Potato Patents (Class 800/317.2)
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Publication number: 20110191894Abstract: Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants are provided. Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants by increased expression of an exogenous or endogenous abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants are provided expressing increased abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP, during the developmental stage of senescence, thereby promoting enhanced plant senescence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Sarah M. Assmann, Cha Young Kim, Jerome Bove, John Kuk Na
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Publication number: 20110191875Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for producing androstenedione (4-androstenedione), of improved purity and for modulating its production, for example by deletion or inactivation of ksdA, cxgA, cxgB, cxgC, or cxgD. The invention also provides methods and compositions, including nucleic acids that encode enzymes, for producing 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) and related pathway compounds, including 20-(hydroxymethyl)pregna-4-en-3-one and 20-(hydroxymethyl)pregna-1,4-dien-3-one. The compositions of the invention include nucleic acids, probes, vectors, cells, transgenic plants and seeds, transgenic animals, kits and arrays.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2008Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: David Nunn, Catherine Pujol, Kelly Chatman
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Publication number: 20110179516Abstract: The invention relates to methods for obtaining plants that produce 2n pollen. These plants are useful in plant breeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Raphael Mercier, Isabelle D'Erfurth, Laurence Cromer
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Publication number: 20110179511Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated rice LP2 promoter sequences and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Roger L. Thilmony, Mara E. Guttman, James G. Thomson
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Publication number: 20110173715Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, heat, cold, and/or salt tolerance to plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2005Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Harry Wild, Gunnar Plesch, Bryan McKersie
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Publication number: 20110162116Abstract: The invention relates to method for increasing the yield of a plant grown under conditions that cause periodic oxidative stress in said plant, comprising the step of growing a seedling, tissue culture or plantlet into a plant, and further comprising the step of manipulating said plant or the environment of said plant such that an increase in the rate of respiration and/or protein turnover in said plant due to said periodic oxidative stress is intentionally prevented during the early ontogeny of said plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventor: Edwin Henricus Antonius Holman
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Publication number: 20110154531Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a Membrane Transporter-like Polypeptide (MTP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the crop plant results in the plant's increased root growth, and/or increased yield, and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic crop plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan Mckersie
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Publication number: 20110154536Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Deirdre M. Kapka-Kitzman, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20110154530Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of Yield-Related Proteins (YRP) and/or Yield and Stress-Related Proteins (YSRP) in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Piotr Puzio
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Publication number: 20110145945Abstract: The invention provides nematode-resistant transgenic plants and seed comprising polynucleotides encoding Medicago truncatula cysteine cluster proteins which comprise no more than four cysteine residues in the respective mature peptides. The invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with increased resistance to soybean cyst nematode and expression vectors for use in such methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Dasharath Prasad Lohar, Steven Hill
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Publication number: 20110145943Abstract: A potato cultivar designated ‘FL 2204’ is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’, to the seeds of potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’, to the plants of potato ‘FL 2204’, to the plant parts of potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’ and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’ with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety ‘FL 2204’, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’ and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
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Patent number: 7960609Abstract: The present invention relates to an avian influenza vaccine of plant origin, prepared by transforming a plant with a surface protein of avian influenza virus, hemagglutinin (HA) or neuraminidase (NA), and a method for preparing the same. Further, the present invention relates to an oral vaccine for preventing avian influenza virus, of which mass-production conditions are established, and thus the produced transgenic plant can be more easily, safely, and economically used as a fodder additive. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a reagent for diagnosing avian influenza virus infection, prepared by isolating and purifying a recombinant antigen protein from the transgenic plant.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate CollaborationInventors: Joo-Sung Yang, Eun Hee Yang
