Rice Patents (Class 800/320.2)
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Publication number: 20140223595Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a DTP6 polypeptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Stephen M. Allen, Jason L. Brothers, Krupa Deshmukh, Honor Renee Lafitte, Xiao-Yi Li, Cheng Lu, Stanley Luck, Jeffrey Mullen, Hajime Sakai, James J. Saylor, Scott V. Tingey, Robert Wayne Williams
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Publication number: 20140223610Abstract: The present invention relates to bio-engineered photosystems, specifically photosystem II (PSII) having an alternative electron transfer pathway that enables electron flow from PSII to a water-soluble protein electron carrier. The present invention further relates to methods and systems for electron transfer using the bio-engineered photosystems. Such photosystems may be utilized for electrical energy production, hydrogen production and/or reduction of carbon-based gases (for example, CO2 and CO) to liquid fuels.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, LTD.Inventors: Noam ADIR, Gadi SCHUSTER, Shirley LAROM, Faris SALAMA
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Publication number: 20140223596Abstract: The present invention provides use of a plant gene JAZ5a for improving drought-resistance of a plant. It further provides a method for improving the drought-resistance of a plant, comprising enhancing the expression or activity of Jaz5A in said plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Adrianus Johannes Van Tunen
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Patent number: 8796511Abstract: The present invention relates to a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, wherein the plant has an increased homoserine level as compared to a plant that is not resistant to the said pathogen, in particular organisms of the phylum Oomycota. The invention further relates to a method for obtaining a plant, which is resistant to a pathogen of viral, bacterial, fungal or oomycete origin, comprising increasing the endogenous homoserine level in the plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.Inventors: Augustinus Franciscus Johannes Maria Van Den Ackerveken, Mireille Maria Augusta Van Damme
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Publication number: 20140215652Abstract: Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences are useful in mediating male fertility in plants. In one such method, the homozygous recessive condition of male sterility causing alleles is maintained after crossing with a second plant, where the second plant contains a restoring transgene construct having a nucleotide sequence which reverses the homozygous condition. The restoring sequence is linked with a hemizygous sequence encoding a product inhibiting formation or function of male gametes. The maintainer plant produces only viable male gametes which do not contain the restoring transgene construct. Increase of the maintainer plant is also provided by self-fertilization, and selection for seed or plants which contain the construct.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: Marc C. Albertsen, Timothy Fox, Howard P. Hershey, Gary A. Huffman, Mary Trimnell, Yongzhong Wu
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Publication number: 20140208462Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to compositions, organisms, systems, and methods for expressing a gene product in a plant using a expression control sequence (ECS) operable in monocots and/or dicots. For example, (i) an isolated nucleic acid may comprise an ECS (e.g., a sugarcane bacilliform virus promoter) and, optionally, an exogenous nucleic acid (ExNA) operably linked to the ECS; (ii) an expression vector may comprise an ECS; an ExNA; and, optionally, a 3? termination sequence, wherein the ECS has promoter activity sufficient to express the ExNA in at least one monocot and at least one dicot; (iii) a microorganism, plant cell, or plant may comprise an isolated nucleic acid; (iv) a method for constitutively expressing an ExNA in a plant (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: Mona DAMAJ, T. Erik MIRKOV
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Publication number: 20140208456Abstract: Rice OsSRO1C gene conferring enhanced drought resistance of a plant is provided, wherein the said gene encodes an amino acid sequences as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2. DNA constructs, transgenic plants or cells comprising the OsSRO1C gene and the uses of the OsSRO1C gene in improving though resistance of a plant are also provided. The OsSRO1C gene controlling rice drought resistance is cloned by screening a rice T-DNA insertion mutant database and determination of expression level and identification of drought stress phenotype, which shows that the mutant is co-segregated with the drought susceptible phenotype.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Lizhong Xiong, Jun You
