Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated XY06-892, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar XY06-892, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar XY06-892 with themselves or with plants from 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 XY06-892, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar XY06-892, 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 XY06-892 with another wheat cultivar.

Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic plants with altered oil content. The invention further provides nucleic acid sequences and methods for generating such plants.

Abstract: 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 PRR-like (Pseudo Response Regulator-like) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PRR-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides an hitherto unknown PRR-like-encoding nucleic acid, and construct comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.

Abstract: Recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides useful for improvement of plants are provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties.

Abstract: The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments useful in altering the oil phenotype in plants are disclosed. Chimeric construct incorporating such nucleic acid fragments and suitable regulatory sequences can be used to create transgenic plants having altered lipid profiles. Methods for altering the oil phenotype in plants using such nucleic acid fragments also are disclosed.

Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated SJ907-229, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar SJ907-229, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar SJ907-229 with themselves or with plants from 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 SJ907-229, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ907-229, 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 SJ907-229 with another wheat cultivar.

Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated BZ6W07-427, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427 with themselves or with plants from 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 BZ6W07-427, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427, 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 BZ6W07-427 with another wheat cultivar.

Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated BZ6W07-458, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458 with themselves or with plants from 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 BZ6W07-458, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458, 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 BZ6W07-458 with another wheat cultivar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to stress tolerant transgenic wheat plants. In particular, the present invention relates to stress tolerant transgenic wheat plants comprising an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a NAC transcription factor operably linked to a promoter capable of directing expression of the polynucleotide in a cell of the plant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the specific silencing of the ? (alpha), ? (beta), ? (gamma) and ? (omega)-gliadins of hard wheat for flour by RNA interference (RNAi) through employment of a polynucleotide which is transcribed into an hpRNA (hairpin RNA). Furthermore the present invention additionally relates to a vector, cell, plant or seed comprising the polynucleotide, the expression whereof is specifically directed in particular tissues of wheat seeds through gene expression-regulating sequences such as, for example, the promoter of a gene of ?-gliadins or the promoter of the gene encoding for a D-hordein.

Abstract: A wheat cultivar designated HY 319-SWW is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds and plants of wheat cultivar HY 319-SWW, and to methods for producing wheat seeds and plants by crossing wheat cultivar HY 319-SWW with itself or another wheat cultivar or wheat plant not designated a cultivar. The invention also relates to methods for producing seeds and plants of wheat cultivar HY 319-SWW 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 methods for producing seeds and plants by mutagenesis of wheat cultivar HY 319-SWW. The invention also relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar HY 319-SWW with another wheat cultivar.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, or 6, as well as variants and fragments thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to enzymes having xylanase, mannanase and/or glucanase activity, e.g., catalyzing hydrolysis of internal ?-1,4-xylosidic linkages or endo-?-1,4-glucanase linkages; and/or degrading a linear polysaccharide beta-1,4-xylan into xylose. Thus, the invention provides methods and processes for breaking down hemicellulose, which is a major component of the cell wall of plants, including methods and processes for hydrolyzing hemicelluloses in any plant or wood or wood product, wood waste, paper pulp, paper product or paper waste or byproduct. In addition, methods of designing new xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases have increased activity and stability at increased pH and temperature.

Abstract: 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 F-box Skp2-like polypeptide, or a DUF584 polypeptide. The present invention also provides plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an F-box Skp2-like polypeptide, or a DUF584 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared to control plants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transgenic plant overexpressing an antioxidant protein 1 (ATX1)-like polypeptide, which exhibits resistance to excess or deficiency of copper. The present invention also relates to a method of phytoremediation of an environment contaminated with copper by growing a transgenic plant overexpressing an ATX1-like polypeptide in the environment.

Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) through plant stomata by controlling CO2 sensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell.

Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.

Abstract: Transgenic plants with enhanced punicic acid accumulation result from over-expression of PgFADX and PgFAD2, and optionally, one or more of PgDGAT1, PgDGAT2, and PgPDAT1. The invention also relates to novel isolated Punica granatum diacylglycerol acyltransferases: type 1 (PgDGAT1), type 2 (PgDGAT2) and phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferases (PgPDAT1); polynucleotide sequences encoding the DGATs and PDAT enzymes; polynucleotide constructs, vectors and host cells incorporating the polynucleotide sequences; and methods of producing and using same.

