Gramineae (e.g., Barley, Oats, Rye, Sorghum, Millet, Etc.) Patents (Class 800/320)
Maize (Class 800/320.1)
Rice (Class 800/320.2)
Wheat (Class 800/320.3)
  • GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH ALTERED PROTEIN, FIBER, OR OIL CONTENT
    Publication number: 20130295269
    Abstract: The present disclosure 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 disclosure is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: John P. Davies, Hein Tsoeng (Medard) Ng, D. Ry Wagner
  • Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same
    Publication number: 20130298287
    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 Harpin-associated Factor G polypeptide (hereinafter termed HpaG”). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an HpaG polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising HpaG-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention. The present invention also provides a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants relative to control plants, by modulating (preferably increasing) expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a SWITCH 2/SUCROSE NON-FERMENTING 2 (SWI2/SNF2) polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicants: Crop Functional Genomics Center, CropDesign N.V.
    Inventors: Youn-Il Park, Yang Do Choi, Seok Won Jeong Jeong, In Gyu Hwang, Jonghee Oh
  • DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING miR827
    Publication number: 20130298285
    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 miR827 microRNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventor: Milo Aukerman
  • maize auxin response related genes for controlling plant growth and organ size and their use in improving crop plants
    Patent number: 8575422
    Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides (SEQ ID NO: 11 and 44) of the ZmARGOS (Auxin-Regulated Gene involved in Organ Size) gene family. The invention provides genomic sequence for the ZmARGOS genes. ZmARGOS is responsible for controlling plant growth, organ size and yield in crop plants. Transgenic plants expressing ZmARGOS show a positive impact on biomass accumulation and rate of maize plant growth, as well as an increase in organ size. These maize genes will find utility for enhancing agronomic traits in maize (and other crops).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc.
    Inventors: Mei Guo, Mary A Rupe, Wesley B Bruce, Rajeev Gupta, Carl R Simmons
  • METHOD FOR SPEEDING UP PLANT GROWTH AND IMPROVING YIELD BY INTRODUCING PHOSPHATASES IN TRANSGENIC PLANT
    Publication number: 20130291224
    Abstract: Transgenic plants having increased growth rate, increased sugar content, and increase yield are disclosed, and methods for making the same. The transgenic plants have a gene coding for a phosphatase having a C-terminal motif under control of a heterologous promoter incorporated into the genomic DNA of the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventor: Boon Leong Lim
  • Method for transformation of grasses
    Patent number: 8569582
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for transforming grass plants with Agrobacterium. The invention allows creation of transgenic grass plants without the need for callus as a target tissue for transformation, thus providing a rapid method for the production of transgenic grass plants. Transgenic grass plants produced by this method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
    Inventors: Zeng-Yu Wang, Rangaraj Nandakumar
  • Sugar and Lipid Metabolism Regulators in Plants III
    Publication number: 20130283480
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: VOLKER MITTENDORF, HEIKO A. HAERTEL, PETRA CIRPUS
  • Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits
    Publication number: 20130283461
    Abstract: This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Mark Scott Abad, Jeffery E. Ahrens, Alice Clara Augustine, Erin Bell, Robert J. Bensen, Srikanth Venkatachalayya, Paolo Castiglioni, Richard E. Cerny, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Maureen Daley, Jill Deikman, Molian Deng, Todd DeZwaan, Stephen Duff, Michael D. Edgerton, Bradon J. Fabbri, Jason Fenner, Karen Gabbert, Meghan Galligan, Garrett J. Lee, Barry S. Goldman, Deborah J. Hawkins, Steve He, Xianfeng Chen, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Paul Loida, Savitha Madappa, Robert J. Meister, Ming Peng, Donald E. Nelson, Anand Pandravada, Obed Patty, Marie Petracek, Rajani Monnanda Somaiah, Monica P. Ravanello, Richard Johnson, Thomas G. Ruff, Rick A. Sanders, Beth Savidge, Steven H. Schwartz, Shobha Char, Padmini Sudarshana, Jindong Sun, Rebecca L. Thompson-Mize, Virginia Ursin, Dale L. Val, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Kammaradi R. Vidya, K. Vijayalakshmi, Todd C. Weber, Jingrui Wu, Wei Zheng, Zhidong Xie, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra
  • YIELD ENHANCEMENT IN PLANTS BY MODULATION OF AP2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR
    Publication number: 20130276171
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating flower organ development, leaf formation, phototropism, apical dominance, fruit development, initiation of roots and for increasing yield in a plant are provided. The compositions include an AP2 transcription factor sequence. Compositions of the invention comprise amino acid sequences and nucleotide sequences selected from SEQ ID NOS: 1-11 as well as variants and fragments thereof. Nucleotide sequences encoding the AP2 transcription factors are provided in DNA constructs for expression in a plant of interest are provided for modulating the level of an AP2 transcription factor sequence in a plant or a plant part are provided. The methods comprise introducing into a plant or plant part a heterologous polynucleotide comprising an AP2 transcription factor sequence of the invention. The level of the AP2 transcription factor polypeptide can be increased or decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: NICHOLAS J. BATE, JENNIFER Y. CHUNG, JEFFREY E. HABBEN