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Publication number: 20140201858Abstract: The invention relates to organisms and compositions comprising one or more stem cells or one or more embryos, wherein the one or more stem cells or one or more embryos comprise one or more of the following mutations: (i) a deletion mutation; (ii) a knockout mutation; and/or (iii) an addition of a heterologous nucleic acid sequence; wherein the one or more mutations of (i), (ii), and/or (iii) are site-specific mutations caused by a Xanthomonas TAL nuclease (XTN). The invention also relates to method of mutating an embryo, iPS cell, stem cell, or more particularly a spermatogonial stem cell by exposing the nucleic acid sequence contained within such embryos or cell with a Xanthomonas TAL nuclease.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, IncInventors: Eric M. Ostertag, John S. Crawford, J. Keith Joung
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Publication number: 20140201866Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for increasing the seed size and/or seed number in plants. In particular, the methods and compositions provide for the over expression of a plant growth and/or development related or associated gene during embryo development. Transgenic plants transformed with genetic constructs having the plant growth and/or development associated gene under the control of an early phase-specific embryo promoter provides mature plants in the field that produce larger and/or more seeds. Methods for selection growth and development associated genes that provide transgenic plants with a higher yield phenotype are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: TARGETED GROWTH, INC.Inventors: JAY DEROCHER, THU NGUYEN
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Publication number: 20140196168Abstract: A method for producing a genetically modified plant with increased tolerance and/or resistance to water deficit and/or salt as compared to a corresponding non-genetically modified wild type plant is provided. Furthermore, a genetically modified annual or perennial crop plant having increased tolerance and/or resistance to water deficit and/or salt as compared to a corresponding non-genetically modified wild type plant is provided, said plants being capable of achieving a higher plant biomass under conditions of water deficit or soil salt salinity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: SweTree Technologies ABInventors: Stefan Björklund, Celine Davoine, Nils Elfving, Ove Nilsson
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Publication number: 20140196170Abstract: Provided herein are, inter alia, transgenic plants with altered ethylene sensitivity. The transgenic plants provided herein express an EIN2 protein including an amino acid mutation at a position corresponding to position 645 of SEQ ID NO:1. Expression of the EIN2 protein carrying the mutation at position 645 will result in plants with modulated ethylene sensitivity. In some embodiments, the mutation at position 645 of the EIN2 protein will result in plants with increased ethylene sensitivity. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the mutation at position 645 of the EIN2 protein will result in plants with decreased ethylene sensitivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Hong Qiao, Joseph R. Ecker
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Publication number: 20140196178Abstract: A method for engineering a transgenic plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria, such as cyanobacteria, or that of other bacteria, by targeting to or expressing in plant plastids bacterial nif (nitrogen fixation) genes is provided. A method for reducing the overall concentration of nitrogen in soil is provided using a plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria. Progeny of a plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Inventor: Adi Zaltsman
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Publication number: 20140196173Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering agronomic characteristics of plants under nitrogen limiting conditions, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes an LNT6 polypeptide or homolog thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL INC, E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: MILO AUKERMAN, Stephen M. Allen, Dale F. Loussaert, Hajime Sakai, Scott V. Tingey, Stanley Luck
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Publication number: 20140196161Abstract: This invention provides recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. Also provided by this invention is transgenic seed for growing a transgenic plant having recombinant DNA in its genome and exhibiting an enhance agronomic trait, i.e. enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, increased yield, enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced tolerance to cold stress and/or improved seed compositions. Also disclosed are methods for identifying such transgenic plants by screening for nitrogen use efficiency, yield, water use efficiency, growth under cold stress, and seed composition changes. This invention also discloses a method of identifying the target genes of a transcription factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC.Inventors: Mark Scott Abad, Mary Fernandes, Barry S. Goldman
