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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5141745 | Nodulation inducing factors Nodulation gene-inducing factors have been isolated and identified. A number of substituted flavones, some of which are components of exudates and extracts of leguminous plants, have been found to induce expression of certain nodulation genes in Rhizobium... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5137816 | Rhizobial diagnostic probes and rhizobium trifolii nifH promoters This invention provides useful promoters from the R. trifolii nifH gene for the construction of recombinant molecules to regulate foreign genes for expression under desired conditions. In particular, the promoters act to control expression of the foreign ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5133517 | Access door pallet Access door pallets for an external tank of a Shuttle Transportation System are provided. Access door pallets replace one or more access doors on the external tank. In addition to carrying out the original function of the replaced access door, they provid... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5124260 | Integration vector for Bradyrhizobium japonicum An integration vector which directs the stable integration of a DNA segment, including for example, a cloned structural gene and/or a selectable marker into a defined, nonessential region of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum genome is provided. The integration... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5109837 | Hyperbaric chamber A portable hyperbaric chamber is provided that allows a person to perform endurance exercise at barometric pressures of from 0 to 10 lbs./square inch greater than ambient. The chamber is portable, semi-spherical and inexpensively constructed of an essenti... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5061814 | High tilt ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds and compositions Chiral nonracemic molecules which are useful in the preparation of high polarization density FLC compositions and which have the following structure are provided: ##STR1## wherein Ph is a 1,4 substituted phenyl group, m=2 and n=1 or m=1 and n=2, ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5059534 | Rhizobium japonicum 191 NODD-related genes The isolation and characterization of nodD-related genes in soybean nodulating Rhizobium japonicum is described. In R. japonicum USDA 191 two such genes have been identified, which although related in structure, have different functional properties. These... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5059533 | Rhizobial ferredoxin genes Rhizobial ferredoxin genes and proteins are provided. Rhizobial ferredoxins are useful to enhance the nitrogenase systems of rhizobia. Useful rhizobial ferredoxin diagnostic segments are also provided comprising DNA sequences encoding the characteristic f... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5053331 | Self-incompatibility gene DNA sequence of S-genes which encode S-proteins and control the self-incompatibility reaction in gametophytic self-incompatible plants have been identified. The DNA sequence encoding several S-proteins of N. alata and their attendant signal sequences are ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5051506 | Ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds containing chiral haloalkyoxy tail units and compositions containing them Chiral, nonracemic compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein m and n are either both zero, both equal one or n is equal to one and m is equal to zero, X and Y and Z are halogens, R' is an alkyl or alkoxy group having three to fifteen carbons... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5045461 | Method for increasing yield and nodulation by bradyrhizobium A method of increasing nodulation of a plant capable of being nodulated by Bradyrhizobium sp. (Parasponis) is provided comprising infecting said plant with a Bradyrhizobium sp. (Parasponia) species mutated such that nodK is non-functional. One such method... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5037959 | Self incompatibility protein A class of proteins associated with self-incompatibility alleles of plants, preferably of gametophytic self-incompatibility type, are provided. These proteins inhibit pollen tube growth in a plant style having the associated self-incompatibility allele, a... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5030572 | Sunflower regeneration from cotyledons A method for regeneration of sunflower plants via shoot induction from cotyledon explants prepared from non-germinated sunflower embryos is described. Several methods for preparing explants by dissection of mature and immature fully-formed embryos are pro... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5024944 | Transformation, somatic embryogenesis and whole plant regeneration method for Glycine species A method for somatic embryogenesis of soybean, (Glycine max), Glycine soja and other Glycine species is provided using immature cotyledon tissue, preferably with the embryonic axis removed, comprising culturing said tissue on a medium containing auxin, pr... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5023236 | Factor VII/VIIA active site inhibitors The invention includes a class of compounds that inhibit the specific proteolytic activity of the bimolecular complex 1[TF:VII/VIIa] that initiates the blood coagulation systems. Both reversible and irreversible inhibitors are disclosed. The invention enc... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5023180 | Bradyrhizobium japonicum nodulation regulatory protein and gene Nodulation regulatory genes (nodD genes) of Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains have been isolated and sequenced. Recombinant DNA molecules and vectors containing these regulatory genes are described. These genes, molecules and vectors are useful in the gene... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5009338 | Indicator cap for a medicine bottle Disclosed is an indicator cap for indicating each time a bottle is opened and re-closed having an outer cover shaped in the manner of a conventional bottle cap with a window in the top piece of the cap. The cap is designed to be attached to the sealing ca... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5008194 | nifH promoters of Bradyrhizobium The nifH promoter regions of Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Bradyrhizobium sp. (parasponia) have been sequenced and found to be significantly homologous. Recombinant DNA molecules comprising foreign genes under the control of such promoters are provided. Rh... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5003045 | Modified 7S legume seed storage proteins The present invention discloses plant cells which contain modified 7S legume seed storage protein. Modification of 7S seed storage proteins which are expressible in plant cells and transformation of such genes into plant cells is also taught. Furthermore,... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5001061 | nifD promoter of Bradyrhizobium The nifD promoter regions of Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Bradyhizobium sp. (Parasponia) have been sequenced and found to be significantly homologous. Recombinant DNA molecules comprising foreign genes under the control of such promoters are provided. Rhi... | 03/19/1991 |
