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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 20120110700 | PLANTS WITH ALTERED ROOT ARCHITECTURE, RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE (LLRK) POLYPEPTIDES AND HOMOLOGS THEREOF Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering root structure of plants, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs... | 05/03/2012 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20120054908 | SUGARCANE BACILLIFORM VIRAL (SCBV) ENHANCER AND ITS USE IN PLANT FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS Identification of new enhancer sequence has significant utility in the plant functional genomics. The sugarcane bacilliform badnavirus (SCBV) transcriptional enhancer has been identified. This enhancer can be used to increase the rate of transcription from gene promoter... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054909 | NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES ENCODING RAMOSA3 AND SISTER OF RAMOSA3 AND METHODS OF USE FOR SAME The invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a maize gene, RAMOSA3 (RA3), responsible for meristem development and inflorescence development including branching. The gene, gene product, and regulatory regions may be used to manipulate branching, merist... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054922 | EXPRESSION ENHANCING INTRON SEQUENCES The invention relates to methods for the identification and use of introns with gene expression enhancing properties. The teaching of this invention enables the identification of introns causing intron-mediated enhancement (IME) of gene expression. The invention further... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054912 | Vacuole Targeting Peptides and Methods of Use Compositions and methods for targeting polypeptides to plant vacuoles are provided. Nucleic acid molecules having nucleotide sequences encoding a vacuole-targeting peptide, variants, or fragments thereof are provided. The sequences also can be used for targeting defensi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054896 | Methods for enhancing the production and consumer traits of plants The invention provides methods for producing plants, plant materials and seeds that have multiple desirable attributes for consumers of these products, as well as for commercial plant growers, and to improved plants, plant materials and seeds that are produced by these ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047608 | Floral Transition Genes in Maize and Uses Thereof The invention provides isolated floral transition nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering floral transition in plants. The invention further provides regulatory elements, recombinant expressi... | 02/23/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120047601 | Method of Reducing Acetylation in Plants to Improve Biofuel Production The invention provides methods for engineering plants to have reduced levels of acetylation by decreasing expression of one or more Cas1L genes. Such plants can be used, e.g., to increase yield for biofuel production.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047603 | DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING FATTY ACID DESATURASE FAMILY POLYPEPTIDES Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047609 | PLANT ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME PLATFORMS VIA TELOMERE TRUNCATION The invention provides engineered plant minichromosomes generated by telomere mediated truncation of native chromosomes. These minichromosomes are faithfully transmitted from one generation to the next and provide an ideal platform for breeding genes into desired 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 |
| 20120042414 | CHIMERIC PROMOTERS AND METHODS OF USE Compositions and methods comprising promoters from the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) gene and active variants and fragments thereof, as well as chimeric promoters employing regulatory regions of the HPPD promoters are provided. Further provided are expressi... | 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 |
| 20120036592 | Process for Producing a Hybrid Maize Having Insulated Casing and Individual Shield for Grains, by Means of a Genetic Tool, and a Hybrid Maize Thereof A process for the generation of hybrid maize whose grains are differentiated and preserved by entirely covering their surfaces, isolating the entire endosperm from the outside and conserving all the nutritious and germinative characteristics from the parentals; and the ... | 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 |
| 20120030836 | Plants Having Enhanced Abiotic Stress Tolerance and/or Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Brevis Radix-like (BRXL) polypeptide. The present ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120023617 | PLANTS HAVING ALTERED AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS UNDER NITROGEN LIMITING CONDITIONS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING SNF2 DOMAIN-CONTAINING POLYPEPTIDES Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering agronomic characteristics of plants under nitrogen limiting conditions, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and meth... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023613 | PLANTS HAVING ALTERED AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS UNDER NITROGEN LIMITING CONDITIONS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING LNT9 POLYPEPTIDES Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering agronomic characteristics of plants under nitrogen limiting conditions, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and meth... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023612 | SELECTIVE ABLATION OF DIPLOID EMBRYOS Methods of selecting haploid embryos are disclosed. Methods of producing haploid embryos and non-viable diploid embryos on a plant are provided. Methods for selecting haploid embryos produced from haploid inducer maize lines are provided. Methods for producing improved ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023611 | Isolated Novel Nucleic Acid and Protein Molecules from Corn and Methods of Using Thereof This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides and various uses of these sequences such as transcript profiling. Also provided are transgenic plants, seeds, and plant cells containing DNA for expression of the proteins that are useful for imparting enh... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023605 | ALTERING ROOT STRUCTURE DURING PLANT DEVELOPMENT Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments for altering root structure during plant development are disclosed along with methods of root structure alteration during plant development.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017338 | ISOLATED NOVEL NUCLEIC ACID AND PROTEIN MOLECULES FROM CORN AND METHODS OF USING THOSE MOLECULES TO GENERATE TRANSGENIC PLANT WITH ENHANCED AGRONOMIC TRAITS This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides. Also provided are transgenic plants, seeds, and plant cells containing DNA for expression of the proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants, methods of ma... | 01/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120015096 | GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH ALTERED PROTEIN, FIBER, OR OIL CONTENT The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an IMQ nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil qua... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017292 | ISOLATED NOVEL NUCLEIC ACID AND PROTEIN MOLECULES FROM CORN AND METHODS OF USING THOSE MOLECULES TO GENERATE TRANSGENE PLANTS WITH ENHANCED AGRONOMIC TRAITS This disclosure provides purified nucleic acids and polypeptides. Also provided are transgenic plants, seeds, and plant cells containing DNA for expression of the proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants, methods of ma... | 01/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120011621 | MEG1 Endosperm-Specific Promoters and Genes The present invention relates to promoters that enable gene expression which is both specific to the endosperm and early during the development of the endosperm, as well as nucleic acid molecules encoding basal endosperm transfer cell layer (BETL) proteins.... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011598 | NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODULATED PLANT CHARACTERISTICS The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, sterility or seedling lethality in plants. The present inven... | 01/12/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120011617 | Regulatory Elements Associated with CBF Transcription Factors of Maize Compositions and methods for regulating expression of a polynucleotide of interest in a plant are provided. Compositions include novel nucleotide sequences comprising an isolated stress-induced promoter natively linked to the maize ZmCBF2 coding region. A method for exp... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011623 | MICRORNA POLYMORPHISMS CONFERRING ENHANCED DROUGHT TOLERANCE IN A PLANT Methods of identifying a single nucleotide polymorphism associated with a plant trait and methods of identifying a plant having an improved trait. The plant trait is correlated with at least one single nucleotide polymorphism in a microRNA region of a plant genome. Isol... | 01/12/2012 |