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Patent number: 8772024Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating plant development and for increasing yield in a plant are provided. The compositions include a ZM-ZFP1 sequence. Compositions of the disclosure comprise amino acid sequences and nucleotide sequences selected from SEQ ID NOS: 1 and 2 as well as variants and fragments thereof. Nucleotide sequences encoding the ZM-ZFP1 molecule are provided in DNA constructs for expression in a plant of interest are provided for modulating the level of a ZM-ZFP1 sequence in a plant or a plant part are provided. The methods comprise introducing into a plant or plant part a heterologous polynucleotide comprising a ZM-ZFP1 sequence of the disclosure. The level of the ZM-ZFP1 polypeptide can be increased or decreased. Such method can be used to increase the yield in plants; in one embodiment, the method is used to increase grain yield in cereals.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International IncInventor: Guofu Li
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Publication number: 20140189895Abstract: The present invention provides a method of artificially repressing gene expression, which is simpler to design than conventional methods (the RNAi, ribozyme and antisense methods) and which allows for easier confirmation of the effect. A method of inhibiting the translation reaction of a target gene, comprising cutting out a part of the poly(A) tail and/or 3?-terminal sequence of the target mRNA is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicants: YOSHINDO INC., PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Tadashi Wada, Kei Takeda, Hiroshi Handa
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Publication number: 20140182015Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Yield Enhancing Protein (YEP). The YEP is selected from a Vacuolar Processing Enzyme (VPE) or a CCA1-like polypeptide or a SAP-like polypeptide or a Seed Yield Promoting Factor 1 (SYPF1) polypeptide or a Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) activase (RCA) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding such a YEP, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown YEP-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Willem Broekaert, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Valerie Frankard
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Patent number: 8759506Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the identification and use of introns with gene expression enhancing properties. The teaching of this invention enables the identification of introns causing intron-mediated enhancement (IME) of gene expression. The invention furthermore relates to recombinant expression construct and vectors comprising said IME-introns operably linked with a promoter sequence and a nucleic acid sequence. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants and plant cells transformed with these recombinant expression constructs or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived there from, and to the use of same for the preparation of foodstuffs, animal feeds, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals, to improve plant biomass, yield, or provide desirable phenotypes.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Hee-Sook Song, Christian Dammann, Marc Morra, Jeffrey A. Brown, Liqun Xing, Hongmei Jia
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Publication number: 20140173782Abstract: The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Pioneer Hi Bred International IncInventors: Kanwarpal S Dhugga, Timothy George Helentjaris, Dwight Tomes, Haiyin Wang
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Publication number: 20140165228Abstract: The present disclosure provides polynucleotide sequences relating to the diurnal cycling in maize leaf and ear tissues. The disclosure provides polynucleotide sequences and the use of encoded polypeptides associated with the oscillation. The disclosed sequences are responsible for controlling plant growth, source-sink relationships and yield in crop plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicants: E.I. DUPONT de NEMOURS, PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: OLGA DANILEVSKAYA, Jeffrey E. Habben, Kevin Hayes, Carl Simmons, Stephane Deschamps
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Publication number: 20140165230Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for increasing yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an AT-hook motif nuclear localized 19/20 (AHL19/20) polypeptide, a Growth Regulating Protein (GRP) polypeptide which is a metallothionein 2a (MT2a) polypeptide, or an alanine aminotransferase (AAT) polypeptide. Also provided are plants having increased yield-related traits relative to control plants thus obtained and constructs useful in the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard
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Publication number: 20140165229Abstract: The present invention provides a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ELNINI (comprising an ELNINI signature sequence) polypeptide. The present invention also provides plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ELNINI polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The present invention also provides constructs comprising ELNINI-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Su-May Yu, Swee-Suak Ko, Yue-Le Hsing, Tuan-Hua David Ho, Shuen-Fang Lo
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Transferases and Oxidoreductases, Nucleic Acids Encoding Them and Methods for Making and Using Them.