  • Multiple Inducible Gene Regulation System
    Publication number: 20130276156
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multiple inducible gene regulation system that functions within cells to simultaneously control the quantitative expression of multiple genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Intrexon Corporation
    Inventors: Tarlochan Singh DHADIALLA, Dean Ervin Cress, Glenn Richard Carlson, Robert Eugene Hormann, Subba Reddy Palli, Arthur John Kudla, Ronald Phillip Herzig, JR., Mohan Philip
  • Yield Increase in Plants Overexpressing the ACCDP Genes
    Publication number: 20130276172
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
  • TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED AGRONOMIC TRAITS
    Publication number: 20130276161
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Mark Abad, Erin Bell, R. Eric Cerny, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Molian Deng, Michael D. Edgerton, Karen K. Gabbert, Barry S. Goldman, Brian Hauge, Steve He, Jacqueline E. Heard, Ping Li, Linda Lutfiyya, Bradley McDill, Robert J. Meister, Peter Morrell, Anil Neelam, Marie Petracek, John Pitkin, M. S. Rajani, Maria F. Rodriguez, Thomas Ruff, T. V. Venkatesh, Xiaoyun Wu, Jianmin Zhao, Albert Iandolino, Monica Ravanello, Kraig Brustad, Paul Chomet, Julie Davis, Virginia Ursin, T. Ambika, Shobha Char, Savitha Madappa, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra, S. Sangeetha, K. R. Vidya, K. Vijayalakshmi, Todd Dezwaan
  • Monocotyledonous seed expressing exo-1,4B-glucanase
    Patent number: 8558058
    Abstract: Expression of recombinant polysaccharide degrading enzymes in plants is described. In one embodiment, expression of the enzyme is preferentially directed to the seed of the plant. Expression may also be preferentially targeted to specific locations within the plant cell. Expression of cellulases in corn is shown. The result is the capacity to produce polysaccharide degrading enzymes in plants at commercially acceptable levels in a reliable manner. Methods of using same in production of ethanol is also described, including use of the plant-produced enzymes in the ethanol production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Applied Biotechnology Institute
    Inventors: Elizabeth Hood, John Howard
  • DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING MATE-EFFLUX POLYPEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20130269063
    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 MATE-efflux polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicants: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC, E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Stanley Luck, Jeffrey Mullen, Hajime Sakai, Scott V. Tingey, Robert Wayne Williams, Norbert Brugiere, Ratna Kumria, Amitabh Mohanty, Rupa Raja
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS TO PRODUCE VACCINES AGAINST SMALLPOX IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20130266608
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing plant-derived immunogenic compositions that confer immunity against smallpox in a subject are provided. Plants engineered to produce antigenic proteins as well as expression cassettes comprising nucleic acids encoding proteins thereof are described. Methods of immunizing subjects with plant-derived compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: PHARMA GREEN LLC
    Inventor: Maxim Golovkin
  • GENE INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEED
    Publication number: 20130263328
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of plant improvement, with the identification of the ZmPPR6 gene that is involved in development of the seed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: GENOPLANTE-VALOR
    Inventors: Virginie Guyon, Nikolay Manavski, Reinhold Brettschneider, Udo Wienand
  • Production of modified fatty acids in plants through rDNA targeted integration of heterologous genes
    Patent number: 8546645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants comprising a plurality of nucleic acids heterologous to said plant, each of said nucleic acid comprising a coding sequence operably linked to one or more regulatory elements for directing expression of said coding sequence in said plant, said nucleic acid being stably integrated at or adjacent to rDNA sequences, or a seed, organ, tissue, part or cell thereof, or a descendant of said plant, seed, organ, tissue, part or cell; methods of producing the transgenic plants; and methods of producing oil using the transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Agrisoma Biosciences Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Fabijanski, Michael Lindenbaum, Ping Fu, Elizabeth-France Marillia
  • AP2 DOMAIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ODP2 (OVULE DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN 2) AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20130254935
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating plant development are provided. Nucleotide sequences and amino acid sequences encoding Ovule Development Protein 2 (ODP2) proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in a variety of methods including modulating development, developmental pathways, altering oil content in a plant, increasing transformation efficiencies, modulating stress tolerance, and modulating the regenerative capacity of a plant. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: William J. Gordon-Kamm, Timothy G. Helentjaris, Keith S. Lowe, Bo Shen, Mitchell C. Tarczynski (Deceased), Peizhong Zheng
