Ornamental Plant Patents (Class 800/323)
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Patent number: 8574908Abstract: A method for the production of young plants belonging to the group of herbaceous ornamentals, which method comprises an in vitro culture phase during which explants obtained from a parent stock of a species to be propagated, or derivatives of these explants, are subjected to micropropagation which is carried out under suitable conditions and on suitable culture media, in order to produce micro-plantlets which, when subjected to an in vivo culture phase, are intended to develop into a plant.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Jean-Marc Laine, Frédéric Marie Devys
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Publication number: 20130283485Abstract: The invention relates to a plant growing system having (a) plant life; (b) a super amount of a controlled-release fertilizer to provide season-long performance; and (c) growing media. The planting growing system may also include a moisture control agent or a plant protection agent. Despite the high EC values of the growing system, the combination of materials that make up the growing system nevertheless produces superior performing plants with darker green, healthier-looking leaves; superior growth, fill and spread; more abundant production of flowers and fruits; and a more developed, sustaining root system. Moreover, these plants are far less susceptible to the effects of pests such as fungi (e.g., Fusarium and Rhizoctonia), pythium, caterpillars, thrips, whiteflies, and other pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicants: Syngenta Participants AG, OMS Investments, IncInventors: Robert W. HARRIMAN, Tim J. MCNAMARA, Joseph L. Craig, Joseph M. DiPaola, Alexander P. Prohodski
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Patent number: 8563839Abstract: Methods for reducing leaf senescence in plants or plant portions by treating them with methyl dihydrojasmonate are disclosed. The methyl dihydrojasmonate may be in the form of an aqueous foliar spray, which may also include additives such as wetting agents, adjuvants, emulsifiers, dispersants, spreaders, surfactants, anchorage, disintegrants, and plant nutrients.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: New Biology, Inc.Inventors: Barbara Scheer, Justin Scheer
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Publication number: 20130263304Abstract: The present disclosure embraces methodology and materials for creating new, distinct, and stable Bidens cultivars with unique ray floret coloration and patterns. Illustrative in this regard are Bidens plants having red, orange and/or multi-color petals.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventor: Koichiro NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20130232646Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20130232641Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicants: University of Maine System Board of Trustees, Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Patent number: 8524979Abstract: This invention provides a genetic construct comprising: (a) a DNA cut-and-paste transposon genetic unit which comprises a transposase gene flanked on either side by inverted repeat sequences and operably under the control of a first promoter; and (b) a transgene unit which comprises an expressable transgene, placed operably under the control of a second promoter; wherein the transposon genetic unit and the transgene unit are linked with one of the inverted repeat sequence located in an intron of the transgene. This invention also provides methods of transiently expressing a transgene in a stably transformed eukaryote. This invention further provides methods for obtaining marker-free transgenic plants.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: National Taiwan UniversityInventor: Yuh-Chyang Charng
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Patent number: 8507777Abstract: A new and distinct Guzmania hybrid named ‘TROPIX’ characterized by solid growth habit; funnel-form rosette plant, measuring about 35 cm to 50 cm in height (above the pot when flowering); numerous, green color foliage (measuring about 25-45 cm length and about 3-4.5 cm in width) Superior floral bract production; bracts are red in color (closest to RHS 45A); head inflorescence, measuring about 8 cm in height when flowering commences to about 15 cm in height at maturity, and about 12 cm in diameter; and long-lasting habit.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Corn.Bak B.V.Inventors: Elly Bak, Nicolaas D. M. Steur
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Patent number: 8502051Abstract: A new and distinct Guzmania hybrid named ‘REMIX’ characterized by solid growth habit; funnel-form rosette plant, measuring about 35 cm to 42 cm in height (above the pot when flowering); numerous, green color foliage, measuring about 40 cm to 46 cm in length and about 2.5 cm to 3.5 cm in width; superior floral bract production; bracts have a unique, red with yellow inflorescence which distinguishes this cultivar from typical Guzmania; compound inflorescence, measuring about 9 cm in height and about 16 cm in diameter; and long-lasting habit.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: CORN.BAK B.V.Inventors: Elly Bak, Nicolaas D. M. Steur
