Tobacco Patents (Class 800/317.3)
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Publication number: 20100132063Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
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Publication number: 20100120620Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the At.PLD? gene or the At.HVA22e 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: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Subbaiah CHALIVENDRA, Karen K. GABBERT, Wei WU
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Publication number: 20100122377Abstract: This invention relates to nucleic acid sequences coding for a Lunaria annua, Cardamine graeca or Teesdalia nudicaulis fatty acid elongase, yeast cells expressing the genes/enzymes, plants themselves and cells of such plants and seeds which contain a heterologous gene coding for a L. annua, C. graeca or T. nudicaulis fatty acid elongase gene, the plant or seed being capable of producing increased proportion of a very long chain monounsaturated fatty acid, especially nervonic acid and eicosenoic acid, beyond that of a control plant or seed lacking the heterologous FAE gene or genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2006Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventors: Vesna Katavic, Elzbieta Mietkiewska, David C. Taylor, Yiming Guo, Jennifer M. Brost
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Patent number: 7714190Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans Bohnert
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Publication number: 20100115665Abstract: The present invention relates to plants with enhanced tolerance to viral diseases, particularly to diseases caused by insect-transmitted viruses. The invention discloses transgenic plants expressing GroEL protein, and to engrafted plant comprising said transgenic plants or parts thereof, that are tolerant to insect-transmitted viral diseases. The present invention further discloses means and methods of producing same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventor: Hanokh Czosnek
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Publication number: 20100107279Abstract: 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: December 15, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Jose Luis Riechmann, Luc Adam, Jacqueline E. Heard, Marsha L. Pilgrim, Cai-Zhong Jiang, T. Lynne Reuber, Robert A. Creelman, Omaira Pineda, Guo-Liang Yu
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Publication number: 20100107276Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of genes essential to establishing or maintaining nematode infestation in a plant, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target plant gene, which is an MTHFR-like gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventor: Aaron Wiig
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Patent number: 7700851Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco CompanyInventor: Dongmei Xu
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Patent number: 7696411Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic plants which after harvest degrade the lignin and cellulose therein to fermentable sugars which can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. In particular, the transgenic plants comprise ligninase and cellulase genes from microbes operably linked to a DNA encoding a signal peptide which targets the fusion polypeptide produced therefrom to an organelle of the plant, in particular the chloroplasts. When the transgenic plants are harvested, the plants are ground to release the ligninase and cellulase which then degrade the lignin and cellulose of the transgenic plants to produce the fermentable sugars.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Masomeh B. Sticklen, Bruce E. Dale, Shahina B. Maqbool
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Patent number: 7692060Abstract: The present invention relates to a gene being capable of modifying resistance against a heavy metal or salt, or accumulation properties, a recombination vector including the genes, and a transformant using the recombination vector. A gene having heavy metal resistance and accumulation properties includes a sequence encoding a transmembrane protein having five times repeated similar four transmembrane domains. A recombination vector includes the gene having heavy metal resistance and accumulation properties, and further includes a salt or drought resistance gene having at least one selected from the group consisting of a sequence encoding an ABC transporter including twice repeated six transmembrane domains and ATP-binding domains.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Postech Academy - Industry FoundationInventors: Young-Sook Lee, Won-Yong Song, Do-Young Kim, Dong-Hwan Shim, Byeong-Wook Jeon
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Publication number: 20100083395Abstract: 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: October 12, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: T. Lynne Reuber, Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Luc Adam, Oliver Ratcliffe, Omaira Pineda, Guo-Liang Yu, Neal I. Gutterson, Frederick D. Hempel, Roderick W. Kumimoto, James S. Keddie
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Publication number: 20100077507Abstract: 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: August 3, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20100077506Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants roots.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2007Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Aaron Wiig, Robert Ascenzi, Xiang Huang, Sumita Chaudhuri, Rui-Guang Zhen, Yu Han
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Publication number: 20100071093Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a 1-AminoCyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase-like Polypeptide (ACCDP) 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. Also provided are isolated novel ACCDPs, and isolated novel nucleic acids encoding ACCDPs, and vectors and transgenic plant containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: Basf Plant Science GmbHInventor: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20100071091Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. This invention further relates to transformed plant cells with altered metabolic activity compared to a corresponding non-transformed, wild-type plant cell, wherein the metabolic activity is altered by transformation with a Stress-Related Protein (SRP) coding nucleic acid and results in increased tolerance and/or resistance to an environmental stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed, wild-type plant cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2006Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicants: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH, METANOMICS GMBHInventors: Agnes Chardonnens, Piotr Puzio, Bryan D. McKersie
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Publication number: 20100058655Abstract: The present invention relates to the development of tobacco plants, modified through mutagenesis techniques, interspecific hybridisation followed by poliploidisation and recombinant DNA technologies, characterised by the fact of being capable of producing a very high amount of seeds and their use for the production of oil for energetic and industrial scopes, such as combustion oil, biodiesel and lubricating oil, and for animal and human alimentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2007Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventor: Corrado Fogher
