Sunflower Patents (Class 800/322)
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND POLYPEPTIDES ENCODED THEREBY USEFUL FOR INCREASING TOLERANCE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110265199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with oxidative stress conditions. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in oxidative stress conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventor: Fasong Zhou
  • Cytokinin oxidase promoter from maize
    Patent number: 8044263
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions and methods include expression cassettes and transformed plants and provide for downregulation of cytokinin oxidase in a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomu Niu, Haiyin Wang, Dwight T. Tomes, Sabine Hantke, Norbert Brugière
  • WUSCHEL(WUS) GENE HOMOLOGS
    Publication number: 20110258741
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding WUS polypeptides. The invention further provides isolated WUS polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of using the polynucleotides to modulate the level of WUS, improve transformation efficiency, to stimulate plant cell growth, including stem cells, to stimulate organogenesis, to stimulate somatic embryogenesis, to induce apomixis, and to provide a positive selection for cells comprising the polynucleotide. The invention also relates to cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides of the invention or produced by the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL INC., E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Rebecca E. Cahoon, Keith S. Lowe, William J. Gordon-Kamm, Yumin Tao, Christopher J. Scelonge
  • TOR-INTERACTING PROTEINS (TIPS) AND GENES THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20110258738
    Abstract: Broad experimental tools that include biochemical molecular developmental global genomics and loss and gain of function transgenic approaches have been applied to address target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling pathway in plants especially using Arabidopsis model system and Brassica napus crop Towards this objective, putative TOR interacting proteins (TIPs) have been identified and functions of these implicated in diverse developmental and biochemical processes have been investigated Functional studies including over-expression and silencing of TIPs have shown a range of phenotypes that include nutrition-use-efficiency, altered plant architecture and stress resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis and Brassica lines Some of these phenotypes are relevant to important developmental pathways implicated in canola crop yield and performance
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: National Research of Canada
    Inventors: Raju Datla, Maozhi Ren, Shuqing Qiu, Gopalan Selvaraj
  • GRG23 EPSP SYNTHASES: COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20110252502
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include polynucleotides encoding herbicide resistance or tolerance polypeptides, vectors comprising those polynucleotides, and host cells comprising the vectors. The nucleotide sequences of the invention can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in organisms, including microorganisms and plants. Compositions also include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated polynucleotides encoding glyphosate resistance or tolerance polypeptides are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Athenix Corp.
    Inventors: Laura C. Schouten, Brian Vande Berg, Volker Heinrichs
  • Plants With Improved Nitrogen Utilization and Stress Tolerance
    Publication number: 20110252503
    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 N-acetyl glutamate kinase (NAGK) gene that modulates nitrogen use in plants. The invention also includes the overexpression and enzymatic characterization of an arginine-insensitive NAGK isolated from a bacterial strain that improves stress tolerance and nitrogen uptake, metabolism or both. In various embodiments, the vector construct includes one or more nucleic acid sequences including SEQ ID NO: 1. The invention also relates to isolated vectors for transforming plants and to antibodies used for detecting transformed plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARD
    Inventors: James McLaren, Nicholas Duck, Brian Vande Berg, Philip Hammer, Laura Schouten
  • Down-Regulation of ACC Synthase for Improved Plant Performance
    Publication number: 20110252505
    Abstract: Methods for modulating plants using optimized ACC synthase down-regulation constructs are disclosed. Also disclosed are nucleotide sequences, constructs, vectors, and modified plant cells, as well as transgenic plants displaying increased seed and/or biomass yield, improved tolerance to abiotic stress such as drought or high plant density, improved nitrogen utilization efficiency and/or reduction in ethylene production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, Nicholas J. Bate, Jeffrey E. Habben, Honor Renee Lafitte, Kellie Reimann
  • Method for Producing a Transgenic Cell with Increased Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (Gaba) Content
    Publication number: 20110252509
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to a method for producing a transgenic cell with increased gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) content as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Sceince GmbH
