filtrate directly as the source of the enzyme cellobiase and also for endo-glucanase and cellobiohydrolase for use in cellulose hydrolysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2001Publication date: October 10, 2002Inventors: Suman Khowala, Sumana Mukherjee
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Publication number: 20020059655Abstract: “Novel hybrid strains of Agaricus bisporus, the germination of the spores of which provides mostly homocaryons, their production and their use”.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 1998Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: PHILIPPE CALLAC, MICHELINE IMBERNON, CHRISTOPHE BILLETTE
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Patent number: 6372964Abstract: The present invention describes new and distinct horticultural varieties of higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms grown in submerged culture. Specifically, the new varieties of species of the genus Pleurotus offer superior yields of mushroom cell biomass and greater concentrations of the protein rich in essential amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1999Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: MedInventors: Solomon P. Wasser, Sergey V. Reshetnikov, Elvira F. Solomko, Asya S. Buchalo, Eviatar Nevo
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Publication number: 20020042931Abstract: A method of enhancing inorganic carbon fixation by a photosynthetic organism. The method is effected by transforming cells of the photosynthetic organism with an expressible polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having a bicarbonate transporter activity. Preferably, the polynucleotide further includes a plant promoter. Sequences and constructs for implementing the method are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Inventors: Aaron Kaplan, Judy Lieman-Hurwitz, Daniella Schatz, Ron Mittler, Michal Ronen-Tarazi, David J. Bonfil
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Patent number: 6362397Abstract: The present invention describes new and distinct horticultural varieties of higher Basidiomycetes mushroom grown in submerged culture. Specifically, the new varieties of species of the genus Tremella offer superior yields of mushroom one-cell biomass rich in essential amino acids and vitamins and polysaccharide glucuronoxylomannan.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Med Myco Ltd.Inventors: Solomon P. Wasser, Sergey V. Reshetnikov
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Publication number: 20020016982Abstract: Applicants have devised a highly effective, convenient, and expeditious genetic transformation system for filamentous fungi, such as Agaricus bisporus. The preferred method uses an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation protocol. The critical features of this protocol include co-cultivation of the bacterium with fruit body tissue instead of spores. In a preferred embodiment, even higher transformation efficiencies were observed with the use of a homologous promoter in the polynucleotide expression construct in order to drive gene expression.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventors: C. Peter Romaine, Xi Chen