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Patent number: 8502052Abstract: A new and distinct Guzmania hybrid named ‘FREEZE’ characterized by solid growth habit; funnel-form rosette plant, measuring about 46 cm to 50 cm in height (above the pot when flowering); numerous, green color foliage (measuring about 40 to 50 cm length and about 2.5 to 4 cm in width) Superior floral bract production; bracts are white in color (closest to RHS 158A); compound inflorescence, measuring about 15 cm in height when flowering, and about 18 cm in diameter; and long-lasting habit.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Corn.Bak B.V.Inventors: Elly Bak, Nicolaas D. M. Steur
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Patent number: 8479442Abstract: A desired geometry of a plant is achieved in a simple way by means of a method for shaping one or more plants, whereby a dimensionally stable shaping device is used to delimit a growth space for the plant. The shaping device comprises at least one light permeable shaping element. Once shaping is complete the shaping device is removed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Inventor: Norbert Wielgosch
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Patent number: 8476490Abstract: To provide a method for changing the flower color of a moth orchid, particularly a method for producing a moth orchid having a red or reddish flower color from a white moth orchid. A method for producing a moth orchid having a modified flower color, which comprises transfecting a moth orchid with a gene encoding a flavanone 3-hydroxylase, a gene encoding a flavonoid 3?-hydroxylase, a gene encoding a dihydroflavonol 4-reductase and a gene encoding an anthocyanidin synthase and expressing the genes.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Araki, Takanori Suzuki, Kouichi Katayama
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Publication number: 20130167266Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-resistance plant gene JAZ5a and use thereof. The inventors of the present invention isolated for the first time a heat resistance gene from the plant of Brassica spp., which can greatly improve the heat-resistance ability of the plant, especially in the bolting stage. The present invention further provides a protein encoded by said gene and its preparation method, vectors and host cells containing said gene, and a method for preparing a transgenic plant containing said gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: SHANGHAI INSTITUTES FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Yu-Ke He, Chuan-Bao Sun
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Publication number: 20130145495Abstract: This invention provides genetically modified photosynthetic organisms and methods and constructs for enhancing inorganic carbon fixation. A photosynthetic organism of the present invention comprises a RUBISCO fusion protein operatively coupled to a protein-protein interaction domain to enable the functional association of RUBISCO and carbonic anhydrase.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTERInventor: Richard T. Sayre
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Patent number: 8445748Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase (F3?5?H) activity and to the use of the genetic sequence and/or its corresponding polypeptide thereof inter alia to manipulate color in flowers or parts thereof or in other plant tissue. More particularly, the F3?5?H has the ability to modulate dihydrokaempferol (DHK) metabolism as well as the metabolism of other substrates such as dihydroquercetin (DHQ), naringenin and eriodictyol. Even more particularly, the present invention provides a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having F3?5?H activity when expressed in rose or gerbera or botanically related plants. The instant invention further relates to antisense and sense molecules or RNAi-inducing molecules corresponding to all or part of the subject genetic sequence or a transcript thereof. The present invention further relates to promoters which operate efficiently in plants such as rose, gerbera or botanically related plants.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Filippa Brugliera, Yoshikazu Tanaka, John Mason
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Patent number: 8440879Abstract: To provide a highly expressed F3?5?H gene, whereby a blue moth orchid can be produced and a method using the gene for producing Orchids having blue flowers. A gene encoding a flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase of Commelina communis, which has an amino acid sequence depicted in SEQ ID No: 2 or an amino acid sequence having at least 90% of homology to the amino acid sequence depicted in SEQ ID No: 2. A method for producing an orchid having a blue flower, which comprises transfecting a white moth orchid with the gene, a gene encoding a dihydroflavonol 4-reductase of Torenia or Gerbera; a gene encoding a flavanone 3-hydroxylase; and a gene encoding an anthocyanidin synthase and expressing the genes.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Shunji Yuki, Satoshi Araki, Takanori Suzuki
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Publication number: 20130086709Abstract: Free branching poinsettia plants are provided which comprise a heritable lateral branching trait. In certain aspects, poinsettia plants comprising a lateral branching trait are not pinched, are not grafted and/or are free of phytoplasma infection. Methods for growth and breeding such free branching poinsettias are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Inventor: Ruth Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8410335Abstract: A method for producing a rose characterized by artificially suppressing the rose endogenous metabolic pathway and expressing the pansy gene coding for flavonoid 3?,5?-hydroxylase.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2004Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Yoshikazu Tanaka, Yuko Fukui, Junichi Togami, Yukihisa Katsumoto, Masako Mizutani
