Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating plant development and for increasing yield in a plant are provided. The compositions include a ZM-CIPK1 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-CIPK1 molecule are provided in DNA constructs for expression in a plant of interest are provided for modulating the level of a ZM-CIPK1 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-CIPK1 sequence of the disclosure. The level of the ZM-CIPK1 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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation of Jatropha curcas curcin genes and tissue-specific promoters and to the production of curcin-deficient Jatropha plants. More specifically, the present invention relates to the isolation of Jatropha curcas Curcin 1, Curcin 2 and Curcin 2 A. The present invention further relates to of the Curcin 1, Curcin 2 A and Curcin 2 genes and more particularly to tissue specific promoters of the Curcin 1 and Curcin 2A genes. The present invention further relates to production of curcin-deficient transgenic jatropha plants by using RNAi technology to suppress curcin gene expression.

Abstract: The cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis) Or gene is a semi-dominant, single-locus mutation. It induces the accumulation of high levels of beta-carotene in various tissues that are normally devoid of carotenoids, turning them orange. Using a map-based cloning strategy, we identified a single candidate gene representing Or and successfully verified its identity by phenotypic complementation in the wild type cauliflower. The Or gene encodes a plastid membrane protein containing the DnaJ zinc figure domain. A likely gain-of-function mutation from a 4.3-kb retrotransposon insertion in the Or allele confers the orange phenotype in the mutant. Southern blot analysis revealed that Or is a single-copy sequence in the cauliflower genome. High level of expression of the Or gene and the protein was found in very young leaves, curds, and flowers at comparable abundance between wild type and the Or mutant.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel non-coding gene regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated or identified from the beta-conglycinin gene of Glycine max and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds comprising the regulatory polynucleotide molecules, and methods for preparing and using the same.

Abstract: This invention relates to phytases, polynucleotides encoding them, uses of the polynucleotides and polypeptides of the invention, as well as the production and isolation of such polynucleotides and polypeptides. In particular, the invention provides polypeptides having phytase activity under high temperature conditions, and phytases that retain activity after exposure to high temperatures. The invention further provides phytases which have increased gastric lability. The phytases of the invention can be used in foodstuffs to improve the feeding value of phytate rich ingredients. The phytases of the invention can be formulated as foods or feeds or supplements for either to, e.g., aid in the digestion of phytate.

Abstract: The invention is directed to isolated polynucleotide and polypeptides of the PsAFB2 and PsAFB6 genes from Pisum sativum; nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells incorporating the polynucleotide sequences; and methods of producing and using same. Also provided are transformed cells, and transgenic seeds and plants with enhanced abiotic stress tolerance.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The invention provides isolated maize EIN3, ERF3, EBF1, EBF2, EIN5 nucleic acids which are associated with ethylene signaling in plants and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering ethylene sensitivity in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants and antibody compositions.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W010323D1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W010323D1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W010323D1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W010323D1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W010323D1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W010323D1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: The enzymes of the ACC synthase family are used in producing ethylene. Nucleotide and polypeptide sequences of ACC synthases, namely ACS2, ACS6, and ACS7 from Zea mays, are provided. Knockout plant cells having inhibition in expression and/or activity in an ACC synthase such as ACS2, ACS6, or ACS7 and knockout plants displaying a staygreen phenotype, a male sterility phenotype, or an inhibition in ethylene production are also provided, as are seeds obtained from such plants. Methods for modulating staygreen potential in plants, methods for modulating sterility in plants, and methods for inhibiting ethylene production in plants are also provided.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W980052N1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W980052N1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W980052N1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W980052N1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W980052N1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W980052N1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W930070B1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W930070B1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W930070B1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W930070B1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W930070B1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W930070B1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W990624B1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W990624B1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W990624B1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W990624B1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W990624B1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W990624B1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for targeting polypeptides to plant vacuoles are provided. Nucleic acid molecules having nucleotide sequences encoding a vacuole-targeting peptide, variants, or fragments thereof are provided. The sequences also can be used for targeting defensin proteins or other polypeptides to vacuoles in plants. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed also are provided.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W000600H3, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W000600H3, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W000600H3 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W000600H3 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W000600H3. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W000600H3 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated 25R30, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 25R30, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 25R30 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 25R30 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 25R30. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 25R30 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated 25R34, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 25R34, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 25R34 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 25R34 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 25R34. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 25R34 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated 25R40, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 25R40, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 25R40 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 25R40 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 25R40. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 25R40 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W000570E1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W000570E1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W000570E1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W000570E1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W000570E1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W000570E1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W000350D2, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W000350D2, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W000350D2 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W000350D2 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W000350D2. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W000350D2 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to wheat plants having increased resistance to an imidazolinone herbicide. More particularly, the present invention includes wheat plants containing one or more IMI nucleic acids such as an Einkorn IMI cultivar. The present invention also includes seeds produced by these wheat plants and methods of controlling weeds in the vicinity of these wheat plants.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for engineering plants to have reduced levels of acetylation by decreasing expression of one or more Cas1L genes. Such plants can be used, e.g., to increase yield for biofuel production.

