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...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168863 | Methods for accumulating heterologous polypeptides in plant stover utilizing a vacuole sorting signal Compositions and methods for increasing the expression and/or accumulation of cellobiohydrolase enzyme in the vacuoles of plant cells are provided. The method involves targeting the enzyme to the vacuoles through the use of a barley polyamine oxidase (BPAO) vacuole ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8158857 | Monocot seed product comprising a human serum albumin protein The invention is directed to monocot plant seed products comprising human serum albumin, and to methods of making said monocot plant seed products comprising human serum albumin and to therapeutic compositions comprising them. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158855 | Immunization of fish with plant-expressed recombinant proteins Plants are produced that express an amino acid sequence that, when administered to a fish, produce an antigenic or immune response in the fish. The amino acid sequence in one embodiment is an antigen from an organism that causes pathology in fish. The plant tissue m... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158856 | Stress resistant plants Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway from fungal or yeast like organisms other than Saccharomyces cereviseae | 04/17/2012 |
| 8148607 | Methods and means for removal of a selected DNA sequence A method is described for the exact removal of a selected subfragment from a DNA molecule by intrachromosomal recombination between two directly repeated DNA sequences using a rare-cleaving double stranded break inducing DNA endonuclease expressed under control of a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143482 | Polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as meth... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8129591 | Polypeptides having xylanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods o... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129590 | Polypeptides having acetylxylan esterase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having acetylxylan esterase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129589 | Protoporphyrinogen oxidase having activity of imparting resistance against acifluorfen and gene thereof Protoporphyrinogen oxidase having an activity of imparting acifluorfen resistance and gene thereof are provided. Cyanobacterium protoporphyrinogen oxidase gene is identified by introducing a protoporphyrinogen oxidase gene of Arabidopsis into cyanobacterium, ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8124842 | Plants having an increased content of amino sugars The present invention relates to plant cells and plants having an increased content of N-acetylated glucosamine derivatives. Furthermore, the present invention relates to plant cells and plants which synthesize glucosaminoglycans. The present invention also provides... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119857 | Polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as meth... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115059 | Gene expression modulation system for use in plants and method for modulating gene expression in plants An EcR-based gene expression modulation system for use in plants includes an EcR gene expression cassette, a modified RXR gene expression cassette, and a gene-of-interest expression cassette, which can be expressed in a host plant cell. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110356 | Method for generating hypermutable plants Blockade of mismatch repair in a plant can lead to hypermutation and a new genotype and/or phenotype. One approach used to generate hypermutable plants is through the expression of dominant negative alleles of mismatch repair genes in transgenic plants or derived ce... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106255 | Targeted chromosomal mutagenasis using zinc finger nucleases The present invention provides for a method or methods of targeted genetic recombination or mutagenesis in a host cell or organism, and compositions useful for carrying out the method. The targeting method of the present invention exploits endogenous cellular mechan... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106256 | Methods and means for producing hyaluronan The present invention relates to plant cells and plants which synthesize an increased amount of hyaluronan, and to methods for preparing such plants, and also to methods for preparing hyaluronan with the aid of these plant cells or plants. Here, plant cells or genet... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8097772 | Polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as m... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8063267 | Polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as meth... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8058513 | Polypeptides having feruloyl esterase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having feruloyl esterase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058512 | Gene expression and production of TGF-β proteins including bioactive mullerian inhibiting substance from plants This invention describes a novel method of producing bioactive recombinant proteins from plants. General methods of designing and engineering plants for expression and production of such proteins are also disclosed. Methods for the expression of Transforming Growth ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044264 | Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as wel... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8034995 | Polypeptides having feruloyl esterase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having feruloyl esterase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8034996 | Polypeptides having acetylxylan esterase activity and polynucleotides encoding same The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having acetylxylan esterase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8030543 | Efficient transformation method for sunflower and oil seeds based on positive selection The invention describes a highly improved, reproducible and a consistent method of transformation and regeneration that results in obtaining 12-15% transgenic plants. The present invention relates to a method of selecting genetically transformed Sunflower explants b... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022270 | Expression of biologically active polypeptides in duckweed Methods, nucleic acid sequences, and transformed duckweed plant or duckweed nodule cultures for the expression and the secretion of biologically active polypeptides from genetically engineered duckweed are provided. Expression of recombinant polypeptides in duckweed... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8017836 | Expression of plasminogen and microplasminogen in duckweed The present invention provides methods and compositions for the production of recombinant plasminogen, microplasminogen, and fragments thereof in a duckweed expression system. It is the novel finding of the present invention that a duckweed expression system may be ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8017835 | Transformed plants accumulating terpenes The present invention relates to transformed plants with an altered terpene content, preferably over-accumulating a mono- or sesqui-terpene. By transformation of plants with genes encoding terpene synthases (TS), and prenyl transferases (PRT), plants accumulating at... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013213 | Guayule plants, products, and derivatives Transgenic guayule lines were created by constitutively expressing transgenes that encode for prenyltransferase and allylic diphosphate synthase. These new lines are important to rubber production because they result in plants that produce latex rubber which is lowe... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8008545 | Process for the production of fine chemicals The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals in a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or parts thereof by increasing or generating the biological activity of a ras-Like GTPase or the homologues thereof and growing ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003851 | Plant producing hyaluronic acid It is intended to provide by improving a known method of producing hyaluronic acid in a plant, a plant or a cultured plant cells which can produce hyaluronic acid at a lower cost and a further higher yield than before, a method of preparing the same, an expression v... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999151 | Method of producing astaxanthin or metabolic product thereof by using carotenoid ketolase and carotenoid hydroxylase genes To provide a microorganism or a plant transformed with a β-ionone ring-4-ketolase gene and/or β-ionone ring-3-hydroxylase gene derived from Brevundimonas sp. strain SD-212. The β-ionone ring-4-ketolase gene and β-ionone ring-3-hydroxylase gene produced by... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7960609 | Plant vector pBSNB-TEV, vectors derived therefrom, and methods of use The present invention relates to an avian influenza vaccine of plant origin, prepared by transforming a plant with a surface protein of avian influenza virus, hemagglutinin (HA) or neuraminidase (NA), and a method for preparing the same. Further, the present inventi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7947874 | Modifying DNA recombination and repair The present invention provides methods of modifying in vivo mutagenesis or homeologous recombination in a eukaryote. The method of modifying in vivo mutagenesis involves transforming a eukaryote with a nucleotide sequence capable of expressing a wild-type prokaryoti... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947873 | Compositions and methods for regulation of plant gamma-tocopherol methyltransferase Disclosed herein are zinc finger proteins that bind to target sites in a plant gamma-tocopherol methyl transferase (GMT) gene; compositions comprising these GMT-targeted zinc finger proteins and methods of making and using such zinc finger proteins. Also disclosed a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7943820 | Genetically modified plants producing lactosylceramide and utilization thereof Plant expression vectors comprising an ORF of an isoform gene (β1,4GT5) of human β1,4-galactosyltransferase were constructed. Then, the vectors were introduced into tobacco using plant gene-recombination techniques, and transformed tobacco was made. Analysis of th... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7928290 | Viral capsid fusion peptide expressing plant cells The present invention provides an improved process for the production of recombinant peptides. In particular, the present invention provides an improved process for the production of recombinant peptides in the form of viral capsid fusion proteins which can be assem... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7919683 | Cloning and sequencing of the ferulate esterase gene from LN4017 Embodiments of the present invention include polypeptides having ferulate esterase activity and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them. Methods of the embodiments utilize these ferulate esterase polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences to enhance the digestibili... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7915483 | C-terminally truncated interferon The invention described herein provides a C-terminally truncated interferon having a deletion of 7, 8, or 9 amino acids and having enhanced biological activity, and the polynucleotides encoding such an interferon. Also provided are methods for producing and using su... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7786352 | Methods for the production of apolipoproteins in transgenic plants Methods for the production of an apolipoprotein in plants are described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for the expression of apolipoprotein in plants comprising: (a) providing a chimeric nucleic acid co... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7754943 | Transgenic plants used as a bioreactor system The present invention relates generally to the use of plants as bioreactors for the production of molecules having useful properties such as inter alia polymers, metabolites, proteins, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. More particularly, the present invention cont... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7737327 | Methods for screening for genes and small molecules that activate mammalian receptor proteins Methods for screening mutations that affect the synthesis of plant small molecules or compounds capable of activating a mammalian nuclear receptor protein and systems for rapidly assigning functionality to genes that regulate plant secondary metabolism are provided.... | 06/15/2010 |