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Publication number: 20100055085Abstract: Provided are hydrolases, including lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases, and polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Further provided are polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase activity, e.g., lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases and methods for preparing low saturate or low trans fat oils, such as low saturate or low trans fat animal or vegetable oils, e.g., soy or canola oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: Tim HITCHMAN, Christopher L. G. Dayton, Katie A. Kline, Jonathan Lyon, Mark A. Wall, Nelson R. Barton
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Patent number: 7667105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
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Patent number: 7665471Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
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Patent number: 7665470Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
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Patent number: 7665472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
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Patent number: 7667104Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
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Patent number: 7667106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Alliance One International, Inc.Inventors: Irno L. Mallmann, Claudir Lorencetti
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Publication number: 20100043096Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for enhancement of photosynthesis and biomass of a plant by plastid transformation with MDH gene, more precisely a method for enhancement of photosynthesis and biomass of C3 plant by plastid transformation system with MDH gene. The MDH plastid transgenic plant prepared by the method of the present invention exhibits not only increased photosynthesis efficiency but also increased growth rate, leaf area, stem diameter and biomass of the plant, compared with the control plant. Therefore, the plastid transformed C3 plant prepared by C4 type gene introduction can be effectively used for enhancing photosynthesis and biomass of the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2007Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Jang Ryol Liu, Hwa-Jee Chung, Sung Ran Min, Won Joong Jeong, Hyun Tae Kim, Ju Young Park, Jung He Hur
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Publication number: 20100037357Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for phenylpropanoids and flavonoids in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides and polypeptides for the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans, as well as the manipulation resistance to pathogen, herbivore, and insect attack in the coffee plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2006Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicants: NESTEC S.A., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Maud Lepelley, Gerald Cheminade, James Gerard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Chenwei Lin, Steven D. Tanksley
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Patent number: 7659448Abstract: The current invention relates to enhancing gene expression in a plant during abiotic stress. More specifically the invention relates to a promoter that could be used to drive the expression of structural genes or other DNA sequences. We disclose the sequence of the promoter and give examples showing the function of the promoter.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Jeffrey Ahrens, Jill Deikman, Philip Miller, Ming Peng
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Patent number: 7655837Abstract: The present disclosure relates to isolation and characterization of PjGST gene from Prosopis juliflora and a method for producing abiotic stress tolerant transgenic plant, more specifically salt and/or drought stress tolerant plant by expression of the gene in rice, tobacco and other plant species. The present disclosure also provides transformed plant, plant cells, plant tissue, plant part, seed, or progeny thereof with enhanced expression of PjGST gene to confer salt and/or drought stress tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: M.S. Swaminathan Research FoundationInventors: Ajay Parida, Suja George
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Publication number: 20100017910Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of genes essential to establishing or maintaining nematode infestation in a plant, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target plant gene, which is a CDPK-like gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventor: Robert Ascenzi
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Publication number: 20100017912Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of genes essential to establishing or maintaining nematode infestation in a plant, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target CAD-like plant gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventor: Aaron Wiig
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Publication number: 20100012137Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof. In other embodiments, the invention is directed toward nicotine demethylase RNA interference, tobacco plants comprising a nicotine demethylase RNA interference transgene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANYInventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
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Publication number: 20100011466Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Manabu Ishitani
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Publication number: 20100011465Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Polypeptide (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 16, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Nocha Van Thielen, Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Ruoying Chen
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Publication number: 20100011456Abstract: The invention provides polypeptides, including enzymes, structural proteins and binding proteins, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Polypeptides, including enzymes and antibodies, and nucleic acids of the invention can be used in industrial, experimental, food and feed processing, nutritional and pharmaceutical applications, e.g., for food and feed supplements, colorants, neutraceuticals, cosmetic and pharmaceutical needs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: Eric J. Mathur, Cathy Chang
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Patent number: 7645925Abstract: DNA encoding a plant quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase (QPRTase) enzyme, and constructs comprising such DNA are provided. Methods of altering quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase expression are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2006Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Mark A. Conkling, Wen Song, Nandini Mendu
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Publication number: 20100005542Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed with an SLSRP coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased growth under water-limited conditions and/or increased tolerance to an 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 SLSRPs, and isolated SLSRP coding nucleic acids, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Damian Allen, Lori V. Mills, Nocha van Thielen, Oswaldo da Costa e Silva
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Publication number: 20100005543Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:61-121 and 133-141, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-60, 124-132, and 142-283, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: Athenix CorporationInventors: Kimberly S. Sampson, Daniel John Tomso, Shruti Agarwal, Brian McNulty, Chris Campbell
