Class 800/315 - Apple

Subclass of Class 800 - Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes
Definition: Subject matter wherein the higher plant, seedling, plant
No. of patents: 25
Last issue date: 08/28/2007

Number	Title	Issue Date
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
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
6901696	Method of plant propagation using root bark-grafting to sections A grafting method comprises the steps of, first preparing a stool by right transverse cuts through a limb or trunk, meaning that the limb or trunk of a tree or shrub is cut at essentially right angles. Root and scion stocks are grafted to the stool using the well kn...	06/07/2005
6734341	Starch synthase polynucleotides and their use in the production of new starches The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded proteins that are involved in starch biosynthesis. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions. The present invention provid...	05/11/2004
6720479	Plant retroelements and methods related thereto The present invention provides plant retroelements useful as molecular tools. In one embodiment, the present invention provides nucleic acids encoding gag, pol and/or env genes of plant retroelements. The elements can be used, among other uses, as building blocks of...	04/13/2004
6693227	Inducibile plant promoters The invention relates to a recombinant polynucleotide comprising a promoter sequence being an inducible promoter obtainable from apple. The promoter sequence is preferably activated in response to which agents are specific to ripening fruit and is most pr...	02/17/2004
6476295	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. The preferred gene is from Streptococcus mutans. Surprising...	11/05/2002
6423886	Starch synthase polynucleotides and their use in the production of new starches The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded proteins that are involved in starch biosynthesis. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions. The present inven...	07/23/2002
6297428	Method for inducing viral resistance into a plant The present invention concerns a method for inducing resistance to a virus comprising a TGB3 sequence with the proviso that it is not the potato virus X, into a plant cell or plant, comprising the following steps: preparing a nucleic acid construct compri...	10/02/2001
6235974	Hypersensitive response induced resistance in plants by seed treatment with a hypersensitive response elicitor The present invention relates to a method of imparting pathogen resistance to plants. This involves applying a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein in a non-infectious form to a plant seed under conditions where the polypeptide or prote...	05/22/2001
6222098	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. The preferred gene is from Streptococcus mutans. Surprising...	04/24/2001
6194638	Alteration of hemicellulose concentration in plants The invention provides isolated Rgp nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering RGP levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, t...	02/27/2001
6127182	Rapid recovery of shoots through thin stem slices after preconditioning of micropropagated fruit tree shoots An efficient micropropagation system for fruit-bearing trees has been developed for rapid clonal multiplication of large numbers of shoots within a short time. The micropropagation system provides for transformation and vegetative propagation of fruit-bea...	10/03/2000
6091004	Gene encoding a protein involved in the signal transduction cascade leading to systemic acquired resistance in plants The invention concerns the location and characterization of a gene (designated NIM1) that is a key component of the SAR pathway and that in connection with chemical and biological inducers enables induction of SAR gene expression and broad spectrum diseas...	07/18/2000
6087560	Transgenic fungal resistant plants expressing chitinase and glucanase, process for obtaining, and recombinant polynucleotides for uses therein Plants are provided with improved resistance against pathogenic fungi. They are genetically transformed with one or more polynucleotides which essentially comprise one or more genes encoding plant chitinases and ଲ-1,3-glucanases. Preferred are the i...	07/11/2000
6063986	Polypeptide compounds and nucleotide sequences promoting resistance to eutypa dieback in plants Polypeptide compounds and nucleotide sequences promoting resistance to eutypa dieback in plants The subject of the invention is a nucleotide sequence coding for an enzyme with eutypine reductase activity, capable of metabolizing the eutypine synthesized i...	05/16/2000
6025543	Seed plants exhibiting early reproductive development and methods of making same The present invention provides a non-naturally occurring seed plant such as a transgenic angiosperm or gymnosperm that contains an ectopically expressible nucleic acid molecule encoding a floral meristem identity gene product. The invention further provid...	02/15/2000
5986172	Rice NADH-dependent reductase, gene therefor, and use thereof The present invention relates to a rice NADH-dependent reductase gene or variant thereof, to a rice NADH-dependent reductase or analog thereof, to DNA or expression vector comprising the gene or variant thereof and capable of expressing it in microorganis...	11/16/1999
5945579	Modification of crop plant architecture to enhance yield by causing proximity-conditional dwarfing to control shade avoidance reactions Provided are trnasgenic plants comprising cells transformed or transfected with a recombinant DNA construct containing a coding sequence which encodes phytochrome A, which when expressed, causes the stimulation of phytochrome A and confers upon said plant...	08/31/1999
5929306	KYRT1, a disarmed version of a highly tumorigenic Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain identified as Chry5 Disarmed A. tumefaciencs strain KYRT1, derived from a highly tumorigenic strain identified as A. tumefaciens strain Chry5. Disarming is accomplished by inactivation of plasmid pTiChry5 T-DNA sequences by, for example, deletion of sequences comprising the ...	07/27/1999
5824861	Transgenic pomaceous fruit with fire blight resistance The present invention relates to a method of conferring resistance against fire blight to pomaceous fruit scion or rootstock cultivars by transforming such cultivars with a gene which encodes for lytic proteins. Such transformation can be effected by bact...	10/20/1998
5792920	Plants with altered ability to synthesize starch and process for obtaining them Plants, particularly cereal plants, which have altered ability to synthesise starch are produced by inserting into the genome of the plant a gene encoding an enzyme of the starch biosynthetic pathway such that capacity to produce starch is improved or red...	08/11/1998
5702933	Control of fruit ripening and senescence in plants A method for controlling the ripening of fruits and vegetables as well as a method for controlling senescence of plant tissue is described. The method generally embraces the expression of an ACC metabolizing enzyme in the fruit or other desired plant tiss...	12/30/1997
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
4516353	Method of producing vole-resistant apple trees and trees produced thereby The present invention relates to novel propagated apple trees having increased vole resistance and to methods for propagating such trees; and relates in one aspect to an apple tree having a vole-resistant rootstock and having growing thereon a desired app...	05/14/1985

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