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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183434 | Method for producing transgenic surface layer chimeric plant A rose is produced in which an introduced gene is only present in a part of the cells thereof, such as cells of the L1 layer of flower petals, but is not present in germ cells such as pollen cells or ovule cells. Since the introduced gene is not propagated to other ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8148605 | Biological systems input-output response system and plant sentinels A eukaryotic input circuit: computationally designed receptors, synthetic eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, and a synthetic signal sensitive promoter that allow highly specific transcriptional induction in response to an externally provided ligand is disclose... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143478 | Peptide transporting to chromoplasts in petals and method of constructing plant having yellowish petals by using the same It is an object of the present invention to provide a means of imparting a yellowish flower color to a plant having no or little yellowish flower color or enhancing the yellowish flower color in a plant. In accordance with the present invention, a method of p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138391 | gene and its use in manipulating carotenoid content and composition in plants and other organisms The cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis) Or gene is a semi-dominant, single-locus mutation. It induces the accumulation of high levels of beta-carotene in various tissues that are normally devoid of carotenoids, turning them orange. Using a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8124839 | Identification of terpenoid-biosynthesis related regulatory protein-regulatory region associations Materials and methods for identifying terpenoid regulatory region-regulatory protein associations are disclosed. Materials and methods for modulating expression of a sequence interest are also disclosed. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8071841 | gene and its use in manipulating carotenoid content and composition in plants and other organisms The cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis) Or gene is a semi-dominant, single-locus mutation. It induces the accumulation of high levels of beta-carotene in various tissues that are normally devoid of carotenoids, turning them orange. Using a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8053634 | Stabilization and blueing of anthocyanin pigments using gene encoding aromatic acyltransferase capable of transferring an aromatic acyl group to the 3′-position of anthocyanin A method of acylating the 3′ position of anthocyanin using an enzyme that transfers an aromatic acyl group to a sugar at the 3′ position of anthocyanin or a gene encoding the enzyme. ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7994396 | Transgenic bioluminescent plants Transgenic plants, and a method for making the same, wherein genes encoding the enzyme luciferase and its corresponding substrate luciferin are incorporated into a native plant genome. Once transformed into plant cells, these genes may be regulated such that under c... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7663021 | Transgenic pineapple plants with modified carotenoid levels and methods of their production The present invention provides methods of transforming pineapple cells and plants with carotenoid biosynthetic polypeptide expression regulators that control the accumulation of carotenoids in the transformed cells, and in certain embodiments, the coloration of thos... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663022 | Transgenic bioluminescent plants Transgenic plants, and a method for making the same, wherein genes encoding the enzyme luciferase and its corresponding substrate luciferin are incorporated into a native plant genome. Once transformed into plant cells, these genes may be regulated such that under c... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7655834 | Plant pigment accumulation gene By analyzing the causative gene of tt19 mutants and elucidating the nature of the mutants, the present inventors found a novel gene as the causative gene and gave it the name TRANSPARENT TESTA (TT19) gene. The inventors cloned this gene and analyzed its DNA nucleoti... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7531717 | Regulatory genes involved in condensed tannin synthesis in plants The present invention provides two novel regulatory genes and encoded proteins which can be used to alter the biosynthesis and accumulation of condensed tannin levels in plants and plant tissues. The present invention further encompasses transgenic constructs contai... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7511190 | Polynucleotides and polypeptides in plants The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compar... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7501556 | Nutritionally enhanced plants The present invention relates to the field of improving nutritional content and more particularly the isoflavone content in plants. The invention provides a process for increasing the content of the isoflavone daidzein in selected plants, novel plants produced by th... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7385123 | Process for preparing ketocarotenoids in genetically modified organisms The present invention relates to a process for preparing ketocarotenoids by cultivation of genetically modified organisms which, compared with the wild type, have a modified ketolase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, and to the use thereof as human an... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7381541 | Methods for producing animal feed preparations with astaxanthin-containing plants or parts of plants of the genus The present invention relates to the use of astaxanthin-containing plants or parts of plants of the genus Tagetes or astaxanthin-containing extracts of astaxanthin-containing plants or parts of plants of the genus Tagetes for oral administration to ani... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7368555 | Sequence-determined DNA fragments encoding EF-hand calcium-binding proteins The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7355026 | Sequence-determined DNA fragments encoding SRF-type transcription factor proteins The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7335815 | Nucleic acid sequences to proteins involved in isoprenoid synthesis Methods are provided for producing plants and seeds having altered isoprenoid content and compositions. The methods find particular use in increasing the isoprenoid levels in plants, and in providing desirable isoprenoid compositions in a host plant cell. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7310140 | Method and apparatus for inspecting a wafer surface In a method and an apparatus for inspecting a wafer surface, a wafer is loaded into a chamber. An incident light including a first light for sensing a vertical position of the wafer and a second light for inspecting the wafer surface is irradiated onto the wafer. Th... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304207 | Identification and characterization of an Anthocyanin mutant () in tomato The present invention is directed to a novel plant phenotype, designated Anthocyanin 1 (ANT1), a nucleic acid sequence expressed in plants demonstrating the ANT1 phenotype and the corresponding amino acid sequence. Also provided are plant cells and plants that exhib... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7294761 | Method for efficiently producing transgenic plant using auxin precursor A method for producing a transgenic plant, which comprises: (A) introducing a vector into a plant cell, wherein the vector is a vector for gene introduction into a plant and comprises: a desired gene, and a selectable marker gene comprising a gene encoding an enzyme... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7285652 | Isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding the modified phytochrome A The present invention includes modified phytochrome A (PHYA) nucleic acid molecules in which Pr absorption spectra have been shifted to longer wavelength (i.e. bathochromism or red-shift). The plants with the bathochromic phytochromes are expected to respond to cano... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7256327 | Genetically modified plants expressing proteinase inhibitors, SaPIN2a or SaPIN2b, and methods of use thereof for the inhibition of trypsin- and chymotrypsin-like activities The present invention relates to proteinase inhibitor II genes, SaPIN2a and SaPIN2b, their production in transformed plants, and isolation of SaPIN2a and SaPIN2b proteins from transformed plants of the invention. The invention further relates to use in inhibiting en... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7250295 | Plant cells encoding a peptide mimotope to mycotoxin deoxynivalenol and uses thereof The present invention provides transgenic plants cells that express a peptide mimotope of the non-peptide mycotoxin deoxynivalenol. In particular, the peptide mimotope competes with deoxynivalenol for binding to a monoclonal antibody and is antagonistic to the inhib... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7250554 | Precise breeding The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in cl... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7223909 | 4-ketocarotenoids in flower petals The formation of a carotenoid compound containing a 4-keto-β-ionene ring such as astaxanthin or canthaxanthin in flowers, and particularly in the corolla and reproductive parts of a flower of a higher plant whose flowers produce a carotenoid compound containing a Î... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7199284 | Chlorophyllases This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding chlorophyllases. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA fragments comprising all or a portion of the isolated chlorophyllase-encoding polynucleotides, in sense or antisense orient... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195887 | Rice 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase and DNA encoding thereof This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic enzyme, in se... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7186523 | Method for synthesis of aryl-carotenoids A method for the production of aryl-carotenoids is provided through bioconversion of cyclic carotenoids having at least one β-ionone ring. Expression of a heterologous gene encoding a carotene desaturase (crtU) enzyme in a host cell that produces a suitable cyclic ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7186886 | Aliphatic acyl transferase genes A protein which has an amino acid sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6, 23, 25, 27 or 29, or any of these amino acid sequences modified, and which has activity for transferring an aliphatic acyl group to a glycosyl group at the 5-position of flavonoids, and a gene e... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7173164 | Plant anthocyanidin rutinoside aromatic acyl transferases The present invention relates generally to a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having aromatic acyl group transfer activity and the use of the genetic sequence and/or its corresponding polypeptide thereof. More particularly, the present invention provides a ge... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169968 | Elongase promoters The present invention relates to the use of recombinant DNA technology in the modification of plant oils. In particular, the invention relates to the identification of novel promoter sequences of the FAE1-1 and FAE1-2 genes of Brassica napus and the FAE1 gene... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7132250 | Soybean 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase and DNA encoding thereof This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic enzyme, in se... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132257 | Production or aromatic carotenoids in gram negative bacteria A method for the in vivo bioconversion of cyclic carotenes having a β-ionone ring to the corresponding aryl carotene is provided. Gram negative host cells expressing a heterologous, codon-optimized gene encoding a carotene desaturase are grown in the presence of a ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7129392 | Materials and methods for increasing isoprenoid production in cells Disclosed are the uses of specific genes of the mevalonate and isoprenoid biosynthetic pathways, and of inactive gene sites (the pseudogene) to (1) enhance biosynthesis of isopentenyl diphosphate, dimethylallyl diphosphate and isoprenoid pathway derived products in ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122720 | Synthetic nucleic acid molecule for imparting multiple traits The present invention is directed to a DNA construct which includes a modified DNA molecule with a nucleotide sequence which is at least 80%, but less than 100%, homologous to two or more desired trait DNA molecules and which imparts the desired trait to plants tran... | 10/17/2006 |