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Patent number: 8362342Abstract: A new and distinct Tillandsia leiboldiana plant named ‘MORA’ characterized spreading growth habit and good vigor; funnel-form rosette, medium-sized plant, measuring about 45 cm to 50 cm in height (above the pot when flowering), and about 25 cm to 30 cm in diameter; numerous, foliage primarily green in color, and measuring about 18.5 cm in length and about 2.0 cm in width; superior floral bract production; bracts have a unique red-purple inflorescence (RHS 71A); and erect, compound inflorescence, measuring from about 35 cm in height at maturity, and about 15 cm to 20 cm in diameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Corn.Bak B.V.Inventors: Elly Bak, Nicolaas D. M. Steur
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Patent number: 8344229Abstract: New plants were created from a new and efficient method of intergeneric hybridization between the genus Argyranthemum as a female parent and a plant from I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a male parent. The plants were created by rescuing an embryo from the cross-pollination of a tetraploid or aneu-tetraploid Argyranthemum female parent with a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a male parent. The new plants often exhibited the perennial and multi-branched habit of the female Argyranthemum parent, with large capitula size and different ray floret colors, many not previously seen in Argyranthemum. When compared to Argyranthemum, the new plants possessed improved tolerance to high growing temperatures. In addition to providing the intergeneric hybrid plants and parts thereof, the invention provides methods for making such plants and methods for creating intergeneric hybrid plants.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Bonza Botanicals Pty ltdInventor: Andrew Bernuetz
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Publication number: 20120331591Abstract: A method of producing a multi-petaled cyclamen plant having an increased number of petals, including at least inhibiting the function of a transcription factor involved in morphogenesis of a floral organ of cyclamen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Teruhiko Terakawa, Tomomichi Yamamura, Masao Sugiyama, Masaru Takagi, Nobutaka Mitsuda
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Publication number: 20120304334Abstract: New plants were created from a new and efficient method of intergeneric hybridization between a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a female parent and a plant from the genus Argyranthemum as a male parent. The plants were created by rescuing an embryo from the cross-pollination of a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a female parent with an Argyranthemum male parent. The invention also describes a method for infecting hybrid plants with a virus and a viroid to modify plant phenotype. In addition to providing the intergeneric hybrid plants and parts thereof, the invention provides methods for making such plants and methods for creating other intergeneric hybrid plants and self plants from normally self-incompatible plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: BONZA BOTANICALS PTY LTDInventor: Andrew Bernuetz
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Publication number: 20120278956Abstract: Plant growth substrates that lack organic components, such as organic soil, peat or bark material. In certain aspects sponge-like matrix materials are provided that are porous, retains water and can be used to maintain plant growth. Matrix materials, for instance, can comprise an admixture of a hydrophilic polymer, such as a polyurethane, and an amorphous silica. Methods of growing and maintaining plants and plant parts in such materials are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventor: Gary R. Hartman
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Patent number: 8297543Abstract: A method for individualizing a trichome from an epidermis of a non-seed portion of a trichome-bearing plant in the Stachys genus to form a fibrous structure is provided. The method comprises contacting the plant with a device to separate the trichome from the epidermis and incorporating the separated trichome into a fibrous structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Teresa Jean Franklin
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Patent number: 8288613Abstract: The invention provides an enzyme having a lignan-hydroxylating activity, particularly an enzyme capable of catalyzing the reaction of transferring a hydroxyl group to a lignan, an enzyme capable of catalyzing the hydroxylation of piperitol to 9-hydroxylpiperitol or pinoresinol to 9-hydroxylpinoresinol. The invention provides a polypeptide having a lignan-hydroxylating activity; a polynucleotide encoding the same; a vector or transformant comprising the polynucleotide; a method for producing a polypeptide having a lignan-hydroxylating activity which comprises using the transformant; and so on. The transformant wherein the polynucleotide is expressibly introduced is useful for the hydroxylation of a lignan or for the production of a product using the same in the food sector and a variety of industry sectors.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Eiichiro Ono, Asako Okada, Yuko Fukui