Abstract: The invention provides isolated floral transition nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering floral transition in plants. The invention further provides regulatory elements, recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants.

Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W010704F1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W010704F1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W010704F1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W010704F1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W010704F1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W010704F1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat cultivar designated DA904-32W, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of wheat cultivar DA904-32W, to the plants of wheat DA904-32W, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing wheat cultivar DA904-32W with itself or another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar DA904-32W, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar DA904-32W, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar DA904-32W with another wheat cultivar.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Ste20-like polypeptide or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant a Ste20-like nucleic acid or variant thereof. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having introduced therein a Ste20-like nucleic acid or variant thereof, which plants have increased yield relative to control plants. The present invention also concerns constructs useful in the methods of the invention.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated 25R32, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 25R32, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 25R32 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 25R32 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 25R32. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 25R32 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: Compositions and methods comprising promoters from the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) gene and active variants and fragments thereof, as well as chimeric promoters employing regulatory regions of the HPPD promoters are provided. Further provided are expression cassettes and plants comprising the various promoters disclosed herein operably linked to a polynucleotide of interest. Methods employing the various promoters described herein to modulate the expression of polynucleotides of interest are further provided.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide sequence that encodes for a multi domain recombination protein, comprising a donor DNA-Binding domain (BDB); and a chromosomal binding domain (CBD). A plant cell can be transformed by introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid sequence, which comprises a plant nuclear promoter operably linked to a first nucleic acid sequence comprising the stated polynucleotide sequence, and a second nucleic acid sequence, which comprises a donor nucleic acid sequence and at least two flanking sequences capable of binding to a donor binding domain of the protein, the sequences being located adjacent to each end of the donor polynucleotide sequence forming left and right borders thereto.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W990117E1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W990117E1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W990117E1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W990117E1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W990117E1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W990117E1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: Wheat having a reduced level of SBEIIa activity, that may have a relative high amylose content. Wheat having a mutant SBEIIa gene in the A genome. The wheat might additionally have reduced levels of SBEIIb activity. The wheat grain of this invention can be of a non-shrunken phenotype despite a lesion in the amylopectin synthesis pathway, and may also have a high relative amylose content.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W980281J1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W980281J1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W980281J1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W980281J1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W980281J1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W980281J1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W000273A1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W000273A1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W000273A1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W000273A1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W000273A1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W000273A1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W980118Q1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W980118Q1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W980118Q1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W980118Q1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W980118Q1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W980118Q1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: Disclosed are chill- or cold-tolerant plants and methods of making the plants. Also disclosed are methods for identifying a plant that is tolerant to chill.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Brevis Radix-like (BRXL) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a BRXL polypeptide, which plants have increased yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention additionally relates to nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and plants containing said nucleic acid sequences.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Nucleic acids, vectors, and expression vectors comprising novel plant gene regulatory elements from sorghum. Novel transgenic plants expressing heterologous genes under the control of novel gene regulatory elements.

Abstract: 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 LNT9 polypeptide.

Abstract: 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 a SNF2 domain-containing polypeptide.

Abstract: This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides and various uses of these sequences such as transcript profiling. 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.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments for altering root structure during plant development are disclosed along with methods of root structure alteration during plant development.

Abstract: This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides. 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.

Abstract: This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides. 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.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an IMQ nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.

Abstract: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, whereby the genetic modification leads to an increase in the activity of a starch-phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison to the corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have not been genetically modified. In addition, the present invention concerns means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. These types of plant cells and plants synthesise a modified starch. Therefore, the present invention also concerns the starches synthesised from the plant cells and plants according to the invention, methods for manufacturing these starches, and the manufacture of starch derivatives of these modified starches, as well as flours containing starches according to the invention. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to nucleic acids, coding starch-phosphorylating OK1 proteins, vectors, host cells, plant cells, and plants containing such nucleic acid molecules.

Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotide molecules isolated from Zea mays and Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants.

Abstract: 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.