  • ENZYMES INVOLVED IN TRITERPENE SYNTHESIS
    Publication number: 20130247245
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding enzymes consisting of a carboxypeptidase-like protein, a methyltransferase and a glucosyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of ?-amyrin-derived triterpenes in plants and seeds. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotides of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: Anne OSBOURN, Xiaoquan Qi
  • PLANT HEIGHT REGULATORY GENE AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130247242
    Abstract: Provided are a crop height regulatory gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, expression regulatory sequences thereof and uses thereof. The crop regulatory gene can be used to regulate the plant height, volume, tiller, yield, flower organ size, or seed size of crops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventor: Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Down-regulation of gene expression using artificial MicroRNAs
    Patent number: 8536405
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments comprising precursor miRNA, and artificial miRNAs and their use in down-regulating gene expression are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Brian McGonigle
  • TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20130239256
    Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicants: University of Maine System Board of Trustees, Los Alamos National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
  • ARABIDOPSIS DERIVED PROMOTERS FOR REGULATION OF PLANT EXPRESSION
    Publication number: 20130232647
    Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a constitutive promoter for use in plants. The plant genus from which the promoter is derived is Arabidopsis. The invention encompasses the isolated promoter, expression cassettes comprising said promoter and a heterologous nucleic acid segment, and monocot and dicot plants and plant cells transformed with said expression cassettes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventor: Devon Louise Brown
  • MAIZE CELLULOSE SYNTHASES AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130230900
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: Kanwarpal Singh Dhugga, Haiyin Wang, Dwight Tomes, Timothy George Helentjaris
  • PLANTS WITH IMPROVED AGRONOMIC TRAITS
    Publication number: 20130232642
    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 PRE2 polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Rajeev Gupta, Shuping Jiao, Robert B. Meeley, Dilbag S. Multani, Robert Williams
  • PLANT GLUTAMINE PHENYLPYRUVATE TRANSAMINASE GENE AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS CARRYING SAME
    Publication number: 20130232641
    Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting enhanced growth rates, seed and fruit yields, and overall biomass yields, as well as methods for generating growth-enhanced transgenic plants. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicants: University of Maine System Board of Trustees, Los Alamos National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROL OF INSECT INFESTATIONS IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20130232646
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to controlling pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions in an invertebrate pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling pest infestation by feeding one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules to the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James A. Baum, Larry A. Gilbertson, David K. Kovalic, Thomas J. LaRosa, Maolong Lu, Tichafa R.I. Munyikwa, James K. Roberts, Wei Wu, Bei Zhang
  • CELLULOYTIC ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING THEM AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM
    Publication number: 20130227741
    Abstract: The invention is directed to polypeptides having any cellulolytic activity, e.g., a cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta-glucosidase, xylanase, mannanse, ?-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and/or oligomerase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and feed processing and industrial contexts. The invention also provides compositions or products of manufacture comprising mixtures of enzymes comprising at least one enzyme of this invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicants: Verenium Corporation, BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: BP Corporation North America Inc., Verenium Corporation
  • UBIQUITIN REGULATORY ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20130227742
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a constitutive regulatory element isolated from sorghum. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventor: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
  • POLYPEPTIDE HAVING SWOLLENIN ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130219571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 73% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 73% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Monica D. Vlasie, Robbertus Antonius Damveld
  • USE OF MULTIPLE TRANSFORMATION ENHANCER SEQUENCES TO IMPROVE PLANT TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20130219564
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Monsanto Technology LLC
  • NOVEL CLASS OF GLYPHOSATE RESISTANCE GENES
