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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20120042410 | ABSCISIC ACID CARRIER GENE AND TRANSGENIC PLANT EXPRESSING THE SAME The present invention relates to carrier genes of abscisic acid and the transgenic plant prepared using such genes, and more specifically to genes that enhance resistance to salt or dryness in relation to abscisic acid transport and the recombinant vectors including the... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042403 | Cucumber Hybrid Enki A hybrid cucumber designated Enki is disclosed having resistance to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea), cucumber mosaic virus, and cucumber vein yellowing virus. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber Enki, to the plants of hybrid cucumber Enk... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042402 | Cucumber Hybrid Menfis A hybrid cucumber designated Menfis is disclosed having resistance to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea), cucumber mosaic virus, and cucumber vein yellowing virus. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber Menfis, to the plants of hybrid cucumber... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120028799 | GROWTH ENHANCEMENT AND CONTROL OF BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL PLANT DISEASES WITH STREPTOMYCES SCOPULIRIDIS Methods of controlling plant diseases mediated by bacterial or fungal plant pathogens. The method comprises providing Streptomyces scopuliridis strain RB72 or an isolated protein or polypeptide comprising the amino acid of SEQ ID NO:1 and applying the Streptom... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120011616 | Modification of Plant Development and Morphology A method of modifying morphology in a plant by introducing into a plant at least one chimaeric gene having a promoter sequence operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence, the promoter sequence being operable to direct expression in specific cells of the plant and ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110277191 | RESISTANCE TO POST HARVEST DETERIORATION IN CUCUMBER The invention relates to a cucumber (Cucumis sativus) plant, which has the improved shelf life as found in plants and fruits grown from seeds of cucumber EX5001 representative seeds of which were deposited under NCIMB accession number 41670. The plant may be obta... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110252503 | Plants With Improved Nitrogen Utilization and Stress Tolerance 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 includ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110197311 | USE OF MULTIPLE TRANSFORMATION ENHANCER SEQUENCES TO IMPROVE PLANT TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably l... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110197305 | DENSE AND ERECT PANICLE GENE AND USES THEREOF Compositions and methods for imparting a dense and erect panicle phenotype to plants, including polynucleotides, polypeptides, vectors and cells. This phenotype is associated with improving plant traits, such as improving plant yield.... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191894 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS RELATING TO CONROLLED INDUCTION OF PLANT SENESCENCE Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants are provided. Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants by increased expression of an exogenous or endogenous abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP. In specific embo... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110138499 | PLANT QUALITY TRAITS The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110126309 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IDENTIFYING DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANT CUCUMBER PLANTS The present invention relates to methods for identifying cucumber lines having increased resistance to Downy Mildew, and identification of genetic markers linked to gene(s) conditioning such increased disease resistance. The present invention also relates to methods of ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110119789 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS FOR INCREASING YIELD The invention is directed to transgenic plants transformed with nucleic acids that encode a plant transcription factor that increases the transgenic plant's size and yield and/or delays flowering in the plant, and methods of using and producing the transgenic plants.... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110059129 | AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS VACCINE AND A METHOD FOR PREPARING The present invention relates to an avian influenza vaccine of plant origin, prepared by transforming a plant with a surface protein of avian influenza virus, hemagglutinin (HA) or neuraminidase (NA), and a method for preparing the same. Further, the present invention r... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110055944 | CUCUMBER HYBRID DARLINGTON AND PARENTS THEREOF The invention provides seed and plants of cucumber hybrid Darlington and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid Darlington and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a cucumber pla... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110047642 | NEW CUCUMBER PLANTS WITH A COMPACT GROWING HABIT The invention relates to the breeding of cucumbers, and especially to a new cucumber plant with a valuable new characteristic. This new characteristic leads to an improvement in the growth properties and so to a simplification and improvement of cucumber cultivation. Se... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110030089 | Transgenic plants with enhanced growth characteristics The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yi... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100313291 | Methods for Improving the Yield of Cucumber Plants The present invention relates to a plant of a cucumber breeding line having an introgression from cucumber accession PI 169383, a representative sample of seed of which has been deposited with the NCIMB, Aberdeen, Scotland under accession number NCIMB 41532 and deposito... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100287639 | Cucumber Hybrid 'Corinto' A hybrid cucumber designated ‘Corinto’ is disclosed having resistance to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea), cucumber mosaic virus and cucumber vein yellowing virus. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber ‘Corinto,’ to the plants of hy... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100257633 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING STRESS RESISTANCE IN PLANTS AND MATERIALS THEREFOR The present invention provides a method for obtaining a plant with increased stress resistance relative to a wild-type plant, comprising: (a) introducing at least one mutation or exogenous nucleic acid into the genome of one or more plant cells which results in reduced ... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100223690 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE AND IMMUNITY Provided are methods for enhancing plant cell disease resistance, comprising (1) generating a homozygous gene modification of AtSR1 (or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog) in a plant or plant cell characterized by sialic acid-mediated systemic acquired resistance (SA-mediated SA... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100175153 | REGULATING THE ETHYLENE RESPONSE OF A PLANT BY MODULATION OF F-BOX PROTEINS The relationship between F-box proteins and proteins involved in the ethylene response in plants is described. In particular, F-box proteins may bind to proteins involved in the ethylene response and target them for degradation by the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. The t... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100170001 | Method for Providing Cucumber Fruits with an Extended Shelf Life The invention relates to a method for producing a Cucumis sativus plant, providing cucumber fruits exhibiting the phenotypic trait “extended shelf life,” comprising: (a) providing a first Cucumis sativus plant containing at least one quantitative trait... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100154075 | Nucleic Acids and Proteins Associated with Galactomannan Synthesis in Coffee Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules isolated from coffee (Coffea spp.) comprising sequences that encode mannan synthase or galactomannan galactosyltransferase. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides for gene regulation and manipulation... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100115665 | VIRUS TOLERANT PLANTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME The present invention relates to plants with enhanced tolerance to viral diseases, particularly to diseases caused by insect-transmitted viruses. The invention discloses transgenic plants expressing GroEL protein, and to engrafted plant comprising said transgenic plants... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100107279 | YIELD-RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES IN PLANTS The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared t... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100083395 | STRESS-RELATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES IN PLANTS The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared t... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100077504 | TEMPORAL SEED PROMOTERS FOR EXPRESSING GENES IN PLANTS The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to seed specific gene expression during a defined period of embryogenesis. The present invention provides promoters capable of transcribing heterolo... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100043096 | The Method for Enhancement of Photosynthesis and Biomass of Plant by Plastid Transformation of Malate Dehydrogenase The present invention relates to a method for enhancement of photosynthesis and biomass of a plant by plastid transformation with MDH gene, more precisely a method for enhancement of photosynthesis and biomass of C3 plant by plastid transformation system with MDH gene. ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100037357 | Polynucleotides Encoding Phenylpropanoid and Falvonoid Biosynthetic Pathway Enzymes in Coffee Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for phenylpropanoids and flavonoids in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides and polypeptides for the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and oth... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090328256 | Sugar Accumulation Methods and materials for modulating lysine, glucose, fructose, galactose and leucine content in plants are disclosed.... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090313728 | Polynucleotides Encoding Lignin Biosynthetic Pathway Enzymes in Coffee Polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for lignins in the coffee plant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using these polynucleotides and polypeptides for the manipulation of flavor, aroma, and other features of coffee be... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090276917 | Gene Promotors Which Can be Used in Plants The present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences which have a transcriptional promoter activity preferentially in the phloem of plants under conditions of stress, or in the roots, to derived sequences, to constructs containing such sequences, and also to cells tr... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090265803 | DOWNY MILDEW RESISTANT CUCUMBER PLANTS The present invention relates to cucumber lines having increased resistance to Downy Mildew. The present invention also relates to parts of cucumber plants from lines having increased Downy Mildew resistance, including seeds capable of growing cucumber plants with incre... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090249518 | Modification of plant development and morphology A method of modifying morphology in a plant by introducing into a plant at least one chimaeric gene having a promoter sequence operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence, the promoter sequence being operable to direct expression in specific cells of the plant and ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090210964 | CUCUMBER LINE APD147-4004Mo The invention provides seed and plants of the cucumber line designated APD147-4004Mo. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of cucumber line APD147-4004Mo, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing a plant of cucumb... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090178157 | CELL PROLIFERATION-RELATED POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREFOR Disclosed are proteins, and nucleic acids encoding such proteins, involved in or associated with cell proliferation, senesence, differentiation, development, and stress response in plants. Also disclosed are uses for such proteins.... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090165166 | METHOD TO ENHANCE YIELD AND PURITY OF HYBRID CROPS The present invention provides a method of herbicide treatment of selected female and male parents in a hybrid seed production system. The system results in enhanced trait purity and efficiency in the hybrid seed production system.... | 06/25/2009 |
