Squash (e.g., Pumpkin, Zucchini, Etc.) Patents (Class 800/310)
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Patent number: 11737406Abstract: A novel hybrid pumpkin plant, designated HMX6821 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid pumpkin designated HMX6821, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid pumpkin designated HMX6821, and to methods for producing a pumpkin plant by crossing the hybrid pumpkin HMX6821 with itself or another pumpkin plant.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Inventor: Theodore Superak
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Patent number: 9826690Abstract: A plant or a part thereof, the plant being a Cucurbita pepo hybrid having more than one flower/fruit per node as in Cucurbita pepo subsp. texana, the fruit of the plant having the phenotype of that of Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Center)Inventor: Harry Stuart Paris
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Patent number: 9357720Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0153YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0153YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Patent number: 9357721Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0109YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0109YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William Clyde Johnson
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Patent number: 9357719Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0104YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0104YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Patent number: 9313963Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid EX 04858026 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid EX 04858026 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Patent number: 9313964Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid EX 13056682 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid EX 13056682 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Publication number: 20150096069Abstract: This disclosure provides transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and enhanced drought tolerance; propagules, progeny and field crops of such transgenic plants; and methods of making and using such transgenic plants. This disclosure also provides methods of producing hybrid seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Paolo Castiglioni, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Barry S. Goldman, Robert J. Meister, Monnanda S. Rajani, G. Ramamohan, Naveen Silvester, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Jingrui Wu, Xiaoyun Wu
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Publication number: 20150096068Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV8655YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV8655YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: William Clyde Johnson
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Publication number: 20150089683Abstract: This disclosure provides transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency and enhanced drought tolerance; propagules, progeny and field crops of such transgenic plants; and methods of making and using such transgenic plants. This disclosure also provides methods of producing hybrid seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Mark Scott Abad, Pranesh Badami, Amarjit Basra, Erin Bell, Christopher P. Bonin, Paolo Castiglioni, Eric R. Cerny, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Paul Chomet, Todd Dezwaan, Stephen Duff, Michael D. Edgerton, Barry S. Goldman, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Kempagangaiah Krishnamurthy, Ping Li, Adrian A. Lund, Llinda Lutfiyya, Thomas M. Malvar, Donald E. Nelson, Monnanda S. Rajani, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra, Thomas G. Ruff, Sara Salvador, S. Sangeetha, Char Shobha, Jeffrey M. Staub, Virginia Ursin, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Kammaradi R. Vidya, Xiaoyun Wu, Sean Yang, Jianmin Zhao
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Patent number: 8969658Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing haploid H, doubled haploid HD and/or dihaploid DH plants, the HD and DH being homozygous or essentially homozygous, this method being a method such as those which come under the technique of gynogenesis induced by irradiated pollen. This method comprises a step of irradiating the reproductive material of the male parent at a dose of between 160 and 190 gamma ray and/or a step of selecting the haploid H and/or DH plants by using one or more molecular marker(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: HM. ClauseInventors: Muriel Archipiano, Daniele Hosemans, Eric Lionneton, Agnes Vermuelen
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Publication number: 20150059018Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids sequences derived from Valeriana officinalis and/or Persicaria hydropiper and encoding drimenol synthase polypeptides. The present invention also provides the amino acid sequences of the polypeptides. The invention further provides host cells or organisms genetically modified to harbour the polynucleotides of the invention. A method to produce drimenol and/or a drimenol derivative by contacting farnesyl diphosphate with a polypeptide having a drimenol synthase activity is also part of this invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Hendrik Jan Bouwmeester, Maurice Gerard Leon Henquet, Maarten Anthonie Jongsma
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Publication number: 20150026841Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence from a maize plant and the isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence is named as ZmCOP1. The present invention also relates to a method of using the ZmCOP1 nucleic acid sequence to control the shade avoidance response of a crop plant for high density farming and yield enhancement.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Nordine Cheikh, Molian Deng, Philip W. Miller, Nanfei Xu
