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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110271403 | Metal Resistant Plants, and Methods of Manufacture Thereof Disclosed herein is a transgenic plant transformed with an isolated nucleic acid comprising a plant arsenite-inducible RNA-associated protein coding sequence operatively linked to a plant-expressible transcription regulatory sequence, wherein the plant arsenite-inducibl... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110258739 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE OF FRUIT SOFTENING ASSOCIATED B-D-N- ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE AND ITS USES FOR ENHANCING FRUIT SHELF LIFE The present invention provides isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding β-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase. The present invention further provides DNA construct comprising the polynucleotide sequence coding for β-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase in sense or anti-sense orientation, ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110239325 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE OF FRUIT SOFTENING ASSOCIATED A-MANNOSIDASE AND ITS USES FOR ENHANCING FRUIT SHELF LIFE The present invention provides isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding α-mannosidase. The present invention further provides DNA constructs comprising the polynucleotide sequence coding for α-mannosidase in sense or anti-sense orientation, RNAi contructs, recombina... | 09/29/2011 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20110179516 | PLANTS PRODUCING 2N POLLEN The invention relates to methods for obtaining plants that produce 2n pollen. These plants are useful in plant breeding.... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110179511 | ISOLATED RICE LP2 PROMOTERS AND USES THEREOF The present invention relates to isolated rice LP2 promoter sequences and uses thereof.... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110135770 | APPLES WITH HIGH POLYPHENOLIC CONTENT The invention relates to apples comprising high concentrations of polyphenols, to processes for obtaining said apples and to uses of apples as a method of treatment or prophylaxis of cardiovascular disease, colon cancer and digestive health.... | 06/09/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110004957 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED REDUCED-BROWNING FRUIT-PRODUCING PLANT AND PRODUCED FRUIT THEREOF, AND METHOD OF OBTAINING SUCH A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO act... | 01/06/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20100218282 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES FROM RICE CONTROLLING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE The present subject matter provides a method for enhancing the abiotic stress tolerance of a plant. Polynucleotides isolated from rice (Oryza sativa) and encoding polypeptides for abiotic stress tolerance are also described.... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100199385 | Methods and materials for increasing starch biosynthesis in plants The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing plants or plant tissue with increased starch biosynthesis. Increased starch biosynthesis provides for increased yield. One aspect of the invention concerns polynucleotides that encode a mutant plant larg... | 08/05/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100107277 | FLAVONOID 3',5' HYDROXYLASE GENE SEQUENCES AND USES THEREFOR The present invention relates generally to a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase (F3′5′H) activity and to the use of the genetic sequence and/or its corresponding polypeptide thereof inter alia to manipulate color in flower... | 04/29/2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100037359 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPAGATING MATERIAL TO BE USED IN TREE CULTIVATIONS OF DOUBLE-TRUNK TYPE The present invention relates to a method for producing propagating material, in particular whole plants, to be used in tree cultivations of double trunk type and the obtained material.... | 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 |
| 20090260101 | Heat resistant plants and plant tissues and methods and materials for making and using same The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing plants or plant tissue with increased resistance to heat conditions. Increased resistance of a plant or plant tissue to heat conditions provides for decreased yield losses generally observed at elevated ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090151016 | PLANTS WITH INCREASED HYALURONAN PRODUCTION The present invention relates to a process for increasing the phosphate content of starches of genetically modified plant cells in comparison with starches from corresponding wild-type plant cells by introducing a foreign nucleic acid molecule which codes for a soluble ... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090133162 | Method of increasing plant organ and seed size in a plant The present invention provides methods and DNA molecules useful for producing transgenic plants with agronomically desired traits based on altered sizes of plant organs and tissues.... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090019563 | NON-BROWNING APPLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND DRINK AND FOOD USING THE SAME It is intended to provide a method for producing a non-browning apple. Apples in which total polyphenol content is not more than 40 mg/100 g fresh weight in terms of catechin when extracted from apple flesh using methanol and assayed by the Folin-Denis method are used a... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090019562 | Solanum bulbocastanum polyubiquitin Bul409 promoter and uses thereof The present invention relates to isolated Solanum Bulbocastanum Bul409 promoter sequences and uses thereof.... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090013433 | Compositions, cells, and plants that include BKI1, a negative regulator of BRI1-mediated BR signaling This invention provides recombinant cells and transgenic plants that display selectively increased or decreased response to brassinosteroids, resulting in increased yield. Methods of modulating brassinosteroid responses, and of modulating plant phenotypes, are provided.... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090013437 | CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHOGENESIS 1 (COP1) NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE FROM Zea mays AND ITS USE THEREOF The present invention relates to an isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence from a maize plant and the isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence is named as ZmCOP1. The present invention also relates to a method of using the ZmCOP1 nucleic acid sequence to control the shade avoid... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090013422 | Solanum Bulbocastanum polyubiquitin Bul427 promoter and uses thereof The present invention relates to isolated Solanum Bulbocastanum Bul427 promoter sequences and uses thereof... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090007301 | Plant Promoters, Terminators, Genes, Vectors and Related Transformed Plants The invention provides novel regulatory polynucleotide sequences useful in plant genetic engineering applications, e.g., polynucleotides having transcriptional promoter or terminator activity, are provided. The invention also provides novel gene and polypeptide sequence... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080317881 | METHOD FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSGENE TRANSCRIPTION The present invention relates to constructs and methods for improving expression of transgenes in plants, animals and humans.... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080307541 | Transgenic plant expressing glutamyl-tRNA synthetase The present invention provides a DNA construct which comprises glutamyl-tRNA synthetase. Additionally, transgenic plants and tissues for the expression of glutamyl-tRNA synthesis are also provided. Furthermore, the present invention also provides methods for utilizing t... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080295200 | Metal Resistant Plants, and Methods of Manufacture Thereof Disclosed herein is a transgenic plant transformed with an isolated nucleic acid comprising a plant arsenite-inducible RNA-associated protein coding sequence operatively linked to a plant-expressible transcription regulatory sequence, wherein the plant arsenite-inducibl... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080276335 | Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from maize are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for under... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080250533 | Plants With an Increased Production of Hyaluronan II The present invention relates to plant cells and plants which synthesize an increased amount of hyaluronan, and to methods for preparing such plants, and also to methods for preparing hyaluronan with the aid of these plant cells or plants. Here, plant cells or genetical... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080241341 | SEED SPECIFIC USP 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. The present invention provides promoters capable of transcribing heterologous nucleic acid sequences in seeds, and... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080229444 | METAL RESISTANT PLANTS, METHODS OF MANUFACTURE, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Disclosed herein is a transgenic plant transformed with an isolated polynucleotide comprising a plant arsenate reductase coding sequence operatively linked to a plant-expressible transcription regulatory sequence. Also disclosed are methods to limit metal or metal ion a... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080213454 | Genetic transformation of apple without use of a selectable marker Disclosed are apple plants or apple plant components that include an isolated polynucleotide free from a selectable marker polynucleotide. Methods of producing such plants are also disclosed.... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080141390 | PLANT GENES INVOLVED IN NITRATE UPTAKE AND METABOLISM The present invention relates nucleic acid molecules that are modulated (e.g., upregulated) by nitrogen in corn, to proteins or polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acid molecules, and promoters of these nucleic acid molecules. The present invention relates to a nuclei... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080127376 | Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from cotton are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for unde... | 05/29/2008 |