    Inventors: Janneke Hendriks, Hardy Schön, Oliver Thimm, Volker Haake, Gunnar Plesch, Piotr Puzio, Astrid Blau, Michael Manfred Herold, Birgit Wendel, Beate Kamlage, Florian Schauwecker
  • PUFA Polyketide Synthase Systems and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20110250342
    Abstract: Disclosed are the complete polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) polyketide synthase (PKS) systems from Schizochytrium, and biologically active fragments and homologues thereof. More particularly, this invention relates to nucleic acids encoding such PUFA PKS systems, to proteins and domains thereof that comprise such PUFA PKS systems, to genetically modified organisms (plants and microorganisms) comprising such PUFA PKS systems, and to methods of making and using the PUFA PKS systems disclosed herein. This invention also relates to genetically modified plants and microorganisms and methods to efficiently produce lipids enriched in various polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) as well as other bioactive molecules by manipulation of a PUFA polyketide synthase (PKS) system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Martek Biosciences Corporation
    Inventors: James G. Metz, James H. Flatt, Jerry M. Kuner, William R. Barclay
  • COMPOSITIONS RELATED TO THE QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS 6 (QTL6) IN MAIZE AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20110252499
    Abstract: Compositions related to the quantitative trait locus 6 (QTL6) in maize and methods for their use are provided. The compositions are novel molecular marker loci that are genetically linked with QTL6 and which are associated with increased oil content and/or increased oleic acid content and/or an increased oleic acid/linoleic acid ratio of a plant or plant part thereof. These novel markers are characterized by the presence of at least one polymorphism relative to the corresponding marker locus from the QTL6 region of non-high-oil, non-high-oleic acid maize plants. In some embodiments, the novel marker loci comprise coding sequence for a maize DGAT1-2 polypeptide or biologically active variant thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicants: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: William B. Allen, Bo Shen, Mitchell C. Tarczynski, Mark E. Williams, Peizhong Zheng, Gan-Yuan Zhong
  • PLANTS HAVING MODIFIED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20110247097
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for modifying the growth characteristics of plants by modifying expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a 2×C2H2 zinc finger protein and/or modifying level and/or activity in a plant of a 2×C2H2 zinc finger protein. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having modified growth characteristics, which plants have modified expression of a nucleic acid encoding a 2×C2H2 zinc finger protein. For example yield of crop plants are improved by the methods of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: CROPDESIGN N.V.
    Inventor: Ana Isabel SANZ MOLINERO
  • Secondary Wall Forming Genes from Maize and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20110239329
    Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides of the class of genes involved in maize secondary wall (ZmSCW) formation. The invention provides genomic sequence for the ZmSCW genes. ZmSCW are responsible for controlling plant growth, secondary cell wall development and yield in crop plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Robert B. Meeley, Carl R. Simmons
  • CHIMERIC PROMOTERS AND THEIR USES IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110225673
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant viral enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel chimeric promoters; and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
  • MANIPULATION OF AMMONIUM TRANSPORTERS (AMTS) TO IMPROVE NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY IN HIGHER PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110225675
    Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides of the protein AMT. The invention provides genomic sequence for the AMT gene. AMT is responsible for controlling nitrogen utilization efficiency in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajeev Gupta, Juan Liu, Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Carl R. Simmons
  • PEDICEL SPECIFIC PROMOTER
    Publication number: 20110219473
    Abstract: The present invention relates to controlling the expression of genes into the pedicel, more specifically in the placentochalaza cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: BIOGEMMA
    Inventors: Maria Isabel López Román, Gregorio Hueros Soto, Wyatt Paul
  • POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING PROTEINS INVOLVED IN PLANT METABOLISM
    Publication number: 20110214204
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: EI DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY; AND PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: Quinn Qun Zhu, Sabine S. Hantke, Xiping Niu, Zheng Peizhong, Michele Morgante, Joan T. Odell, Saverio Carl Falco, Yiwen Fang, J. Antoni Rafalski, Hajime Sakai, Edgar B. Cahoon, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Jian-Ming Lee, Guo-Hua Miao, Zhongsen Li, Anthony J. Kinney
  • SUGAR AND LIPID METABOLISM REGULATORS IN PLANTS II
    Publication number: 20110214203
    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: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Mittendorf, Heiko Haertel, Petra Cirpus