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Publication number: 20150020230Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0116YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0116YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William Clyde Johnson
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Publication number: 20150013031Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Larry A. Gilbertson, Xudong Ye
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Publication number: 20150007362Abstract: The relationship between F-box proteins and proteins involved in the ethylene response in plants is described. In particular, F-box proteins may bind to proteins involved in the ethylene response and target them for degradation by the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. The transcription factor EIN3 is a key transcription factor mediating ethylene-regulated gene expression and morphological responses. EIN3 is degraded through a ubiquitin/proteasome pathway mediated by F-box proteins EBF1 and EBF2. The link between F-box proteins and the ethylene response is a key step in modulating or regulating the response of a plant to ethylene. Described herein are transgenic plants having an altered sensitivity to ethylene, and methods for making transgenic plant having an altered sensitivity to ethylene by modulating the level of activity of F-box proteins. Methods of altering the ethylene response in a plant by modulating the activity or expression of an F-box protein are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Hongwei Guo, Joseph R. Ecker
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Publication number: 20140373198Abstract: The present invention relates nucleic acid molecules that are modulated (e.g., upregulated) by nitrogen in corn, to proteins or polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acid molecules, and promoters of these nucleic acid molecules. The present invention relates to a nucleic acid construct having a nucleic acid molecule that is modulated by nitrogen in corn, as well as to expression systems, host cells, plants, and plant seeds having the nucleic acid construct. The present invention also relates to a method of expressing the nucleic acid molecule that is modulated by nitrogen in a plant by growing a transgenic plant or a plant grown from a transgenic seed transformed with the construct. The present invention further relates to an isolated DNA promoter that can be used to direct nitrogen-regulated expression of an isolated nucleic acid in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Patrick S. SCHNABLE, Sudhansu DASH
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Publication number: 20140359896Abstract: Plants of the Cucurbitaceae family and seeds of such plants with an androecious phenotype, whereas this sexual type is not natural in the plants, and the use of the plants and of the plant seeds of the invention. Moreover, the nucleic acid sequence responsible for androecy in the plants of the invention and on the polypeptide encoded by the nucleic acid sequence. Finally, methods of identifying the plants and the seeds.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicants: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RESEARCH AGRONOMIQUE (INRA), VILMORIN ET CIEInventors: Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Christelle Troadec, Adnane Boualem, Daniele Hosemans, Julie Fauve
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Publication number: 20140344964Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV9043YG and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV9043YG and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: William Clyde Johnson
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Publication number: 20140310831Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0109YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0109YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: William Clyde Johnson
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Publication number: 20140298534Abstract: The present invention relates to a transgenic plant overexpressing an antioxidant protein 1 (ATX1)-like polypeptide, which exhibits resistance to excess or deficiency of copper. The present invention also relates to a method of phytoremediation of an environment contaminated with copper by growing a transgenic plant overexpressing an ATX1-like polypeptide in the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Academia SinicaInventors: Kuo-Chen YEH, Lung-Jiun SHIN
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Publication number: 20140283201Abstract: The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs, and their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising a recombinant DNA molecule comprising a DNA molecule operably linked to a heterologous transcribable DNA molecule, as well as methods of their use.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Jun Zhang, Suling Zhao
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Publication number: 20140208462Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to compositions, organisms, systems, and methods for expressing a gene product in a plant using a expression control sequence (ECS) operable in monocots and/or dicots. For example, (i) an isolated nucleic acid may comprise an ECS (e.g., a sugarcane bacilliform virus promoter) and, optionally, an exogenous nucleic acid (ExNA) operably linked to the ECS; (ii) an expression vector may comprise an ECS; an ExNA; and, optionally, a 3? termination sequence, wherein the ECS has promoter activity sufficient to express the ExNA in at least one monocot and at least one dicot; (iii) a microorganism, plant cell, or plant may comprise an isolated nucleic acid; (iv) a method for constitutively expressing an ExNA in a plant (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: Mona DAMAJ, T. Erik MIRKOV
