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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7256333 | Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH479202 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH479202. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH479202, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256332 | Hybrid maize plant and seed 39A94 A novel hybrid maize variety designated 39A94 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety 39A94 wi... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253340 | Floral organ tissue-specific expression of isopentenyl transferase The invention provides methods and compositions for the production of transgenic plants, plant cells, embryos, and seeds that produce plants with floral organs that have increased mass and/or size as compared to wild-type plants. The transgenic plants can be transfo... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253337 | Gene regulatory region that promotes early seed-specific transcription Nucleic acid sequence capable of regulating transcription during embryogenesis in plants is provided. This sequence may be used in transgenic plants to promote high levels of expression of foreign and endogenous genes in developing seeds to affect seed lipid metabol... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253276 | Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as JAS promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. Particularly, the invention provides transg... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253000 | Transcriptional activators involved in abiotic stress tolerance The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions comprise novel nucleic acid sequences encoding a transcription factor involved in modulating gene expression in response to abiotic str... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253342 | Increased wax production in plants The invention provides genes that activate wax biosynthesis in plants. Also provided are constructs comprising these sequences, plants transformed therewith and methods of use thereof. The invention allows the modification of plants for increased wax production, par... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250560 | Increasing salt tolerance in plants by overexpression of vacuolar NA/H transporters The invention is isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding Na+/H+ exchanger polypeptides for extrusion of monovalent cations from the cytosol of cells to provide the cell with increased salt tolerance. Crop species transformed with the nucleic a... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250558 | Disease resistance factors This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a disease resistance factor. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a substantial portion of the disease resistance factor, in sense or anti-sense orienta... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250556 | Transposable elements in rice and methods of use Disclosed are isolated transposable elements, or isolated DNA sequences which encode a transposase protein or a portion of a transposase protein. The isolated transposable elements or the isolated DNA sequences are members of the mPing/Pong family of transposable el... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250555 | Methods for enhancing a plant stress response The invention provides novel methods useful for enhancing a stress response in plants. Specifically, the methods of the present invention are useful for increasing the tolerance of a plant to stresses such as hyperthermia, hypothermia, hyperosmolarity, hypoosmolarit... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250557 | Plastidic phosphoglucomutase genes This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a plastidic phosphoglucomutase protein. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a substantial portion of the plastidic phosphoglucomutase, in sense or anti... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7247770 | Regulating metabolism by modifying the level of trehalose-6-phosphate Method for the inhibition of carbon flow in the glycolytic direction in a cell by increasing the intracellular availability of trehalose-6-phosphate. ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247776 | Inbred corn line G7403 Broadly this invention provides for an inbred corn line G7403. The methods for producing a corn plant by crossing the inbred line G7403 are also encompassed by the invention. Additionally, the invention relates to the various parts of inbred G7403 including culturab... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244877 | Methyltransferase from cotton and uses thereof The present invention relates to genes associated with the tocopherol biosynthesis pathway. More particularly, the present invention provides and includes nucleic acid molecules, proteins, and antibodies associated with genes that encode polypeptides that have methy... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244878 | Increasing salt tolerance in plants by overexpression of vacuolar Na /H transporters The invention is isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding Na+/H+ exchanger polypeptides for extrusion of monovalent cations from the cytosol of cells to provide the cell with increased salt tolerance. Crop species transformed with the nucleic a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244879 | Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics in response to cold The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby that are useful for making transgenic plants. The transgenic plants produced have increased tolerance to cold, low temperature or chilling conditions. Such plants have a highe... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244599 | Gene and uses therefor to modify pasture qualities of crops The invention relates generally to isolated leucoanthocyanidin reductase LAR polypeptides of the Reductase-Epimerase-Dehydrogenase (RED) protein family, and nucleic acid molecules encoding same and their use in regulating the biosynthesis and accumulation of proanth... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244875 | Expression vectors comprising nucleic acids encoding SEBF proteins and uses thereof The invention relates to vectors comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding transcriptional repressor silencing element binding factor referred as “SEBF”, transformed vegetal host and plants comprising said vectors. The invention also relates to methods of alter... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241934 | Amino polyol amine oxidase polynucleotides and related polypeptides and methods of use The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides of the enzyme APAO isolated from Exophiala spinifera and Rhinocladiella atrovirens. The polynucleotides may be mutated to remove glycosylation sites and cysteine residues. Addition... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241935 | Compositions and methods for the production of betaine lipids The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the production of Betaine lipids. The methods of the present invention comprise the expression of recombinant enzymes (e.g. from Rhodobacter sphaeroides) in host cells (e.g. bacteria, yeast, and pl... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241937 | Methods and materials for improving plant drought tolerance Isolated NCED3 nucleic acids and polypeptides are described herein, together with methods for using such nucleic acids and polypeptides for making transgenic plants with improved drought tolerance. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241936 | Methods and means to modulate programmed cell death in eukaryotic cells The invention provides for the use of isolated polynucleotides encoding maize poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) proteins to produce eukaryotic cells and organisms, particularly plant cells and plants, with modified programmed cell death. Eukaryotic cells and organ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241940 | Soybean variety XB005B06 According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB005B06. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB005B06, to the plants of soybean XB005B06 to plant parts of soybean variety XB005B06 and to methods for producing... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241944 | Plants and seeds of corn variety I119149 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I119149. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I119149, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn pl... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238861 | Plant having improved tolerance to various environmental stresses, method of constructing the same and polyamine metabolism-relating enzyme gene The present invention relates to isolated plant-derived polyamine metabolism-related enzyme genes characterized in that their level of expression changes when exposed to environmental stress; antisense DNA or antisense RNA to such genes; plants and their progeny hav... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238863 | Plant lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferases This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a plant lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferases. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the plant lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferases, in sen... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238864 | Acetolactate synthase gene promoter The present invention provides methods for inducing tissue-specific expression, which includes preparing an expression vector having a promoter. The promoter includes any one of the following DNAs (a) to (c): (a) a DNA, which includes the nucleotide sequence shown i... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238865 | SOS1 gene from that confers salt tolerance An SOS gene has been isolated through PCR cloning from Thellungiella halophila and is designated TSOS1. The polynucleotide encodes a transmembrane protein with similarities to plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporters from bacteria and fungi. T... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238859 | Ecdysone receptors and methods for their use The field of the invention is inducible gene expression systems wherein expression is controlled by a novel ecdysone or ultraspiracle receptor or its derivatives. The field particularly relates to the isolation and characterization of nucleic acid and polypeptides f... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238854 | Method of controlling site-specific recombination The present invention provides methods for the conditional or regulated expression of a site-specific recombinase using split intein-mediated protein splicing. This enhances the temporal and tissue-specificity of trait gene expression and allows for fine tuning of e... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238856 | Nucleic acids encoding lipid metabolizing proteins from sunflower that cause elevation of fatty acid levels Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, the present invention provides lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Helianthus annuns. The sunflower ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238857 | Ethylene-responsive transcription coactivators in plants An ethylene-responsive transcription co-activator (MBF) acts on ethylene-responsive transcription factors (ERFs), which positively controls the expression of ethylene-responsive plant genes. A plant is transformed by the gene of the co-activator, and a promoter that... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238855 | TyrA genes and uses thereof The present invention is in the field of plant genetics and biochemistry. More specifically, the invention relates to genes associated with the tocopherol biosynthesis pathway. The present invention provides and includes nucleic acid molecules, proteins, and antibod... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235724 | Plants and seeds of corn variety I900105 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I900105. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I900105, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn pl... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235715 | Virus-resistant transgenic plants expressing L3 Disclosed are transgenic plants containing an exogenous nucleic acid encoding an L3 protein. The plant exhibits increased resistance to viruses and/or fungi that infect plants. The L3 proteins include wild-type proteins, spontaneously occurring mutants and non-natur... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235712 | Bacterial isolates of the genus , and an isomaltulose synthase gene isolated therefrom Two strains of a novel bacterial species, Klebsiella singaporensis LX3 and LX21, are claimed. A nucleotide sequence (kis) encoding a novel form of isomaltulose synthase, KIS, is also claimed. Also claimed is a method for production of isomaltulose in a plant,... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235725 | Plants and seeds of corn variety I217345 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I217345. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I217345, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn pl... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235716 | Plant centromere compositions The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells.... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7235710 | Regulatory sequence The present invention relates to the field of plant molecular biology. In particular, it describes the use of a regulatory nucleic acid sequence of the rice gene GOS2 for the regulation of gene expression in plant cells derived from plants other than monocotyledonou... | 06/26/2007 |