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Patent number: 8263842Abstract: A fringe flowered Madagascar periwinkle, especially a long blooming Madagascar periwinkle having a pistil without pollination ability. A fringe flowered Madagascar periwinkle bred by pollinating a pollen of a fringe flowered Madagascar periwinkle to a commercial variety, and a fringe flowered Madagascar periwinkle obtained by self pollinating a fringe flowered and pistil sterile Madagascan periwinkle.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Inventor: Osamu Kitajima
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Publication number: 20120198589Abstract: A rose is produced in which an introduced gene is only present in a part of the cells thereof, such as cells of the L1 layer of flower petals, but is not present in germ cells such as pollen cells or ovule cells. Since the introduced gene is not propagated to other roses even when this rose is crossed with other roses, the possibility of dispersal of the introduced gene can be completely negated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: JUNICHI TOGAMI, EKATERINA MOURADOVA
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Publication number: 20120192308Abstract: A method for providing a transgenic plant, including transforming a plant cell or plant material with a nucleotide sequence coding for a BBM protein, wherein activity of the BBM protein is induced during transformation and/or regeneration of the transformed plant cell or plant material, and wherein the plant cell or plant material originates from a recalcitrant plant is provided. In addition, a transgenic plant or material thereof having a BBM protein, wherein the transgenic plant is a recalcitrant plant is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2010Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicants: STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK, ENZA ZADEN BEHEER B.V.Inventors: Iris Heidmann, Kimberly Anne Boutilier, Brenda Johanna Maria De Lange
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Patent number: 8222486Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing the pathogen resistance in transgenic plants and/or plant cells, where a DNA sequence which codes for a protein with a leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) domain and/or a kinase activity is introduced into the plant or plant cell and expressed therein. The present invention also relates to the use of nucleic acids which code for such a protein, for the generation of transgenic plants or plant cells with an increased pathogen resistance. The present invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid sequences which code for a protein which confers an increased pathogen resistance in plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Dimitar Douchkov, Patrick Schweizer
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Publication number: 20120159669Abstract: Disclosed is a novel method for altering the depth of flower color for the lighter or deeper. Specifically disclosed is a method for altering the depth of flower color of a plant for the lighter or deeper by varying the anthocyanin content in petals of the plant, which comprises a step of regulating the expression of type IV chalcone isomerase in the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Shigeru Iida, Yasumasa Morita, Atsushi Hoshino, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Masako Mizutani
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Publication number: 20120151635Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants comprise a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1, operably linked to a plant-specific promote, wherein the CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 is ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plants, and wherein the promoter is optionally a constitutive or inducible promoter. In other embodiments, transgenic plants in which express a lower level of CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 are provided. Also provided herein are commercial products (e.g., pulp, paper, paper products, or lumber) derived from the transgenic plants (e.g., transgenic trees) produced using the methods provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Gloria Coruzzi, Rodrigo A. Gutierrez, Damion C. Nero
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Publication number: 20120144520Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants that have increased nitrogen use efficiency, stress tolerance, or both and that have been transformed using a novel vector construct including nucleic acid sequences that modulate nitrogen use in plants. In various embodiments, the vector construct comprises a nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, or 38. The invention also relates to isolated vectors for transforming plants and to antibodies used for detecting transformed plants. 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARDInventors: James McLaren, Nicholas Duck, Brian Vande Berg, Alissa Schawalder, Vadim Beilinson, Jill Hinson
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Patent number: 8183434Abstract: A rose is produced in which an introduced gene is only present in a part of the cells thereof, such as cells of the L1 layer of flower petals, but is not present in germ cells such as pollen cells or ovule cells. Since the introduced gene is not propagated to other roses even when this rose is crossed with other roses, the possibility of dispersal of the introduced gene can be completely negated.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Suntory Holdings LimitedInventors: Junichi Togami, Ekaterina Mouradova