Publication number: 20140165221Abstract: This invention relates generally to enzymes, polynucleotides encoding the enzymes, the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides and more specifically to enzymes having transferase activity, e.g., transaminase activity, e.g., d-amino-acid transferase activity, and/or oxidoreductase activity, e.g., dehydrogenase activity, e.g., d-amino-acid dehydrogenase activity, and/or catalyze the transfer of a chemical group, catalyze transamination, catalyze the reaction: D-alanine+2-oxoglutarate<=>pyruvate+D-glutamate, and/or catalyze an oxidation-reduction reaction, catalyze the removal of hydrogen atoms, and/or catalyze the reaction: D-amino acid+H2O+acceptor<=>a 2-oxo acid+NH3+reduced acceptor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: VERENIUM CORPORATIONInventors: DAVID P. WEINER, PETER LUGINBUHL, ANALIA BUENO, JOSLIN M. CUENCA, ERIN MARASCO -
Publication number: 20140165234Abstract: This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides and various uses of these sequences. Also provided are transgenic plants, seeds, and plant cells containing DNA for expression of the proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants, methods of making such plants and methods of making agricultural commodity including seeds and hybrid seeds from such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Charles DIETRICH, Stanislaw FLASINSKI, Liang GUO, Zhaolong LI, Bo-Xing QIU, Wei WU
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Publication number: 20140157457Abstract: The application relates to methods for increasing plant yield and transgenic plants with increased yield using a plant protease.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicants: Plant Bioscience Limited, Universidad Nacional De La Plata, Consejo Nacional De Investigaciones Cientificas Y TecnicasInventors: Juan Jose Guiamet, Dana Ethel Martinez
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Publication number: 20140150133Abstract: A genetically modified OsbZIP46CA1 gene is provided. Use of the modified gene in controlling drought resistance of a plant such as rice, and plants and cells comprising the modified gene are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Lizhong Xiong, Ning Tang
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Patent number: 8735657Abstract: Increased tolerance to abiotic stress in a plant is provided by introducing DNA expressing a cold shock protein, e.g. bacterial cold shock protein.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Mary Fernandes
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Publication number: 20140143900Abstract: The invention provides a plant cell, part, tissue culture or whole plant comprising at least one disrupted KRP gene of the present invention. The present invention also provides methods of increasing weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield of a plant by utilizing the disrupted KRP genes of the present invention. Furthermore, methods of breeding plants to produce new plants having increased weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield are provided. The present invention provides isolated Kinase Inhibitor Protein (KIP) Related Protein (KRP) polynucleotide sequences and isolated KRP polypeptide sequences and methods of their use. Exemplary plants include wheat, rice and soybean.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Targeted Growth, Inc.Inventors: Jean Paul Olivier, Dayna L. Loeffler
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Publication number: 20140143911Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to seed specific gene expression during a defined period of embryogenesis. The present invention provides promoters capable of transcribing heterologous nucleic acid sequences in seeds, and methods of modifying, producing, and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: QI WANG, LISA M. WEAVER, TIM N. ULMASOV, JEFFREY E. AHRENS, PATRICE DUBOIS, JEFFERY QINGXI SHEN
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Publication number: 20140137277Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors are introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. These polypeptides may confer at least one regulatory activity and increased photosynthetic resource use efficiency, increased yield, greater vigor, greater biomass as compared to a control plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Graham J. Hymus, Colleen M. Marion, T. Lynne Reuber, Oliver J. Ratcliffe
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Publication number: 20140137289Abstract: A method for accumulating a protein in a plant cell, in which by co-expressing a gene which encodes a polypeptide having an ability to form an ER body, and a gene which encodes a target protein having an endomembrane system migration signal peptide at the N-terminus and having an ER retention signal peptide at the C-terminus in the plant cell, the target protein or a protein in which the N-terminus domain of the target protein is lacking is accumulated in an ER body formed in the plant cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Kyoto UniversityInventors: Yoichi Ogawa, Yasuhiro Kondo, Ikuko Nishimura, Tomoo Shimada, Makoto Shirakawa
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Publication number: 20140135375Abstract: Compositions and methods for delivery of therapeutic RNA molecules are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyInventor: Eric Lam
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Publication number: 20140130201Abstract: Mainly provided is a technique for directly identifying the genotype at locus Rf17 based on the specific base sequence data thereof. Also provided is a technique for artificially constructing a fertility-restored line. A method of restoring the fertility of CW-type cytoplasmic male sterile rice by inhibiting or reducing the expression of a gene comprising the base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2 in the above-described rice, and a method for determining the presence or absence of gene Rf17, which is a fertility restorer gene for CW-type cytoplasmic male sterility, comprising identifying a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the base at the 1812 position of the base sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 in the rice to be examined.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITYInventors: KINYA TORIYAMA, SOTA FUJI