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Publication number: 20110138499Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: James Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam
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Publication number: 20110131672Abstract: 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: October 29, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: Bayer BioScience N.V.Inventors: Marc DE BLOCK, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
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Publication number: 20110130287Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotide molecules isolated from Zea mays and Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Gregory R. Heck, Marianne Malven, James D. Masucci, Jinsong You
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Publication number: 20110131688Abstract: 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: January 27, 2011Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Hongwei Guo, Joseph R. Ecker
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Publication number: 20110126313Abstract: The invention provides methods, compositions and transformation systems for modifying the levels of transcription factors in plants such as Solanaceous plants, and introducing disease resistance genes into plants, to produce products with elevated levels of antioxidant compounds, including but not limited to flavonols and chlorogenic acid, as well as exhibiting enhanced disease resistance, and optionally altered appearance. Preferred plants are those in which introduced genes are from Solanaceous species.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Norfolk Plant Sciences LimitedInventors: Jie Luo, Eugenio Butelli, Jonathan Jones, Laurence Tomlinson, Catherine Rosemary Martin
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Publication number: 20110117067Abstract: The invention relates to polypeptides having glucanase, e.g., endoglucanase, mannanase, xylanase activity or a combination of these activities, and polynucleotides encoding them. In one aspect, the glucanase activity is an endoglucanase activity (e.g., endo-1,4-beta-D-glucan 4-glucano hydrolase activity) and comprises hydrolysis of 1,4-beta-D-glycosidic linkages in cellulose, cellulose derivatives (e.g., carboxy methyl cellulose and hydroxy ethyl cellulose) lichenin, beta-1,4 bonds in mixed beta-1,3 glucans, such as cereal beta-D-glucans or xyloglucans and other plant material containing cellulosic parts. In addition, methods of designing new enzymes and methods of use thereof are also provided. In alternative aspects, the new glucanases e.g., endoglucanases, mannanases, xylanases have increased activity and stability, including thermotolerance or thermostability, at increased or decreased pHs and temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2007Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: Alireza Esteghlalian, Kenneth Barrett, Shaun Healey, Stacy M. Miles, Rene Quadt
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Publication number: 20110119789Abstract: The invention is directed to transgenic plants transformed with nucleic acids that encode a plant transcription factor that increases the transgenic plant's size and yield and/or delays flowering in the plant, and methods of using and producing the transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Luc J. Adam, Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber
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Publication number: 20110112013Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: André Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi, Thomas Chad Wolfe
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Publication number: 20110107470Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventor: Caius ROMMENS
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Publication number: 20110099656Abstract: A potato cultivar designated FF X RG 387 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar FF X RG 387, to the seeds of potato cultivar FF X RG 387, to the plants of potato FF X RG 387, to the plant parts of potato cultivar FF X RG 387 and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar FF X RG 387 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety FF X RG 387, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar FF X RG 387 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: ROCKEY FARMS, L.L.C.Inventors: Verlin Rockey, Brendon Rockey
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Publication number: 20110099672Abstract: Transgenic plants are provided comprising a plurality of transgenes comprised in a single locus. In certain aspects, 7 or more transgenes may be expressed from a first locus. Methods are provided for transformation of plant cells with a plurality of transgenes. Also provided are methods for expressing and enhancing the expression of one or more transgenes in a plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventors: Larry Gilbertson, Joson Ward, Jianping Xu, Jon Lamb
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Publication number: 20110088125Abstract: A rose is produced in which an introduced gene is only present in a part of the cells thereof, such as cells of the L1 layer of flower petals, but is not present in germ cells such as pollen cells or ovule cells. Since the introduced gene is not propagated to other roses even when this rose is crossed with other roses, the possibility of dispersal of the introduced gene can be completely negated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: International Flower Developments Proprietary LimitedInventors: Junichi Togami, Ekaterina Mouradova
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Patent number: 7923600Abstract: The present invention provides a convenient method for producing a transformed plant by expressing a hormone gene positioned within a plasmid backbone that also carries a P-DNA or T-DNA to obtain backbone-free transformed plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Craig Richael
