Solanaceae (e.g., Eggplant, Etc.) Patents (Class 800/317)
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Patent number: 7888559Abstract: 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: March 11, 2009Date of Patent: February 15, 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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Publication number: 20110030089Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicants: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, University of Maine System Board of TrusteesInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Patent number: 7880056Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Signal Transduction Stress-Related Protein (STSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated STSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding STSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Manabu Ishitani
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Publication number: 20110016579Abstract: The invention provides a method for creating a transgenic plant comprising a gene containing a DNA to encode a transporter protein which selectively absorbs mugineic acid-iron complex. The transgenic plant is useful as a plant capable of growing in alkaline soil containing no bivalent iron but containing, for example, trivalent iron.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2005Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicants: SUNTORY LIMITED, SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Yoshiko Murata, Takashi Iwashita
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Publication number: 20110010800Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBHInventors: Gerhard Ritte, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
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Publication number: 20100333239Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: MEE LEN CHYE, Qinfang Chen, Shi Xiao
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Patent number: 7858847Abstract: 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: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20100325759Abstract: 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: September 1, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans J. Bohnert, Nocha van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20100325760Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated DNA molecule encoding a fagopyritol synthase. A method for producing a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor is also described. The method includes providing a fagopyritol synthase, providing a substrate comprising a galactosyl donor and a galactosyl acceptor, and combining the fagopyritol synthase with the substrate under conditions effective produce a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: CORNELL UNIVERSITYInventors: Ralph L. Obendorf, Takashi Ueda
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Patent number: 7855319Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Patent number: 7855324Abstract: 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: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Cosdta e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans J. Bohnert, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan
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Publication number: 20100299783Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Republic of Korea, Rural Development AdministrationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 7838731Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a GTP Binding Stress-Related Protein (GBSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated GBSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding GBSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Ruoying Chen, Nocha Van Thielen, Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Hans Bohnert
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Patent number: 7838742Abstract: The present invention provides pepper plants having edible fruit with altered vitamin content, specifically fruit comprising an elevated content of vitamin E, further comprising at least one of an elevated content of pro-vitamin A, an elevated content of vitamin C and combinations thereof. The concentration of vitamin E is at least 5 mg/100 g fresh weight, and the plants are selected to be lacking molecular markers linked to undesirable traits.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignees: Hazera Genetics Ltd., State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Research OrganizationInventors: Arieh Levy, Nissim Yonash, Alon Haberfeld, Serge Benarous, Joseph Kanner, Rina Granit, Ezra Menagem, Michal Barzilai
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Publication number: 20100293665Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
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Patent number: 7834243Abstract: The invention relates to promoter regions, under the control of which transgenes can be expressed in plants in an epidermis-specific and pathogen-inducible manner. The invention also relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules, including the promoters, to transgenic plants and plant cells, transformed with said the nucleic acid molecules and to methods for producing the same. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules, including a promoter according to the invention, nucleic acid sequences or transgenes, which can convey resistance to pathogens, plants and cell plants, transformed with the nucleic acid molecules and methods for producing the same. The invention also relates to the use of the promoter region according to the invention for analyzing pathogen-induced signal transduction pathways in plant cells.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik Und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK)Inventors: Patrick Schweizer, Axel Himmelbach, Lothar Altschmied, Helmut Maucher
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Publication number: 20100287641Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: John A. McElver, Bijay Singh
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Patent number: 7825296Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Oliver Ratcliffe, Robert A. Creelman, T. Lynne Reuber, Jose Luis Riechmann
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Patent number: 7825297Abstract: DNA constructions that provide for production of potent antifungal proteins in transgenic plants and transformed yeast cells are described. Methods of using the DNA constructs to produce transgenic plants that inhibit growth of plant pathogenic fungi are also disclosed. The use of transformed yeast cells containing the DNA constructs to produce the antifungal proteins and methods of isolating the antifungal proteins are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Donald Danforth Plant Science CenterInventors: Dilip Maganlal Shah, Anita Kay Snyder
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Patent number: 7825294Abstract: Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include an amino acid sequence, and variants and fragments thereof, for an antipathogenic polypeptide that was isolated from a fungal fermentation broth. Nucleic acid molecules that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the invention, and antipathogenic domains thereof, are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Daniel J. Altier, I. A. Ellanskaya, Jacob T. Gilliam, Jennie Hunter-Cevera, James K Presnail, Eric Schepers, Carl R. Simmons, Tamas Torok, Nasser Yalpani
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Publication number: 20100269217Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventor: Esther van der Knaap
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Patent number: 7816579Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transgenic plant transformed with an isolated polynucleotide comprising a plant arsenate reductase coding sequence operatively linked to a plant-expressible transcription regulatory sequence. Also disclosed are methods to limit metal or metal ion accumulation in a harvested plant tissue comprising growing the transgenic plant; and harvesting plant tissue having reduced metal or metal ion accumulation. Further disclosed herein is method of making a transgenic plant transformed with an isolated polynucleotide comprising a plant arsenate reductase coding sequence operatively linked to a plant-expressible transcription regulatory sequence.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: The University of MassachusettsInventor: Om Parkash
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Publication number: 20100257633Abstract: The present invention provides a method for obtaining a plant with increased stress resistance relative to a wild-type plant, comprising: (a) introducing at least one mutation or exogenous nucleic acid into the genome of one or more plant cells which results in reduced activity associated with SAL1 or a homologue thereof in said one or more plant cells; (b) regenerating one or more plants from said one or more plant cells; and (c) selecting one or more plants that have increased stress resistance relative to a wild-type plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Barry James Pogson, Philippa Bronwyn Wilson, Jan Bart Rossel
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Patent number: 7807873Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to seed specific gene expression. The present invention provides promoters capable of transcribing heterologous nucleic acid sequences in seeds, and methods of modifying, producing, and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Qi Wang, Tanya Fagaly, Ronald Bassuner, Jihong Liang, Tim N. Oulmassov, John Dabrowski
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Publication number: 20100251416Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
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Publication number: 20100251426Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2007Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventors: Niranjan Chakraborty, Subhra Chakraborty, Asis Datta, Deepti Bhusan
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Patent number: 7799971Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of transgenic plants and/or plant cells, respectively, with increased pathogen resistance, characterized in that a DNA sequence, which encodes a protein with the activity of a peroxidase, is inserted into the plant and expressed therein. The invention at hand also relates to the use of nucleic acids encoding a peroxidase for the production of transgenic plants, or plant cells, respectively, with increased pathogen resistance. Further, the invention at hand relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding a peroxidase of barley.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Sciences GmbHInventors: Markus Frank, Ralf-Michael Schmidt, Sandra Stauder
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Patent number: 7795500Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2008Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans Bohnert
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Patent number: 7795503Abstract: Materials and methods are provided for identifying regulatory region-regulatory protein associations and modulating expression of a sequence of interest. For example, a plant cell is provided containing a regulatory protein that can modulate expression of one or more genes involved in alkaloid biosynthesis in plants, which, in turn, can modulate the amount and/or rate of biosynthesis of one or more alkaloid compounds.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Steven Craig Bobzin, Joon-Hyun Park
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Patent number: 7786348Abstract: The present invention relates to enzymes from the cytochrome P450 family and to the nucleotide sequences encoding them, and to their use in a method for the generation of pathogen-resistant plants.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Ivo Feuβner, Michael Stumpe
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Patent number: 7786342Abstract: A method for breeding double flower Calibrachoa sp. plants using controlled crosses of selected parent plants is disclosed. The invention additionally relates to methods for breeding double flower Calibrachoa plants using anther culture and induced mutation techniques. Finally, the invention relates to new Calibrachoa plants produced by the described methods and characterized by their unique double flowers.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Klemm + Sohn GmbH & Co.Inventors: Anita Stöver, Andrea Dohm, Ulrich Sander, Nils Klemm
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Publication number: 20100218282Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventors: HENRY T. NGUYEN, JOEL A. KREPS
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Publication number: 20100212046Abstract: The present invention relates to a SP3D promotor sequence, capable of directing transcription of a downstream SP3D gene that is operably linked to said promotor sequence, wherein the promotor sequence is derived from a species of the Solanaceae family having a sympodial index of 2, for reducing sympodial index in plants having a sympodial index of 3 or more. The invention also relates to methods for providing plants of the Solanaceae family, in particular S. lycopersicum, having a reduced sympodial index comprising of introducing into the genome of said plants a promotor sequence according to any of the claims 1-8 in operable linkage with a downstream SP3D gene, or introducing into said plants a gene construct according to any of the claims 9 to 15, such that the sympodial index of the plant with the promotor sequence or gene construct is reduced as compared to the plant without said promotor sequence or gene construct, and to plants obtainable by said methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2007Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventor: Jozef Wilhelmus Gerardus HELDENS
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Publication number: 20100205690Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Bläsing, Piotr Puzio, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Potzdam, Hardy Schön
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Publication number: 20100192264Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing transformed plant cells or organisms by transforming a population of plant cells which comprises at least one marker protein having a direct or indirect toxic effect for the population, with at least one nucleic acid sequence to be inserted in combination with at least one compound, preferably a DNA construct, capable of reducing the expression, amount, activity and/or function of the marker protein, with the transformed plant cells having a growth advantage over nontransformed cells, due to the action of the compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Sciences GmbHInventors: Michael Kock, Markus Frank, Ralf Badur
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Patent number: 7763776Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2008Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans Bohnert