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Publication number: 20120096580Abstract: A Zantedeschia variety designated 110224-64275 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of Zantedeschia 110224-64275, the plants of Zantedeschia 110224-64275, plant parts of Zantedeschia 110224-64275, and methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant produced by crossing Zantedeschia 110224-64275 with itself or with another Zantedeschia variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic Zantedeschia plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Zantedeschia varieties, or breeding varieties, and plant parts derived from Zantedeschia 110224-64275, methods for producing other Zantedeschia varieties, hybrids, or plant parts derived from Zantedeschia 110224-64275, and to the Zantedeschia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: GOLDEN STATE BULB GROWERS, INC.Inventor: Peter M. Beckman
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Publication number: 20120096579Abstract: A Zantedeschia variety designated 110066-21104 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of Zantedeschia 110066-21104, the plants of Zantedeschia 110066-21104, plant parts of Zantedeschia 110066-21104, and methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant produced by crossing Zantedeschia 110066-21104 with itself or with another Zantedeschia variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic Zantedeschia plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Zantedeschia varieties, or breeding varieties, and plant parts derived from Zantedeschia 110066-21104, methods for producing other Zantedeschia varieties, hybrids, or plant parts derived from Zantedeschia 110066-21104, and to the Zantedeschia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: Golden State Bulb Growers, Inc.Inventor: Peter M. Beckman
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Publication number: 20120090046Abstract: A Zantedeschia variety designated 110067-52451 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of Zantedeschia 110067-52451, the plants of Zantedeschia 110067-52451, plant parts of Zantedeschia variety 110067-52451, and methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant produced by crossing Zantedeschia 110067-52451 with itself or with another Zantedeschia variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic Zantedeschia plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Zantedeschia varieties, or breeding varieties, and plant parts derived from Zantedeschia 110067-52451, methods for producing other Zantedeschia varieties, hybrids, or plant parts derived from Zantedeschia 110067-52451, and to the Zantedeschia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: GOLDEN STATE BULB GROWERS, INC.Inventor: Peter M. Beckman
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Patent number: 8143475Abstract: The promoter of a soybean lipid transfer protein LTP4 and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventor: Zhongsen Li
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Publication number: 20120073014Abstract: A Zantedeschia variety designated 110167-55633 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of Zantedeschia variety 110167-55633, to the plants of Zantedeschia 110167-55633, to plant parts of Zantedeschia variety 110167-55633, and to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant produced by crossing Zantedeschia variety 110167-55633 with itself or with another Zantedeschia variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a Zantedeschia plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and to the transgenic Zantedeschia plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Zantedeschia varieties, or breeding varieties, and plant parts derived from Zantedeschia variety 110167-55633, to methods for producing other Zantedeschia varieties, hybrids, or plant parts derived from Zantedeschia variety 110167-55633, and to the Zantedeschia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: GOLDEN STATE BULB GROWERS, INC.Inventor: Peter M. Beckman
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Publication number: 20120066798Abstract: A desired geometry of a plant is achieved in a simple way by means of a method for shaping one or more plants, whereby a dimensionally stable shaping device is used to delimit a growth space for the plant. The shaping device comprises at least one light permeable shaping element. Once shaping is complete the shaping device is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventor: Norbert Wielgosch
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Publication number: 20120060235Abstract: Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules isolated from coffee (Coffea spp.) comprising sequences that encodes various sucrose metabolizing enzymes, along with their encoded proteins. Specifically, sucrose synthase, sucrose phosphate synthase and sucrose phosphatase enzymes and their encoding polynucleotides from coffee are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides for gene regulation and manipulation of the sugar profile of coffee plants, to influence flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee beans.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Isabelle M. PRIVAT, James Gérard McCarthy, Vincent Petiard, Steven D. Tanksley, Chenwei Lin
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Publication number: 20120011771Abstract: Disclosed is a novel compound contained in blue rose. This novel compound, which is contained in blue rose, has a chemical structure represented by general formula (I): [wherein R1 is a group as set forth in claim 1; and R2 represents —OH, or R1 and R2 together form —O—]. Also disclosed are a rose plant containing the aforesaid compound, and a part of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Yuko Fukui, Yoshikazu Tanaka