    Publication number: 20130217577
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, and nucleic acids useful in encoding the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
  • Plants and seeds of line TX3361
    Patent number: 8513499
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the sorghum line designated Tx3361. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the line Tx3361, and to methods for producing a plant produced by crossing a sorghum plant of line Tx3361 with itself or with another plant, such as a plant of another line, species or genus. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of line Tx3361 with plants of another line, species or genus. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of line Tx3361.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: William L. Rooney, Leslie C. Kuhlman
  • Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and Method for Making the Same
    Publication number: 20130205446
    Abstract: Nucleic acids and the encoded VIM1-like polypeptides, VTC2-like polypeptides, ARF6-like polypeptides or DUF1685 polypeptides are provided. A method of enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of nucleic acids encoding VIM1-like polypeptides, VTC2-like polypeptides, ARF6-like polypeptides or DUF1685 polypeptides is provided. Plants with modulated expression of the nucleic acids encoding VIM1-like polypeptides, VTC2-like polypeptides, ARF6-like polypeptides or DUF1685 polypeptides have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Valerie Frankard, Yves Hatzfeld, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero
  • Chloroplast Expression of Membrane Proteins
    Publication number: 20130202647
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are chloroplast transformation vectors constructed to enable expression and hyperaccumulation of membrane proteins in chloroplasts. Another embodiment relates to plants transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to seeds and other plant tissues transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to a method of increasing expression of membrane proteins in chloroplasts including transforming a plant cell with vectors described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Henry Daniell
  • CELLULOSIC PROCESSING TRAIT DEVELOPMENT USING A THERMOREGULATED, INTEIN-MODIFIED XYLANASE
    Publication number: 20130203125
    Abstract: In planta consolidated bioprocessing has the advantages of decreasing biomass pretreatment costs, utilizing excess plant protein production capacity for enzyme production, and decreasing mass transfer resistance of enzyme diffusion to its substrate. However, in planta expression of cell wall degrading (CWD) enzymes often leads to detrimental plant phenotypes that impact crop yield. To provide in planta CWD enzyme activity without any adverse phenotype, a thermostable xylanase, XynB (EC 3.2.1.8), was engineered with a thermoregulated intein, Tth-HB27 DnaE-1 (Tth intein), that controls its hydrolytic activity through conditional intein splicing. Maize plants expressing the heat inducible Tth intein-modified XynB developed normally, yet possessed enhanced post harvest glucose production from dried corn stover. Expression of CWD enzymes as dormant, intein-modified proteins that can be activated by heat treatment after harvest provides the basis for developing a novel cellulosic processing trait in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: AGRIVIDA, INC.
    Inventors: Binzhang Shen, James Apgar, Oleg Bougri, R. Michael Raab
  • CHLOROPLAST TRANSIT PEPTIDE
    Publication number: 20130205441
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Dow Agrosciences LLC
  • Method of Enhancing the Seed Yield and Promoting the Growth of Plants
    Publication number: 20130205445
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of enhancing the seed yield and promoting the growth of monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plants by overexpression of TMT (tonoplast monosaccharide transporter) protein in osogenic or transgenic plant cells. The invention further concerns a transgenic plant having the property of an enhanced seed yield and increased growth as compared with the wild type, comprising a nucleotide sequence which codes for a TMT (tonoplast monosaccharide transporter) protein, as well as a regulatory nucleotide sequence, operably linked therewith, for the control of an increased gene expression of the TMT protein in the plant cells of the transgenic plant. It further relates to the use of the transgenic plant for the cultivation or production of cultivated plants or useful plants, or biomass, oils or proteins produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern
    Inventors: Ekkehard Neuhaus, Oliver Trentmann, Alexandra Wormit, Karina Wingenter
  • INTERGENERIC HYBRID PLANTS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130205439
    Abstract: Methods for the production of an intergeneric hybrid plants and plants produced thereby. In certain aspects, intergeneric hybrid plants are produced by crossing a sorghum parent plant comprising a mutant sorghum iap allele with a second moncot plant. Methods for the use of such plants and products obtained therefrom are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventor: The Texas A&M University System
  • SYNTHETIC BRASSICA-DERIVED CHLOROPLAST TRANSIT PEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20130205440
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Dow AgroSciences LLC
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENERATING COMPLEX TRAIT LOCI
    Publication number: 20130198888