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Publication number: 20140196170Abstract: Provided herein are, inter alia, transgenic plants with altered ethylene sensitivity. The transgenic plants provided herein express an EIN2 protein including an amino acid mutation at a position corresponding to position 645 of SEQ ID NO:1. Expression of the EIN2 protein carrying the mutation at position 645 will result in plants with modulated ethylene sensitivity. In some embodiments, the mutation at position 645 of the EIN2 protein will result in plants with increased ethylene sensitivity. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the mutation at position 645 of the EIN2 protein will result in plants with decreased ethylene sensitivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Hong Qiao, Joseph R. Ecker
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Patent number: 8772582Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing seeds in watermelon. In one embodiment methods are provided comprising grafting of a seed parent onto a stress tolerant rootstock, pollinating the seed parent with pollen from a pollen donor, and cultivating the seed parent until seed is formed. In specific embodiments, triploid seeds produced by a method of the invention are rendered conspicuously distinguishable from tetraploid seeds, and thus readily selected manually or by an automated machine. Methods for increasing seed yield and/or quality are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Benito Juarez, Terry Walker, Fred McCuistion, Greg Tolla
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Publication number: 20140157447Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0153YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0153YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Publication number: 20140157449Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0201YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0201YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: William Clyde Johnson
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Publication number: 20140157446Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid SV0104YL and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid SV0104YL and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Publication number: 20140150129Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of zucchini hybrid SV9480YG and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of zucchini hybrid SV9480YG and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a zucchini plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another zucchini plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: Alessandro Colecchia
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Publication number: 20140150128Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of zucchini hybrid SV9441YG and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of zucchini hybrid SV9441YG and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a zucchini plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another zucchini plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: Alessandro Colecchia
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Publication number: 20140096292Abstract: The invention provides methods of inhibiting the growth of a shoot apical meristem of a cucurbit rootstock plant, comprising contacting a shoot apical meristem of the cucurbit rootstock plant with an effective amount of a composition comprising one or more fatty alcohols, thereby inhibiting the growth of the shoot apical meristem of the cucurbit rootstock plant. The present invention further provides methods for preparing and producing cucurbit rootstock plants for grafting and methods for grafting. Additionally provided are cucurbit rootstock plants and plant parts and grafted cucurbit plants produced by the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicants: Clemson University, Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Richard Hassell, James Brusca, Xingping Zhang, Shawna Daley
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Publication number: 20140082761Abstract: The present invention describes an approach to increase plant growth and production. The invention describes methods for the use of functional sulfinoalanine decarboxylase (SAD) or the promiscuous enzyme activity of SAD in plants or algal cells. Transgenic plants will have increased plant growth, biomass, yield, and/or tolerance to biotic and/or abiotic stresses and could be used as a pharmaceutical, nutraceutical or as a supplement in animal feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: PLANT SENSORY SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Frank J. Turano, Kathleen A. Turano
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Patent number: 8669413Abstract: The invention provides methods of detecting MeSMV; methods of screening plants for resistance or susceptibility to MeSMV; and methods of breeding to produce plants that are resistant to MeSMV; and to the resistant plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: HM.Clause, Inc.Inventor: Ted Superak
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Patent number: 8669423Abstract: The invention provides a new Squash Leaf Curl Virus (SLCV) resistant gene slc-2 in cucurbit plants and plants comprising the slc-2 gene. The invention also provides molecular markers linked to slc-2 gene. The invention further provides methods of breeding to produce plants that are resistant to SLCV, and the resistant plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Vilmorin & CieInventors: Ted Superak, Julie Fauve, Eric Lionneton, Maria Petronella Christina Sengers
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Publication number: 20140068812Abstract: The present invention discloses regulatory sequences, promoters and terminators, and their use in plants. The regulatory sequences can be used to make gene constructs that include a gene not natively associated with the regulatory sequences. Methods to use the regulatory sequences with antisense constructs or functional RNAs are disclosed. Methods to use the regulatory sequences, promoter or terminator, independently of each other are also disclosed. Methods to use the regulatory sequences to improve plant growth and production such as increased biomass, increased yield and increased tolerance to abiotic or biotic stresses are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: PLANT SENSORY SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Frank J. Turano, Kathleen A. Turano
