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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8148609 | Uses for Yerba Santa Methods of in vitro propagation of plants of the genus Eriodictyon are described, including, in particular embodiments, plants of the species E. californicum, E. trichocalyx and E. sessilifolium. Methods of producing transgenic plants of the gen... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148608 | Systems and methods for clonal expression in plants The present invention provides systems and methods for generating clonal root lines, clonal root cell lines, clonal plant cell lines, and clonal plants and for expressing gene products in such cell lines and plants. In some embodiments, a viral vector containing a p... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143484 | Method for regulating agrobacterium-mediated transformation A method for regulating expression of a virulence gene of Agrobacterium is described. The method comprises the steps of stimulating cereal cells, such as sorghum, so as to produce an active, typically phenolic, compound and exposing the Agrobacterium t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8115061 | Plant transformation method The invention provides a transformation method comprising inoculation and co-cultivation of a target tissue, from a target plant, with Agrobacterium, at a time when the target tissue is in its natural plant environment, followed by generation of a transgenic ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106258 | Use of a low-oxygen environment in plant transformation Use of a low-oxygen environment before the transformation process can enhance transformation of plants. Low oxygen during regeneration can also increase the culturability of recalcitrant genotypes. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101823 | Method of controlling a cellular process in a multi-cellular organism A method of controlling a genetically-modified multi-cellular organism or a part thereof, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a multi-cellular organism or a part thereof, whereby cells of said multi-cellular organism or said part contain a heterologous nuc... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101824 | Method of constructing transgenic ice plant The present invention provides a method of transforming common ice plant by gene transfer using a microorganism belonging to the genus Agrobacterium and a method of producing a transformed common ice plant. The present invention also provides a stable transfo... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8093458 | Biologically safe transient protein expression in plants A process of producing a protein of interest by expression of said protein of interest from a sequence of interest in a plant or in plant leaves, comprising: (a) transfecting said plant or said plant leaves by infiltrating said plant or said plant leaves with an ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8076537 | Method of breeding germinable transgenic broadleaved tree species Methods of breeding germinable transgenic broadleaved tree species are disclosed which include the following steps: (1) the main stem of a tree is cutoff at the height of 50-160 cm above the ground; (2) the transection is dipped with 0.3-0.5 OD600 of a su... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8067673 | Methods for plant regeneration, transformation and production of insect resistant transgenic Okra The present description concerns methods for regeneration of whole plant from the explants obtained from the Abelmoschus species preferably A. esculentus. In addition the present description also concerns methods for transforming okra plant, plant cell... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8058514 | Agrobacterium-mediated method for producing transformed plant without selection step A novel Agrobacterium-mediated method for producing a transformed monocotyledonous plant is provided. The transformation method involves (i) a coculture step for culturing an Agrobacterium-inoculated monocotyledonous plant tissue with a coculture mediu... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8053638 | Method for agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants The invention provides methods and compositions for enhancing the efficiency of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of host cells such as plant cells. Plant expression constructs comprising a gene encoding a VIP2 or VIP2-like polypeptide are provided, as we... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049067 | Organogenic transformation and regeneration This invention provides methods of transforming organogenic plant cells and regenerating plants from transformed cells. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8030544 | Methods for plant transformation using spectinomycin selection The present invention relates to methods and compositions for transforming soybean, corn, cotton, or canola explants using spectinomycin as a selective agent for transformation of the explants. The method may further comprise treatment of the explants with cytokinin... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8017837 | Method for producing transgenic plants A method for producing transgenic plants, including treating a target tissue using plasmolyzing media (PM) which contains 4% to 10% of sucrose and 100 μM to 300 μM of Acetosyringone (AS) and gold particles. The target tissue is infected by a bacterial suspension u... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7994399 | Methods for the production of stably transformed, fertile plants The present invention relates to improved methods for the incorporation of DNA into the genome of a Zea mays plant by means of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Preferred is the use of the Zea may lines deposited with American Type Culture ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7989678 | Disarmed strains, Ri-plasmids, and methods of transformation based thereon The present invention relates “disarmed” strain variants of Agrobacterium strain K599 (NCPPB 2659), “disarmed” plasmid variants of the Ri-plasmid pRi2659, and derivatives thereof, and methods employing these strains and plasmids in plant transformatio... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7960611 | Method for promoting efficiency of gene introduction into plant cells A method for gene introduction by which higher efficiency for gene introduction than that by the conventional Agrobacterium method may be attained simply and without injuring the tissue is disclosed. According to the method of the present invention, the effic... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960610 | Methods for enhancing segregation of transgenes in plants The compositions and methods are provided that enhance the selection of transgenic plants having two T-DNA molecules integrated into a plant genome at different physical and genetic loci. The compositions are DNA constructs that comprise novel arrangements of T-DNA ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7928291 | Use of multiple transformation enhancer sequences to improve plant transformation efficiency The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operab... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928292 | Refined plant transformation The present invention provides methods for producing transgenic plants based on an optimized transfer of DNA from Agrobacterium to plant cells, and/or on an optimized integration of the transferred DNAs into plant cell genomes. It also provides Agrobacteri... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7910803 | Transformation in The present invention relates to plant biotechnology and specifically to a method for genetically transforming Camelina sativa with Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system. It comprises Camelina sativa for producing homologous and heterolog... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7902426 | Method of improving gene transfer efficiency into plant cells utilizing heat and centrifugation A method for gene transfer by which higher efficiency for gene transfer than that by the conventional Agrobacterium method may be attained simply and without injuring the tissue is disclosed. According to the method of the present invention, the efficiency of... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7897838 | Methods for high efficiency transformation and regeneration of plant suspension cultures The present invention provides methods for high efficiency plant transformation via Agrobacterium-mediated T-DNA conjugation to suspension-cultured cells or calli. The methods described herein employ membranes or filters as porous solid support for the co-cul... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893323 | Transformation of . with agrobacterium using embryogenic callus cultures The present invention relates to a method for transforming Allium species with a heterologous gene using Agrobacterium. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7855325 | Use of nitric oxide modulators in -mediated plant transformation Use of nitric oxide modulators during the transformation process can enhance Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants. ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7812222 | Method of transducing gene into plant material The present invention relates to a method of introducing a gene into plant material via Agrobacterium. A method of the present invention is characterized in that it comprises: 1) pressurizing a plant material, and then 2) infecting the plant material with an ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7803988 | Plant transformation method The invention provides a transformation method comprising inoculation and co-cultivation of a target tissue, from a target plant, with Agrobacterium, at a time when the target tissue is in its natural plant environment, followed by generation of a transgenic ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7754944 | Polynucleotide constructs Synthetic modular polynucleotide constructs are useful for gene expression in plants, methods for making and using such constructs, and plants transformed with such constructs. The constructs comprise unique restriction sites for each modular element and may further... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7737328 | Transformation and regeneration of plants The invention relates to a novel transformation method for plants of the genus Allium. Plants transformed by the method are also provided. The method preferably involves an Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation, involving the transformation... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7714191 | Transformation of sp. with using embryogenic callus cultures The present invention relates to a method for transforming Allium species with a heterologous gene using Agrobacterium. ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7709699 | Use of duckweed in high throughput screening Methods for high-throughput screening in duckweed are disclosed. In one aspect, these methods are used to identify nucleotide sequences encoding polypeptides of interest. In another aspect, these methods are used to identify nucleotide sequences that modulate the ex... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7709700 | Method for improving plant transformation efficiency by adding copper ion The present invention provides a method for Agrobacterium-mediated gene introduction into a plant material, comprising: 1) treating the plant material, and then 2) infecting the plant material with an Agr... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7692063 | Production of foreign nucleic acids and polypeptides in sprout systems The present invention provides systems and methods for producing a nucleic acid or protein in transgenic sprouted seedlings or sprouted seedlings engineered to transiently express a nucleic acid or protein of interest. The sprouted seedlings of the invention are gro... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7659447 | Increasing host plant susceptibility to agrobacterium infection by overexpression of the arabidopsis VIP1 gene The present invention is directed to methods and compositions which employ an Arabidopsis VIP1 gene or VIP1-like gene from another plant species for purposes of increasing host plant susceptibility to Agrobacterium infection. Methods for increasing sus... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7619138 | 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... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7608758 | Plant system for comprehensive gene function analysis with the use of full-length cDNA A gene causative of a phenotype is easily specified and thus gene functions are comprehensively analyzed. A method for analyzing a gene function includes (a) infecting a plant group with a full-length cDNA library containing an expression regulatory sequence to intr... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7598430 | Refined plant transformation The present invention provides methods for producing transgenic plants based on an optimized transfer of DNA from Agrobacterium to plant cells, and/or on an optimized integration of the transferred DNAs into plant cell genomes. It also provides Agrobacteri... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7592508 | High-efficiency -mediated transformation of cotton using petiole explants A method is disclosed for producing a transgenic cotton plant by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of petiole tissue. The method comprises the steps of (a) obtaining cotton petiole explants, (b) exposing the petiole explants to a culture of Agrobacteri... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7569746 | Method for delivery of proteins to plant cells The invention relates to the use of a modified Agrobacterium to deliver proteins directly to plant cells. Proteins of interest are delivered to the plant host in the form of a fusion protein with the Agrobacterium virulence protein VirF. Nucleotide seq... | 08/04/2009 |
