Tomato Patents (Class 800/317.4)
  • MAIZE CYSTATIN PROMOTER FOR PERICARP PREFERRED EXPRESSION
    Publication number: 20110010801
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Shane Abbitt
  • 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
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATION OF PLANT CELL DIVISION
    Publication number: 20110004965
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for modulating cell division in plants. In particular, the present invention provides polynucleotides that encode REVOLUTA. In addition, REVOLUTA vectors and transformed plants are provided wherein plant cell division is modulated by expression of a REVOLUTA transgene as compared to a control population of untransformed plants. The present invention also provides methods for the isolation and identification of REVOLUTA genes from higher plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Ann Joan SLADE, Linda Madisen, Luca Comai
  • METHODS USING ACYL-COA BINDING PROTEINS TO ENHANCE LOW-TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE IN GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100333239
    Abstract: ACBP6 can be used to enhance low temperature tolerance in genetically modified plants. An acbp6 T-DNA insertional mutant that lacked ACBP6 mRNA and protein, displayed increased sensitivity to freezing temperature (?8° C.), while ACBP6-overexpressing transgenic Arabidopsis were conferred enhanced freezing tolerance. Methods of using ACBP6 to enhance low temperature tolerance of plants are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: MEE LEN CHYE, Qinfang Chen, Shi Xiao
  • 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
  • TOMATO PLANTS THAT EXHIBIT RESISTANCE TO BOTRYTIS CINEREA
    Publication number: 20100325751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to tomato plants that exhibit resistance to Botrytis cinerea and methods for developing new inbreds, hybrid, apomictic and genetically engineered tomato plants that possess resistance to Botrytis cinerea and having commercially desirable characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad Kane GABOR, Anna Julia Frampton, Mauro Bragaloni, Steven D. Tanksley
  • TOMATO HYBRID EX01420200 AND PARENT LINES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100325748
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid EX01420200 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid EX01420200 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Charles Wayne FOWLER, Jaap Hoogstraten
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Flavonol expressing domesticated tomato and method of production
    Patent number: 7851680
    Abstract: The present invention includes non-transgenic domesticated tomato plants that express flavonols in the flesh and peel of the tomato fruit, and includes the seeds and fruits of such plants. The method of the invention includes assaying tomato plants for expression of one or more of the flavonol biosynthesis genes in the flesh and/or expression of CHI in the peel. The method of the invention includes selecting wild tomato species that express CHI in the fruit peel, and/or one or more genes of the flavonol biosynthesis pathway in the flesh, and introgressing the genetic factors responsible for this expression from the wild tomato species into a domesticated tomato plant using traditional breeding techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Michael G. Willits, Vincenzo Deluca, Gerson Graser, Catherine M. Kramer, Rogerio T. N. Prata
  • Tomato Hybrid 'Vespolino'
    Publication number: 20100306870
    Abstract: The invention relates to a new and distinctive tomato hybrid, designated ‘Vespolino,’ to the plants of tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino,’ to the plant parts of tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino’ including the fruit, and for producing a hybrid tomato plant by crossing tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino’ with itself or another tomato line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to the methods for producing other tomato lines derived from tomato hybrid ‘Vespolino.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: ENZA ZADEN BEHEER B.V.
    Inventors: Frits Herlaar, Marcellinus Jacobus Johannes Mooij
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tomato variety EX01419137
    Patent number: 7829768
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato variety designated EX01419137. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato variety EX01419137 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety EX01419137 with itself or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of tomato variety EX01419137 including the fruit and gametes of such plants. The invention also relates to tomato variety CHI 14-2079. The present invention is also directed to tomato variety CHD 14-2080.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: James D. Frantz
  • MAIZE 18KD OLEOSIN SEED-PREFERRED REGULATORY ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20100281570
    Abstract: 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 seed-preferred promoter associated with the maize 18 KD OLE (18 kilodalton oleosin) coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Abbitt, Jinrui Shi
  • MAIZE 17KD OLEOSIN SEED-PREFERRED REGULATORY ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20100281569
    Abstract: 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 seed-preferred promoter associated with the maize 17 KD OLE (17 kilodalton oleosin) coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane Abbitt, Jinrui Shi
  • 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
  • Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity
    Publication number: 20100269221
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Susan B. Lo, Mark Nelson, Xiaomei Shi, Clement W.K. Waine, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Compositions and Methods for Altering the Morphology of Plants
    Publication number: 20100269217
    Abstract: Compounds, methods for producing them and methods for varying the morphology of plants are disclosed. More particularly, a SUN gene can be used to alter the shape of fruit in a plant such as a tomato plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Esther van der Knaap
  • Sweet grape tomato
    Patent number: 7816583
