Solanaceae (e.g., Eggplant, Etc.) Patents (Class 800/317)
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Publication number: 20120084881Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of transgenic and non-transgenic plants with novel phenotypes. Provided are SlPP2C1 proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these, which are useful in conferring novel phenotypes to plants, especially drought tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2010Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: NUNHEMS B.V.Inventors: Willem Vriezen, Lisette Nitsch
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Publication number: 20120060235Abstract: Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules isolated from coffee (Coffea spp.) comprising sequences that encodes various sucrose metabolizing enzymes, along with their encoded proteins. Specifically, sucrose synthase, sucrose phosphate synthase and sucrose phosphatase enzymes and their encoding polynucleotides from coffee are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides for gene regulation and manipulation of the sugar profile of coffee plants, to influence flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Isabelle M. PRIVAT, James Gérard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Steven D. Tanksley, Chenwei Lin
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Publication number: 20120054907Abstract: Disclosed is an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence that is at least 90% identical to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 4, wherein the protein has an aspartic acid (Asp) at amino acid position 106 Transgenic plants comprising the nucleic acid have reduced or delayed softening and detenoration of fruit compared to wild-type plants Methods of genetic screening for plants having reduced or delayed softening and detenoration of fruit, isolated oligonucleotides, and a method of imparting to a plant the dfd trait are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2009Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Jocelyn Rose, Tal Isaacson, Julia Verbalov
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Publication number: 20120042418Abstract: Polynucleotides are disclosed which are capable of enhancing yield of a plant transformed to contain such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods of using such polynucleotides and transgenic plants and agricultural products, including seeds, containing such polynucleotides as transgenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventor: Resham Kulkarni
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GROWTH ENHANCEMENT AND CONTROL OF BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL PLANT DISEASES WITH STREPTOMYCES SCOPULIRIDIS
Publication number: 20120028799Abstract: Methods of controlling plant diseases mediated by bacterial or fungal plant pathogens. The method comprises providing Streptomyces scopuliridis strain RB72 or an isolated protein or polypeptide comprising the amino acid of SEQ ID NO:1 and applying the Streptomyces scopuliridis strain RB72 or the isolated protein or polypeptide comprising the amino acid of SEQ ID NO:1 to plants or plant seeds under conditions effective to treat plant diseases mediated by bacterial or fungal plant pathogens. Also disclosed is a plant or plant seed treated by this method, a planting composition, and a method of enhancing growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: BIOWORKS, INC.Inventors: William R. MARTIN, JR., Nicole J. SCOTT -
Publication number: 20120021475Abstract: A method of producing (+)-zizaene by contacting at least one polypeptide with farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) in vitro or in vivo to produce (+)-zizaene, a compound which can be used as precursor for diverse compounds useful in the fields of perfumery and flavoring. An amino acid sequence of a polypeptide useful in the method, a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide of the invention, an expression vector containing the nucleic acid and a non-human host organism or a cell transformed to be used in the method of producing (+)-zizaene are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: FIRMENICH SAInventors: Michel Schalk, Fabienne Deguerry
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Patent number: 8097769Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
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Publication number: 20120011616Abstract: A method of modifying morphology in a plant by introducing into a plant at least one chimaeric gene having a promoter sequence operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence, the promoter sequence being operable to direct expression in specific cells of the plant and the nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one gene product capable of altering the metabolism of or causing death of the specific cells and/or nearby cells. In particular, the promoter sequence is operable to direct expression in lateral bud or lateral shoot and the nucleic acid encoding at least one gene product capable of disrupting the metabolism of or causing the death of the lateral bud or lateral shoot or nearby cells. Preferably the promoter sequence has the sequence shown as SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 7 or SEQ ID No. 4, or a part thereof capable of regulating expression of a gene, or a sequence having at least 60%, preferably at least 75%, homology to SEQ ID No. I or SEQ ID No. 7 and being capable of regulating expression of a gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Christopher John Robert Thomas, Martin Richard Ward
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Publication number: 20110321197Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities selected from the group consisting of 17.6 kDa class I heat shock protein, 26.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2009Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Hardy Schön, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Oliver Bläsing, Koen Bruynseels, Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Christophe Reuzeau, Steven Vandenabeele
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Publication number: 20110321196Abstract: The present invention pertains transgenic plant cells and mature plants comprising Oxidoreductase Stress Related Proteins (ORSRP) resulting in increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress as compared to non-transformed wild type cells and methods of producing such plant cells or plants. Further object of the present invention are isolated ORSRPs or ORSRP encoding nucleic acids from plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Agnes Chardonnens, Piotr Puzio
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Patent number: 8071842Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a higher plant having cytochrome c6 in the thylakoid space of chloroplast, which is characterized in that it comprises introducing a gene encoding a fused protein formed by adding a signal peptide consisting of 50 to 80 amino acid residues to a cytochrome c6 protein into the genome of a higher plant.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2006Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Nihon UniversityInventors: Tadatake Oku, Toshiyuki Nishio, Ryu Kawachi, Hirotaka Chida, Aiko Nakazawa
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Publication number: 20110252509Abstract: This invention relates generally to a method for producing a transgenic cell with increased gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) content as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Sceince GmbHInventors: Janneke Hendriks, Hardy Schön, Oliver Thimm, Volker Haake, Gunnar Plesch, Piotr Puzio, Astrid Blau, Michael Manfred Herold, Birgit Wendel, Beate Kamlage, Florian Schauwecker
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Publication number: 20110239324Abstract: The present invention relates in one aspect to a method for producing a transgenic plant, comprising introducing into an unmodified plant an exogenous gene encoding a nitrite reductase, wherein expression of the nitrite reductase encoded by the exogenous gene reduces nitrite content in the transgenic plant relative to the unmodified plant. Also provided are transgenic plants and plant cells comprising an exogenous gene encoding a nitrite reductase, as well as associated uses, chimaeric genes and plant transformation vectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Susie Davenport, Martin Maunders
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Patent number: 8026410Abstract: Disclosed are specific mutants of L3 and transgenic plants that produce them. The plants exhibit increased resistance to fungal toxins that target ribosomal L3 protein. Also disclosed are transgenic plants that co-produce L3 mutant and an RIP protein, and exhibit increased resistance to various fungal toxins and viruses, while reducing toxicity normally associated with production of the RIP. Uses of the L3 mutants in animals are further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Rutger, The State UniversityInventors: Nilgun E. Tumer, Rong Di
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Publication number: 20110226267Abstract: The invention provides transgenic plants, specifically tobacco plants, which accumulate the amino acid threonine in their leaves. The biosynthetic pathway leading to production of threonine is tightly regulated, and previous attempts to achieve a transgenic plant which overproduces threonine has compromised the fitness of the plants. This invention has overcome these difficulties and found a method of increasing the level of threonine in plant leaves above the corresponding wild type level without compromising plant fitness, comprising altering plant metabolism to achieve increased production of threonine after the initiation of leaf senescence. This invention involves a genetic construct comprising a senescence specific promoter operably linked to a coding sequence encoding a polypeptide having threonine insensitive aspartate kinase activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2009Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: HINO MOTORS, LTD.Inventors: Louise Jones, Gwendoline Leach, Steve Coates
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Publication number: 20110225673Abstract: The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant viral enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel chimeric promoters; and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
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Publication number: 20110197305Abstract: Compositions and methods for imparting a dense and erect panicle phenotype to plants, including polynucleotides, polypeptides, vectors and cells. This phenotype is associated with improving plant traits, such as improving plant yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Xiangdong Fu, Xianzhong Huang, Qian Qian, Zhengbin Liu
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Publication number: 20110195843Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities selected from the group consisting of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, Adenylate kinase, B2758-protein, Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, cysteine synthase, Exopolyphosphatase, geranylgeranyl reductase, Mating hormone A-factor precursor, mitochondrial succinate-fumarate transporter, modification methylase HemK family protein, Myo-inositol transporter, oxidoreductase subunit, peptidy-prolyl-cis-trans-isomerase, protein kinase, Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase, slr1293-protein, YDR049W-protein, YJL181W-protein, and YPL109C-protein-activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Schön, Oliver Bläsing
