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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5589624 | Antifungal polypeptide and process for its production The polypeptide with the sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1) ______________________________________ Ala--Thr--Tyr--Asn--Gly--Lys--Cys--Tyr--Lys--Lys--Asp-- Asn--Ile--Cys--Lys--Tyr--Lys--Ala--Gln--Ser--Gly--Lys-- Thr--Ala--Ile--Cys--Lys--Cys--Tyr--Val--Lys--Lys... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5589626 | Use of lysozyme gene structures in plants to increase resistance A method for increasing the resistance of a plant to fungi and animal pests comprising introducing into the genome of the plant one or more lysozyme gene structures which express lysozyme, the lysozyme gene structure comprises a chimeric gene fusion of th... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5583021 | Production of virus resistant plants A method of suppressing virus gene expression in plants using untranslatable plus sense RNA is disclosed. The method is useful for the production of plants that are resistant to virus infection.... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5573932 | Ocs element A DNA fragment is provided which is a plant enhancer element capable of activating or enhancing the transcription level of a plant-expressible gene consisting essentially of a consensus sequence selected from the group consisting of ##STR1## and... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5567600 | Synthetic insecticidal crystal protein gene Synthetic Baccilus thuringiensis toxin genes designed to be expressed in plants at a level higher than naturally-occurring Bt genes are provided. These genes utilize codons preferred in highly expressed monocot or dicot proteins.... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5567862 | Synthetic insecticidal crystal protein gene Synthetic Bacillus thuringiensis toxin genes designed to be expressed in plants at a level higher than naturally-occurring Bt genes are provided. These genes utilize codons preferred in highly expressed monocot or dicot proteins.... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5550038 | Molecular farming Novel constructs are provided for expression of physiologically active mammalian proteins in plant cells, either in culture or under cultivation. The constructs provide a promoter functional in a plant host, a structural gene coding for mammalian protein ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5538878 | Superoxide dismutase expression in plants Plant species having enhanced superoxide dismutase activity as a result of transformation with a DNA expression cassette comprising an E. coli MnSOD gene are provided. Transportation of the expression product of the gene may be targeted to a specific cell... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5521078 | Genetically engineering cotton plants for altered fiber A method of genetically engineering a fiber-producing plant is disclosed. This method first comprises the step of constructing a plant expression vector that comprises a protein coding sequence and a DNA sequence capable of promoting gene expression in fi... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5508184 | Process for transforming plant protoplast The present invention relates to an improved process for transforming plant protoplasts using simple, purely chemical, process steps, and to the plant material obtainable by this method. The transfer of the genetic material into the plant cell is carried out ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5500360 | RNA transformation vector A + strand RNA viral transformation of host organisms with foreign RNA, and expression of said foreign RNA. The foreign RNA is inserted into an infective RNA viral segment containing replication elements, and allowed to infect the host organism. The inven... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5491076 | Expression of foreign genes using a replicating polyprotein producing virus vector The present invention provides an expression vector adapted for expressing heterologous proteins in plants susceptible to a polyprotein-producing plant virus. The vector utilizes the unique ability of viral polyprotein proteases to cleave heterologous pro... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5474925 | Immobilized proteins in cotton fiber Transgenic cotton plants have been created which expressed an immobilized protein in the cotton fiber cells. The cotton fiber can be recovered from such transgenic cotton plants and then used as a substrate for fixing immobilized protein for use in indust... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5455167 | Medium-chain thioesterases in plants By this invention, further properties and uses of medium-chain thioesterases in plants are provided, including methods of using medium-chain thioesterases from non-plant sources to provide medium-chain fatty acids in plant cells.... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5451513 | Method for stably transforming plastids of multicellular plants This invention provides methods for obtaining a plant cell of a multicellular plant, the plastids of which cell have been stably transformed by a foreign DNA of interest. These methods employ selectable markers some of which are nonlethal, some of which a... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5424200 | Method for enhanced expression of a DNA sequence of interest Novel transcription initiation regions that provide for enhanced transcription of a DNA sequence, particularly a plant sequence, are provided.... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5418153 | Process for production of exogenous gene or its product in plant cells A process for production of an exogenous gene or its product in a plant cell which comprises: inserting into a genome of a plant; a) cDNA of replicase gene from RNA plant virus, and b) cDNA of a recombinant virus genomic RNA in which nucleotide moiety at and a... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5416010 | Olpidium zoospores as vectors of recombinant DNA to plants A method is provided for introducing a foreign gene into a plant cell by means of an Olpidium zoospore vector having associated with it a reassembled nucleoprotein complex comprising the foreign gene and reassociated coat protein of a zoospore-transmissab... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5316930 | Virus resistant plants having antisense RNA The making of plant cells which contain antisense RNA (aRNA) complementary to the mRNA of an alfalfa mosaic virus is disclosed. Construction of such aRNA genes and transformation thereof into plant cells is also taught. Such cells are relatively resistant... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5286634 | Synergistic method for host cell transformation This invention addresses the problem of inserting foreign or nonative DNA into a cell and, most particularly, into a plant cell. The solution to this problem of DNA transfer set forth in this invention is the use of a polycationic compound and cationic li... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5215903 | Process for the maintenance and proliferation of defective non-infectious virus genomes in proliferating plant materials A process for the maintenance and proliferation of defective, non-infectious viruses or virus genomes, comprising mutations, i.e. deletions, substitutions, insertions and new rearrangements of the viral genes or combinations of the virus DNA with heterolo... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5182200 | T-DNA promoters The sequence of the TL -DNA of Ri plasmids found in Agrobacterium rhizogenes strains HRI and A4 is disclosed. Sixteen open reading frames bounded by eukaryotic promoters, ribosome binding sites, and polyadenylation sites were found, five of whi... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5159135 | Genetic engineering of cotton plants and lines A method is disclosed to achieve genetic transformation of cotton plants and lines. Immature cotton tissues are genetically transformed in vitro, by Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation. The resultant cotton tissues are subjected to a selection a... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5145777 | Plant cells resistant to herbicidal glutamine synthetase inhibitors A plant cell which is resistant to a herbicidal glutamine synthetase inhibitor, wherein the resistance is caused by levels of GS activity which, when present in an otherwise herbicidal GS inhibitor sensitive plant cell, render the cell substantially resis... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5108921 | Method for enhanced transmembrane transport of exogenous molecules A method is provided for enhancing transmembrane transport of exogenous molecules. The method comprises contacting a membrane of a living cell with a complex formed between said molecules and ligands selected from biotin, biotin analogs and other biotin r... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5106739 | CaMv 355 enhanced mannopine synthase promoter and method for using same Unexpectedly high levels of expression of coding sequences can be obtained by the use of a CaMv 35s enhanced mannopine synthase promoter in plant host cells.... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5107065 | Anti-sense regulation of gene expression in plant cells Regulation of expression of genes encoded for in plant cell genomes is achieved by integration of a gene under the transcriptional control of a promoter which is functional in the host and in which the transcribed strand of DNA is complementary to the str... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5049500 | Pollen-mediated gene transformation in plants A novel method for efficiently carrying out pollen-mediated gene transformation of flowering plants is described. Utilizing novel DNA constructs incorporating exogenous DNA fragments coding for specific enzymes, the method can product transformed plants e... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4962028 | Plant promotors Promoter sequences from the gene from the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase are disclosed. Expression cassettes containing a promoter sequence, a linker region, and a 3' fragment are also disclosed. The promotor sequences and expressi... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4820639 | Process for enhancing translational efficiency of eukaryotic mRNA A process and means for increasing the production of protein translated from eukaryotic messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) comprising transferring a regulatory nucleotide sequence from a viral coat protein mRNA to the 5' terminus of a gene or complementary... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4789633 | Fused liposome and acid induced method for liposome fusion Liposomes containing phosphatidylethanolamine, palmitoyl homocysteine or oleic acid or palmitic acid, fuse rapidly when the pH of the medium is reduced below 7. Liposome fusion was measured by (a) mixing of the liposomal lipids as shown by resonance energ... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4771002 | Transcription in plants and bacteria A promoter region that drives expression of a 1450 base TR transcript in octopine-type crown gall tumors can also promote expression of a foreign structural gene in bacteria. Use of this dul-purpose promoter region to drive expression of a sing... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4732856 | Transposable elements and process for using same Transposable elements isolated from maize and a process for using the same to identify and isolate genes and to insert desired gene sequences into plants in a heritable manner.... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4684611 | Process for the in-vitro transformation of plant protoplasts with plasmid DNA Genetic properties of higher plants are transformed by incubating protoplasts of the plants together with plasmid DNA. The incubation is effected in the presence of polyethylene glycol and calcium ions. Subsequently--during after-incubation--the calcium i... | 08/04/1987 |
