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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120042421 | PERILLA-DERIVED PROMOTER FUNCTIONING IN PETALS There is provided a novel promoter useful for altering flow color of plants. The present invention relates to a nucleic acid selected from the group consisting of:
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| 20120042411 | GENE TARGETING IN PLANTS An isolated polynucleotide sequence that encodes for a multi domain recombination protein, comprising a donor DNA-Binding domain (BDB); and a chromosomal binding domain (CBD). A plant cell can be transformed by introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid sequence, wh... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120030842 | METHODS OF PRODUCING GABA The present invention describes an alternative approach to increase GABA production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes, namely by the insertion of the putrescine catabolic pathway in organisms where the pathway does not exist or has not clearly been identified. The invention ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020940 | ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES The present invention relates to a peptide comprising or consisting of the following amino acid sequence: A0-A1-A2-A3-A4-A5-A6-A7-A8-A9-A10-A11-A12 (formula II), wherein A0 is a hydrophobic amino acid residue or is absent; A1, A4, A7, A8, A12 each are a hydrophobic amin... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017333 | PLANTS WITH INCREASED ACTIVITY OF A STARCH PHOSPHORYLATING ENZYME The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, whereby the genetic modification leads to an increase in the activity of a starch-phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison to the corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type p... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014969 | ErbB3 ANTIBODIES Antibodies are disclosed which bind to ErbB3 protein and further possess any one or more of the following properties: an ability to reduce heregulin-induced formation of an ErbB2-ErbB3 protein complex in a cell which expresses ErbB2 and ErbB3; the ability to increase th... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010387 | ANTIBODY VARIANTS COMPOSITION Among N-glycoside-linked sugar chains which are bound to the Fc region of an antibody, sugar chains which are bound to Asn at position 297 relates to the activity and stability of the antibody in blood, but there is a possibility that extra sugar chains bound to the ami... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110321196 | Nucleic Acid Sequences Encoding Proteins Associated with Abiotic Stress Response 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 pro... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110321187 | PLANT PLASTID TRANSFORMATION METHOD Method for heterologous protein production in plant cell plastids comprising introducing into plant cells nucleic acid components that encode heterologous proteins under the control of promoters operative in plastids, vectors, host cells, plants and uses thereof.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110301073 | Novel DNA-binding proteins and uses thereof Disclosed herein are polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding, cells and organisms comprising novel DNA-binding domains, including TALE DNA-binding domains. Also disclosed are methods of using these novel DNA-binding domains for modulation of gene expression and/or genomi... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110293632 | POLYPEPTIDE VARIANTS WITH ALTERED EFFECTOR FUNCTION The present invention concerns polypeptides comprising a variant Fc region. More particularly, the present invention concerns Fc region-containing polypeptides that have altered effector function as a consequence of one or more amino acid modifications in the Fc region ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110296551 | PLANT MITOCHONDRIA TRANSFORMATION METHOD Method for heterologous RNA species and protein production in plant cell mitochondria comprising introducing into plant cells nucleic acid components that encode heterologous proteins/RNAS under the control of promoters operative in mitochondria, vectors, host cells, pl... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110283377 | COMPOSITIONS, ORGANISMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR EXPRESSING A GENE PRODUCT IN PLANTS The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to compositions, organisms, systems, and methods for expressing a gene product in a plant using a expression control sequence (ECS) operable in monocots and/or dicots. For example, (i) an isolated nucleic acid may com... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274692 | Screening Methods The present invention provides polypeptide binding agents, e.g. antibodies, that exhibit the ability to kinetically modulate the binding and signaling of biological signaling complexes, e.g., receptor-ligand complexes; methods of identifying such polypeptide binding age... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110277179 | Plants With Increased Yield This invention relates generally to a plant cell with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or increased biomass production as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated w... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110252491 | CHIMERIC PLANT PROMOTERS AND THEIR USES IN PLANTS The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252509 | Method for Producing a Transgenic Cell with Increased Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (Gaba) Content 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.... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110231961 | METABOLIC REGULATORS The present invention provides metabolic regulators, which are proteins (such as fusion proteins, truncated proteins or full-length proteins) that bind to specific metabolites and which can be used to control the availability of the metabolites in cells, particularly pl... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225673 | CHIMERIC PROMOTERS AND THEIR USES IN PLANTS 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; tran... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110223667 | METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF LIPID METABOLISM BY IMPROVING FATTY ACID BINDING AND TRANSPORT CHI like fatty acid binding proteins and genes, recombinant cells and organisms, methods of metabolic pathway engineering to improve lipid production in cells, Crystal structures of CHI like fatty acid binding proteins, methods of engineering CHI like fatty acid binding... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110212541 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS TO PROTECT CELLS BY BLOCKING ENTRY OF PATHOGEN PROTEINS Pathogenic effector proteins include one or more virulence motifs of amino acid consensus sequence BXZ, where B=RK or H; X=any amino acid or is absent; Z=L, M, I, W, Y or F) which bind to target polar lipids on a host (plant or animal) cell as a prerequisite for translo... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110203019 | METHODS OF PRODUCING GABA The present invention describes an alternative approach to increase GABA production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes, namely by the insertion of the putrescine catabolic pathway in organisms where the pathway does not exist or has not clearly been identified. The invention ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110173715 | Nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins associated with abiotic stress response and plant cells and plants with increased tolerance to environmental stress This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110162114 | SELECTION METHOD II The invention relates to a method for producing a transformed plant cell. More particularly, the method involves the transformation of a plant cell with a Transformation Cassette which is targeted to plant plastids and which comprises a selection gene, for example isope... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154530 | Plants with Increased Yield by Increasing or Generating One or More Activities in a Plant or a Part Thereof 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-R... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110119793 | Chimeric promoters and their uses thereof in Plants The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel enhanced plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel promoters; and m... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110107446 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANT PEST CONTROL The present invention is directed to controlling nematode infestation. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling nematode infestation by providing recombinant DNA molecules to the cells of a plant in order to achieve a reduction in nematode... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110097794 | Whitefly Ecdysone Receptor Nucleic Acids, Polypeptides, and Uses Thereof The present invention relates to a novel isolated whitefly ecdysone receptor polypeptide. The invention also relates to an isolated nucleic acid encoding the whitefly ecdysone receptor polypeptide, to vectors comprising them and to their uses, in particular in methods f... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110099668 | Expressing GLK in plants The present invention provides, in part, GLK1 nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides that can be used to confer resistance to a pathogen in a plant. The present invention also provides methods of detecting disease resistance genes and plants.... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110078833 | GENOME WIDE IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENE EXPRESSION REGULATORY ELEMENTS IN ZEA MAYS FOR USE IN PLANTS The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the lipid transfer protein (LTP) gene of Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110059525 | Novel Ecdysone Receptor-Based Inducible Gene Expression System This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to a novel inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating gene expres... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110055968 | NOVEL BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS CRYSTAL POLYPEPTIDES, POLYNUCLEOTIDES, AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF The present invention provides insecticidal polypeptides related to shuffled Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1 polypeptides. Nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention are also provided. Methods for using the polypeptides and nucleic acids of the inventio... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110023180 | NOVEL HYDROXYPHENYLPYRUVATE DIOXYGENASE POLYPEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE Novel hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) polypeptides, variants and fragments thereof, as well as polynucleotides encoding the same, capable of conferring commercial levels of conferring HPPD herbicide resistance or tolerance to plants. Compositions include amino... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010801 | MAIZE CYSTATIN PROMOTER FOR PERICARP PREFERRED EXPRESSION The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a pericarp-preferred promoter associated with the maize cystatin coding region. A method for... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110010800 | PLANTS WITH INCREASED YIELD The present invention disclosed herein provides a method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising increasing or generating one or more activities in a plant or a part thereof. The present invention further rela... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100293665 | Plants With Increased Yield (KO NUE) This invention relates generally to transformed plant cells and plants or parts thereof comprising an inactivated or down-regulated gene resulting an increased yield, in particular an increased yield-related trait, e.g. an increased nutrient use efficiency, such as an e... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100281569 | MAIZE 17KD OLEOSIN SEED-PREFERRED REGULATORY ELEMENT The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a seed-preferred promoter associated with the maize 17 KD OLE (17 kilodalton oleosin) coding... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281570 | MAIZE 18KD OLEOSIN SEED-PREFERRED REGULATORY ELEMENT The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a seed-preferred promoter associated with the maize 18 KD OLE (18 kilodalton oleosin) coding... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281572 | NEMATODE RESISTANT TRANSGENIC PLANTS Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resi... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100275325 | ARABIDOPSIS PROMOTERS The present invention provides several promoters isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, which promoters are capable of driving and/or regulating the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid in a plant. The expression patterns of the promoters according to the p... | 10/28/2010 |