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Publication number: 20100003234Abstract: This invention relates to molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry. In one aspect, the invention provides polypeptides having cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, mannanase and/or ?-glucosidase activity, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, mannanase and/or ?-glucosidase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and feed processing and industrial contexts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2006Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: David Blum, Joslin Gemsch, Mark Dycaico
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Publication number: 20100005544Abstract: The invention provides promoter polynucleotides that are root-preferred and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoter polynucleotides of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Aaron Wiig, Xiang Huang, Sumita Chaudhuri
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Publication number: 20090328249Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences and methods useful in targeting a recombinant protein encoded by a transgene integrated into the chloroplast genome to the thylakoid lumen of chloroplast, whereby said nucleic acid sequences encode bacterial signal peptides. The invention also relates to means and methods for expressing a disulfide-bond containing protein of interest in a transplastomic plant cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Eric Paget, Manuel Dubald, Julia Bally
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Publication number: 20090328256Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating lysine, glucose, fructose, galactose and leucine content in plants are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Boris Jankowski, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Steven Craig Bobzin
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Publication number: 20090320158Abstract: 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: August 24, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20090320157Abstract: 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: August 24, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20090313722Abstract: 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: June 3, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: ANDRE R. ABAD, HUA DONG, SUE B. LO, XIAOMEI SHI
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Publication number: 20090313728Abstract: Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for lignins in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides and polypeptides for the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans, as well as the manipulation resistance to pathogen, herbivore, and insect attack in the coffee plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2006Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicants: NESTEC S. A., CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Maud Lepelley, James Gérard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Gerald Cheminade, Steven D. Tanksley, Chenwei Lin
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Publication number: 20090313721Abstract: 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: April 3, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20090307793Abstract: The present invention provides a method of controlling a plant's tolerance to environmental stress and to a transgenic plant having the desired characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2006Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, AGRIVIDA, INC.Inventors: Stephen L. Goldman, Rudrabhatla Venkata Sairam, Madasamy Parani, Mark Styczynski, R. Michael Raab
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Publication number: 20090307801Abstract: Disclosed are novel genetically modified plant cells wherein a SHI (short internodes) family gene is integrated into the nuclear genome. Also disclosed are plant cells where a SHI antisense gene is integrated or plants including heterologous expression control of autologous SHI genes. The plant cells confer novel phenotypes upon plants incorporating the SHI family gene. The invention also discloses transgenic plants and methods for plant production, where the plants are dwarfed, but exhibit normal or increased flower set after induction of flowering with GA. The plants of the invention are obtained without use of any growth retardants.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2006Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: Kobenhavens UniversitetInventor: Lilli Sander Jensen
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Publication number: 20090297495Abstract: The invention provides hydrolases, polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase activity, e.g., an esterase, acylase, lipase, phospholipase (e.g., phospholipase A, B, C and D activity, patatin activity, lipid acyl hydrolase (LAH) activity) or protease activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant hydrolase activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The hydrolase activities of the polypeptides and peptides of the invention include esterase activity, lipase activity (hydrolysis of lipids), acidolysis reactions (to replace an esterified fatty acid with a free fatty acid), transesterification reactions (exchange of fatty acids between triglycerides), ester synthesis, ester interchange reactions, phospholipase activity and protease activity (hydrolysis of peptide bonds).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2006Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Janne S. Kerovuo, Ryan McCann, David Weiner, Arne I. Solbak, JR.
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Publication number: 20090300793Abstract: This invention pertains to the discovery of mutant phytochromes that when introduced into a plant alter the photomorphogenic properties of that plant. In certain embodiments transfection of plants by nucleic acid constructs expressing the mutant phytochromes produced plants having a phenotype characterized by light-independent activation. Thus, in certain embodiments, this invention provides a transgenic plant or plant cell comprising a mutant phytochrome where the mutant phytochrome is a light-stable phytochrome; and the transgenic plant shows decreased shade avoidance as compared to the same species or strain of plant lacking the mutant phytochrome. In various embodiments the mutant phytochrome comprises a mutation at the position corresponding to tyrosine residue 276 in an Arabidopsis phytochrome where the mutation is to a residue other than tyrosine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: John Clark Lagarias, Yi-Shin Su
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Publication number: 20090297550Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a malaria vaccine, the method comprising stably transforming a plant by inserting into its plastid genome a nucleic acid sequence encoding and operable to constitutively express a malaria antigenic polypeptide selected from AMA-1, MSP-1 or both; harvesting the stably transformed plant in whole or in part; purifying the expressed malaria antigenic polypeptide from the harvested plant; and packaging the purified antigenic polypeptide under sterile conditions in an amount for a predetermined dosage. Also disclosed is an oral vaccine effective in raising malaria antibodies in a susceptible host, the vaccine comprising leaf material from an edible plant containing plastids stably transformed to constitutively express a fusion polypeptide consisting essentially of cholera toxin B subunit and a malaria antigenic polypeptide selected from AMA-1, MSP-1 or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Henry Daniell, Debopam Chakrabarti