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Patent number: 8097769Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
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Publication number: 20110321196Abstract: The present invention pertains transgenic plant cells and mature plants comprising Oxidoreductase Stress Related Proteins (ORSRP) resulting in increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress as compared to non-transformed wild type cells and methods of producing such plant cells or plants. Further object of the present invention are isolated ORSRPs or ORSRP encoding nucleic acids from plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Agnes Chardonnens, Piotr Puzio
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Patent number: 8084674Abstract: The present invention relates to novel Pelargonium hortorum—interspecific plants having dark red to burgundy or darker pigmented flower petal, a trailing growth habit, dark leaf color and tolerance to high temperatures, high light and edema. The present invention also relates to methods for creating novel Pelargonium hortorum—interspecific hybrid plants having dark red to burgundy or darker pigmented flower petals, a trailing growth habit and tolerance to high temperatures, high light and edema.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Mitchell E. Hanes
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Patent number: 8056841Abstract: A method for individualizing a trichome from an epidermis of a non-seed portion of a trichome-bearing plant is provided. The method includes the step of contacting the trichome-bearing plant with a device such that the trichome is separated from the epidermis of the trichome-bearing plant. The device can be a mill device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Teresa Jean Franklin
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Publication number: 20110277188Abstract: The present invention relates to method for generating plants having altered architecture by introducing into plants, isolated nucleic acid molecules that can be used to produce transgenic plants characterized by altered plant architecture, carbon and nitrogen partitioning, enhanced biomass and or improved harvestable yield and to plants so generated and parts of these plants. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for modifying a plant so as to produce a plant exhibiting an altered phenotype. Also provided are isolated nucleic sequence that encodes GAD polypeptide, vectors capable of expressing such nucleic acid molecules, host cells containing such vectors, and polypeptide encoded by such nucleic acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Villoo Morawala-Patell, Mahesh Venkataramaiah, Suhas Nimbalkar, Manjula Ramakrishna, Suresh Sadasivam
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Publication number: 20110265202Abstract: Self-incompatibility (SI) of the common field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) depends on interaction of a pollen transmembrane protein with a pistil ligand protein both encoded by multi-allelic genes at the S locus. Such a locus can be used to confer SI on other plant species.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Inventors: Vernonica Franklin-Tong, Frederick Franklin, Bernardus De Graaf
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Publication number: 20110252503Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARDInventors: James McLaren, Nicholas Duck, Brian Vande Berg, Philip Hammer, Laura Schouten
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Publication number: 20110252511Abstract: A method for colouring a flower on a pot plant comprises the steps of (i) providing a pipette (8), (ii) arranging in the stem of the flower a bore with a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the outer end of the pipette, (iii) inserting the outer end of the pipette into the bore and fixing the pipette relative to the stem, (iv) filling the pipette with a quantity of colouring liquid, which is non-toxic to the pot plant, following any of the steps (i), (ii) or (iii) as desired, and (v) removing the pipette after the quantity of colouring liquid has been taken up by the pot plant, and pot plant with at least one flower which is coloured with a colouring liquid introduced via the stem of this flower.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicants: R.C.G. DE KONING HOLDINGS B.V., LOGICO B.V.,Inventor: Jeffrey Franciscus VAN DEN BERGHEN
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Publication number: 20110247092Abstract: The present invention relates to an Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plant, seed, variety, and hybrid. Another aspect of the present invention relates to an Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plant having a mutant allele designated KLEDF which results in an altered flower phenotype. The invention also relates to crossing Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plants containing the KLEDF mutant allele with other Osteospermum and Dimorphoteca plants lacking the KLEDF mutant allele to produce intergeneric and interspecific hybrids. This invention further relates to specific lines of Osteospermum varieties exhibiting the altered-flowering phenotype. Furthermore, the invention relates to pollen, seed, and sexual, as well as asexual progeny of such plants with altered flowers. In addition, the invention relates to methods for propagating said plants and to uses of said plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: KLEMM+SOHN GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Andrea Dohm, Ulrich Sander, Nils Klemm