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Publication number: 20140130205Abstract: This invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences, specifically transcription terminator sequences. Plant transcription terminator sequences are described herein. Methods for identifying novel plant transcription terminator sequences that can terminate transcription in one orientation or in a bidirectional manner and methods of using these terminator sequences to generate transgenic plants are described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Priyanka Bhyri, Nandini Krishnamurthy, Eswar Narayanan, Ajit Nott, Rinku Ranjan Sarangi
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Publication number: 20140127266Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of making a vaccine against Entamoeba histolytica and methods of immunizing a subject using such vaccine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Henry Daniell
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Publication number: 20140130206Abstract: The invention provides isolated pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL INC, E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: EDGAR B. CAHOON, REBECCA E. CAHOON, SAVERIO CARL FALCO, YIWEN FANG, SABINE S. HANTKE, ANTHONY J. KINNEY, JIAN-MING LEE, ZHONGSEN LI, GUO-HUA MIAO, MICHELE MORGANTE, XIPING NIU, JOAN T. ODELL, J ANTONI RAFALSKI, HAJIME SAKAI, PEIZHONG ZHENG, QUINN QUN ZHU
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Publication number: 20140130202Abstract: The present invention relates to plant genes involved in negative regulation of resistance to biotic and/or abiotic stress and uses thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to plants comprising an inactivated MADS-box gene function, and having increased resistance to biotic and/or abiotic stress. The invention also relates to methods for producing modified plants having increased resistance to fungal, bacterial pathogens and/or to drought stress. In particular, the invention relates to methods for producing plants with inactivated MAD26 gene, or an ortholog thereof, and exhibiting resistance to biotic and/or abiotic stress.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2011Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Pascal Gantet, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Ngangiang Khong, Jean-Benoit Morel
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Publication number: 20140123343Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a variant synovial sarcoma translocation (SYT) polypeptide comprising or consisting of any one or more of the following domains: an SNH domain; a Met-rich domain; and a QG-rich domain. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding such a variant SYT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Constructs useful in the method are provided as well.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Valerie Frankard, Marieke Louwers
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Publication number: 20140123344Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PtMYB12L polypeptide in a plant. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PtMYB12L polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are PtMYB12L-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventor: Christophe Reuzeau
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Publication number: 20140123338Abstract: Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences and promoter sequences are useful in methods mediating male fertility in plants, as described. Vectors, plant cells, and plants comprising the nucleotide sequences and/or promoter regions are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INCInventors: Marc C. Albertsen, Timothy Fox, Howard P. Hershey, Gary A. Huffman, Mary Trimnel, Yongzhong Wu
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Publication number: 20140123331Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors are introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. These polypeptides may confer at least one regulatory activity and increased photosynthetic resource use efficiency, transpiration efficiency, increased yield, greater vigor, and/or greater biomass as compared to a control plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Graham J. Hymus, Colleen M. Marion, T. Lynne Reuber, Oliver J. Ratcliffe
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Publication number: 20140115738Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating plant development and for increasing yield in a plant are provided. The compositions include a ZmWSPL sequence. Compositions of the invention comprise amino acid sequences and nucleotide sequences as well as variants and fragments thereof. Nucleotide sequences encoding the ZmWSPL protein are provided in DNA constructs for expression in a plant of interest are provided for modulating the level of a ZmWSPL sequence in a plant or a plant part are provided. The methods comprise introducing into a plant or plant part a heterologous polynucleotide comprising a ZmWSPL sequence of the invention. The level of the ZmWSPL polypeptide can be increased or decreased. Such method can be used to increase the yield in plants; in one embodiment, the method is used to increase grain yield in cereals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: GUOFU LI, KELLIE REIMANN, JIJUN ZOU
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Publication number: 20140115734Abstract: A rice cultivar designated Calhikari-202 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar Calhikari-202, to the plants of rice Calhikari-202 and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar Calhikari-202 with itself or another rice variety. The invention further relates to hybrid rice seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar Calhikari-202 with another rice cultivar.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation, Inc.
