Tobacco Patents (Class 800/317.3)
  • Methods and Compositions for Expression of Transgenes in Plants
    Publication number: 20110099672
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Larry Gilbertson, Joson Ward, Jianping Xu, Jon Lamb
  • METHOD FOR PRODUCING TRANSGENIC SURFACE LAYER CHIMERIC PLANT
    Publication number: 20110088125
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: International Flower Developments Proprietary Limited
    Inventors: Junichi Togami, Ekaterina Mouradova
  • EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR GENE REGULATORY ELEMENTS FOR USE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110082038
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Steven E. Screen, Deborah Feeney, Richard Eric Cerny, Jesse Hart, Marianne Malven
  • Protein kinase stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7919684
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110078806
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: 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
  • GENOME WIDE IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENE EXPRESSION REGULATORY ELEMENTS IN ZEA MAYS FOR USE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110078833
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: 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
  • CLONING OF CYTOCHROME P450 GENES FROM NICOTIANA
    Publication number: 20110078817
    Abstract: The present invention relates to p450 enzymes and nucleic acid sequences encoding p450 enzymes in Nicotiana, and methods of using those enzymes and nucleic acid sequences to alter plant phenotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • Protein kinase stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7915484
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • Materials and methods for the modification of plant lignin content
    Patent number: 7910326
    Abstract: Novel isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides associated with the lignin biosynthetic pathway are provided, together with genetic constructs including such sequences. Methods for the modulation of lignin content, lignin structure and lignin composition in target organisms are also disclosed, the methods comprising incorporating one or more of the polynucleotides of the present invention into the genome of a target organism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignees: Arborgen, Inc., Rubicon Forests Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Leonard N. Bloksberg, Iikka Havukkala
  • S-ADENOSYL-L-METHIONINE SYNTHETASE PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110061127
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: SAVERIO CARL FALCO, ZHONGSEN LI
  • Transcription factor stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7902424
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen
  • Plants having changed development and a method for making the same
    Patent number: 7902425
    Abstract: A method to change development of a plant or plant part, when compared to the wild-type plant or plant part, by increasing or decreasing expression in a plant or plant part of a cdc27a nucleic acid sequence and/or increasing or decreasing levels and/or activity in a plant of a CDC27A protein; a plant obtained by this method; a genetic construct for enacting the method; a food including the plant or plant part; an enzyme or pharmaceutical produced by the plant or plant part; and a method of making an enzyme or pharmaceutical by the plant or plant part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignees: Cropdesign N.V., Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro
    Inventors: Paulo Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira, Adriana Silva Hemerly
  • TOBACCO NICOTINE DEMETHYLASE GENOMIC CLONE AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110048437
    Abstract: The present invention features tobacco nicotine demethylase nucleic acid and amino acid sequences, tobacco plants and plant components containing such sequences, including tobacco plants and plant components having reduced expression or altered enzymatic activity of nicotine demethylase, methods of use of nicotine demethylase sequences to create plants having altered levels of nornicotine or N?-nitrosonornicotine (“NNN”) or both relative to a control plant, as well as tobacco articles having reduced levels of nornicotine or NNN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY
    Inventor: Dongmei Xu
  • Protein Kinase Stress-Related Proteins and Methods of Use in Plants
    Publication number: 20110055979
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS FOR MODULATING ALKALOID PRODUCTION BY CONTROLLING PMT PROMOTER ACTIVATION MEDIATED BY TRANSCRIPTIONAL FACTORS ERF AND MYC
    Publication number: 20110047660
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for modifying the production levels of alkaloids in plants are provided. Alkaloid production can be genetically controlled by modulating the transcriptional activation of PMT genes mediated by members of the ERF family and/or Myc family of transcription factors. Novel nucleotide sequences encoding the Myc family of transciption factors are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: University of Virginia
    Inventors: Michael Paul Timko, Paul J. Rushton, Sheng-Cheng Han, Hongbo Zhang, Marta Tatiana Bokowiec
  • Transcription factor stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7893322
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen
  • Protein kinase stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7888559
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • GRG23 EPSP SYNTHASES: COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20110030091
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Athenix Corp.
