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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183436 | Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183435 | Pasture, forage and seed production technology through pod and leaf retention on annuals of the genus (annual medics) The present invention relates to improved cultivars, varieties, lines or plants of annual medics (Medicago genus) wherein the majority of seed pods, upon reaching maturity, remain attached to their respective pedicels. In particular, the present invention rel... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8173869 | Plants expressing environmental stress tolerances having petunia CBF genes therein The present invention provides a method of controlling a plant's tolerance to environmental stress and to a transgenic plant having the desired characteristics. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168864 | Transgenic pollen expressing exogenous plant vacuolar pyrophosphatase and methods for increasing seed production in plants Methods are provided for imparting desirable phenotypic traits to transgenic plants, among them being increased tolerance to external stresses such as drought, freezing temperatures, high salt conditions, and the like. In addition, the present invention is directed ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168865 | 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... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8158858 | Soybean promoters and flower-preferred expression thereof in transgenic plants The promoters of a soybean lipid transfer protein LTP1 and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158859 | Drought tolerant plants and related constructs and methods involving gene encoding ferrochelatases Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153863 | Transgenic plants expressing and having increased nitrogen assimilation capacity Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants comprise a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1, operably linked to a plant-specific promote, wherein the CCA1, GLK... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8138393 | Production of high tryptophan maize by chloroplast targeted expression of anthranilate synthase Novel expression vectors and constructs encoding a chloroplast transit peptide (CTP) operably linked to a monomeric anthranilate synthase are provided. Additionally, novel polynucleotide sequences encoding monomeric anthranilate synthases are provided. Also provided... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8124844 | Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants and uses thereof for plant improvement Polynucleotides useful for improvement of plants are provided. In particular, polynucleotide sequences are provided from plant sources. Polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotide sequences are also provided. The disclosed polynucleotides and polypeptides find use in... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115062 | Transgenic plants expressing recombinant barley alanine aminotransferase Transgenic plants containing recombinant barley alanine aminotransferase are described. Also provided are methods for generating transgenic plants containing recombinant barley alanine aminotransferase. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106259 | Compositions and methods for plant genetic modification Mixed duplex oligonucleotides (MDON) are used to effect site-specific genetic alterations in a target DNA sequence of a plant. The MDON are introduced by electroporation into microspores. Thereafter, plants having a desired genetic alteration are produced by germina... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8071844 | Cultivated momordica species and extract thereof A plant grown from seeds derived from a new interhybrid of three plants of the Momordica genus has been cultivated. The new plant hybrid has a faster growth rate than the parent species. Parts of the new interhybrid plant which, when ingested by an individual... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8071845 | Automated seed sampler and methods of sampling, testing and bulking seeds A population of seeds wherein substantially all of the seeds in the population have a portion of seed tissue removed by an automated sampling system. Substantially all of the seeds in the population have the presence or absence of at least one transgene in common, a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8058515 | Plant cells and plants overexpressing vacuolar proton pyrophosphatases The present invention relates to a transgenic plant, comprising one or more plant cells transformed with exogenous nucleic acid which increases expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant. Also encompassed by the present invention are transgenic progeny and ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8053639 | Hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein promoter The present invention provides transgenic plants transformed with novel DNA constructs comprising promoter sequences useful for driving the expression of heterologous DNA sequences. Such promoter sequences include promoters hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein promoters... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049068 | Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby for enhancing plant drought tolerance Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood). ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044265 | Gene promotors which can be used in plants The present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences which have a transcriptional promoter activity preferentially in the phloem of plants under conditions of stress, or in the roots, to derived sequences, to constructs containing such sequences, and also to cell... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8039689 | Plant farnesyltransferases This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a farnesyltransferase subunit. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the farnesyltransferase subunit, in sense or antisense orientation, whe... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8030545 | Modification of plant lignin content DNA constructs comprising a first DNA segment that corresponds to at least a portion of a gene in the monolignol biosynthetic pathway, a spacer DNA segment, and a second DNA segment that is complementary to the first DNA segment can be used to reduce or modulate the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030546 | Biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plants Transcription factor polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs, including expression vectors, have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these constructs have been show... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026412 | Soybean MTH1 promoter and its use in constitutive expression of transgenic genes in plants The promoter of a soybean metallothionein protein (MTH1) and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described. ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022271 | Polyubiquitin Rubi3 promoter and 5' regulatory sequences The present invention provides novel expression control elements and methods for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence of interest in plants. Isolated nucleic acids, expression cassettes and vectors comprising the expression control elements are provided. Al... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022272 | Expression cassettes for transgenic expression of nucleic acids The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors, which contain vegetable constitutive promoters and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences preferably selection markers in organisms, prefe... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022274 | Plant tolerance to low water, low nitrogen and cold Polynucleotides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer earlier flowering, longer flora... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022273 | Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood). ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022275 | Maize promoter active in silk and pericarp tissues The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleot... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8003852 | Transgenic plants overexpressing a plant vacuolar pyrophosphatase Transgenic plants are described which are engineered to overexpress vacuolar H+-PPase. Plants such as tobacco and petunia transformed with A. Thaliana AVP-1 are shown to have increased meristematic activity resulting in larger leaves, stem, flower,... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7985891 | 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... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7973216 | Compositions and methods for modulating pigment production in plants This invention relates to polynucleotides encoding novel transcription factors and to the encoded transcription factors, that are capable of regulating anthocyanin production in plants. The invention also relates to constructs and vectors comprising the polynucleoti... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7968768 | Generation of plants with improved drought tolerance The present invention is directed to plants that display a drought tolerance phenotype due to altered expression of a DR05 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a drought tolerance phenotype. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7956242 | Plant quality traits The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, inclu... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7943822 | Polynucleotides encoding proteins involved in plant metabolism The invention provides isolated pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase levels in plants. The invention further provides re... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939719 | Spinach line SSB66-1092M The invention provides seed and plants of the spinach line designated SSB66-1092M. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach line SSB66-1092M, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing a plant of spinach l... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939717 | Spinach line SSB66-1083F The invention provides seed and plants of the spinach line designated SSB66-1083F. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach line SSB66-1083F, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing a plant of spinach l... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939718 | Spinach line OMB66-1101M The invention provides seed and plants of the spinach line designated OMB66-1101M. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach line OMB66-1101M, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing a plant of spinach l... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939716 | PUFA polyketide synthase systems and uses thereof Disclosed are the complete polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) polyketide synthase (PKS) systems from the bacterial microorganisms Shewanella japonica and Shewanella olleyana, and biologically active fragments and homologues thereof. More particularly, t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939720 | Spinach line SMB66-1114F The invention provides seed and plants of the spinach line designated SMB66-1114F. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach line SMB66-1114F, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing a plant of spinach l... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7935867 | Spinach line SSB66-1087F The invention provides seed and plants of the spinach line designated SSB66-1087F. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach line SSB66-1087F, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing a plant of spinach l... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935865 | Spinach line SMB66-1082F The invention provides seed and plants of the spinach line designated SMB66-1082F. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach line SMB66-1082F, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing a plant of spinach l... | 05/03/2011 |