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Publication number: 20140115737Abstract: This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Mark Scott Abad
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Publication number: 20140109248Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new rice cultivar that matures earlier than the original cultivar, and a method for causing a rice individual to mature earlier. The present invention relates to a rice cultivar Koshihikari kazusa no. 5 having the cultivar registration application number 25586, a progeny individual obtained by crossbreeding two individuals selected from the group consisting of an individual of the aforementioned cultivar and a progeny individual thereof, and a method for causing a rice individual to mature earlier that comprises replacing a region corresponding to a region containing base number 31,720,064 to base number 31,724,043 of the third chromosome of rice cultivar Nipponbare with a chromosome fragment composed of the corresponding region of rice cultivar Koshihikari kazusa no. 5 or rice cultivar Habataki in the third chromosome of the rice individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventor: Shaoyang Lin
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Publication number: 20140101789Abstract: The present invention provides genetically modified plants having increased tolerance to environmental abiotic stress, particularly to salt stress and water stress (drought). The tolerant genetically modified plants of the invention include transgenic plants overexpressing at least one inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase selected from 5TPase7 5TPase9 and plants having altered expression of the Endonuclease/Exonuclease/Phosphatase (EEP) protein ZEEP1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Inventors: Alex Levine, Yuval Kaye, Yael Golani
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Publication number: 20140090110Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by increasing expression in plants of a nucleic acid encoding a Low Sulfur Upregulated polypeptide (LSU). Also provided are plants having increased expressing of a nucleic encoding an LSU polypeptide, which have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are LSU-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Jenny Russinova
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Publication number: 20140090109Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new rice cultivar that matures earlier than the original cultivar, and a method for causing a rice individual to mature earlier. The present invention relates to a rice cultivar Koshihikari kazusa no. 6 having the cultivar registration application number 25587, a progeny individual obtained by crossbreeding two individuals selected from the group consisting of an individual of the aforementioned cultivar and a progeny individual thereof, and a method for causing a rice individual to mature earlier that comprises replacing a region corresponding to a region containing base number 31,720,064 to base number 31,724,043 of the third chromosome of rice cultivar Nipponbare with a chromosome fragment composed of the corresponding region of rice cultivar Koshihikari kazusa no. 6 or rice cultivar Habataki in the third chromosome of the rice individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Shaoyang Lin
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Publication number: 20140090103Abstract: The present invention discloses novel plant homologs of the Arabidopsis peptide atPEP1. atPEP peptides in Arabidopsis are involved in the amplification of defense pathways involved in innate immunity against microbial pathogens. Homologs to atPEP1 identified in soy, corn, rice, wheat, and canola sequence databases are potential sources for transgenes to enhance crop yield through resistance to biotic and/or abiotic stresses. Chimeric genes comprising sequences from mature and precursor plant defense response polypeptides from a given species, and from different species, as well as the encoded polypeptide sequences, are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: John Pitkin, Steven E. Screen, Zhidong Xie
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Publication number: 20140090114Abstract: Recombinant polynucleotides useful for improvement of plants are provided. In particular, polynucleotide sequences are provided from plant sources. Polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotide sequences are also provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Inventor: David K. Kovalic