    Inventors: Laura C. Schouten, Cheryl L. Peters, Brian Vande Berg
  • MAMMALIAN-TYPE GLYCOSYLATION IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110030108
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek
    Inventors: Hendrikus Antonius Cornelis Bakker, Hendrik Jan Bosch
  • Signal transduction stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7880056
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Manabu Ishitani
  • Vectors and methods for immunization against norovirus using transgenic plants
    Patent number: 7879338
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
    Inventors: William D.O. Hamilton, Koen Hellendoorn, Timothy D. Jones, Dwayne D. Kirk, Hugh S. Mason, Xiuren Zhang, Charles J. Arntzen
  • High threonine producing lines of nicotiana tobacum and methods for producing
    Publication number: 20110023178
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing plants with a desired phenotypic trait which comprises subjecting plants to mutagenesis, screening chimeric progeny for plants having the desired phenotypic trait, and propagating the survivors. In an embodiment, the phenotypic trait comprises an altered amino acid content. Preferably, the technique is used to generate Nicotiana tobacum plant lines having an increase in at least one amino acid. In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides improved Nicotiana tobacum plant lines producing at least 1.35 nmole of threonine per milligram of dry plant weight. These plants are useful for improving the flavor and aroma of the tobacco.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Luis Mayan Dominguez, Jerry Wayne Lawson, Wennuan Liu, Michael Francis Dube
  • Genetically Modified Plants Displaying Reduced Accumulation of Cadmium
    Publication number: 20110023177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and means such as polynucleotides, recombinant expression cassettes and recombinant vectors, for reducing the accumulation of cadmium in a plant, and a transgenic plant expressing a variant of a plant P1B-type ATPase of the Zn2+/Co2+/Cd2+/Pb2+ subgroup, said transgenic plant displaying a reduced accumulation of cadmium in the aerial parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Pierre Richaud, Antoine Gravot, Pascaline Auroy, Alain Vavasseur
  • Xylanases, Nucleic Acids Encoding Them and Methods For Making and Using Them
    Publication number: 20110016545
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: VERENIUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin Gray, Reinhard Dirmeier
  • PLANTS WITH INCREASED YIELD
    Publication number: 20110010800
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
    Inventors: Gerhard Ritte, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
  • METHOD OF DIRECTING THE EVOLUTION OF AN ORGANISM
    Publication number: 20110010806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of directing the evolution of an organism by modifying the mutation rate of an organism. The increase in genetic diversity may be used to facilitate the selection of a desired hereditary trait in an organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: NEO-MORGAN LABORATORY INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Masanori Ogawa, Takayuki Horiuchi, Kazufumi Tabata, Shuntaro Yano, Michi Kubota, Eri Kurita, Akiko Itadani, Sanae Fukushima-Tanaka
  • Protein kinase stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7858847
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • Protein Kinase Stress-Related Proteins and Methods of Use in Plants
    Publication number: 20100325759
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • Cytokinin Oxidase Promoter from Maize
    Publication number: 20100325752
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions and methods include expression cassettes and transformed plants and provide for downregulation of cytokinin oxidase in a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaomu Niu, Haiyin Wang, Dwight T. Tomes, Sabine Hantke, Norbert Brugiere
  • Protein kinase stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7855324
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Cosdta e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
  • High level antioxidant-containing foods
    Patent number: 7855319
    Abstract: The present invention relates to increasing at least one antioxidant level in a plant or plant product by expressing a polynucleotide that encodes a transcription factor, which is active in a flavonoid pathway. Overexpression of, for instance, a novel and newly-identified gene, the mCai gene, in a plant, results in increased accumulation of chlorogenic acid and other related phenolics, which, in turn, increases the levels of beneficial antioxidant in the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: J.R. Simplot Company
    Inventor: Caius Rommens
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENETIC TRANSFORMATION OF PLANT CHLOROPLASTS
    Publication number: 20100319094
    Abstract: A method for plastid transformation of a plant cell includes providing a delivery construct for transferring a passenger construct into a plant cell plastid for expression of a foreign DNA of interest therein. The delivery construct includes a nucleotide sequence under the control of a suitable promoter, for encoding at least one fusion protein which is a chloroplast transit peptide and a DNA binding domain. The passenger construct includes a nucleotide sequence encoding at least one foreign protein of interest or fragment thereof to be expressed in the plant cell, under the control of a plastid-specific promoter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: INDU BHUSHAN MAITI, DEANE L. FALCONE, SUMITA RAHA, H. MAELOR DAVIES
  • Stress resistant plants
    Patent number: 7851675
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer Bioscience N.V.