Abstract: The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs, and their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising a recombinant DNA molecule comprising a DNA molecule operably linked to a heterologous transcribable DNA molecule, as well as methods of their use.

Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants. Also provided are combinations of compositions and methods to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants that have increased nitrogen use efficiency, stress tolerance, and/or alleviating a limitation such that yield is increased, or a combination of these and that have been transformed using a novel vector construct including a synthetic isocitrate dehydrogenase (icdh) gene that modulates nitrogen use in plants. The invention also relates to stacking the icdh gene with other exogenous or heterologous genes that modulate nitrogen use in the plant, including a N-acetylglutamate kinase gene. The invention also relates to methods of expressing in plants the nucleic acid molecules corresponding to the nucleic acid sequences that modulate nitrogen use in plants or are modulated by nitrogen conditions.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of producing a plant that exhibits an enhanced trait selected from the group consisting of altered hexose sugar level, altered starch level, altered sucrose phosphate synthase activity, altered ureide level and delayed senescence, as compared to a control plant. The present disclosure also provides transgenic cells, plants, plant parts, seeds, progeny plants, products or commodity products produced by this method.

Abstract: The present invention provides mutant cereal plants and mature grain thereof, characterised by enhanced levels of the enzyme phytase in the grain, and methods for inducing, detecting and selecting the mutant cereal plants. The invention further relates to animal feed comprising said grain having enhanced amounts of phytase.

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 W011031I1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W011031I1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W011031I1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W011031I1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W011031I1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W011031I1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: Increased tolerance to abiotic stress in a plant is provided by introducing DNA expressing a cold shock protein, e.g. bacterial cold shock protein.

Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are NEMTOP6-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.

Abstract: Compositions and methods relating to the use of sulfonylurea-mediated control of gene expression are provided. Compositions include sulfonylurea responsive chemical switches wherein the gene expression is regulated by a sulfonylurea compound. Compositions also include polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides as well as constructs, vectors, prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, and eukaryotic organisms including plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotide, and/or produced by the methods. Also provided are methods to regulate expression of a polynucleotide of interest in a cell or organism, and methods to modify a genome, including in a plant or plant cell.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a PATL (PATELLIN) polypeptide, a PRP38 (Precursor RNA Processing factor 38) polypeptide, an ADA2 (Adaptor 2) polypeptide, a GATA-like polypeptide, or a WD40 repeat (WDR) 23-like polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PATL polypeptide, a PRP38 polypeptide, an ADA2 polypeptide, a GATA-like polypeptide, or a WDR23-like polypeptide, which plants have improved yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides nucleic acids and constructs useful in the methods of the invention.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W020757F1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W020757F1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W020757F1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W020757F1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W020757F1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W020757F1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions useful in target sequence suppression and target sequence validation. The invention provides polynucleotide constructs useful for gene silencing, as well as cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides. The invention also provides a method for using microRNA to silence a target sequence.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention concerns peptides having protective effect towards inflammatory activity of a-gliadin 31-43 peptide in celiac disease and therefore can be used for preventive and therapeutic purpose by administration thereof to subjects at high risk to develop celiac disease and/or celiac subjects just before a gluten containing meal to be ingested.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W020852C1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W020852C1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W020852C1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W020852C1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W020852C1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W020852C1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants with improved growth and nitrogen use efficiency expressing nitrate transporter gene, methods of making such plants and methods for improving growth and nitrogen use efficiency.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or 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 enhanced nitrogen use efficiency in plants.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated W010712A1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W010712A1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W010712A1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W010712A1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W010712A1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W010712A1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: A Durum wheat plant having a partially or fully multiplied genome being at least as fertile as a tetraploid Durum wheat (Triticum Durum) plant isogenic to said genomically multiplied Durum wheat plant when grown under the same conditions and being of the same developmental stage is provided. Also provided are methods of generating and using same as well as products generated therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to non-transgenic tetraploid wheat plants having soft textured endosperm, methods for constructing said non-transgenic plants using cytogenetics and classical breeding techniques, endosperm therefrom and uses thereof.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A wheat variety designated XW09H, the plants and seeds of wheat variety XW09H, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety XW09H with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety XW09H with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety XW09H. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety XW09H and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.