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato line CHI 15-2113, tomato line CHD 15-2114 and hybrid tomato variety BX 0154 3756. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato line CHI 15-2113, tomato line CHD 15-2114 and hybrid tomato variety BX 0154 3756, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato line CHI 15-2113, tomato line CHD 15-2114 or hybrid tomato variety BX 0154 3756 with itself or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another line or variety. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of tomato line CHI 15-2113, tomato line CHD 15-2114 or hybrid tomato variety BX 0154 3756, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas William Heath
  • Methods and compositions for acylsugars in tomato
    Publication number: 20100263067
    Abstract: The present invention relates to tomato plants with increased concentrations of acylsugars, in particular increased concentrations of acylglucoses and/or acylsucroses. The present invention also provides methods for controlling thrips on tomato plants through the use of increased concentrations of acylsugars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventor: Martha A. Mutschler-Chu
  • Tomato variety Picus
    Patent number: 7807886
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato variety designated Picus. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato variety Picus and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety Picus with itself or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing, and also relates to parts of a plant of tomato variety Picus including the fruit and gametes of such plants. The invention also relates to tomato variety FDS 14-2081, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2081 with itself or another tomato plant. The present invention is also directed to tomato variety FDS 14-2090, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2090 with itself or another tomato plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles W. Fowler
  • Tomato line FIR 128-1018
    Patent number: 7807885
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato line designated FIR 128-1018. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato line FIR 128-1018, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato line FIR 128-1018 with itself or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of tomato line FIR 128-1018, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Seminis Vegatable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Ilyong Kim
  • Extra-Cellular Matrix Localized Ferritin for Iron Uptake, Storage, and Stress Tolerance
    Publication number: 20100251426
    Abstract: The present invention relates to environmental stress responsive protein ferritin (CaFer1) of chickpea. The invention discloses identification, isolation and cloning of ECM-localized ferritin (CaFer1) of chickpea and its multifunctional role in nutrient uptake, storage and stress tolerance. Comparative proteomic analysis of the chickpea extra-cellular (ECM) was performed to identify novel components of dehydration stress signaling. In addition, the present invention relates a method for producing environmental stress tolerant transgenic plants over-expressing the said CaFer1 gene. The present invention further provides dehydration stress tolerant transgenic plants overexpressing dehydration-responsive extra cellular matrix (ECM) protein ferritin (CaFer1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Niranjan Chakraborty, Subhra Chakraborty, Asis Datta, Deepti Bhusan
  • PLANTS WITH INCREASED TOLERANCE AND/OR RESISTANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND INCREASED BIOMASS PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20100251416
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress and increased biomass production as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
    Inventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
  • Methods and compositions for expression of transgenes in plants
    Patent number: 7803927
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for the expression of transgenes in monocot plants including maize are disclosed. In the invention, gene silencing is avoided by use of monocot-homeologous sequences from plants of the genus Coix for transformation. Included in these transgene sequences are Coix promoters, enhancers, coding sequences and terminators. Suitable alternatives to maize-derived transgenes are desirable for expression in maize in that homology-based gene silencing can limit or effectively eliminate transgene expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Alan L. Kriz, Michael H. Luethy, Dale A. Voyles
  • Methods and compositions for expression of transgenes in plants
    Patent number: 7803928
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for the expression of transgenes in monocot plants including maize are disclosed. In the invention, gene silencing is avoided by use of monocot-homeologous sequences from plants of the genus Coix for transformation. Included in these transgene sequences are Coix promoters, enhancers, coding sequences and terminators. Suitable alternatives to maize-derived transgenes are desirable for expression in maize in that homology-based gene silencing can limit or effectively eliminate transgene expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Alan L. Kriz, Michael H. Luethy, Dale A. Voyles
  • Tomato plants that exhibit resistance to
    Patent number: 7799976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to tomato plants that exhibit resistance to Botrytis cinerea and methods for developing new inbreds, hybrid, apomictic and genetically engineered tomato plants that possess resistance to Botrytis cinerea and having commercially desirable characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignees: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Brad Kane Gabor, Anna Julia Frampton, Mauro Bragaloni, Steven D. Tanksley
  • Transcription factor stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants
    Patent number: 7795500
    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 TFSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding TFSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans Bohnert
  • Tomato plant line TZ368
    Patent number: 7790966
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct inbred tomato lines and hybrids. This invention also relates to plants and seeds of such inbred tomato lines and hybrids, and to parts thereof. The invention also relates to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such inbred tomato lines and hybrids with themselves or other tomato plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Luis Ortega Fernández
  • PLANTS WITH ENHANCED SIZE AND GROWTH RATE
    Publication number: 20100223689
    Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention regulate transcription in these plants and have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity that results in increased size, biomass, growth rate, and/or yield as compared to a control plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Peter P. Repetti, Neal I. Gutterson, Robert A. Creelman
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE AND IMMUNITY
    Publication number: 20100223690
    Abstract: Provided are methods for enhancing plant cell disease resistance, comprising (1) generating a homozygous gene modification of AtSR1 (or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog) in a plant or plant cell characterized by sialic acid-mediated systemic acquired resistance (SA-mediated SAR), wherein said gene modification reduces or eliminates the calmodulin-binding activity of the respective AtSR1 or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog; or (2) expression of a recombinant or mutant AtSR1 sequence (or AtSR1 gene ortholog or homolog sequence) encoding a modified AtSR1, or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog protein, in a plant or plant cell, wherein said protein modification reduces or eliminates the calmodulin-binding activity of the respective AtSR1 or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog protein. Plants and/or plant cells comprising said modified AtSR1, or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog proteins, and/or said expression means (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Washington State University
    Inventors: Bachettira W. Poovaiah, Liqun Du
  • Tomato plant line TZ367
    Patent number: 7786358
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new and distinct inbred tomato lines and hybrids. This invention also relates to plants and seeds of such inbred tomato lines and hybrids, and to parts thereof. The invention also relates to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such inbred tomato lines and hybrids with themselves or other tomato plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Luis Ortega Fernández
  • NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES FROM RICE CONTROLLING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE
    Publication number: 20100218282
    Abstract: The present subject matter provides a method for enhancing the abiotic stress tolerance of a plant. Polynucleotides isolated from rice (Oryza sativa) and encoding polypeptides for abiotic stress tolerance are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: HENRY T. NGUYEN, JOEL A. KREPS
  • Plants With Increased Yield
    Publication number: 20100205690
    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), e.g. low temperature tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Bläsing, Piotr Puzio, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Potzdam, Hardy Schön
  • Methods and materials for increasing starch biosynthesis in plants
    Publication number: 20100199385
    Abstract: The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing plants or plant tissue with increased starch biosynthesis. Increased starch biosynthesis provides for increased yield. One aspect of the invention concerns polynucleotides that encode a mutant plant large subunit of AGPase. In one embodiment, a polynucleotide of the invention encodes a plant AGPase large subunit having an amino acid mutation wherein the cysteine amino acid corresponding to amino acid position 424 of wild type maize AGPase large subunit is substituted with an amino acid that results in increased AGPase activity when provided in an AGPase enzyme. In a specific embodiment, the cysteine corresponding to amino acid position 424 of wild type maize AGPase large subunit is substituted with a valine amino acid. The subject invention also comprises a mutant plant large subunit of AGPase encoded by a polynucleotide of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: L. Curtis Hannah, Nikolaos Georgelis
  • ORYZA SATIVA LTP PROMOTERS USEFUL FOR MODULATING GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100197498
    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: January 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Peter Hajdukiewicz, Qi Wang, Wei Wu
  • Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity
    Publication number: 20100199383
    Abstract: 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 Coleoptera. 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: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
  • MEANS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING FRUITS WITH HIGH LEVELS OF ANTHOCYANINS AND FLAVONOLS
    Publication number: 20100199370
    Abstract: The invention includes means and methods for providing an AFT gene encoding a protein characterized by at least 80% identity with the amino acid sequence shown in FIG. 9 (LA1996; SEQ ID NO:37) having been genetically introgressed into cultivated tomato plants or elite lines. The AFT gene confers higher concentrations of flavonoids to the plants compared with prior art cultivated plants that were not introgressed with the gene. An AFT S. chilense genotype introgressively-derived tomato plant is disclosed. Transgenic plants expressing metabolites of the flavonoid pathway, especially anthocyanin or flavonols, in plants, plant parts or seeds thereof, carrying particular DNA sequences recombinable into a plurality of one or more transformation and/or expression vectors, useful for transformation and/or expression in plants are disclosed. Methods of obtaining same are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: ORGANIZATION (A.R.O.) , THE VOLCANI CENTER
    Inventors: Ilan Levin, Michal Oren-Shamir, Maya Sapir, Moshe Reuveni, Yaakov Tadmor
  • Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity
    Publication number: 20100190707
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Hua Dong, Deirdre M. Kapka-Kitzman, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
  • Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity
    Publication number: 20100192256
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Andre R. Abad, Deirdre M. Kapka-Kitzman, John P. Mathis, Thomas C. Wolfe