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Publication number: 20110197311Abstract: 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: February 25, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Larry Gilbertson, Xudong Ye
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Patent number: 7994392Abstract: Expression systems that effect production of a GTPase activating protein in plants are used to modify plants to enhance their ability to resist trauma.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong KongInventors: Hon-Ming Lam, Samuel Sai Ming Sun
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Publication number: 20110191894Abstract: Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants are provided. Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants by increased expression of an exogenous or endogenous abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants are provided expressing increased abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP, during the developmental stage of senescence, thereby promoting enhanced plant senescence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Sarah M. Assmann, Cha Young Kim, Jerome Bove, John Kuk Na
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Patent number: 7985889Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for enhancing plant defenses against pathogens. More particularly, the invention relates to enhancing plant immunity against bacterial pathogens, wherein AtMIN7 mediated protection is enhanced and/or there is a decrease in activity of an AtMIN7 associated virulence protein such as a Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 HopM1. Reagents of the present invention provide a means of studying cellular trafficking while formulations of the present inventions provide increased pathogen resistance in plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State UniversityInventors: Sheng Yang He, Kinya Nomura
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Publication number: 20110179519Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants comprise a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1, operably linked to a plant-specific promote, wherein the CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 is ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plants, and wherein the promoter is optionally a constitutive or inducible promoter. In other embodiments, transgenic plants in which express a lower level of CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 are provided. Also provided herein are commercial products (e.g., pulp, paper, paper products, or lumber) derived from the transgenic plants (e.g., transgenic trees) produced using the methods provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Gloria Coruzzi, Rodrigo A. Gutierrez, Damion C. Nero
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Publication number: 20110173715Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, heat, cold, and/or salt tolerance to plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2005Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Harry Wild, Gunnar Plesch, Bryan McKersie
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Patent number: 7973222Abstract: According to this invention, by introducing genes encoding hexulose-6-phosphate synthase and 6-phosphohexulose isomerase into a plant to have the genes expressed in the chloroplast of the plant, a transgenic plant having a pathway to assimilate formaldehyde through the Calvin cycle is provided. The transgenic plant according to this invention has resistance to formaldehyde and is capable of reducing the level of environmental formaldehyde significantly. Therefore, it is assumed that the transgenic plant according to this invention can be used to purify environmental condition, by placing it in a residence or in an office.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2004Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Inventors: Katsura Izui, Limei Chen, Nobuo Kato, Yasuyoshi Sakai, Hiroya Yurimoto
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Publication number: 20110154530Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of Yield-Related Proteins (YRP) and/or Yield and Stress-Related Proteins (YSRP) in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Piotr Puzio
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Publication number: 20110154531Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a Membrane Transporter-like Polypeptide (MTP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the crop plant results in the plant's increased root growth, and/or increased yield, and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic crop plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan Mckersie
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Publication number: 20110138499Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: James Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam
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Patent number: 7951991Abstract: The invention provides polynucleotides encoding plant prenyl protease polypeptides, vectors, host cells, and transgenic plant comprising the polynucleotides. The invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants that have altered levels of prenyl protease polynucleotides and polypeptides, and transgenic plants that have increased tolerance to an environmental stress as compared to a wild type plant.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignees: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Performance Plants, Inc.Inventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Stefan Henkes, Damian Allen, Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Ruoying Chen, Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang, Delina Mary-Jane Melo, Monika Maria Kuzma, Angela Patricia Gilley Sample
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Publication number: 20110126313Abstract: The invention provides methods, compositions and transformation systems for modifying the levels of transcription factors in plants such as Solanaceous plants, and introducing disease resistance genes into plants, to produce products with elevated levels of antioxidant compounds, including but not limited to flavonols and chlorogenic acid, as well as exhibiting enhanced disease resistance, and optionally altered appearance. Preferred plants are those in which introduced genes are from Solanaceous species.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Norfolk Plant Sciences LimitedInventors: Jie Luo, Eugenio Butelli, Jonathan Jones, Laurence Tomlinson, Catherine Rosemary Martin
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Publication number: 20110126312Abstract: The invention relates to a specific method for improving the tolerance to salinity of living organisms and eliminating sodium (Na+) from water, soil, sludge or any other medium containing said element, using isolated nucleic acid sequence that codes for the phytochelatin synthase of Nicotiana glaucaType: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2008Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventor: Juan Pedro Navarro Avino
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Publication number: 20110119789Abstract: The invention is directed to transgenic plants transformed with nucleic acids that encode a plant transcription factor that increases the transgenic plant's size and yield and/or delays flowering in the plant, and methods of using and producing the transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Luc J. Adam, Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber
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Publication number: 20110113512Abstract: Trichome specific plant promoters are provided herein. Also provided are transgenic cells and organisms, especially plant cell and plants, comprising an trichome specific promoter and methods for expressing nucleic acid sequences in cells and organisms using trichome specific promoters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Petronella Martina Bleeker, Christianus Cornelis Nicolaas Van Schie, Paul Johan Diergaarde, Robert Cornelis Schuurink, Michael Albertus Haring, Michiel Teodoor Jan De Both
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Publication number: 20110107463Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a flowering plant which can flower at a low light intensity. Specifically, the invention relates to a transgenic plant which can flower in a low light environment; a method for producing the same; a method for inducing the same to flower; and so on. More specifically, the invention relates to a transgenic plant which is engineered so as to flower in a low light environment (e.g., indoors) by introducing a FT gene thereinto; a method for producing the same; a method for inducing the same to flower; and so on.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Yoshikazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 7932434Abstract: A novel resistance gene and its encoded protein isolated from the wild potato, Solanum verrucosum, are disclosed. The gene and protein are useful for conferring disease resistance to plants, particularly resistance to potato late blight disease in solanaceous species such as potato, tomato, and tobacco. Compositions and methods that use the genes and proteins of this invention to enhance plant disease resistance are also disclosed, as are transgenic plants that comprise the novel resistance genes and proteins.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2008Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignees: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Dennis A. Halterman, Zhenyu Liu
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Patent number: 7928289Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of transgenic plants and/or plant cells with increased pathogenic resistance, whereby the transgenic plants or plant cells have an altered content or an altered activity of at least one actin-depolymerising factor (ADF) with relation to the wild type. The invention also relates to the use of nucleic acids, coding for at least one ADF, for the production of transgenic plants or plant cells with increased pathogenic resistance and, furthermore, nucleic acid sequences coding for an ADF.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignees: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zür Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.Inventors: Ralph Panstruga, Marco Miklis, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Markus Frank
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Publication number: 20110088125Abstract: A rose is produced in which an introduced gene is only present in a part of the cells thereof, such as cells of the L1 layer of flower petals, but is not present in germ cells such as pollen cells or ovule cells. Since the introduced gene is not propagated to other roses even when this rose is crossed with other roses, the possibility of dispersal of the introduced gene can be completely negated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: International Flower Developments Proprietary LimitedInventors: Junichi Togami, Ekaterina Mouradova
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Patent number: 7919684Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Patent number: 7919677Abstract: The invention concerns a method for obtaining potyvirus resistant plants exhibiting one or several mutations in a preserved region of the eIF4E translation factor, defined by the following general sequence (I): DX1X2X3X4KSX5QX6AWGSSX7RX8X9YTFSX10VEX11FWX12X13YNNIHX14P SKLX15X16GAD wherein: —X1, X2, X3, X4, X6, X7, X8, X9, X10, X12, X13, X15, et X16 represent each a neutral amino acid; X5 and X14 represent a basic amino acid; X11 represents an acid amino acid; D, K, S, Q, A, W, G, R, Y, T, F, V, E, N, I, H, P, and L have their usual one-letter code meaning.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2003Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Genoplante-ValorInventors: Carole Caranta, Sandrine Ruffel, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Alain Palloix, Christophe Robaglia
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Patent number: 7919680Abstract: The present invention provides DNA constructs, transgenic plants containing such constructs, and methods of making the plants. The DNA constructs encode a polypeptide that when expressed results in the production of fatty acid compounds having anthelmintic activity. Transgenic plants expressing such a polypeptide can exhibit enhanced resistance to plant parasitic nematodes, particularly when expressed in vegetative tissues. Transgenic plants expressing such a polypeptide can also be useful for non-pesticidal industrial uses.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Divergence, Inc.Inventors: Michelle L. Gasper, Catherine Baublite, Andrew P. Kloek, Jennifer A. Davila-Aponte, Michelle Coutu Hresko, Merry B. McLaird, Rodolfo Zentella, Deryck J. Williams
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Publication number: 20110078806Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGYInventors: CAI-ZHONG JIANG, JACQUELINE E. HEARD, OLIVER RATCLIFFE, ROBERT A. CREELMAN, LUC ADAM, T. LYNNE REUBER, JOSE LUIS RIECHMANN, VOLKER HAAKE, ARNOLD N. DUBELL, JAMES S. KEDDIE, BRADLEY K. SHERMAN
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Patent number: 7915484Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Patent number: 7915479Abstract: Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Richard S. Hussey, Guozhong Huang
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Patent number: 7906710Abstract: Disclosed are constructs comprising sequences encoding 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A reductase and at least one other sterol synthesis pathway enzyme. Also disclosed are methods for using such constructs to alter sterol production and content in cells, plants, seeds and storage organs of plants. Also provided are oils and compositions containing altered sterol levels produced by use of the disclosed constructs. Novel nucleotide sequences useful in the alteration of sterol production are also provided. Also provided are cells, plants, seeds and storage organs of plants comprising sequences encoding 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A reductase, at least one other sterol synthesis pathway enzyme and at least one tocopherol synthesis enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Martha Post-Beittenmiller, Mylavarapu Venkatramesh, Ganesh M. Kishore, Gregory M. Thorne, John R. LeDeaux
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Publication number: 20110061121Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a seedless eggplant. The method involves crossing a tetraploid eggplant plant and a diploid eggplant plant to obtain a triploid eggplant seed, and growing a fruit-bearing eggplant plant from the triploid eggplant seed, whereby that fruit is seedless.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Rob Dirks, Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Roeland Voermans, Simone Adriana Maria Oosterwijk, Johannes Henrikus Jacobus Van Den Enden, Jacob Pieter Willem Haanstra
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Patent number: 7902422Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants having reduced sensitivity to ethylene as a result of having a recombinant nucleic acid encoding an F-box protein that interacts with a EIN3 involved in an ethylene response of plants, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with reduced ethylene sensitivity by transforming the plant with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an F-box protein. The inventions also relates to methods of altering the ethylene response in a plant by modulating the activity or expression of an F-box protein.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: The Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Hongwei Guo, Joseph R. Ecker
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Patent number: 7902424Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a transcription factor stress-related protein (TFSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated TFSRP, and isolated nucleic acid coding TFSRP, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. Further provided are methods of producing transgenic plants expressing TFSRP, methods of increasing expression of other genes of interest using the TFSRP, methods of identifying novel TFSRP, and methods of modifying the expression of TFSRP in plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen
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Publication number: 20110055979Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PKSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PKSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Patent number: 7893322Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a transcription factor stress-related protein (TFSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated TFSRP, and isolated nucleic acid coding TFSRP, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. Further provided are methods of producing transgenic plants expressing TFSRP, methods of increasing expression of other genes of interest using the TFSRP, methods of identifying novel TFSRP, and methods of modifying the expression of TFSRP in plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen
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Publication number: 20110041222Abstract: A nucleotide leader sequence 5?-UTR comprises elements favorable to gene expression, such as repeated CAA trinucleotide elements in combination with repeated CT dinucleotide elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2007Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: UNIVERSITA 'DEGLI STUDI DI UDINEInventors: Stefano Marchetti, Francesca De Amicis, Tamara Patti