  • QTL CONTROLLING SCLEROTINIA STEM ROT RESISTANCE IN SOYBEAN
    Publication number: 20110209254
    Abstract: Markers associated with Sclerotinia stem rot resistance are provided. Methods of identifying resistant, and susceptible plants, using the markers are provided. Methods for identifying and isolating QTL are a feature of the invention, as are QTL associated with Sclerotinia stem rot resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Feng Han, Maria Katt, Wolfgang Schuh, David M. Webb
  • PLANTS HAVING ALTERED AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS UNDER NITROGEN LIMITING CONDITIONS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING LNT6 POLYPEPTIDES AND HOMOLOGS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110209245
    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 LNT6 polypeptide or homolog thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and Pioneer Hi-Bred International
    Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Milo Aukerman, Dale Loussaert, Hajime Sakai, Scott V. Tingey, Stanley Luck
  • INBRED SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS) LINE DESIGNATED CN5110R
    Publication number: 20110197296
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inbred sunflower line, designated CN5110R. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred sunflower line CN5110R, to the plants of inbred sunflower line CN5110R and to the methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line CN5110R with itself or another sunflower line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from the inbred CN5110R.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: James T. Gerdes, Steven W. Erickson
  • INBRED SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS) LINE, DESIGNATED CI1151R
    Publication number: 20110197297
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inbred sunflower line, designated CI1151R. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred sunflower line CI1151R, to the plants of inbred sunflower line CI1151R and to the methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line CI1151R with itself or another sunflower line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from the inbred CI1151R.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Robert M. Benson, Steven W. Erickson
  • GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH ALTERED PROTEIN, FIBER, OR OIL CONTENT
    Publication number: 20110195174
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: John P. Davies, Hein Tsoeng (Medard) Ng, D. Ry Wagner
  • INBRED SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS) LINE DESIGNATED ON2509A/B
    Publication number: 20110197301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inbred sunflower line, designated ON2509A/B. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred sunflower line ON2509A/B, to the plants of inbred sunflower line ON2509A/B and to the methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line ON2509A/B with itself or another sunflower line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from the inbred ON2509A/B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: James T. Gerdes, Angela L. Erickson, Robert M. Benson
  • INBRED SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS) LINE, DESIGNATED OI1153A/B
    Publication number: 20110197302
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inbred sunflower line, designated OI1153A/B. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred sunflower line OI1153A/B, to the plants of inbred sunflower line OI1153A/B and to the methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line OI1153A/B with itself or another sunflower line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from the inbred OI1153A/B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Robert M. Benson, Steven W. Erickson
  • Plants with Increased Yield (LT)
    Publication number: 20110195843
    Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities selected from the group consisting of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, Adenylate kinase, B2758-protein, Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, cysteine synthase, Exopolyphosphatase, geranylgeranyl reductase, Mating hormone A-factor precursor, mitochondrial succinate-fumarate transporter, modification methylase HemK family protein, Myo-inositol transporter, oxidoreductase subunit, peptidy-prolyl-cis-trans-isomerase, protein kinase, Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase, slr1293-protein, YDR049W-protein, YJL181W-protein, and YPL109C-protein-activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Schön, Oliver Bläsing
  • INBRED SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS) LINE DESIGNATED 503A/B
    Publication number: 20110197300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inbred sunflower line, designated 503A/B. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred sunflower line 503A/B, to the plants of inbred sunflower line 503A/B and to the methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line 503A/B with itself or another sunflower line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from the inbred 503A/B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Joseph N. Legako
  • USE OF MULTIPLE TRANSFORMATION ENHANCER SEQUENCES TO IMPROVE PLANT TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20110197311
    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: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Larry Gilbertson, Xudong Ye
