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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7880067 | Potatoes with increased protein content The invention relates to the breeding and selection of potatoes. The invention provides a potato plant or part derived thereof having at least one amf-allele said potato plant or part further provided with an increased capacity to store a protein as characterized by... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7488870 | Potato cultivar FL 2101 A new potato cultivar designated FL 2101 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato variety FL 2101, to the plants and plant parts of potato variety FL 2101, to the seeds of potato variety and to methods for producing a hybrid potato variety. The in... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7488871 | Potato cultivar FL 2085 A potato cultivar designated FL 2085 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar FL 2085, to the seeds of potato cultivar FL 2085, to the plants of potato FL 2085, to the plant parts of potato cultivar FL 2085 and to methods for producing a ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7462761 | Potato cultivar FL 2086 A potato cultivar designated FL 2086 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar FL 2086, to the seeds of potato cultivar FL 2086, to the plants of potato FL 2086, to the plant parts of potato cultivar FL 2086 and to methods for producing a ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7423195 | Transgenic plants containing ligninase and cellulase which degrade lignin and cellulose to fermentable sugars The present invention provides transgenic plants which after harvest degrade the lignin and cellulose therein to fermentable sugars which can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. In particular, the transgenic plants comprise ligninase and cellulase gen... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7411115 | Sweet potato sporamin gene promoter A transformed tuberous plant cell or a transgenic tuberous plant containing a heterologous nucleic acid that includes a sweet potato sporamin promoter operably linked to a sequence encoding a polypeptide. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7385104 | Plants synthesizing a modified starch, a process for the generation of the plants, their use, and the modified starch The present invention relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules which contain two or more nucleotide sequences which encode enzymes which participate in the starch metabolism, methods for generating transgenic plant cells and plants which synthesize starch which... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7371926 | Transgenic plants containing ligninase and cellulase which degrade lignin and cellulose to fermentable sugars The present invention provides transgenic plants which after harvest degrade the lignin and cellulose therein to fermentable sugars which can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. In particular, the transgenic plants comprise ligninase and cellulase gen... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368629 | Nucleic acids encoding anthelmintic agents and plants made therefrom The present invention provides DNA constructs, transgenic plants containing such constructs, and methods of making the plants. The DNA constructs encode a polypeptide that when expressed results in the production of fatty acid compounds having anthelmintic activity.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7319020 | Method for carrying out the controlled post-harvest production of proteins in host organisms The invention relates to a method of obtaining a desired protein from a transgenic host organism, the gene coding for this protein being not expressed until the host organism has been harvested and the method being characterized in that (a) the transgenic host organ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7262339 | Tocopherol methyltransferase tMT2 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 tocop... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7247769 | Plants synthesizing a modified starch, a process for the generation of the plants, their use, and the modified starch The present invention relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules which contain two or more nucleotide sequences which encode enzymes which participate in the starch metabolism, methods for generating transgenic plant cells and plants which synthesize starch which... | 07/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7244876 | Process of rapid variety-independent plant transformation Disclosed is a method of making transgenic plants. Heterologous DNA is first introduced into a donor plant, plant cell or protoplast, and then moved from the donor to a recipient plant, plant cell or protoplast unaccompanied by any native genomic DNA of the donor. T... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7220899 | Plants having altered amino acid contents and method for the production thereof The invention relates to transformed plants and their descendants, which have altered regulative sequences and/or number of gene copies of the ATP/ADP-translocator-gene in such a manner that they have one or more amino acids simultaneously in altered amounts in comp... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7205150 | Transgenic plants over-expressing plant ADP-glucose pyrophosphatase A method for obtaining a transgenic plant that over-expresses a soluble isoform AGPPase enzyme. The method includes a step of transforming a plant with a vector comprising a polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 7 linked to a promoter that promotes expression of the polynucl... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196247 | Root-specific, stimulant inducible promoter and its use This invention relates to an isolated isoflavone synthase 1 (IFS1) promoter nucleic acid fragment. The invention also relates to the construction of chimeric genes comprising all or a portion of the IFS1 promoter directing the expression of transgenes, in sense or a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7176351 | Potatoes having an increased yield of starch per plant body and method for producing the same The present invention provides potatoes having a tuber yield of potatoes per plant higher than that of non-transformed potatoes cultivated under the same conditions, wherein a gene encoding DNA linking protein belonging to Dof family is introduced in the potatoes. T... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173165 | Variants of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase affecting phosphate sensitivity and other parameters The subject invention concerns chimeric AGP subunit proteins and polynucleotides that encode the chimeric proteins. The subject invention provides for mutant AGP enzymes comprising a chimeric subunit of the invention that are less sensitive to inorganic phosphate th... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7166465 | Constitutive promoter from The present invention is directed to a promoter derivable from an Arabidopsis ENDO gene. Nucleic acid constructs, vectors, plant cells and transgenic plants comprising the promoter are also provided. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164057 | Transcription factor stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants A transgenic plant transformed by a transcription factor stress-related protein (TFSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154029 | Compositions and methods for altering tocotrienol content The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides that alter tocol content in seeds. The invention further provides expression cassettes, host cells and transformed plants containing the nucleic acids. The present invention further provide... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148409 | Potato cultivar FL 2049 A new potato cultivar designated FL 2049 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato variety FL 2049, to the plants and plant parts of potato variety FL 2049, to the seeds of potato variety and to methods for producing a hybrid potato variety. The in... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7135619 | Expression in plants of starch binding domains and/or of protein-fusions containing starch binding domains The invention relates to a method for expressing a desired protein or polypeptide in a plant, in which the protein or polypeptide is expressed as a fusion with at least one starch binding domain. The plant is preferably a plant that contains or produces starch or st... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129391 | Universal chloroplast integration and expression vectors, transformed plants and products thereof The invention provides universal chloroplast integration and expression vectors which are competent to stably transform and integrate genes of interest into chloroplast genome of multiple species of plants. Transformed plants and their progeny are provided. Monocoty... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122719 | Method of imparting disease resistance to plants by reducing polyphenol oxidase activities The present invention relates to a method for enhancing a plant's resistance to diseases and/or bruising by transforming the plant with sense and antisense polyphenol oxidase encoding sequences from potato. The invention also relates to transgenic plants and progeny... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7112718 | Transgenic plants synthesizing high amylose starch Transgenic plant cells and plants are described which synthesize a starch which is modified in comparison with corresponding wild type plant cells and plants. The plant cells and plants described show a reduced activity of R1, BEI and BEII proteins. Furthermore, mod... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7109402 | Potato cultivar FL 2072 A new potato cultivar designated FL 2072 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato variety FL 2072, to the plants and plant parts of potato variety FL 2072, to the seeds of potato variety and to methods for producing a hybrid potato variety. The in... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7109401 | Potato cultivar FL 2053 A new potato cultivar designated FL 2053 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato variety FL 2053, to the plants and plant parts of potato variety FL 2053, to the seeds of potato variety and to methods for producing a hybrid potato variety. The in... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105654 | Ethylene receptor gene from and its use The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence from a soybean plant (Glycine max) encoding an ethylene receptor polypeptide. The present invention also relates to methods for reducing an ethylene-induced abscission of reproductive structur... | 09/12/2006 |
| RE39114 | Expression of sucrose phosphorylase in plants Introducing sucrose phosphorylase activity into plants by transformation with a gene for the enzyme increases the rate of sucrose hydrolysis, leading to increased starch, oil, and/protein levels. Sucrose phosphorylase genes from Streptococcus mutans and Leuconostoc ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049485 | Transgenic plants containing ligninase and cellulase which degrade lignin and cellulose to fermentable sugars The present invention provides transgenic plants which after harvest degrade the lignin and cellulose therein to fermentable sugars which can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. In particular, the transgenic plants comprise ligninase and cellulase gen... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7041883 | Potato cultivar FL 2048 A novel potato cultivar of the genus and species Solanum tuberosum, designated FL 2048, is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato variety FL 2048, to the plants of potato variety FL 2048, to the seeds of potato variety and to methods for pro... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7012171 | Modification of plant metabolism A transgenic plant is prepared by a method in which a plant cell is transformed with a chimaeric gene comprising a promoter and a gene encoding a polypeptide which displays the activity of an enzyme which regulates the amount of a metabolic intermediate in glycolysi... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6974894 | Plant Starch Composition Disclosed is a nucleotide sequence encoding an effective portion of a class A starch branching enzyme (SBE) obtainable from potato plants, or a functional equivalent thereof, together with, inter alia, a corresponding polypeptide, a method of altering the characteri... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6969783 | Heat stable mutants of starch biosynthesis enzymes The subject invention pertains to novel mutant polynucleolide molecules that encode enzymes that have increased heat stability. These polynucleotides, when expressed in plants, result in increased yield in plants grown under conditions of heat stress. In one embodim... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6943279 | 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 airovirens. The polynucleotides may be mutated to remove glycosylation sites and cysteine residues. Addition... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940001 | Transgenic plant cells and plants having modified activity of the GBSSI and of the BE protein Transgenic plant cells and plants are described which synthesize a starch which is modified in comparison to wild-type plant cells and plants and show a decrease in the activity of GBSSI and BE proteins. Furthermore, the modified starches obtainable from these plant... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6940004 | Potato cultivar FL 2027 A novel potato cultivar of the genus and species Solanum tuberosum, designated FL 2027, is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato variety FL 2027, to the plants of potato variety FL 2027, to the seeds of potato variety and to methods for pro... | 09/06/2005 |