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for stacking multiple independent transgenic loci into the genome of a plant. Compositions include plants, seeds or plant cells comprising at least one transgenic target site and at least one genomic locus of interest integrated at different genomic sites within a genomic window. Plant breeding techniques can be employed such that the transgenic target site and the genomic locus of interest can be bred together. In this way, multiple independent transgene integrations can be generated within a genomic window to create a complex trait locus. The complex trait locus is designed such that the transgenic target sites and/or genomic loci of interest can segregate independently of each other, thus providing the benefit of altering a complex trait locus by breeding-in and breeding-away specific elements. Various methods can also be employed to modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicants: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company
  • BARLEY LIPOXYGENASE 1 GENE, SELECTION METHOD FOR BARLEY, MATERIALS FOR MALT ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF MALT ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
    Publication number: 20130196027
    Abstract: A barley plant including a mutant LOX-1 protein and that is deficient in lipoxygenase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Sapporo Breweries Limited
    Inventor: Sapporo Breweries Limited
  • Sugar and lipid metabolism regulators in plants III
    Patent number: 8492612
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Mittendorf, Heiko A. Haertel, Petra Cirpus
  • KERNEL PRODUCTIVITY OF PLANTS THROUGH THE MODULATION OF GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20130185829
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the kernel productivity of a maize plant, wherein said method comprises overexpressing in said plant at least one glutamine synthetase isoenzyme, in order to increase the number and/or size of kernels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: GENOPLANTE-VALOR
    Inventor: GENOPLANTE-VALOR
  • Nucleic Acid Molecules and Other Molecules Associated with Plants and Uses Thereof for Plant Improvement
    Publication number: 20130185831
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: David K. Kovalic, Scott E. Andersen, Joseph R. Byrum, Timothy W. Conner, James D. Masucci, Yihua Zhou
  • FOOD PLOT SCREEN AND RELATED METHOD
    Publication number: 20130180170
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention describe a food plot screen seed mixture including one or more low height plant seeds, one or more medium height plant seeds and one or more tall height plant seeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: FRIGID FORAGE
    Inventor: Frigid Forage
  • Method to Screen Plants for Genetic Elements Inducing Parthenogenesis in Plants
    Publication number: 20130180005
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing a plant population lacking sexually derived embryos are provided. Compositions include suppression cassettes encoding polynucleotides and promoters resulting in parthenogenesis. Further provided are parthenogenesis genetic elements used to prevent sexual reproduction in self-reproducing plants. Methods include: utilizing maternal embryo defective recessive mutations which are maintained as a sterile inbred maintenance system, allowing generation of populations that are homozygous for recessive mutant alleles, but transgenically complemented. Methods include utilizing a toxin genes expressed via egg-cell specific promoters, creating a dominant, embryo-less phenotypes, non-transmittable through female gametes. Resultant hemizygous plants are transformed with egg-cell promoters driving the antidote, a pollen ablation PTU and a seed color marker for identification of transgenic seed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Shai J. Lawit
  • Methods and Compositions for Modulating Expression or Activity of a RKD Polypeptide in a Plant
    Publication number: 20130180010
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided to increase the activity/level of an RKD polypeptide or an active variant or fragment thereof in an unreduced ovule plant cell that is outside of the embryo sac. In specific embodiments, such modulation of activity/level of the RKD polypeptide promotes an egg cell-like state in an unreduced ovule plant cell that is outside of the embryo sac. Such methods and compositions can employ an expression construct comprising a RKD polypeptide or active variant or fragment thereof operably linked to an ovule tissue-preferred promoter, in particular an ovule tissue-preferred promoter that is active in at least one non-gametophyte tissue in a plant ovule and is active in an unreduced cell that is outside of the embryo sac.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: Mark A. Chamberlin, Shai J. Lawit
  • Ovule Specific Promoter and Methods of Use
    Publication number: 20130180008
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for an Arabidopsis thaliana (AT SVL3) promoter. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: MARK A. CHAMBERLIN, SHAI J. LAWIT
  • Compositions and Methods for Expression of a Sequence in a Reproductive Tissue of a Plant
    Publication number: 20130180009
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include promoter sequences with direct expression in an egg cell or embryonic cell-preferred manner. Such compositions find use in, for example, a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant; detection of specific cell types in the ovule and targeted ablation of specific cell types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: MARC C. ALBERTSEN, MARK A. CHAMBERLIN, TIMOTHY W. FOX, SHAI J. LAWIT, BRIAN R. LOVELAND