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Patent number: 8609928Abstract: The invention provides a new Squash Leaf Curl Virus (SLCV) resistant gene slc-2 in cucurbit plants and plants comprising the slc-2 gene. The invention also provides molecular markers linked to slc-2 gene. The invention further provides methods of breeding to produce plants that are resistant to SLCV, and the resistant plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Vilmorin & CieInventors: Ted Superak, Julie Fauve, Eric Lionneton, Maria Petronella Christina Sengers
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Publication number: 20130312135Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid ZGNEHH6009 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid ZGNEHH6009 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Publication number: 20130276156Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multiple inducible gene regulation system that functions within cells to simultaneously control the quantitative expression of multiple genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Intrexon CorporationInventors: Tarlochan Singh DHADIALLA, Dean Ervin Cress, Glenn Richard Carlson, Robert Eugene Hormann, Subba Reddy Palli, Arthur John Kudla, Ronald Phillip Herzig, JR., Mohan Philip
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Patent number: 8558069Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant, seed, variety and hybrid of the inbred Cucurbita pepo pumpkin line HSPMR7B1, which has a mutant allele designated Pm2 which results in a powdery mildew resistant plant. The invention also relates to crossing inbreds, varieties and hybrids containing the Pm2 mutant allele to produce powdery mildew resistant C. pepo plants.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Hollar SeedsInventor: Qi Zhang
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Publication number: 20130266608Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing plant-derived immunogenic compositions that confer immunity against smallpox in a subject are provided. Plants engineered to produce antigenic proteins as well as expression cassettes comprising nucleic acids encoding proteins thereof are described. Methods of immunizing subjects with plant-derived compositions are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: PHARMA GREEN LLCInventor: Maxim Golovkin
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Patent number: 8552258Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid RX 04858033 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid RX 04858033 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Patent number: 8552259Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid PX 13056719 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid PX 13056719 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: William C. Johnson
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Patent number: 8536411Abstract: A novel squash inbred line, designated KAZA121, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of squash inbred line KAZA121, to the plants of squash inbred line KAZA121 and to methods for producing a squash plant by crossing the squash inbred line KAZA121 with itself or another squash line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a squash plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other squash lines derived from the squash inbred line KAZA121.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: ClauseInventors: Julien Mazet, Muriel Archipiano
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Publication number: 20130239256Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicants: University of Maine System Board of Trustees, Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Publication number: 20130232641Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting enhanced growth rates, seed and fruit yields, and overall biomass yields, as well as methods for generating growth-enhanced transgenic plants. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicants: University of Maine System Board of Trustees, Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Publication number: 20130232646Abstract: The present invention is directed to controlling pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions in an invertebrate pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling pest infestation by feeding one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules to the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James A. Baum, Larry A. Gilbertson, David K. Kovalic, Thomas J. LaRosa, Maolong Lu, Tichafa R.I. Munyikwa, James K. Roberts, Wei Wu, Bei Zhang
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Publication number: 20130219564Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Monsanto Technology LLC
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Publication number: 20130192136Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of squash hybrid LEBEHH9044 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of squash hybrid LEBEHH9044 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a squash plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another squash plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INCInventor: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.
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Publication number: 20130117872Abstract: This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a Group H nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Subba Reddy PALLI, Mohan Basavaraju Kumar, Dean Ervin Cress, Ted Tsutomu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20130095532Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 82% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 82% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Alrik Pieter Los