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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131691 | LIGHT-REGULATED PROMOTERS Light-regulated promoter sequences were identified that respond to differential light conditions and so can be used to regulate gene expression in a light- or dark-inducible manner. These promoters may be used to produce transgenic plants that have an altered trait rela... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131698 | Dominant Negative Mutant Kip-Related Proteins (KRP) in Zea Mays and Methods of Their Use The present invention provides expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding mutant Zea mays KRP dominant negative proteins, and methods of using the same. In addition, transgenic plants expressing said KRP dominant negative proteins are provided. Furthe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125355 | Transgenic Plants Comprising Constructs Encoding Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase and/or Pyruvate Orthophosphate Dikinase The invention provides genetic constructs which comprise a senescence-specific promoter operably linked to at least one coding sequence, which encodes at least one polypeptide having phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK) activity and/or pyruvate orthophosphate dikinas... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131694 | CHIMERIC REGULATORY SEQUENCES COMPRISING INTRONS FOR PLANT GENE EXPRESSION The present invention relates to a method of using a dicot intron or elements thereof to enhance transgene expression in plants. The present invention also provides constructs, transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide useful for expressing transgene in ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131696 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES FOR INCREASING DESIRABLE PLANT QUALITIES Provided are isolated polynucleotides which are at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 75, 1-74, 76-473, 783-1272, 1277-4139, 4142, 4146-5508, or 5509; and isolated polypeptides which are at least 80% homologous to 548, 474-547, 549-562, 564-620, 622-750, 752-782, 5510-5... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131697 | GENE ENCODING AUXIN RECEPTOR PROTEIN DERIVED FROM RICE AND USE THEREOF The present invention pertains to an auxin receptor protein involved in activation of proton pump in plasma membrane of a plant derived from rice, a gene encoding the protein, a recombinant vector comprising the gene, a host cell transformed with the recombinant vector,... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131695 | Chalcone synthase dihyrdoflavonol 4-reductase and leucoanthocyanidine reductase from clover, medic ryegrass or fescue The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, flavonoid biosynthesis in plants, and more specifically the modification of the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125243 | LOW-MAINTENANCE LAWN SEED MIXTURES AND USE THEREOF The present invention is directed to turf grass seed mixtures for a low maintenance lawns and uses thereof. The lawn established from the specific seed varieties blended in certain proportions as described in the disclosure has a slow growth rate and deep roots and grow... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131701 | IMPROVED PLANTS, MICROBES, AND ORGANISMS The present invention relates to methods for identification, isolation, and enrichment of plant cells, plants, microbial cells, and organisms comprising desired genetic profiles and to plant cells, plants, microbial cells, and organisms resulting from these methods. In ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131699 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR OBTAINING MARKER-FREE TRANSGENIC PLANTS The invention provides methods and compositions for identifying transgenic seed that contain a transgene of interest, but lack a marker gene. Use of an identification sequence that results in a detectable phenotype increases the efficiency of screening for seed and plan... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131688 | Reverse Breeding A method for efficiently producing homozygous organisms from a heterozygous non-human starting organism, comprising providing of a heterozygous starting organism; allowing the starting organism to produce haploid cells; creating homozygous organisms from the haploid cel... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131700 | PLANT PROTECTION The invention provides seed treatment compositions as well as their use, methods for treating seeds, methods of protecting plants against pests and also treated seeds and plants. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating a seed with a seed treatment compo... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110699 | METHOD FOR PROMOTING THE FORMATION OF SECONDARY CELL WALL OF PLANT Provided is a method for increasing the thickness of the secondary cell wall of a plant. A method for increasing the thickness of the secondary cell wall of a plant by using a tracheary element differentiation (TED)-associated protein or a C-terminal fragment of the sam... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110701 | PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESSES RELATED THERETO This document discloses molecules having the following formula (Formula One) and processes related thereto.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110706 | MODIFIED BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS CRY21 PROTEINS FOR NEMATODE CONTROL The subject invention concerns plants protected from nematode feeding damage and improved versions of Cry proteins. The subject invention also concerns improved versions of Cry21A proteins. Synthetic genes encoding these modified proteins are also part of the subject in... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110705 | Pyridazine Compounds for Controlling Invertebrate Pests The present invention relates to pyridazine compounds of formulae I or II and the salts and N-oxides thereof,
| 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110693 | TARGETING NUCLEIC ACIDS IN MITOCHONDRIA The present invention relates to a shuttle system with which nucleic acids of interest may be imported into a mitochondrion. This system is based on the use of a fusion protein between a mitochondrial targeting sequence and a protein binding a nucleic acid of interest. ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110694 | PLANT MYB TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOMOLOGS This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a Myb-related transcription factor. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the Myb-related transcription factor, in sense or antisense orientatio... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110695 | PLANT YIELD IMPROVEMENT BY STE20-LIKE GENE EXPRESSION The present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Ste20-like polypeptide or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant a Ste20-like nucleic acid or variant the... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110704 | Pyridazine Compounds for Controlling Invertebrate Pests The present invention relates to pyridazine compounds of formulae I or II and the salts and N-oxides thereof, wherein | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120107458 | SPINACH LINE SP6111 Spinach, parts thereof, and the making and use thereof, including with respect to the inbred spinach line called SP6111 are disclosed.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110698 | Expression of Transcription Regulators that Provide Heat Tolerance The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means to increase expression level of a bHLH subgroup 1b gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110702 | Pesticidal Compositions and Processes Related Thereto This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”): and processes related thereto.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110697 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING NOVEL HIGHER PLANT AND METHOD OF PROMOTING THE GROWTH OF HIGHER PLANT The present invention provides a method of producing a higher plant having cytochrome c6 in the thylakoid space of chloroplast, which is characterized in that it comprises introducing a gene encoding a fused protein formed by adding a signal peptide consistin... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110685 | MODULAR DNA-BINDING DOMAINS AND METHODS OF USE The present invention refers to methods for selectively recognizing a base pair in a DNA sequence by a polypeptide, to modified polypeptides which specifically recognize one or more base pairs in a DNA sequence and, to DNA which is modified so that it can be specificall... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110703 | PROTEIN HAVING NOVEL PRENYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY AND GENE ENCODING THE SAME This invention provides DNAs of a prenyltransferase derived from a hop (Humulus) plant. The invention also provides protein having the prenyltransferase activity of a hop plant and a method for producing and detecting a novel organism using a gene encoding such p... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084888 | CAST PELLETS FOR PLANTING SEEDS A multi-plant product and a method of producing a container of plants are described. Cast pellets containing plant seeds selected for their seed germination timing are planted in a container with a vegetative cutting. The cutting can be selected for having root initiati... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084889 | Novel Fatty Acid Elongation Components and Uses Thereof The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules which encodes a novel fatty acid nECR. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing nECR nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and method... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084885 | Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or a... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084887 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR INCREASING PLANT SURVIVAL & VIABILITY UNDER COLD STORAGE, OR DARK AND COLD STORAGE CONDITIONS Unique fusion genes are disclosed which are useful for transforming a wide range of plants, and when used in tandem, result in a significant alteration of the plant phenotype with respect to tolerance to the stress from prolonged storage under either dark or cold condit... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084890 | REGULATORY SEQUENCES FOR EXPRESSING GENE PRODUCTS IN PLANT REPRODUCTIVE TISSUE Expression cassettes causing specific regulatory control of transgene expression in plants, wherein the expression cassettes include regulatory sequences from the MADS gene family for expression of recombinant gene products in the reproductive tissue of plants for the p... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084886 | MICROBIAL PROCESS AND COMPOSITION FOR AGRICULTURAL USE Microbial compositions comprising at least two components are disclosed. The first component comprises HYTa which is a consortium of microbes derived from fertile soils and commercial sources. The second component comprises at least one of chitin, chitosan, glucosamine ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084880 | CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS The invention provides the isolated promoter polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), and fragments and variants thereof. The invention also provides constructs, plant cells and plant genetically modified to contain the... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083024 | Materials and Methods for Synthesis of a Flavor and Aroma Volatile in Plants The subject invention concerns polynucleotides encoding a plant 2-phenylethanol dehydrogenase enzyme. In one embodiment, the polynucleotide encodes a tomato 2-phenylethanol dehydrogenase. The subject invention also concerns polynucleotides encoding a plant phenylalanine... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084881 | DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS The present invention relates to the field of transgenic and non-transgenic plants with novel phenotypes. Provided are SlPP2C1 proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these, which are useful in conferring novel phenotypes to plants, especially drought tolerance.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084883 | High Oil Content Plants Methods and means to modulate oil content and/or oil yield in plants, such as oilseed rape plants are provided. Increased oil content and/or oil yield can be achieved by reducing the functional level or activity of PARP1, e.g. through reduction of the expression of the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120073007 | PEA LINE 08560906 The invention provides seed and plants of the pea line designated 08560906. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pea line 08560906, and to methods for producing a pea plant produced by crossing a plant of pea line 08560906 with itself o... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120073017 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANT HAVING PETALS CONTAINING MODIFIED ANTHOCYANIN Disclosed are a method for controlling flavonoid synthesis in a chrysanthemum plant or non-chrysanthemum plant by genetic recombination technology using a transcriptional regulatory region useful for altering flower color, a method for modifying anthocyani... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120073018 | JATROPHA CURCAS CURCIN GENES, TISSUE-SPECIFIC PROMOTERS AND GENERATION OF CURCIN-DEFICIENT TRANSGENIC JATROPHA PLANTS The present invention relates to the isolation of Jatropha curcas curcin genes and tissue-specific promoters and to the production of curcin-deficient Jatropha plants. More specifically, the present invention relates to the isolation of Jatropha curcas ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120073019 | Yield Enhancement in Plants by Modulation of a ZM-CIPK1 Protein Compositions and methods for modulating plant development and for increasing yield in a plant are provided. The compositions include a ZM-CIPK1 sequence. Compositions of the disclosure comprise amino acid sequences and nucleotide sequences selected from SEQ ID NOS: 1 an... | 03/22/2012 |