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Publication number: 20100175149Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Stress-Related Polypeptide (SRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in the plant's increased growth under normal or stress conditions 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 plants. Also provided are isolated SRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding SRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2007Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Amber Shirley, Damian Allen
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Publication number: 20100162434Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase-Like Stress-Related Polypeptide (SHSRP) 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 SHSRPs, and isolated novel nucleic acids encoding SHSRPs, and vectors and transgenic plant containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
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Publication number: 20100162432Abstract: The invention relates generally to transformed plant cells and plants comprising an in-activated or down-regulated gene resulting in increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress and increased biomass production as compared to non-transformed wild type cells and methods of producing such plant cells or plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm
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Publication number: 20100154075Abstract: Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules isolated from coffee (Coffea spp.) comprising sequences that encode mannan synthase or galactomannan galactosyltransferase. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides for gene regulation and manipulation of the polysaccharide molecules of coffee plants, to influence extraction characteristics and other features of coffee beans.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2006Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicants: Nestec S.A., Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: James Gerard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Victoria Caillet, Chenwei Lin, Steven D. Tanksley
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Publication number: 20100138962Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of transgenic plants having modified growth and to the use of chromatin remodeling genes, in particular Arabidopsis gene (AtCHR12) and homologs and orthologs thereof, for making such plants. AtCHR12 is involved in the flexible modulation of growth characteristics in development, notably after the perception of environmental stress. It demonstrates the intimate relationships between environment, chromatin and growth in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2007Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Ludmila Mlynárová, Ton Bisseling
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Publication number: 20100138954Abstract: The present invention relates to the genes involved in the biosynthetic pathway for sesquiterpenes of SB type (alpha-santalene, epi-beta-santalene, cis-alpha-bergamotene, trans-alpha-bergamotene and endo-beta-bergamotene,) and for the precursor thereof, Z,Z-farnesyl diphosphate (Z,Z-FPP), involving a Z,Z-FPP synthase and a sesquiterpene SB synthase, and to the uses thereof for producing sesquiterpeniques compounds of SB type.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.Inventors: Christophe Sallaud, Denis Rontein, Alain Tissier
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Publication number: 20100132074Abstract: The present invention relates to methodology and constructs for modifying plant architecture and enhancing plant biomass and/or sucrose yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2007Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Paula Goncalves De Araujo, Jesus Aparecido Ferro, Marcos Alegria, Ricardo Augusto Dante
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Patent number: 7714184Abstract: Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include novel amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from maize. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the embodiments are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant a DNA construct comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Mathias L. Muller, Carl R. Simmons, Nasser Yalpani
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Patent number: 7714190Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a GTP Binding Stress-Related Protein (GBSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated GBSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding GBSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Nocha Van Thielen, Ruoying Chen, Hans Bohnert
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Publication number: 20100107279Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Jose Luis Riechmann, Luc Adam, Jacqueline E. Heard, Marsha L. Pilgrim, Cai-Zhong Jiang, T. Lynne Reuber, Robert A. Creelman, Omaira Pineda, Guo-Liang Yu
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Publication number: 20100104704Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for removing acrylamide and/or melanoidin forming cellular ingredients from starchy plant material without enabling to remove a considerable amount of starch from the cells by washing, comprising the process steps of: providing the biological material, irreversible electroporation of the biological material, and obtaining plant material having a reduced amount of acrylamide and/or melanoidin forming cellular ingredients, the starch content of which is not enabled to be considerably reduced by washing as compared to the starting material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: INTERSNACK KNABBERGEBACK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Bernhard Ulrich, Reiner Haferkamp, Martin Kern
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Patent number: 7700832Abstract: Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from fungal fermentation broths. Nucleic acids that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Daniel J. Altier, Virginia C. Crane, Irina Ellanskaya, Natalia Ellanskaya, legal representative, Jacob T. Gilliam, Jennie Hunter-Cevera, James K. Presnail, Eric J. Schepers, Carl R. Simmons, Tamas Torok, Nasser Yalpani
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Patent number: 7700827Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of producing transgenic plants which are resistant to at least one metal ion by transforming the plant with a recombinant DNA comprising a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial arsenic reductase under the control of a plant expressible promoter, and a nucleic acid encoding a nucleotide sequence encoding a phytochelatin biosynthetic enzyme under the control of a plant expressible promoter. The invention also relates a method of phytoremediation of a contaminated site by growing in the site a transgenic plant expressing a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial arsenate reductase and a nucleic acid encoding a phytochelatin biosynthetic enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Richard B. Meagher, Yujing Li, Om P. Dhankher
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Patent number: 7696410Abstract: This invention relates to the purified and isolated family of Rps1-k disease resistance genes, proteins encoded thereby and use of the same to confer, enhance or otherwise modify resistance of soybean to plant pathogens, particularly Phytophthora sojae.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Madan K. Bhattacharyya