  • INBRED SUNFLOWER (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS) LINE, DESIGNATED OID263R
    Publication number: 20110197298
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inbred sunflower line, designated OID263R. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred sunflower line OID263R, to the plants of inbred sunflower line OID263R and to the methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line OID263R with itself or another sunflower line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from the inbred OID263R.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Robert M. Benson, James T. Gerdes
  • DENSE AND ERECT PANICLE GENE AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110197305
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for imparting a dense and erect panicle phenotype to plants, including polynucleotides, polypeptides, vectors and cells. This phenotype is associated with improving plant traits, such as improving plant yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Xiangdong Fu, Xianzhong Huang, Qian Qian, Zhengbin Liu
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INCREASING PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE AND YIELD
    Publication number: 20110191896
    Abstract: The present invention discloses novel plant homologs of the Arabidopsis peptide atPEP1. atPEP peptides in Arabidopsis are involved in the amplification of defense pathways involved in innate immunity against microbial pathogens. Homologs to atPEP1 identified in soy, corn, rice, wheat, and canola sequence databases are potential sources for transgenes to enhance crop yield through resistance to biotic and/or abiotic stresses. Chimeric genes comprising sequences from mature and precursor plant defense response polypeptides from a given species, and from different species, as well as the encoded polypeptide sequences, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: John Pitkin, Steve Screen, Zhidong Xie
  • PLANTS WITH ALTERED ROOT ARCHITECTURE, RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING LECTIN PROTEIN KINASE (LPK) POLYPEPTIDES AND HOMOLOGS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110191910
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering root structure of plants, 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 polypeptide useful for altering plant root architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: Graziana Taramino
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING ANDROSTENEDIONES
    Publication number: 20110191875
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for producing androstenedione (4-androstenedione), of improved purity and for modulating its production, for example by deletion or inactivation of ksdA, cxgA, cxgB, cxgC, or cxgD. The invention also provides methods and compositions, including nucleic acids that encode enzymes, for producing 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) and related pathway compounds, including 20-(hydroxymethyl)pregna-4-en-3-one and 20-(hydroxymethyl)pregna-1,4-dien-3-one. The compositions of the invention include nucleic acids, probes, vectors, cells, transgenic plants and seeds, transgenic animals, kits and arrays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Verenium Corporation
    Inventors: David Nunn, Catherine Pujol, Kelly Chatman
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS RELATING TO CONROLLED INDUCTION OF PLANT SENESCENCE
    Publication number: 20110191894
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants are provided. Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants by increased expression of an exogenous or endogenous abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants are provided expressing increased abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP, during the developmental stage of senescence, thereby promoting enhanced plant senescence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Sarah M. Assmann, Cha Young Kim, Jerome Bove, John Kuk Na
  • GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH ALTERED OIL, PROTEIN, OR FIBER CONTENT
    Publication number: 20110183061
    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 HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: John P. Davies, Hein Tsoeng (Medard) Ng
  • Maize Cellulose Synthases and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20110183399
    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: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Haiyin Wang, Dwight Tomes, Timothy G. Helentjaris
  • PLANTS PRODUCING 2N POLLEN
    Publication number: 20110179516
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for obtaining plants that produce 2n pollen. These plants are useful in plant breeding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Raphael Mercier, Isabelle D'Erfurth, Laurence Cromer
  • MODULATING LIGHT RESPONSE PATHWAYS IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110179529
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low light and/or shade tolerance, and red light specific responses in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low light and/or SD+EODFR-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low light and/or SD+EODFR tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Shing Kwok, Kenneth Bounds
  • ISOLATED RICE LP2 PROMOTERS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110179511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated rice LP2 promoter sequences and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Roger L. Thilmony, Mara E. Guttman, James G. Thomson
