Abstract: An edible bean seed designated as <14451> or LUMEN, a sample of the edible bean deposited under accession no. PI 698684 is disclosed. Methods of using the edible bean seed designated as <14451> or LUMEN for breeding new varieties of bean seed are also disclosed, as well as seeds of the edible bean seed designated as <14451> or LUMEN.

Abstract: An edible bean seed designated as <14455> or GLEAM, a sample of the edible bean deposited under accession no. PI 698683 is disclosed. Methods of using the edible bean seed designated as <14455> or GLEAM for breeding new varieties of bean seed are also disclosed, as well as seeds of the edible bean seed designated as <14455> or GLEAM.

Abstract: An edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY, a sample of the edible bean deposited under accession no. PI 678951 is disclosed. Methods of using the edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY for breeding new varieties of bean seed are also disclosed, as well as seeds of the edible bean seed designated as <11278> or COWBOY.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated WAXC6V1003. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line WAXC6V1003, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line WAXC6V1003 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line WAXC6V1003, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated EX 08081813. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line EX 08081813, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line EX 08081813 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line EX 08081813, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: A novel garden bean variety, designated PV-803, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of garden bean variety PV-803, to the plants of garden bean line PV-803 and to methods for producing a bean plant by crossing the variety PV-803 with itself or another bean line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a bean 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 garden bean lines derived from the variety PV-803.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated RX 08091541. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line RX 08091541, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line RX 08091541 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line RX 08091541, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated RX 08081162. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line RX 08081162, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line RX 08081162 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line RX 08081162, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: Disclosed are mutant CDK inhibitor (CKI) polypeptides having dominant negative antagonist activity against wild-type CKI proteins, as well as related compositions, including nucleic acids and vectors encoding the mutant CKI polypeptides and transformed host cells and transgenic plants comprising such nucleic acids and vectors. Also disclosed are related methods for using the mutant proteins to modulate cell division in cells, particularly plant cells.

Abstract: Antibodies against influenza hemagglutinin, compositions containing the antibodies, and methods of using the antibodies are provided herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic plants with altered oil content. The invention further provides nucleic acid sequences and methods for generating such plants.

Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) through plant stomata by controlling CO2 sensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants that have increased nitrogen use efficiency, stress tolerance, and/or alleviating a limitation such that yield is increased, or a combination of these and that have been transformed using a novel vector construct including a synthetic isocitrate dehydrogenase (icdh) gene that modulates nitrogen use in plants. The invention also relates to stacking the icdh gene with other exogenous or heterologous genes that modulate nitrogen use in the plant, including a N-acetylglutamate kinase gene. The invention also relates to methods of expressing in plants the nucleic acid molecules corresponding to the nucleic acid sequences that modulate nitrogen use in plants or are modulated by nitrogen conditions.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method of producing a transgenic plant. Said method comprises, inter alia, the steps of a) providing a wounded transformable explant comprising a hypocotyl or a portion thereof, at least one cotyledon and wounded tissue, b) transforming cells comprised by said explant, and c) transferring said explant to a growing medium, comprising at least one selection compound for a selectable marker, by inserting the hypocotyl of said explant into said growing medium. Moreover, the present invention relates to a plant obtainable by the method according to the present invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants with improved growth and nitrogen use efficiency expressing nitrate transporter gene, methods of making such plants and methods for improving growth and nitrogen use efficiency.

Abstract: The present invention provides use of a plant gene JAZ5a for improving drought-resistance of a plant. It further provides a method for improving the drought-resistance of a plant, comprising enhancing the expression or activity of Jaz5A in said plant.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A novel garden bean cultivar, designated SB4534, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of garden bean cultivar SB4534, to the plants of garden bean line SB4534 and to methods for producing a garden bean plant by crossing the cultivar SB4534 with itself or another garden bean line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a garden bean 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 garden bean lines derived from the cultivar SB4534.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A polyploid castor plant being at least as fertile as a diploid castor plant isogenic to the polyploid castor plant when grown under similar conditions.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated RS 08071160. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line RS 08071160, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line RS 08071160 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line RS 08071160, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: Three novel garden bean cultivars, designated H28103, H28119 and H28121, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of garden bean cultivars H28103, H28119 and/or H28121, to the plants of garden bean lines H28103, H28119 and/or H28121 and to methods for producing a bean plant by crossing the cultivars H28103, H28119 and/or H28121 with itself or another bean line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a bean 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 garden bean lines derived from the cultivars H28103, H28119 and/or H28121.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated RS 08061275. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line RS 08061275, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line RS 08061275 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line RS 08061275, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: Provided are enhanced high yield production systems for producing terpenes in plants via the expression of fusion proteins comprising various combinations of geranyl diphosphate synthase large and small subunits and limonene synthases. Also provided are engineered oilseed plants that accumulate monoterpene and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons in their seeds, as well as methods for producing such plants, providing a system for rapidly engineering oilseed crop production platforms for terpene-based biofuels.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The present invention provides expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding chimeric sucrose isomerases, and methods of using the same. In addition, transgenic plants expressing said chimeric sucrose isomerases are provided. Furthermore, methods of increasing average seed weight, seed number and/or seed size of a plant by using said chimeric sucrose isomerases are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated RS 08061277. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line RS 08061277, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line RS 08061277 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line RS 08061277, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: A novel garden bean variety, designated PV-803, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of garden bean variety PV-803, to the plants of garden bean line PV-803 and to methods for producing a bean plant by crossing the variety PV-803 with itself or another bean line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a bean 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 garden bean lines derived from the variety PV-803.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are transgenic plants that have been modified to express ?-glucosidase, and methods and materials for making same. The transgenic plants possess several advantageous features including increased biomass, increased trichome density and increased parasite resistance.

Abstract: A transgenic plant engineered to have increased desiccation tolerance, increased drought tolerance or increased water use efficiency, the plant transformed with an artificial DNA construct comprising a transcribable nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide requiring both ABA and ABI3 to influence desiccation tolerance. Also provided are DNA constructs and methods of producing a transgenic plant engineered to have increased desiccation tolerance, increased drought tolerance or increased water use efficiency.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated FMGC6V1007. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line FMGC6V1007, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line FMGC6V1007 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line FMGC6V1007, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated RX 08075309. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line RX 08075309, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line RX 08075309 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line RX 08075309, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated FIVC6V1002. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line FIVC6V1002, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line FIVC6V1002 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line FIVC6V1002, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated FMGC6V0958. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line FMGC6V0958, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line FMGC6V0958 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line FMGC6V0958, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated FMGC6V1006. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line FMGC6V1006, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line FMGC6V1006 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line FMGC6V1006, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments for altering root structure during plant development are disclosed along with methods of root structure alteration during plant development.

Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line designated FIVC6V0999. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of bean line FIVC6V0999, and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line FIVC6V0999 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line FIVC6V0999, including the pods and gametes of such plants.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An edible bean seed designated as <06203> or Sinaloa, a sample of the edible bean deposited under accession no. PI 660004 PVPO is disclosed. Methods of using the edible bean seed designated as <06203> or Sinaloa for breeding new varieties of bean seed are also disclosed, as well as seeds of the edible bean seed designated as <06203> or Sinaloa.

Abstract: 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.