    Inventors: Marc De Block, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
  • Tobacco cultivar AOB 171
    Patent number: 7847164
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 171, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 171, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 171, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 171, hybrids produced from cultivar AOB 171 and lines derived from cultivar AOB 171, as well as genetically modified forms of the foregoing plants and tissue culture. Also provided are methods of producing cultivar AOB 171 plants, cultivar AOB 171 hybrid plants, and tobacco lines derived from cultivar AOB 171. In addition, products produced from the plants of the present invention are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.
    Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
  • Tobacco cultivar AOB 175
    Patent number: 7847165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 175, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 175, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 175, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 175, hybrids produced from cultivar AOB 175 and lines derived from cultivar AOB 175, as well as genetically modified forms of the foregoing plants and tissue culture. Also provided are methods of producing cultivar AOB 175 plants, cultivar AOB 175 hybrid plants, and tobacco lines derived from cultivar AOB 175. In addition, products produced from the plants of the present invention are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.
    Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
  • Tobacco cultivar AOB 176
    Patent number: 7847163
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 176, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 176, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 176, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 176, hybrids produced from cultivar AOB 176 and lines derived from cultivar AOB 176, as well as genetically modified forms of the foregoing plants and tissue culture. Also provided are methods of producing cultivar AOB 176 plants, cultivar AOB 176 hybrid plants, and tobacco lines derived from cultivar AOB 176. In addition, products produced from the plants of the present invention are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.
    Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
  • Herbicide resistance gene, compositions and methods
    Patent number: 7842856
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, recombinant DNA molecules, recombinant host cells containing the DNA molecules, and transgenic and genetically engineered plant cells, plant tissue, seeds and plants which contain and express an herbicide resistant protoporphyrinogen oxidase such that they germinate from seed and grow in the presence of an amount of herbicide where the parent plant does not. Such plants are especially appropriate for use in agriculture or horticulture where herbicides are used to kill undesirable plants which might contaminate or compete with the transgenic plant of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Patrick Tranel, Aaron Hager, William Patzoldt
  • FUSION POLYNUCLEOTIDE FOR BIOSYNTHESIS OF BETA-CAROTENE USING BICISTRONIC GENE EXPRESSION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BETA-CAROTENE USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20100299783
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion polynucleotides for biosynthesis of beta-carotene and a method for producing beta-carotene using the same. More particularly, it relates to fusion polynucleotides encoding phytoene synthase, connective sequences of FMDV-derived 2A sequence or internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and carotene desaturase, and a method for producing beta-carotenes using the same. Fusion polynucleotides and the recombinant vector using the same of the present invention have the effect of expression both phytoene synthase gene and carotene desaturase gene stably within cell transformants. Accordingly, fusion polynucleotides of the present invention can be used to regulate the biosynthetic metabolism of plant producing beta-carotene. Furthermore, it can be applied to effectively increase the content of beta-carotene, a useful metabolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Republic of Korea, Rural Development Administration
    Inventors: Sun Hwa Ha, Ju Kon Kim, Ha Rin Jung, Jung Bong Kim, Young Mi Kim, Seok-Cheol Suh, Liang Ying Shi, Soon Jong Kweon, Dong Hern Kim
  • S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE SYNTHETASE EXPRESSION ELEMENTS IDENTIFIED FROM ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
    Publication number: 20100298146
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the S-adenosyl methionine synthetase (SAMS3) gene of Arabidopsis thaliana and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Arabidopsis thaliana regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Kim Beazley, Jill Deikman, Michael Edgerton, Bei Zhang, Qi Wang, Michael Petersen
  • GTP binding stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7838731
    Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a GTP Binding Stress-Related Protein (GBSRP) 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 GBSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding GBSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Ruoying Chen, Nocha Van Thielen, Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans Bohnert
  • Plants With Increased Yield (KO NUE)
    Publication number: 20100293665
