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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6881877 | Enhanced accumulation of trehalose in plants The invention provides a process for producing trehalose in plant cells capable of producing trehalase by growing plant cells having the genetic information required for the production of trehalose and trehalase, or cultivating a plant or a part thereof comprising s... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6833490 | Regulating metabolism by modifying the level of trehalose-6-phosphate The invention involves decreasing the intracellular availability of trehalose-6-phosphate by plant cell transformation with a gene encoding trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase from E. coli. Phenotypic effects of plant transformation with this gene include stimu... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6699515 | Process for the production of alcoholic beverages using maltseed The invention relates to a process for the production of alcoholic beverages such as beer or whiskey with a mixture of enzymes comprising an endo-ଲ(1,4)-xylanase, an arabinofuranosidase, an alpha-amylase, an endo-protease and a ଲ-(1,3; 1,4)-gl... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6361808 | Process for the production of alcoholic beverages using maltseed The invention relates to a process for the production of alcoholic beverages such as beer or whiskey with a mixture of enzymes comprising an endo-ଲ(1,4)-xylanase, an arabinofuranosidase, an alpha-amylase, an endo-protease and a ଲ-(1,3, 1,4)-gl... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6005167 | Male-sterile plants, method for obtaining male-sterile plants and recombinant DNA for use therein The present invention provides male-sterile plants. The plants have a recombinant polynucleotide integrated into their genome, essentially comprising an inhibitory gene, which, upon proper expression in the anthers of the plant, is capable of inhibiting e... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5993808 | Chitinase, DNA coding therefor and plants containing same There is provided a method for inhibiting growth and/or germination of a fungus, by contacting the fungus, or causing the fungus to be contacted with a composition including an effective amount of a pathogenesis-related protein occurring naturally in a pl... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5994625 | Antifungal chitin binding proteins and DNA coding therefor Chimeric genes encoding antifungal chitin binding proteins (antifungal CBPs) with very low chitinase activity (10% or less than that of the class-I chitinases from tobacco). Also substantially pure DNA sequences encoding antifungal CBP are provided for th... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5925804 | Production of trehalose in plants A nucleic acid having (i) a DNA molecule which, when expressed in a plant or plant cell, increases the trehalose content of the plant or plant cell, the DNA molecule encoding an E. coli trehalose phosphate synthase, and (ii) a plant expressible promoter o... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5866777 | Method for obtaining plants with reduced susceptibility to plant-parasitic nematodes A method for obtaining plants with reduced susceptibility to invasion by a plant parasitic nematode, and plants having reduced susceptibility to invasion by a plant parasitic nematode obtained, for example, with such method. The method includes the follow... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5856151 | Antifungal preparations containing osmotin A method for inhibiting the growth and/or germination of a fungus that is susceptible to an osmotin protein by contacting the fungus, or causing the fungus to be contacted with, an effective amount of an osmotin protein. The fungus can be, for example, a ... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5840557 | Method for producing seeds and plants thereof involving an in vitro step A method for producing transgenic seeds and plants, which comprises isolating, from anthers, microspores in their uninucleate stage and removing tissue in which they are embedded, culturing the isolated microspores in a nutrient solution, transferring for... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5770786 | Method for the isolation and/or testing of genes and promoters involved in plant-nematode interactions using plants of the genus arabidopsis The invention provides a method for infecting a root of a plant of the genus Arabidopsis with a plant parasitic nematode under monoxenic conditions, comprising the steps of: (a) contacting the root with a plant parasitic nematode in the presence of a gell... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5770413 | Expression of phytase in plants The present invention provides for the expression of phytase in transgenic plants or plant organs and methods for the production of such plants. DNA expression constructs are provided for the transformation of plants with a gene encoding phytase under the... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5763748 | Production of heterologous protein in plants and plant cells This invention provides for a method to produce excreted and correctly processed heterologous protein-material in a plant host. The method comprises the step of transforming a plant host using a recombinant polynucleotide, which comprises the DNA sequence... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5635381 | Agrobacterium bacteria capable of site-specific recombination The invention provides Agrobacterium strains capable of producing a cite-specific recombinase capable of effecting site-specific recombination of a first and a second recombination site in Agrobacterium strains, when present therein, comprising a structur... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5593963 | Expression of phytase in plants The present invention provides for the expression of phytase in transgenic plants or plant organs and methods for the production of such plants. DNA expression constructs are provided for the transformation of plants with a gene encoding phytase under the... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5543576 | Production of enzymes in seeds and their use A method of catalyzing in vitro reactions using seeds containing enhanced amounts of enzymes is disclosed. The method involves adding transgenic, non-wild type seeds, preferably in a ground form, to a reaction mixture and allowing the enzymes in the seeds... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5389609 | Antifungal preparations, and process for making such preparations New methods are provided for the identification and purification of proteins from plants with an inhibitory effect on pathogens and/or pests, such as insects, nematodes, fungi, and bacteria, using a combination of non-denaturing protein fractionation tech... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5057422 | Recombinant DNA: transformed microorganisms, plant cells and plants: a process for introducing an inducible property in plants, and a process for producing a polypeptide or protein by means of plants or plant cells This invention relates to recombinant DNA comprising vector-DNA and a DNA sequence corresponding with, or relates to, a salicylate-inducible promoter of a GRP gene of plants, such as tobacco plants. The invention also relates to microorganisms, plant cell... | 10/15/1991 |