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Publication number: 20110082038Abstract: The present invention provides eukaryotic translation initiation factor non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from Nicotiana tabacum, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Medicago truncatula useful for modulating transgene expression in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for modulating transgene expression in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for modulating transgene expression in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Steven E. Screen, Deborah Feeney, Richard Eric Cerny, Jesse Hart, Marianne Malven
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Patent number: 7919684Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20110078806Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGYInventors: CAI-ZHONG JIANG, JACQUELINE E. HEARD, OLIVER RATCLIFFE, ROBERT A. CREELMAN, LUC ADAM, T. LYNNE REUBER, JOSE LUIS RIECHMANN, VOLKER HAAKE, ARNOLD N. DUBELL, JAMES S. KEDDIE, BRADLEY K. SHERMAN
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Publication number: 20110078833Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the lipid transfer protein (LTP) gene of Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Oryza sativa regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: Wei WU, Qi WANG, James MORRELL, Linda LUTFIYYA, Maolong LU, Zhaolong LI, Ping LI, Michelle LACY, David KOVALIC, Yongwei CAO, Andrey BOUKHAROV, Stanislaw FLASINSKI, Peter T. HAJDUKIEWICZ
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Patent number: 7915484Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20110067140Abstract: A potato cultivar designated FL 2215 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar FL 2215, to the seeds of potato cultivar FL 2215, to the plants of potato FL 2215, to the plant parts of potato cultivar FL 2215 and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar FL 2215 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety FL 2215, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar FL 2215 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2009Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
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Patent number: 7906707Abstract: Nucleic acid molecules are described which encode polypeptides having the enzymatic activity of a fructosyltransferase. Also, vectors, host cells and transgenic plants are described which contain such nucleic acid molecules. Furthermore, processes for producing polyfructose, particularly that of the inulin type, using the hosts described and/or the fructosyltransferase produced by them are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderund der Wissenschaften B.V.Inventors: Arnd G. Heyer, Jochen Rehm, Regina Wendenburg
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Publication number: 20110061127Abstract: A constitutive plant S-adenosyl-L-methionine synthetase (SAMS) promoter and subfragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: SAVERIO CARL FALCO, ZHONGSEN LI
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Publication number: 20110059129Abstract: The present invention relates to an avian influenza vaccine of plant origin, prepared by transforming a plant with a surface protein of avian influenza virus, hemagglutinin (HA) or neuraminidase (NA), and a method for preparing the same. Further, the present invention relates to an oral vaccine for preventing avian influenza virus, of which mass-production conditions are established, and thus the produced transgenic plant can be more easily, safely, and economically used as a fodder additive. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a reagent for diagnosing avian influenza virus infection, prepared by isolating and purifying a recombinant antigen protein from the transgenic plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Joo-Sung Yang, Eun Hee Yang
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Patent number: 7902424Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a transcription factor stress-related protein (TFSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated TFSRP, and isolated nucleic acid coding TFSRP, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. Further provided are methods of producing transgenic plants expressing TFSRP, methods of increasing expression of other genes of interest using the TFSRP, methods of identifying novel TFSRP, and methods of modifying the expression of TFSRP in plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen
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Publication number: 20110055979Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Patent number: 7893322Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a transcription factor stress-related protein (TFSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated TFSRP, and isolated nucleic acid coding TFSRP, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. Further provided are methods of producing transgenic plants expressing TFSRP, methods of increasing expression of other genes of interest using the TFSRP, methods of identifying novel TFSRP, and methods of modifying the expression of TFSRP in plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen
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Publication number: 20110041195Abstract: Disclosed herein are homozygously modified organisms and methods of making and using these organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventor: Yannick Doyon
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Patent number: 7888559Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20110030091Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include polynucleotides encoding herbicide resistance or tolerance polypeptides, vectors comprising those polynucleotides, and host cells comprising the vectors. The nucleotide sequences of the invention can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in organisms, including microorganisms and plants. Compositions also include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated polynucleotides encoding glyphosate resistance or tolerance polypeptides are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: Athenix Corp.Inventors: Laura C. Schouten, Cheryl L. Peters, Brian Vande Berg
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Publication number: 20110030108Abstract: The invention relates to the field of glycoprotein processing in transgenic plants used as cost efficient and contamination safe factories for the production of recombinant biopharmaceutical proteins or pharmaceutical compositions comprising these. The invention provides a plant comprising a functional mammalian enzyme providing N-glycan biosynthesis that is normally not present in plants, said plant additionally comprising at least a second mammalian protein or functional fragment thereof that is normally not present in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig OnderzoekInventors: Hendrikus Antonius Cornelis Bakker, Hendrik Jan Bosch
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Patent number: 7880067Abstract: The invention relates to the breeding and selection of potatoes. The invention provides a potato plant or part derived thereof having at least one amf-allele said potato plant or part further provided with an increased capacity to store a protein as characterized by an increased protein content of its tubers. Furthermore, the invention provides a method for breeding and selecting a potato with an increased capacity to store a protein comprising crossing a first parent potato with at least one amf-allele with a second parent potato without an amf-allele, and selecting progeny for the presence of at least one amf-allele with a protein content of its tubers higher than detected in said first parent or said second parent.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Cooperatie AVEBE U.A.Inventors: Paul Heeres, Nicolaas Clemens Maria Henricus de Vetten
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Patent number: 7879338Abstract: The present invention relates to a synthetic plant-optimized nucleic acid molecule having a Norwalk virus capsid protein coding nucleotide sequence, and nucleic acid constructs, host cells, expression systems, and plants having the plant-optimized Norwalk virus nucleic acid molecule. The present invention also relates to a method of producing Norwalk virus capsid protein virus-like particles in a transgenic plant or transgenic plant seed transformed with a plant-optimized nucleic acid molecule encoding Norwalk virus capsid protein. The plant or a component thereof can be administered to a subject under conditions effective to immunize the subject against disease resulting from infection by a Norovirus, including Norwalk virus. An oral vaccine for immunization of a subject against Norwalk virus infection is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant ResearchInventors: William D.O. Hamilton, Koen Hellendoorn, Timothy D. Jones, Dwayne D. Kirk, Hugh S. Mason, Xiuren Zhang, Charles J. Arntzen
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Patent number: 7880056Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Signal Transduction Stress-Related Protein (STSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated STSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding STSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Manabu Ishitani
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Publication number: 20110016545Abstract: 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: August 1, 2008Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: VERENIUM CORPORATIONInventors: Kevin Gray, Reinhard Dirmeier
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Publication number: 20110010801Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Shane Abbitt
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Publication number: 20110010800Abstract: The present invention disclosed herein provides a method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising increasing or generating one or more activities in a plant or a part thereof. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids enhancing or improving one or more traits of a transgenic plant, and cells, progenies, seeds and pollen derived from such plants or parts, as well as methods of making and methods of using such plant cell(s) or plant(s), progenies, seed(s) or pollen. Particularly, said improved trait(s) are manifested in an increased yield, preferably by improving one or more yield-related trait(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBHInventors: Gerhard Ritte, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
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Patent number: 7868153Abstract: After-cooking darkening is a gray-black discoloration of the potato tuber, formed after cooking by the oxidation of an iron-chlorogenic acid complex. Cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase (C4H) is a key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of chlorogenic acid. The full-length c4h gene was cloned and sequenced from both genomic DNA and cDNA of Russet Burbank tuber tissue by PCR and 5? and 3? RACE. The gene expression levels of c4h were examined by Northern hybridization, relative quantitative RT-PCR and real time quantitative RT-PCR in potato cultivars and wide selection of diploid clones varying in susceptibility to after-cooking darkening. Results suggest that there is a relationship between the levels of c4h gene expression and the degree of after-cooking darkening in potato tubers. The inhibition of C4H gene expression and over expression of C4H expression were also examined.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of The Province of Nova Scotia, as represented by The Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC)Inventors: Gefu Wang-Pruski, Sandra Cantle, Karthikeyan Narayanan
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Patent number: 7858847Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20100325759Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan