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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5589615 | Process for the production of transgenic plants with increased nutritional value via the expression of modified 2S storage albumins A process for the production of plants with increased content of appropriate amino acids having high nutritional properties through the modification of plant genes encoding plant storage proteins, particularly the 2S albumins. Seed-forming plants suscepti... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5585536 | Pregerminated seeds Pregerminated seeds comprising desiccation tolerant emerged radicles, processes for their production, and plants produced from such seeds.... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5569833 | Method for enhancing the earliness of a plant and/or lowering the content of nitrates stored in the plant A method for enhancing plant precocity and/or reducing stored nitrate content of a plant, wherein an over-expression of nitrate reductase is induced in the plant so as to induce an over-expression of nitrate reductase activity therein.... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5559223 | Synthetic storage proteins with defined structure containing programmable levels of essential amino acids for improvement of the nutritional value of plants There is provided synthetic nucleic acid fragments for the altered expression of selected nutritionally-important proteins in plants. These nucleic acid fragments may be used to transform plants, particularly crop plants, to increase the lysine and methio... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5545821 | Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting a reduced saturated fatty acid content Improved rape plants, seeds capable of forming the same, and a novel improved edible endogenous vegetable oil derived from the rapeseeds are provided. Such plants have the ability to yield an endogenous vegetable oil having an unusually low saturated fatt... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5530192 | Oilseed crops producing valuable seeds having altered amino acid composition and fatty acid composition An oilseed crop with altered amino acid composition and/or fatty acid composition is provided. The crop is prepared by introducing antisense gene of a seed storage protein into the oilseed crop.... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5530194 | Sequences preferentially expressed in early seed development and methods related thereto Novel DNA constructs which may be used as molecular probes or inserted into a plant host are provided. These constructs comprise a sequence obtainable from the Bce4 gene that is capable of directing transcription in seed tissue at least as early as 11 day... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5530190 | DNA constructs containing the gene for ACC Oxidase, cells and plants derived therefrom DNA constructs which inhibit ethylene production in plants comprise a transcriptional initiation region operative in plants for transcribing a DNA sequence encoding an RNA sequence (which may be inverted) complementary to a substantial run of bases showin... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5502273 | Production of polyhydroxy alkanoate in plants A plant which produces polyhydroxyalkanoate polymer has a recombinant genome which contains one or more than one of the genes specifying enzymes critical to the polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthetic pathway which occurs in certain micro-organisms such as Alca... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5500361 | ଲ-ketoacyl-ACP synthetase II genes from plants The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments encoding ଲ-ketoacyl-ACP synthetase II enzyme or its precursor to modify plant oil composition are described. Chimeric genes incorporating such nucleic acid fragments and suitable regulatory sequences... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5487991 | Process for the production of biologically active peptide via the expression of modified storage seed protein genes in transgenic plants A process is described for producing a polypeptide by cultivating a plant whose genome contains a recombinant DNA. The recombinant DNA includes: a) a first DNA sequence which encodes a precursor of a 2S albumin; and b) a heterologous second DNA sequence that encode... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5477001 | Recombinant DNA coding for a novel protein having ଲ-1,3-glucanase activity, bacteria containing this DNA, transformed plant cells and plants The invention provides a protein, isolated from soybean, having ଲ-1,3-glucanase activity and comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No: 1. DNA constructs encoding said protein, and transformed plants expressing the protein, are also provided.... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5463174 | Transformation and foreign gene expression in Brassica species Brassica species are produced by transformation of cell cultures with foreign DNA followed by regeneration of plants from transformed cells. The cells and the plants produced thereby are capable of expressing the foreign gene. The Brassica species are tra... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5387758 | Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting a reduced saturated fatty acid content Improved rape plants, seeds capable of forming the same, and a novel improved edible endogenous vegetable oil derived from the rapeseeds are provided. Such plants have the ability to yield an endogenous vegetable oil having an unusually low saturated fatt... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5356799 | Antisense gene systems of pollination control for hybrid seed production A process is described for producing hybrid seed using male-sterile plants created by employing molecular techniques to manipulate antisense DNA and other genes that are capable of controlling the production of fertile pollen in plants. Transformation tec... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5344771 | Plant thiosterases This invention relates to plant thioesterases, means to identify such proteins, amino acid and nucleic acid sequences associated with such protein, methods to obtain, make and/or use such plant thioesterases. Also, by this invention, the existence of a he... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5315001 | Acyl carrier protein - DNA sequence and synthesis DNA sequences are provided coding for acyl carrier protein, which sequence can be used for production of acyl carrier protein as an end product or in plant seed to enhance seed oil production. A regulated promoter is provided which substantially limits ex... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5278057 | Transformation of plants to introduce closely linked markers A novel method of producing a plant with a marker closely linked to a target locus, in particular a nuclear male sterile target locus, is described. The method involves transformation of a group of plants in order to introduce a marker into each plant, an... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5268526 | Overexpression of phytochrome in transgenic plants The preparation of an uninterrupted coding sequence for phytochrome polypeptide, and its incorporation in a recombinant DNA construct containing a constitutive promoter and/or enhancer to transform plants to cause overexpression of phytochrome is describe... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5254802 | Male sterile brassica plants Brassica oleracea plants having cytoplasmic male sterility and processes for their production.... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5238835 | Process to induce desiccation tolerance in somatic embryos A process for inducing desiccation tolerance in an in vitro formed plant embryo to enable production of viable artificial seeds is disclosed. The process comprises culturing in vitro plant embryos, stimulating the embryos to proceed through globular and a... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5188958 | Transformation and foreign gene expression in brassica species Brassica species are produced by transformation of cell cultures with foreign DNA followed by regeneration of plants from transformed cells. The cells and the plants produced thereby are capable of expressing the foreign gene. The Brassica species are tra... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5107064 | Fast-cycling dwarf Bassica oleracea This invention relates to a novel dwarf Brassica oleracea plant and a useful variety of rapid-cycling B. oleracea containing the single recessive mutant gene for the dwarf phenotype homozygously. The single gene (dwfl) is produced by mutagenesis and selec... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5049503 | Method for affecting fertility in plant variants Plant embryogenesis from cultured, immature gametic cells can be exploited to overcome the problem of phenotypic sterility in the products of many techniques for plant modification, including interspecific and intergeneric sexual crossing or somatic fusio... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5043282 | Method of producing plant cell lines and plant hybrids A method is disclosed for producing, in a single culture, plant cells that contain a self incompatibility (SI) determinant and plant cells that do not. A selected line is crossed with a line that is homozygous for an SI determinant, and pollen or microspo... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4767888 | Production of cole crops which exhibit triazine tolerance Improved plants of Brassica oleracea and seeds capable of forming the same are provided. Such plants are fully male and female fertile and possess the usual complement of 18 chromosomes. However, unlike previously available cole crops, these plants exhibi... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4751347 | Process for transferring cytoplasmic elements in Brassica, and products thereof Pollen-mediated transferral of cytoplasmic genetic elements can be exploited in a breeding program, for example, to produce cybrids, that employs Brassica plants.... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4658084 | Hybridization using cytoplasmic male sterility and herbicide tolerance from nuclear genes The process of the present invention provides a convenient route for producing a predetermined hybrid variety of a crop which is capable of undergoing both self-pollination and cross-pollination. Cytoplasmic male sterile plants which also exhibit herbicid... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4658085 | Hybridization using cytoplasmic male sterility, cytoplasmic herbicide tolerance, and herbicide tolerance from nuclear genes The process of the present invention provides a convenient route for producing a predetermined hybrid variety of a crop which is capable of undergoing both self-pollination and cross-pollination. Cytoplasmic male sterile plants which also exhibit cytoplas... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4517763 | Hybridization process utilizing a combination of cytoplasmic male sterility and herbicide tolerance The process of the present invention provides a convenient route for producing a predetermined hybrid variety of a crop which is capable of undergoing both self-pollination and cross-pollination. Cytoplasmic male sterile plants which also exhibit cytoplas... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4499687 | Hybrid Brassica seed production A process for the production of high purity hybrid Brassica seed, comprising (a) selecting a heterozygous, maximally self-incompatible parent plant, (b) cloning said selected plant to produce a first cloned parental line, the plants of which are both maxi... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4381624 | High purity hybrid cabbage seed production A process for commercially producing high purity hybrid cabbage seed. One (or both) of the parental lines is rendered sib-incompatible by cloning a maximally self-incompatible parent plant so that the resulting line (or lines), consisting of cloned plants... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4102079 | Method of breeding new varieties of the first filial generation plant A method of breeding new varieties of a first filial generation plant is disclosed. The first filial generation plant is obtained by crossing an allopolyploidy plant as female with several species in Brassica genus as male. The allopolyploidy plant is com... | 07/25/1978 |
