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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8063268 | Transposable elements in rice and methods of use Disclosed are isolated transposable elements, or isolated DNA sequences which encode a transposase protein or a portion of a transposase protein. The isolated transposable elements or the isolated DNA sequences are members of the mPing/Pong family of transposable el... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8013214 | Maize having an improved digestibility The invention relates to a maize plant having a decrease in the CCR enzyme activity due to the presence of the 3318 allele and its use for ensilage. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7250556 | Transposable elements in rice and methods of use Disclosed are isolated transposable elements, or isolated DNA sequences which encode a transposase protein or a portion of a transposase protein. The isolated transposable elements or the isolated DNA sequences are members of the mPing/Pong family of transposable el... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7064246 | Use of transposable elements for altering gene expression Methods of repressing expression of a recombinant gene in a cell are provided. The methods include the steps of introducing a transposase DNA binding motif into or adjacent to the gene, and introducing into the cell a transposase that is capable of binding to the tr... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6951972 | Transposon tagging and gene delivery in small grain cereals The disclosed discovery relates to the functioning of the Ac-Ds transposon system in small grain cereals such as barley, wheat, and oat. Methods and compositions for using this system for introducing recombinant expression cassettes and transposon tagging of genes i... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6525245 | Method for identifying components involved in signal transduction pathways in higher plants The present invention relates to methods for determining nucleic acid sequences that encode components of signal transduction pathways in higher plants. The method comprises combining a portion of an AOX promoter linked in operable fashion to a reporter g... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6369297 | Inducible one-component plant gene tagging A nucleic acid including (1) an inducible transposable element having a first nucleotide sequence encoding a transposase, and an inducible promoter operably linked to the first nucleotide sequence; (2) an uncoupled promoter; and (3) a second nucleotide se... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6320101 | Enhancing inorganic carbon fixation by photosynthetic organisms A method of enhancing inorganic carbon fixation by a photosynthetic organism. The method is effected by transforming cells of the photosynthetic organism with an expressible polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having a bicarbonate transporter activity. ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6300543 | Transformation of zygote, egg or sperm cells and recovery of transformed plants from isolated embryo sacs Methodology is provided for the production of uniformly transformed plants capable of transmitting a foreign gene to progeny by sexual reproduction. A foreign gene is introduced into the zygote in an isolated embryo sac and a transformed plant is recovere... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6100446 | Microorganisms and plasmids for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)monooxygenase formation and process for the production of these plasmids and strains The disclosure relates to the production and the use, by genetic engineering, of plasmids and bacterial strains containing, on a short, precisely characterizable DNA segment, the gene tfdA or a gene almost identical to tfdA. The novel plasmids and microor... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5977441 | Control of plant gene expression A method for making a genetically modified plant comprising regenerating a whole plant from a plant cell that has been transfected with DNA sequences comprising a first gene whose expression results in an altered plant phenotype linked to a transiently ac... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5965791 | Vector for introducing a gene into a plant, and methods for producing transgenic plants and multitudinously introducing genes into a plant using the vector A vector for introducing a desired gene into a planet, which comprises the desired gene and at least one morphological abnormally induction (MAI) gene as a marker gene, or which comprises the desired gene, at least one MAI gene and a removable element. A ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5874265 | Methods and compositions for the production of stably transformed fertile monocot plants and cells thereof This invention relates to a method for the production of stable, genetically transformed cereal plants, other than maize or rice, that comprise an exogenous DNA expressing phosphinothricin acetyl transferase to impart resistance to phosphinothricin in sai... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5850014 | Nucleotide sequences mediating ferility and method of using same Fertility in a plant is controlled by inactivating a gene critical to fertility, and inserting into the plant the critical gene linked to an inducible promoter.... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5749169 | Use of the indeterminate gametophyte gene for maize improvement A methodology for ascertaining gene function entails selection of mutations in androgenetic haploids which are produced by fertilizing a maize plant carrying the indeterminate gametophyte gene (ig) with pollen obtained from a mutagenized plant. Genes that... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5527695 | Controlled modification of eukaryotic genomes DNA constructs are provided for the creation of transgenic eukaryotic cells. These DNA constructs allow a more precise and effective transformation procedure by enabling the targeting of DNA sequences for insertion into a particular DNA locus, while enabl... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5482852 | Biologically safe plant transformation system This invention relates to methods for producing transgenic plants that contain a gene of interest and that are free of foreign ancillary nucleic acids. These methods allow for the production of plants which thus contain a desired gene, but which are free ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5149645 | Process for introducing foreign DNA into the genome of plants Process for introducing foreign DNA into the genome of plants by infecting plants or explantates thereof or plant protoplasts or by incubating plant protoplasts with Agrobacterium, in which Agrobacteria are used, which contain one or more T-regions and a ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5013658 | Transposon tagging of genes in transformed plants This invention relates to improved methods for transposon tagging as a route to plant gene isolation. The specific improvements comprise efficient means for preselecting plants which have undergone transposition. Through use of this preselection, it is po... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4732856 | Transposable elements and process for using same Transposable elements isolated from maize and a process for using the same to identify and isolate genes and to insert desired gene sequences into plants in a heritable manner.... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4727219 | Genic male-sterile maize using a linked marker gene A method is disclosed for efficiently using genic male-sterile maize in hybrid seed production which allows economical maintenance of male-sterile stocks. This method enhances a natural linkage between a selected male-sterile gene and a marker gene condit... | 02/23/1988 |