  • PLANT SNF1-RELATED PROTEIN KINASE GENE
    Publication number: 20110167515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the isolation, purification, characterization and use of the plant Snf1-related protein kinase (SnRK) gene and genetic products. The invention includes isolated and purified SnRK DNA and relates to methods of regulating water loss and plant drought tolerance, sucrose content, starch content, seed oil content, fatty acid synthesis, seed oil acyl composition, seed size/weight, resistance/tolerance to biotic stresses, increased root biomass, and/or carbon flux into other seed components, plant, using the gene, and to tissues and plants transformed with the gene. The invention also relates to transgenic plants, plant tissues and plant seeds having a genome containing an introduced DNA sequence of the invention, and a method of producing such plants and plant seeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Zhifu Zheng, Thomas W. Greene
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL
    Publication number: 20110167523
    Abstract: The subject invention provides novel microorganisms comprising polynucleotides and polypeptides encoding a methyltransferase. The subject invention provides novel methods for the production of biodiesel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: FENG CHEN, Nan Zhao
  • CYCLIN D POLYNUCLEOTIDES, POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110167522
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated polynucleotides, specifically Cyclin D polynucleotides, and their encoded proteins that are involved in cell cycle regulation. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cell cycle protein content and/or composition of plants for the purpose of increasing transformation efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith S. Lowe, Yumin Tao, William J. Gordon-Kamm, Carolyn A. Gregory, John A. McElver, George J. Hoerster, Sheila E. Maddock
  • Plant Membrane Bound O-Acyl Transferase (MBOAT) Family Protein Sequences And Their Uses For Altering Fatty Acid Compositions
    Publication number: 20110162104
    Abstract: This invention is in the field of biotechnology, in particular, this pertains to polynucleotide sequences encoding membrane bound O-acyltransferase genes and the use of these acyltransferases for altering fatty acid profiles in oilseed plants. Methods for increasing elongation and desaturation conversion efficiencies are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: HOWARD GLENN DAMUDE, KNUT MEYER
  • Method For Growing Plants
    Publication number: 20110162116
    Abstract: The invention relates to method for increasing the yield of a plant grown under conditions that cause periodic oxidative stress in said plant, comprising the step of growing a seedling, tissue culture or plantlet into a plant, and further comprising the step of manipulating said plant or the environment of said plant such that an increase in the rate of respiration and/or protein turnover in said plant due to said periodic oxidative stress is intentionally prevented during the early ontogeny of said plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventor: Edwin Henricus Antonius Holman
  • Yield Increase in Plants Overexpressing the MTP Genes
    Publication number: 20110154531
    Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a Membrane Transporter-like Polypeptide (MTP) 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan Mckersie
  • Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity
    Publication number: 20110154536
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Andre Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Deirdre M. Kapka-Kitzman, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
  • Plants with Increased Yield by Increasing or Generating One or More Activities in a Plant or a Part Thereof
    Publication number: 20110154530
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of Yield-Related Proteins (YRP) and/or Yield and Stress-Related Proteins (YSRP) in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Piotr Puzio
  • LOW SATURATED-FAT SUNFLOWER AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20110145952
    Abstract: Provided are sunflowers, parts thereof, cultures of, and seeds that are capable of producing sunflower oil that is low in saturated fat as well as associated methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: James T. Gerdes, Charles J. Kahl, Angela L. Erickson, Robert M. Benson
  • TUBULIN REGULATORY ELEMENTS FOR USE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110130287
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Gregory R. Heck, Marianne Malven, James D. Masucci, Jinsong You
  • LOW SATURATED-FAT SUNFLOWER AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20110131689
    Abstract: Provided are sunflowers, parts thereof, cultures of, and seeds that are capable of producing sunflower oil that is low in saturated fat and, optionally, high in linoleic acid as well as associated methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: James T. Gerdes, Charles J. Kahl, Angela L. Erickson, Robert M. Benson
  • STRESS RESISTANT PLANTS
    Publication number: 20110131672
    Abstract: Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway e.g. for overexpression in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Bayer BioScience N.V.
    Inventors: Marc DE BLOCK, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele