Tomato Patents (Class 800/317.4)
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Publication number: 20130291137Abstract: The invention relates to a tomato plant, wherein the fruits of which have an improved shelf-life as compared to the fruits of a wild type tomato plant, wherein the genetic determinant causative of the improved shelf life trait is a mutation in the hp2 gene. The increased shelf-life may comprise a fruit that shows normal ripening having a fruit firmness at red ripe harvest that is increased by at least 31%, preferably by at least 42%, more preferably by at least 52%, even more preferably by at least 60%, most preferably by at least 70% as compared to a fruit having similar genetic background that lacks the trait of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt En Zaadhandel B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Pieter Martijn Eggink, Dorthe Bettina Drager
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Publication number: 20130276172Abstract: 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: December 12, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
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Publication number: 20130276156Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multiple inducible gene regulation system that functions within cells to simultaneously control the quantitative expression of multiple genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Intrexon CorporationInventors: Tarlochan Singh DHADIALLA, Dean Ervin Cress, Glenn Richard Carlson, Robert Eugene Hormann, Subba Reddy Palli, Arthur John Kudla, Ronald Phillip Herzig, JR., Mohan Philip
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Publication number: 20130269047Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PX 02461513 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PX 02461513 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: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Teresa Beck Bunn, Giulio Bile
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Publication number: 20130266608Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing plant-derived immunogenic compositions that confer immunity against smallpox in a subject are provided. Plants engineered to produce antigenic proteins as well as expression cassettes comprising nucleic acids encoding proteins thereof are described. Methods of immunizing subjects with plant-derived compositions are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: PHARMA GREEN LLCInventor: Maxim Golovkin
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Patent number: 8546662Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PX 02461111 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PX 02461111 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn
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Publication number: 20130247240Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS 02353389 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS 02353389 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventor: GIULIO BILE
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Publication number: 20130232646Abstract: The present invention is directed to controlling pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions in an invertebrate pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling pest infestation by feeding one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules to the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James A. Baum, Larry A. Gilbertson, David K. Kovalic, Thomas J. LaRosa, Maolong Lu, Tichafa R.I. Munyikwa, James K. Roberts, Wei Wu, Bei Zhang
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Patent number: 8524992Abstract: Solanum pimpinellifolium plants which are exceptionally high in fruit lycopene content (˜300-390 ?g lycopene/g fresh fruit) are disclosed herein, which may be used in plant breeding to make the tomato plants of the present invention. The invention also discloses genetic markers, which are associated with the trait which may be used in marker-assisted selection for development of plants, lines, or varieties with the trait.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventor: Majid R. Foolad
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Publication number: 20130227741Abstract: The invention is directed to polypeptides having any cellulolytic activity, e.g., a cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta-glucosidase, xylanase, mannanse, ?-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and/or oligomerase 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. The invention also provides compositions or products of manufacture comprising mixtures of enzymes comprising at least one enzyme of this invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicants: Verenium Corporation, BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: BP Corporation North America Inc., Verenium Corporation
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Publication number: 20130219564Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Monsanto Technology LLC
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Publication number: 20130217577Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, and nucleic acids useful in encoding the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
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Publication number: 20130219571Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 73% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 73% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Monica D. Vlasie, Robbertus Antonius Damveld
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Patent number: 8507758Abstract: Methods for identification of successful transformation without a need for in vitro selection are provided. Direct detection of nucleotide sequences of interest is described which eliminate the need for use of ancillary nucleotide sequences.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Michael Palys
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Publication number: 20130205441Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow Agrosciences LLC
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Publication number: 20130202647Abstract: Disclosed herein are chloroplast transformation vectors constructed to enable expression and hyperaccumulation of membrane proteins in chloroplasts. Another embodiment relates to plants transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to seeds and other plant tissues transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to a method of increasing expression of membrane proteins in chloroplasts including transforming a plant cell with vectors described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Henry Daniell
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Publication number: 20130205440Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow AgroSciences LLC
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Patent number: 8502038Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01059664 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01059664 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Germán Anastasio Ramón, Jacobus Hoogstraten
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Publication number: 20130198881Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato line designated PSQ 176-09PW0002. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato line PSQ 176-09PW0002, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato line PSQ 176-09PW0002 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 PSQ 176-09PW0002, including the seed, pod, and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Inventor: Arnon Osri
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Publication number: 20130198878Abstract: Disclosed herein are homozygously modified organisms and methods of making and using these organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventor: C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.
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Publication number: 20130189419Abstract: The invention relates to a tomato plant which may comprise the trait fertilization independent fruit formation wherein said trait may be obtainable by introgression from a plant, representative seed of which was deposited with the NCIMB under accession number NCIMB 41626, NCIMB 41627, NCIMB 41628, NCIMB 41629, NCIMB 41630 or NCIMB 41631. Such tomato plant may be obtainable by crossing plants, representative seed of which was deposited with the NCIMB under accession number NCIMB 41626, NCIMB 41627, NCIMB 41628, NCIMB 41629, NCIMB 41630 or NCIMB 41631, with a plant not showing the trait to obtain an FI population; selfing plants from the FI population to obtain an F2 population; preventing pollination of the F2 plants and allowing fruit formation to occur; and selecting plants producing fruits as plants showing fertilization independent fruit formation. The invention further relates to the parthenocarpic fruits, to seeds of the plants and to propagation material of the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt En Zaadhandel B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Pieter Martijn Eggink, Dorthe Bettina Drager
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Publication number: 20130185822Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
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Patent number: 8481811Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a pericarp-preferred promoter associated with the maize cystatin coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Shane Abbitt
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Patent number: 8476501Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid EX15567101 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid EX15567101 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: James D. Frantz
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Publication number: 20130167258Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PX 02481245 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PX 02481245 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.
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Patent number: 8471114Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PX 02470002 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PX 02470002 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: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Sees, Inc.Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn
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Patent number: 8466350Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid EX01431182 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid EX01431182 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seed, Inc.Inventor: Charles Wayne Fowler
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Publication number: 20130145501Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide having carbohydrate material degrading activity which comprises the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 4, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 96% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 96% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional protein and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2010Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Maria Jacobus Sagt, Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schooneveld-Bergmans, Johannes Andries Roubos, Alrik Pieter Los
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Publication number: 20130145495Abstract: This invention provides genetically modified photosynthetic organisms and methods and constructs for enhancing inorganic carbon fixation. A photosynthetic organism of the present invention comprises a RUBISCO fusion protein operatively coupled to a protein-protein interaction domain to enable the functional association of RUBISCO and carbonic anhydrase.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTERInventor: Richard T. Sayre
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Publication number: 20130145499Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of transgenic and non-transgenic plants with novel phenotypes. Provided are Solanum lycopersicum Auxin Response Factor 9 (SlARF9) proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these, which are useful in conferring novel phenotypes to plants, especially increased fruit size.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Willem Hendrik Vriezen, Celestina Mariani, Maaike De Jong
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Patent number: 8455716Abstract: The present invention provides gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by multiple plant viruses. The present invention relates to achieving a plant protective effect through the identification of target coding sequences and the use of recombinant DNA technologies for post-transcriptionally repressing or inhibiting expression of the target coding sequences of plant-parasitic viruses. Protein-expression based approaches may also be utilized to augment phenotype resistance. Thus, transcription of a single transgenic event comprising one or more plant expression cassettes can allow for broad spectrum resistance of a plant to multiple plant viral strains and species among the geminiviruses, tospoviruses, and potexviruses.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Shihshieh Huang, Stanislaw Flasinski, Alessandra Frizzi, Brad Gabor, Charles Hagen, John Kao, Raquel Salati
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Publication number: 20130117872Abstract: This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a Group H nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Subba Reddy PALLI, Mohan Basavaraju Kumar, Dean Ervin Cress, Ted Tsutomu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20130111632Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for obtaining a transgenic plant that overproduces jasmonic acid, and optionally OPDA, a jasmonic acid precursor. Said methods include transforming the plant using a nucleic acid encoding ORA47. The accumulation of jasmonic acid confers in particular to the transformed plant an improved resistance to pathogenic agents. The transgenic plants obtained may also be used for the production of pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites whose synthesis is induced by jasmonates.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUEInventors: Antony Champion, Michel Nicole, Patrick Doumas
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Publication number: 20130104255Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins and homologs that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, heat, cold, and/or salt tolerance to plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Florian Schauwecker, Amber Shirley
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Publication number: 20130104264Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 96% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 96% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Rene Marcel De Jong, Robbertus Antonius Damveld
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Publication number: 20130095532Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 82% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 82% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Alrik Pieter Los
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Publication number: 20130095553Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide which comprises the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 76% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 76% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schooneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Alrik Pieter Los
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Publication number: 20130095531Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 70% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 70% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schooneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Rene Marcel De Jong, Robbertus Antonius Damveld
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Publication number: 20130086710Abstract: The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of tomato, NUN 00175 TOP or N 6404 which is especially useful as processing tomato.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Nunhems B.V.Inventor: Nunhems B.V.
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Publication number: 20130081155Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, heat, cold, and/or salt tolerance to plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Harry Wild, Gunnar Plesch, Bryan McKersie
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Publication number: 20130081151Abstract: A plant comprising a modified Flowering Locus (FT) polynucleotide expressing a modified polypeptide exhibits altered flowering time, floral numbers and/or increased seed production. Different mutant sequences conferring different phenotypes are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Yiguo Hong, Steve Jackson, Chunyang Li
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Patent number: 8404951Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01544291 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred parent line FDS 15-2102. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01544291 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Douglas Heath
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Publication number: 20130074204Abstract: Solanum pimpinellifolium plants which are exceptionally high in fruit lycopene content (˜300-390 ?g lycopene/g fresh fruit) are disclosed herein, which may be used in plant breeding to make the tomato plants of the present invention. The invention also discloses genetic markers, which are associated with the trait which may be used in marker-assisted selection for development of plants, lines, or varieties with the trait.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventor: THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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Publication number: 20130074216Abstract: The present disclosure provides isolated DNA molecules encoding tomato O-methyltransferases (OMT); tomato OMT proteins; OMT antisense molecules; vectors, plant cells and plants including tomato OMT DNA molecules or OMT antisense molecules; genetic markers for tomato OMT genes; and methods of increasing or decreasing the amount of guaiacol produced by a plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventor: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
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Patent number: 8399749Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Charles Wayne Fowler, Jaap Hoogstraten
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Publication number: 20130061354Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 93% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 93% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETSInventors: Cornelis Maria Jacobus Sagt, Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans, Johannes Andries Roubos, Alrik Pieter Los
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Publication number: 20130031677Abstract: This invention pertains to methods for protecting a propagule or a plant grown therefrom from invertebrate pests comprising contacting the propagule or the locus of the propagule with a biologically effective amount of a compound of Formula I, its N-oxide or an agriculturally suitable salt thereof wherein A and B and R1 through R8 are as defined in the disclosure. This invention also relates to propagules treated with a compound of Formula I and compositions comprising a Formula I compound for coating propagules.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: RICHARD ALAN BERGER, Issac Billy Annan, John Lindsey Flexner, George Philip Lahm, Thomas Paul Selby, Thomas Martin Stevenson
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Publication number: 20130031667Abstract: The invention provides novel polypeptides, and variants and fragments thereof, having pesticidal activity against nematodes. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, biopesticide compositions, expression cassettes, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the invention. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant parasitic nematodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INCInventors: Steven D. Gruver, Lu Liu, Ute Schellenberger, Jun-Zhi Wei, Wieping Xie, Genhai Zhu
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Patent number: 8362324Abstract: Nucleic acid sequences and methods are provided for producing plants and seeds having altered tocopherol content and compositions. The methods find particular use in increasing the tocopherol levels in plants, and in providing desirable tocopherol compositions in a host plant cell.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Sai S. Subramaniam, Steven C. Slater, Katherine Karberg, Ridong Chen, Henry E. Valentin, Yun-Hua Huang Wong
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Publication number: 20130025000Abstract: The invention is directed to a promoter isolated from maize. The promoter of the invention have particular utility in driving root preferred expression, specifically root-cap expression, of heterologous genes that impart increased agronomic, horticultural and/or pesticidal characteristics to a given transgenic plant. The invention is also drawn to DNA molecules comprising the promoter of the invention and transformed plant tissues containing DNA molecules comprising a promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous gene or genes, and seeds thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: January 24, 2013Inventors: Tong Zhu, Vance Cary Kramer, Anthony Todd Richmond