Cotton Patents (Class 800/314)
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Publication number: 20150013032Abstract: The invention concerns the use of duplex oligonucleotides about 25 to 30 base pairs to introduce site specific genetic alterations in plant cells. The oligonucleotides can be delivered by mechanical (biolistic) systems or by electroporation of plant protoplasts. Thereafter plants having the genetic alteration can be generated form the altered cells. In specific embodiments the invention concerns the alteration in the gene that encode acid invertase, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, polyphenol oxidase, O-methyl transferase, cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase, ACC synthase and ACC oxidase or etr-1 or homolog of etr-1, and plants having isolated point mutations in such genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Charles J. ARNTZEA, Peter B. KIPP, Ramesh KUMAR, Gregory D. MAY
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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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Patent number: 8921652Abstract: The specification relates to plants and their seeds and oil obtained therefrom, and to methods of producing same comprising oil having modified fatty acid compositions, such that 28% to 80% of the total fatty acid content in the seedoil is palmitic acid, 0% to 16% is palmitoleic acid, 0% to 4% is C16:2 fatty acid, 3% to 33% is stearic acid, 1% to 40% is oleic acid, 4% to 50% is linoleic acid and 0% to 10% is linolenic acid. The specification describes nucleic acid molecules encoding RNA capable of conferring these properties, in particular, RNA that inhibits expression of an oil biosynthesis gene encoding KASII in seeds of a plant. Genetic constructs and cells comprising the nucleic acid molecules are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Qing Liu, Allan Graham Green, Surinder Pal Singh
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Patent number: 8921668Abstract: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 09R536B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 09R536B2R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 09R536B2R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 09R536B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Richard Sheetz
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Patent number: 8921669Abstract: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 10R052B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 10R052B2R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 10R052B2R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 10R052B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Lloyd May
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Patent number: 8921651Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventors: John P. Davies, Hein Tsoeng (Medard) Ng
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Publication number: 20140380525Abstract: A transgenic plant comprising a polynucleotide encoding a nitrogen utilization protein operably linked to a PBpr1 promoter is provided. The transgenic plant exhibits increased nitrogen use efficiency, increased biomass and/or increased seed yield. Seeds from such transgenic plants, genetic constructs to prepare such plants, methods of generating and growing transgenic plants are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AGInventors: Allen Good, Yee Ying Lock, Perrin H. Beatty
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Patent number: 8916746Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a DTP21 polypeptide.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignees: Japan Tobacco, Inc., E. I. du Pont de Neumours and Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Masakazu Kashihara, Toshiyuki Komori, Ichiro Oka, Satoru Usami, Norio Kato, Yukoh Hiei, Yoshimitsu Takakura, Toshihiko Komari, Teruyuki Imayama, Scott V. Tingey, Hajime Sakai, Marc C. Albertsen, Stanley Luck
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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: 20140373193Abstract: The use of OsPP18 gene in the genetic improvement of drought resistance of a plant is provided. A plant or plant cell comprising a recombinant DNA molecule comprising a polynucleotide encoding OsPP18, a method for producing the plant, a DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding OsPP18 are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Lizhong Xiong, Jun You
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Patent number: 8912403Abstract: The cotton variety FM 9160B2F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 9160B2F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 9160B2F and to plants of FM 9160B2F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 9160B2F.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AGInventors: Michael Swindle, Peter Reid, Greg Constable, Warwick Stiller
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Publication number: 20140366215Abstract: The present disclosure relates to mutations in licheninase genes encoding polypeptides with decreased licheninase activity, which when expressed in plants results in elevated levels of glucan in the plants. In particular, the disclosure relates to licheninase nucleic acids and polypeptides related to glucan accumulation in plants, plants with reduced expression of a licheninase nucleic acid, and methods related to the generation of plants with increased glucan content in the cell walls of leaf tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicants: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Markus Pauly, Florian J. Kraemer, Sarah Hake
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Publication number: 20140366216Abstract: Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway e.g. for overexpression in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Marc DE BLOCK, Michael Metzlaff, VĂ©ronique Gossele
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Patent number: 8907185Abstract: The cotton variety ST 4288B2F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 4288B2F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 4288B2F and to plants of ST 4288B2F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 4288B2F.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Bayer CropScience LPInventor: Mark Barfield
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Publication number: 20140359901Abstract: The present application discloses a(n) (isolated) nucleic acid sequence comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from (a) SEQ ID NO: 1 or a fragment thereof, wherein said fragment comprises at least 400 consecutive nucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1 and has seed-specific promoter activity; (b) a nucleotide sequence with at least 80% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 1 and having seed-specific promoter activity; (c) a nucleotide sequence hybridizing under stringent conditions to the nucleotide sequence of (a) or (b); and (d) a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of any one of (a) to (c). Further disclosed herein is a chimeric gene comprising the (isolated) nucleic acid described herein operably linked to a nucleic acid coding for an expression product of interest, and optionally a transcription termination and polyadenylation sequence. Also disclosed herein are a vector, a transgenic plant cell, a transgenic plant and a seed as characterized in the claims.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Bayer CropScience NVInventors: Marie-Therese Scheirlinck, Frank Meulewaeter, John Jacobs
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Publication number: 20140351999Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology. More specifically, this invention pertains to nucleic acid fragments encoding transcription factors, transcription factors, antibodies to transcription factors as well as plants and other organisms expressing transcription factors. This invention also relates to methods of using such agents, for example, in plant breeding or biotechnology.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventor: Linda L. LUTFIYYA
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Publication number: 20140351998Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides related to urea uptake. The invention provides genomic sequences for urea transporter, urease and glutamine synthetase genes. Urea transporters, urease and glutamine synthetase are responsible for controlling nitrogen utilization efficiency in plants. Urea transporter, urease or glutamine synthetase sequences are provided for improving grain yield and plant growth. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: RAJEEV GUPTA, Zhenglin Hou, Dale F. Loussaert, Bo Shen, Lawrence Kent Wood
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Publication number: 20140344995Abstract: The invention provides isolated NUE (nitrogen utilization efficiency) nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering nitrogen utilization and/or uptake in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Howard P. Hershey, Dale F. Loussaert, Carl Simmons
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Publication number: 20140345006Abstract: This document provides methods and materials related to transcription terminators. For example, methods and materials related to transcription terminators and nucleic acid molecules (e.g., vectors and constructs) that contain a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a polypeptide operably linked to a transcription terminator are provided. In addition, plants, plant cells, and plant seeds having a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a polypeptide operably linked to a transcription terminator are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Delin Liang, Nickolai Alexandrov, Yu-Ping Lu
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Publication number: 20140338010Abstract: Recombinant DNA constructs, for use in plants and plant cells, have site-specific recombination sites that allow assessing phenotypes and modes of action by over expression or suppression of endogenous genes. In an aspect, a single DNA construct can be switched between over expression and suppression by the action of a recombinase such as the Cre recombinase on constructs having lox recombination sites. Other useful recombination systems include the Flp/frt system, the R/Rs system, the Dre/rox system, and the GIN/gix system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Larry A. Gilbertson, Shihshieh Huang, Thomas Malvar
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Patent number: 8884125Abstract: A cotton variety, designated 99M-548, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety 99M-548, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety 99M-548 with itself or with another cotton plant, and hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 99M-548 with another cotton variety or plant and to methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety 99M-548 including variety 548WRF-CB2-B, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety 99M-548 and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Pytogen Seed Company LLC.Inventor: Mustafa G. McPherson
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Publication number: 20140331362Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: TARGETED GROWTH, INC.Inventors: Paul OLIVIER, Jay DEROCHER, James Roberts
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Publication number: 20140331357Abstract: The present invention discloses transgenic seeds for crops with enhanced agronomic traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA in the nucleus of cells of the seed where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more enhanced traits as compared to a control plant. Of particular interest are transgenic plants that have increased yield. The present invention also provides recombinant DNA molecules for expression of a protein, and recombinant DNA molecules for suppression of a protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Marie Coffin
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Publication number: 20140331358Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Tedd D. Elich, Philip N. Benfey, Ai-Jiuan Wu, David A. Orlando, Ian Davis
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Publication number: 20140325713Abstract: Recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides useful for improvement of plants are provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: David K. KOVALIC, Yihua ZHOU, Yongwei CAO, Scott E. ANDERSEN, Michael D. EDGERTON, Jingdong LIU
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Patent number: 8859862Abstract: A cotton cultivar, designated UA222, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar UA222, to the plants of cotton UA222 and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar UA222 with itself or another cotton variety. The invention further relates to hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar UA222 with another cotton cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventor: Freddie M. Bourland
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Patent number: 8853499Abstract: A cotton variety, designated P07X.8213.RF, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety P07X.8213.RF, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety P07X.8213.RF with itself or with another cotton plant, and hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety P07X.8213.RF with another cotton variety or plant and to methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8213.RF, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8213.RF and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLCInventors: David M. Anderson, Joel F. Mahill
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Patent number: 8853500Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cotton variety, designated P04X.3074, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety P04X.3074, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety P04X.3074 with itself or with another cotton plant, hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety P04X.3074 with another cotton variety or plant, methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes, and the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P04X.3074, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P04X.3074, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Phytogen Seed CompanyInventor: Mustafa G. McPherson
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Publication number: 20140298547Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting and identifying plant events that contain precision targeted genomic loci, and plants and plant cells comprising such targeted genomic loci. The method can be deployed as a high throughput process utilized for screening the intactness or disruption of a targeted genomic loci and optionally for detecting a donor DNA polynucleotide insertion at the targeted genomic loci. The methods are readily applicable for the identification of plant events produced via a targeting method which results from the use of a site specific nuclease.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventors: Lakshmi Sastry-Dent, Matthew Simpson, Zehui Cao, Wei Chen, Ning Zhou, Steven R. Webb
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Publication number: 20140298499Abstract: The invention relates to enzymes having xylanase, mannanase and/or glucanase activity, e.g., catalyzing hydrolysis of internal ?-1,4-xylosidic linkages or endo-?-1,4-glucanase linkages; and/or degrading a linear polysaccharide beta-1,4-xylan into xylose. Thus, the invention provides methods and processes for breaking down hemicellulose, which is a major component of the cell wall of plants, including methods and processes for hydrolyzing hemicelluloses in any plant or wood or wood product, wood waste, paper pulp, paper product or paper waste or byproduct. In addition, methods of designing new xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases have increased activity and stability at increased pH and temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Kevin A. Gray, Reinhard Dirmeier
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Publication number: 20140298538Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, or 6, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: ATHENIX CORP.Inventors: Volker Heinrichs, Jayme Williams
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Patent number: 8847028Abstract: The cotton variety FM 9058F is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 9058F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 9058F and to plants of FM 9058F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 9058F.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignees: Bayer CropScience AG, Cotton Seed International Proprietary Ltd.Inventor: Steve Hague
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Publication number: 20140289884Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: CERES, INC.Inventors: Gregory NADZAN, Richard SCHNEBBERGER, Han Suk KIM, David Van-Dinh DANG, Kenneth A. FELDMANN
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Publication number: 20140283211Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants. Also provided are combinations of compositions and methods to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Michael J. Crawford, Michelle L. Gasper, Xiangqian Li, Barry J. Shortt, Deryck Jeremy Williams
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Publication number: 20140283224Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Iowa Corn Promotion BoardInventors: James McLaren, Brian Vande Berg
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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: 20140259231Abstract: A multigene expression vehicle (MGEV) consisting essentially of a polynucleotide comprising 2 to 8 domain segments, D, each domain encoding a functional protein, each domain being joined to the next in a linear sequence by a Linker (L) segment encoding a Linker peptide, the D and L segments all being in the same reading frame, and at least one of the domains is not a type two protease inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Hexima LimitedInventors: Marilyn Anne Anderson, Robyn Louise Heath
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Publication number: 20140259224Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of producing a plant that exhibits an enhanced trait selected from the group consisting of altered hexose sugar level, altered starch level, altered sucrose phosphate synthase activity, altered ureide level and delayed senescence, as compared to a control plant. The present disclosure also provides transgenic cells, plants, plant parts, seeds, progeny plants, products or commodity products produced by this method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2012Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicants: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH, MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.Inventors: Nicole Christiansen, Stefan Henkes, Ganesh Kumar, Amanda McClerren, Robert Meister, Marie Petracek, Sasha Preuss, Richard Trethewey, Qingzhang Xu
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Publication number: 20140250551Abstract: Increased tolerance to abiotic stress in a plant is provided by introducing DNA expressing a cold shock protein, e.g. bacterial cold shock protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Mary Fernandes
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Publication number: 20140250548Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are NEMTOP6-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH Patents, Trademarks and LicensesInventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Steven Vandenabeele
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Patent number: 8819991Abstract: The invention provides a method for devitalizing plant seed, the method comprising the steps of hydrating a viable whole plant seed and freezing the hydrated whole plant seed. The invention further provides a collection of devitalized whole plant seed wherein the integrity of genomic DNA and protein within the devitalized plant seed is preserved.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventors: Barry W. Schafer, Rod A. Herman
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Publication number: 20140245475Abstract: The cotton variety ST 4946GLB2 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 4946GLB2 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 4946GLB2 and to plants of ST 4946GLB2 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 4946GLB2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventor: Michael Robinson
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Publication number: 20140243203Abstract: Compositions and methods relating to the use of sulfonylurea-mediated control of gene expression are provided. Compositions include sulfonylurea responsive chemical switches wherein the gene expression is regulated by a sulfonylurea compound. Compositions also include polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides as well as constructs, vectors, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, and eukaryotic organisms including plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotide, and/or produced by the methods. Also provided are methods to regulate expression of a polynucleotide of interest in a cell or organism, and methods to modify a genome, including in a plant or plant cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL INC, E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: JIN FANG, William Gordon-Kamm, Keith Lowe, Kevin E. McBride, Brian McGonigle, Carl Simmons
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Publication number: 20140245476Abstract: The cotton variety ST 6448GLB2 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 6448GLB2 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 6448GLB2 and to plants of ST 6448GLB2 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 6448GLB2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Stephen Oakley, Randy Wood
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Publication number: 20140245474Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased cold tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: CERES, INC.Inventors: Cory CHRISTENSEN, Bonnie HUND
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Patent number: 8816152Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Tedd D. Elich, Philip N. Benfey, Ai-Jiuan Wu, David A. Orlando, Ian Davis
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Publication number: 20140237682Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Tedd D. Elich, Philip N. Benfey, Ian Davis
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Publication number: 20140230088Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions useful in target sequence suppression and target sequence validation. The invention provides polynucleotide constructs useful for gene silencing, as well as cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides. The invention also provides a method for using microRNA to silence a target sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: MILO AUKERMAN
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Publication number: 20140230093Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Tedd D. Elich, Philip N. Benfey, Ian Davis, David A. Orlando
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Publication number: 20140223603Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicants: Plant Bioscience Limited, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityInventors: Guohua Xu, Xiaorong Fan, Qirong Shen, Anthony Miller