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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120054907 | DELAYED FRUIT DETERIORATION ALLELE IN PLANTS AND METHODS OF DETECTION Disclosed is an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence that is at least 90% identical to a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO 4, wherein the protein has an aspartic acid (Asp) at amino acid positio... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054892 | TOMATO HYBRID EX01431182 The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid EX01431182 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid EX01431182 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant pro... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054905 | Marker Assisted Selection for Coupling Phase Resistance to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus and Late Blight in Tomato A Solanum lycopersicum plant including within its genome at least one Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) resistance allele and at least one Phytophthora infestans resistance allele. The resistance alleles are present in the coupling phase at different loci o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047606 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047600 | CAFFEOYL COA REDUCTASE The invention provides methods for increasing lignin content in plants by expression of a cinnamoyl CoA reductase 2 (CCR2) coding sequence in the plant. Also provided are methods for reducing lignin content in a plant by down-regulation of CCR2 expression in the plant. ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120042418 | Engineering NF-YB Transcription Factors for Enhanced Drought Resistance and Increased Yield in Transgenic Plants Polynucleotides are disclosed which are capable of enhancing yield of a plant transformed to contain such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods of using such polynucleotides and transgenic plants and agricultural products, including seeds, containing such polynucle... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036597 | Cold-Tolerant Plants Disclosed are chill- or cold-tolerant plants and methods of making the plants. Also disclosed are methods for identifying a plant that is tolerant to chill.... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120022235 | PROMOTER MOLECULES FOR USE IN PLANTS The present invention relates to polynucleotide molecules for regulating gene expression in plants. In particular, the present invention relates to promoters isolated from Brassica napus that are useful for regulating gene expression of heterologous polynucleotid... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023627 | PLANT GENE REGULATORY ELEMENTS Nucleic acids, vectors, and expression vectors comprising novel plant gene regulatory elements from sorghum. Novel transgenic plants expressing heterologous genes under the control of novel gene regulatory elements.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120015810 | TUBULIN REGULATORY ELEMENTS FOR USE IN PLANTS The present invention provides polynucleotide molecules isolated from Zea mays and Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for exp... | 01/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20110321197 | Plants with Increased Yield (NUE) A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities selected from the group consisting o... | 12/29/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110321192 | TOMATO PLANTS HAVING HIGHER LEVELS OF RESISTANCE TO BOTRYTIS The present invention relates to a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with resistance to Botrytis cinerea in tomato, including the steps of crossing a Botrytis-resistant donor tomato plant with a non-resistant, or Botrytis<... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110302671 | EMBRYO SAC-SPECIFIC GENES The present invention relates to isolated nucleotide sequences useful for the production of plants with a modified embryo sac, embryo and or endosperm development, and to transgenic cells and plants transformed with the nucleotide sequences.... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302675 | CONTROL OF VIRAL AND BACTERIAL INFECTION BY ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES RETROCYLIN AND/OR PROTEGRIN EXPRESSED IN CHLOROPLASTS Disclosed herein are antimicrobial compositions containing one or more antimicrobial peptides having been expressed in chloroplasts. Exemplified herein are the expression and use of retrocylin and protegrin. Disclosed herein are methods of engineering chloroplasts to ex... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110289621 | Non-transgenic Tomato Varieties Having Increased Shelf Life Post-harvest A series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one non-ripening (NOR) gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their NOR genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289622 | EXPRESSION CASSETTES FOR TRANSGENIC EXPRESSION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably i... | 11/24/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110283402 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PRODUCING PLANTS WITH ELEVATED BRIX The invention provides compositions and methods relating to the separation of elevated Brix from linked but undesirable agronomic traits among progeny with introgressions following a cross between Lycopersicon esculentum and Lycopersicon hirsutum. The inve... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110277046 | HYDROLASES, NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING THEM AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM Provided are hydrolases, including lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases, and polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Further provided are polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase activity... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 20110263488 | FAMILY OF PESTICIDAL PROTEINS AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expres... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258732 | PEST RESISTANT PLANT The present invention relates to tomato plants that are resistant to pathogenic plants of the Orobanchaceae family, to methods for producing said plants and to the use thereof. The invention further relates to a method of controlling parasitic plants of the Or... | 10/20/2011 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20110252502 | GRG23 EPSP SYNTHASES: COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include polynucleotides encoding herbicide resistance or tolerance polypeptides, vectors comprising those polynucleot... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110247089 | Organisms homozygous for targeted modification Disclosed herein are homozygously modified organisms and methods of making and using these organisms.... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110247097 | PLANTS HAVING MODIFIED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME The present invention concerns a method for modifying the growth characteristics of plants by modifying expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a 2×C2H2 zinc finger protein and/or modifying level and/or activity in a plant of a 2×C2H2 zinc finger pro... | 10/06/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110231958 | TRANSGENIC PLANTS AND FUNGI CAPABLE OF METABOLIZING PHOSPHITE AS A SOURCE OF PHOSPHORUS System, including methods and compositions, for making and using transgenic plants and/or transgenic fungi that metabolize phosphite as a source of phosphorus for supporting growth.... | 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 |