| 5001060 | Plant anaerobic regulatory element DNA sequence elements which effect anaerobic induction of genes in plants are identified and characterized. These sequence elements, designated anaerobic regulatory elements, confer inducibility by anaerobic conditions on downstress plant-expressible prom... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4974829 | Hyperbaric chamber A portable hyperbaric chamber that allows a person to perform endurance exercise at barometric pressures of from 0 to 10 lbs/square inch greater than ambient. The chamber is portable, semi-spherical and inexpensively constructed of an essentially air-impe... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4943524 | Enzyme immunoassay for cancer procoagulant A procedure for the immunoassay of a proteolytic procoagulant enzyme in biological samples is described. The presence of the enzyme is indicative of malignant disease, and the immunoassay is used as a diagnostic test for cancer.... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4937970 | In vitro screening for and selection of glycine max resistant to phialophora gregata An in vitro method for screening Glycine max cells for resistance to a disease caused by Phialophora gregata, brown stem rot, is disclosed. The method is useful for identifying brown stem rot resistant soybean varieties. Means for selecting mutant soybean... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4897345 | Pollen tube growth assay This invention provides an immunologic method for measuring plant pollen germination and pollen tube growth. This method is based on the finding that an antibody having specificity to ଲ-L-arabinofuranosyl residues binds to the surface of in vitro gr... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4886878 | Modified zein genes containing lysine Modified 19kd and 22kd zeins containing lysine are provided. Lysine additions are made by modifying structural genes which encode 19kd and 22kd pre-zeins. Modified zeins produced from the modified structural gene templates are found to retain important pr... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4885357 | Modified zein proteins containing lysine Modified 19kd and 22kd zeins containing lysine are provided. Lysine additions are made by modifying structural genes which encode 19kd and 22kd pre-zeins. Modified zeins produced from the modified structural gene templates are found to retain important pr... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4885248 | Transfer vector A recombinant DNA vector is provided as a universal transcription vector having a replication origin and selectable marker, a promoter and a transcription initiation site comprising a first transcribed nucleotide, wherein a restriction site is provided im... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4870015 | Method and composition for producing lectin in microorganisms Methods and compositions for the construction of a recombinant vector containing plant or animal lectin DNA sequences, such vector being capable of being replicated, transcribed and translated in single cell hosts. The gene coding for the plant or animal ... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4857465 | Whole plant regeneration via organogenesis and somaclonal variation in glycine species A method is provided for the production of organogenic tissue culture and regeneration of whole plants of Glycine species, preferably Glycine max, involving the use of an organogenic culture medium comprising high cytokinin, preferably at least about 10 Î... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4835295 | Ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds and compositions Chiral, nonracemic compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein n=1 or 2, Y is a hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine atom, R' is an alkyl or alkoxy group having three to fifteen carbons, and R is an alkyl group having three to fifteen carbo... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4818696 | Rhizobium japonicum symbiosis gene transfer A symbiosis plasmid from a fast-growing Rhizobium japonicum donor strain can be transferred to Rhizobium recipient strains, the recipient strains being previously incapable of forming an effective symbiotic relationship with plants of certain Glycine (e.g... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4803165 | Nif promoter of fast-growing rhizobium japonicum The promoter of the nifH gene of the fast-growing Rhizobium japonicum strain USDA 191, has been cloned. Over 4.2 kilobase pairs (kbp) of DNA were sequences (FIG. 1). Sequences encoding nifH and the 5'-end of nifD were identified, as were sequences involve... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4798723 | Agricultural products from Pseudomonas cepacia strains and methods of preparation Agricultural methods of biological control and organisms useful in such methods are disclosed, such as a plant colonizing organisms and methods of biologically controlling plant disease caused by fungi. A novel type of Pseudomonas cepacia type Wisconsin h... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4782022 | Nitrogen fixation regulator genes Isolation and characterization of a gene which activated nitrogen fixation genes of Rhizobium meliloti when that bacterium is in a symbiotic relationship with a plant is disclosed. This newly discovered gene, designated fix D, can activate the nifHD promo... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4771002 | Transcription in plants and bacteria A promoter region that drives expression of a 1450 base TR transcript in octopine-type crown gall tumors can also promote expression of a foreign structural gene in bacteria. Use of this dul-purpose promoter region to drive expression of a sing... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4713330 | Visual bioassay for rhizobium competition variants A simple, generalized method is disclosed for screening a collection of Rhizobium or Bradyrhizobium strains for variants which, in nodulation, have competative abilities above or below a particular experimentally-set criterion. This method involves mixing... | 12/15/1987 |
