Cotton Patents (Class 800/314)
-
Publication number: 20130254933Abstract: Novel insecticidal toxins isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis that are active against lepidopteran insect pests are disclosed. The DNA encoding the insecticidal toxins can be used to transform various prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the insecticidal toxins. These recombinant organisms can be used to control lepidopteran insects in various environments.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventor: Vance Kramer
-
Publication number: 20130254931Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding delta-9 elongases along with a method of making long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) using these delta-9 elongases in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Howard Glenn Damude, Brian McGonigle, Quinn Qun Zhu, Zhixiong Xue
-
Publication number: 20130247242Abstract: Provided are a crop height regulatory gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, expression regulatory sequences thereof and uses thereof. The crop regulatory gene can be used to regulate the plant height, volume, tiller, yield, flower organ size, or seed size of crops.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventor: Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
-
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
-
Publication number: 20130230900Abstract: The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: Kanwarpal Singh Dhugga, Haiyin Wang, Dwight Tomes, Timothy George Helentjaris
-
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
-
Publication number: 20130232642Abstract: 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 PRE2 polypeptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Rajeev Gupta, Shuping Jiao, Robert B. Meeley, Dilbag S. Multani, Robert Williams
-
Publication number: 20130232647Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a constitutive promoter for use in plants. The plant genus from which the promoter is derived is Arabidopsis. The invention encompasses the isolated promoter, expression cassettes comprising said promoter and a heterologous nucleic acid segment, and monocot and dicot plants and plant cells transformed with said expression cassettes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventor: Devon Louise Brown
-
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
-
Publication number: 20130227723Abstract: Improvement of fiber quality of Upland cultivars (Gossypium hirsutum), while maintaining early maturity and productivity, is a fundamental problem in conventional cotton breeding. Phytochromes play a fundamental role in plant development, flowering and cotton fiber length. Targeted RNAi of PHYA1 genes in cotton suppressed expression of PHYA1 and/or PHYB, resulting in over-expression of the remaining PHYA2/B/C/E genes. This altered expression induced a number of phytochrome-associated phenotypes, including increased root length and mass, increased anthocyanin-pigment, vigorous shoot development and vegetative growth, early flowering, early boll maturity, increased fiber length and increased seed cotton yield compared to control plants. These RNAi phenotypes were stably inherited and expressed through four generations (T0-3) and were transferable from RNAi Coker-312 plants to Upland cultivars via conventional hybridization.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov, Zabardast T. Buriev, Abdusattor Abdukarimov, Sukumar Saha, Johnie N. Jenkins, Alan E. Pepper
-
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
-
Publication number: 20130219561Abstract: The present invention provides a method and DNA molecules that when expressed in a plant produces transgenic plants with improved abiotic stress tolerance. The invention includes plant expression vectors comprising the DNA molecules, and plants containing such DNA molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2010Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: Santana Dasgupta, Targolli L. Jayaprakash, Carolyn J. Thai, Kottaram Krishnadas Narayanan, Thomas G. Ruff, Stanton B. Dotson
-
Publication number: 20130217577Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, and nucleic acids useful in encoding the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
-
Patent number: 8513493Abstract: A novel Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth of Lygus insects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein in Lygus insect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James Baum, Stanislaw Flasinski, Gregory R. Heck, Stephen R. Penn, Uma Rao Sukuru, Xiaohong Shi
-
Patent number: 8513488Abstract: Provided are method of increasing oil content, growth rate, biomass, yield and/or vigor of a plant. The methods are effected by upregulating in the plant an expression level of a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 199, 166-198, 200-221, 229-307, 311-330, 351-353, 355-361, 363-364, 366-368, 218, 222-228, 308-310, 350, 354, 362, 365, 523-649, 786-920, 1047 and 1048. Also provided are polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, polypeptides and transgenic plants expressing same which can be used to increase oil content, growth rate, biomass, yield and/or vigor of a plant and produce oil.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2008Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Evogene Ltd.Inventors: Eyal Emmanuel, Gil Ronen, Noa Savir
-
Publication number: 20130212736Abstract: The present invention is related to biosynthetic oil compositions and methods of making thereof. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the use of endogenous enzymes in plants capable of synthesizing oil. In preferred embodiments, said plants are algae. In further embodiments, said algae are from the family Chlamydomonas, Nannochloropsis, Dunaliella, Chiarella and Scenedesmus. In still further embodiments, said endogenous enzymes are diacylglycerol acyltransferases.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventor: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
-
Publication number: 20130212747Abstract: Cotton event pDAB4468.19.10.3 comprises genes encoding AAD-12 and PAT, affording herbicide tolerance to cotton crops containing the event, and enabling methods for crop protection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow AgroSciences LLC
-
Patent number: 8507755Abstract: Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant cell walls, particularly as they can be found in natural fibers of fiber producing plants by inclusion of positively charged oligosaccharides or polysaccharides into the cell wall. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, particularly an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, capable of being targeted to the membranes of the Golgi apparatus in cells of a plant.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Bayer Cropscience N.V.Inventors: Marc De Block, Frank Meulewaeter, Rainhard Koch, Bernd Essigmann
-
Publication number: 20130205441Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow Agrosciences LLC
-
Publication number: 20130205444Abstract: Transgenic soybean seed having increased total fatty acid content of at least 10% and altered fatty acid profiles when compared to the total fatty acid content of non-transgenic, null segregant soybean seed are described. DGAT genes from oleaginous organisms are used to achieve the increase in seed storage lipids.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
-
Publication number: 20130205440Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow AgroSciences LLC
-
Publication number: 20130202647Abstract: Disclosed herein are chloroplast transformation vectors constructed to enable expression and hyperaccumulation of membrane proteins in chloroplasts. Another embodiment relates to plants transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to seeds and other plant tissues transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to a method of increasing expression of membrane proteins in chloroplasts including transforming a plant cell with vectors described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Henry Daniell
-
Publication number: 20130198976Abstract: Methods and means are provided to produce positively charged oligosaccharides in the plant cell wall by introducing into said plant cell a Nodulation C protein fused to a heterologous Golgi signal anchor sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: Bayer CropScience NVInventors: Frank Meulewaeter, Bartel Vanholme
-
Publication number: 20130198888Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for stacking multiple independent transgenic loci into the genome of a plant. Compositions include plants, seeds or plant cells comprising at least one transgenic target site and at least one genomic locus of interest integrated at different genomic sites within a genomic window. Plant breeding techniques can be employed such that the transgenic target site and the genomic locus of interest can be bred together. In this way, multiple independent transgene integrations can be generated within a genomic window to create a complex trait locus. The complex trait locus is designed such that the transgenic target sites and/or genomic loci of interest can segregate independently of each other, thus providing the benefit of altering a complex trait locus by breeding-in and breeding-away specific elements. Various methods can also be employed to modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicants: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company
-
Patent number: 8492612Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Volker Mittendorf, Heiko A. Haertel, Petra Cirpus
-
Patent number: 8492618Abstract: A cotton cultivar, designated UA-48, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar UA-48, to the plants of cotton UA-48 and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar UA-48 with itself or another cotton variety. The invention further relates to hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar UA-48 with another cotton cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Board of Trustees of the University of ArkansasInventor: Fred Bourland
-
Publication number: 20130185831Abstract: 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: July 31, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Inventors: David K. Kovalic, Scott E. Andersen, Joseph R. Byrum, Timothy W. Conner, James D. Masucci, Yihua Zhou
-
Publication number: 20130180005Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing a plant population lacking sexually derived embryos are provided. Compositions include suppression cassettes encoding polynucleotides and promoters resulting in parthenogenesis. Further provided are parthenogenesis genetic elements used to prevent sexual reproduction in self-reproducing plants. Methods include: utilizing maternal embryo defective recessive mutations which are maintained as a sterile inbred maintenance system, allowing generation of populations that are homozygous for recessive mutant alleles, but transgenically complemented. Methods include utilizing a toxin genes expressed via egg-cell specific promoters, creating a dominant, embryo-less phenotypes, non-transmittable through female gametes. Resultant hemizygous plants are transformed with egg-cell promoters driving the antidote, a pollen ablation PTU and a seed color marker for identification of transgenic seed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: Pioneer Hi Bred International IncInventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Shai J. Lawit
-
Publication number: 20130180000Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, N.A.Inventor: FREDDIE M. BOURLAND
-
Publication number: 20130180007Abstract: Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for several Arabidopsis thaliana ovule somatic tissue-preferred promoters AT-CYP86C1, AT-PPM, AT-EXT, AT-GILT1 and AT-TT2. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: Mark A. Chamberlin, Shai J. Lawit
-
Publication number: 20130180009Abstract: Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include promoter sequences with direct expression in an egg cell or embryonic cell-preferred manner. Such compositions find use in, for example, a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant; detection of specific cell types in the ovule and targeted ablation of specific cell types.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: MARC C. ALBERTSEN, MARK A. CHAMBERLIN, TIMOTHY W. FOX, SHAI J. LAWIT, BRIAN R. LOVELAND
-
Publication number: 20130180010Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided to increase the activity/level of an RKD polypeptide or an active variant or fragment thereof in an unreduced ovule plant cell that is outside of the embryo sac. In specific embodiments, such modulation of activity/level of the RKD polypeptide promotes an egg cell-like state in an unreduced ovule plant cell that is outside of the embryo sac. Such methods and compositions can employ an expression construct comprising a RKD polypeptide or active variant or fragment thereof operably linked to an ovule tissue-preferred promoter, in particular an ovule tissue-preferred promoter that is active in at least one non-gametophyte tissue in a plant ovule and is active in an unreduced cell that is outside of the embryo sac.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: Mark A. Chamberlin, Shai J. Lawit
-
Publication number: 20130180008Abstract: Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for an Arabidopsis thaliana (AT SVL3) promoter. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: MARK A. CHAMBERLIN, SHAI J. LAWIT
-
Patent number: 8481811Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a pericarp-preferred promoter associated with the maize cystatin coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Shane Abbitt
-
Publication number: 20130174298Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: CERES, INC.Inventor: Ceres, Inc.
-
Publication number: 20130167266Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-resistance plant gene JAZ5a and use thereof. The inventors of the present invention isolated for the first time a heat resistance gene from the plant of Brassica spp., which can greatly improve the heat-resistance ability of the plant, especially in the bolting stage. The present invention further provides a protein encoded by said gene and its preparation method, vectors and host cells containing said gene, and a method for preparing a transgenic plant containing said gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTES FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Yu-Ke He, Chuan-Bao Sun
-
Publication number: 20130160161Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting the expression of the gene Snl6 in plants. Plants with inhibited expression of Snl6 have use in biofuel production, e.g., by increasing the amount of soluble sugar that can be extracted from the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Rebecca Bart, Mawsheng Chern, Pamela Ronald, Miguel Vega-Sanchez
-
Publication number: 20130160158Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides of the protein GS. The invention provides genomic sequence for the GS gene. GS is responsible for controlling nitrogen utilization efficiency in plants. Glutamine synthase sequences are provided for improving grain yield and plant growth. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventor: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
-
Publication number: 20130160168Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow AgroScience LLC
-
Patent number: 8466345Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for transforming soybean, corn, cotton, or canola explants using spectinomycin as a selective agent for transformation of the explants. The method may further comprise treatment of the explants with cytokinin during the transformation and regeneration process.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Brian Martinell, Michael Petersen, David Somers, Yuechun Wan, Edward Williams, Xudong Ye
-
Publication number: 20130152224Abstract: Transgenic seed for crops with improved 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 improved 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: November 28, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Mark Scott Abad, Marie Coffin, Barry S. Goldman
-
Patent number: 8461427Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides that alter tocol content in seeds. The invention further provides expression cassettes, host cells and transformed plants containing the nucleic acids. The present invention further provides methods for altering tocol content in seeds.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co.Inventors: Edgar Cahoon, Karlene H Butler, Rebecca Cahoon, Sean J Coughlan
-
Publication number: 20130145493Abstract: This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Edwards Allen, Veena S. Anil, Amarjit Basra, Christopher T. Bauer, Prasanna R. Bhat, Raghunatha P. Chari, Jaishree Chittoor, Paul Chomet, Karen K. Gabbert, Cara Griffith, Bill Hendrix, Alberto Iandolino, Hongwu Jia, Kevin R. Kosola, Saritha V. Kuriakose, Paul J. Loida, Linda L. Lutfiyya, Mingsheng Peng, Ying Peng, Bellur Narasimha Prasad, Monnanda S. Rajani, Monica P. Ravanello, Donald Todd, Srikanth Babu Venkatachalayya, Tyanamagondlu V. Venkatesh, K. R. Vidya, Huai Wang
-
Publication number: 20130145491Abstract: The cotton variety FM 2011GT 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 2011GT with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 2011GT and to plants of FM 2011GT reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 2011GT.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Margaret Shields, DAVID BECKER
-
Publication number: 20130145495Abstract: This invention provides genetically modified photosynthetic organisms and methods and constructs for enhancing inorganic carbon fixation. A photosynthetic organism of the present invention comprises a RUBISCO fusion protein operatively coupled to a protein-protein interaction domain to enable the functional association of RUBISCO and carbonic anhydrase.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTERInventor: Richard T. Sayre
-
Patent number: 8455714Abstract: Transgenic oilseeds having increased total fatty acid content of at least 10% and altered fatty acid profiles when compared to the total fatty acid content of null segregant oilseeds are described. Novel DGAT genes are used to achieve the increase in seed storage lipids.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignees: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Keith Roesler, Knut Meyer, Howard Glenn Damude, Bo Shen, Changjiang Li, Ericka Bermudez, Mitchell C. Tarczynski
-
Publication number: 20130139279Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding WUS polypeptides. The invention further provides isolated WUS polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of using the polynucleotides to modulate the level of WUS, improve transformation efficiency, to stimulate plant cell growth, including stem cells, to stimulate organogenesis, to stimulate somatic embryogenesis, to induce apomixis, and to provide a positive selection for cells comprising the polynucleotide. The invention also relates to cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides of the invention or produced by the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2013Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
-
Publication number: 20130133110Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions comprise novel polypeptides involved in modulating gene expression in response to abiotic stress such as cold or drought, and the polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Methods for expressing the polynucleotides in a plant and improving cold and/or drought tolerance of plants are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc.
-
Publication number: 20130133103Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides of the protein GS. The invention provides genomic sequence for the GS gene. GS is responsible for controlling nitrogen utilization efficiency in plants. Glutamine synthase sequences are provided for improving grain yield and plant growth. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
-
Publication number: 20130125263Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased biomass levels and plant products produced from plants having increased biomass levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Vijay Sharma, Chuan-Yin Wu