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to transformed plant cells and plants or parts thereof comprising an inactivated or down-regulated gene resulting an increased yield, in particular an increased yield-related trait, e.g. an increased nutrient use efficiency, such as an enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or increased biomass production as compared to, e.g. non-transformed, wild type cells and methods of producing such plant cells or plants or parts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
  • TRANSGENIC PLANTS EXPRESSING RECOMBINANT BARLEY ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE
    Publication number: 20100293674
    Abstract: Transgenic plants containing recombinant barley alanine aminotransferase are described. Also provided are methods for generating transgenic plants containing recombinant barley alanine aminotransferase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: The Governors of the University of Alberta
    Inventors: Allen G. GOOD, Virginia L. Stroeher, Douglas G. Muench
  • S-adenosyl-L-methionine synthetase promoter and its use in expression of transgenic genes in plants
    Patent number: 7834242
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Saverio Carl Falco, Zhongsen Li
  • AHAS MUTANTS
    Publication number: 20100287641
    Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids encoding mutants of the acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) large subunit comprising at least two mutations, for example double and triple mutants, which are useful for producing transgenic or non-transgenic plants with improved levels of tolerance to AHAS-inhibiting herbicides. The invention also provides expression vectors, cells, plants comprising the polynucleotides encoding the AHAS large subunit double and triple mutants, plants comprising two or more AHAS large subunit single mutant polypeptides, and methods for making and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: John A. McElver, Bijay Singh
  • Novel Nucleotide Sequences Encoding Nicotiana Beta-1,2-Xylosyltransferase
    Publication number: 20100287657
    Abstract: Provided are novel ?1,2-xylosyltransferase nucleotide sequences and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer BioScience N.V.
    Inventor: Koen Weterings
  • Tobacco having increased threonine
    Patent number: 7825305
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing plants with a desired phenotypic trait which comprises subjecting plants to mutagenesis, screening chimeric progeny for plants having the desired phenotypic trait, and propagating the survivors. In an embodiment, the phenotypic trait comprises an altered amino acid content. Preferably, the technique is used to generate Nicotiana tobacum plant lines having an increase in at least one amino acid. In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides improved Nicotiana tobacum plant lines producing at least 1.35 nmole of threonine per milligram of dry plant weight. These plants are useful for improving the flavor and aroma of the tobacco.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Reynolds Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Mayan Dominguez, Jerry Wayne Lawson, Wennuan Liu, Michael Francis Dube
  • ARABIDOPSIS PROMOTERS
    Publication number: 20100275325
    Abstract: The present invention provides several promoters isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, which promoters are capable of driving and/or regulating the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid in a plant. The expression patterns of the promoters according to the present invention have been studied in Arabidopsis thaliana and some of the promoters displayed specific activity in particular cells, tissues or organs of the plant, while others displayed constitutive expression throughout substantially the whole plant. Some promoters showed weak expression, while others were strongly active.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: CROPDESIGN N.V.
    Inventors: WILLEM BROEKAERT, YVES HATZFELD
  • ORYZA SATIVA L18A AND HSC71 EXPRESSION ELEMENTS USEFUL FOR MODULATING GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100275332
    Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the ribosomal protein L18A and heat shock cognate HSC71 genes 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: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventor: Shoba Cherian
  • METHOD OF INCREASING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100275327
    Abstract: A method of increasing abiotic stress tolerance in a plant is described, the method comprising transforming the plant with a vector comprising a nucleic acid which is at least 80% identical to SEQ I.D. NO: 10. Plants or plant parts transformed with these sequences are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicants: University of Cape Town, The Maize Trust
    Inventors: Jennifer Ann Thomson, Jesse Machuka, Revel Iyer, Richard Okoth
  • Resistance to auxinic herbicides
    Patent number: 7820883
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of identifying herbicidal auxins. The invention further provides auxin-herbicide-resistant plants and genes conferring auxin-herbicide resistance. This invention also provides a method of identifying other proteins that bind picolinate auxins from additional plant species. The invention further provides a method to identify the molecular binding site for picolinate auxins. The invention also includes the use of the picolinate herbicidal auxin target site proteins, and methods of discovering new compounds with herbicidal or plant growth regulatory activity. The invention also includes methods for producing plants that are resistant to picolinate herbicidal auxins. Specific examples of novel proteins associated with herbicide binding include AFB5, AFB4, and SGT1b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Terence A. Walsh, Glenn Hicks, Mary Honma, John P. Davies