12th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 77 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150082476 | QTL Responsible for Tomato Fruit Firmness - This invention relates to QTL responsible for significantly increased firmness in tomato fruit in the cultivated plant producing said tomato fruit, compared to fruit from a control tomato plant which does not have said genetic elements. A cultivated tomato plant producing tomato fruit with significantly increased fruit firmness and a method for detecting QTLs linked to significantly increased fruit firmness are also provided. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082477 | Tomato Plants that Exhibit Resistance to Botrytis cinerea - The present invention relates to tomato plants that exhibit resistance to | 2015-03-19 |
20150082478 | PLANT GENOME MODIFICATION USING GUIDE RNA/CAS ENDONUCLEASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - Compositions and methods are provided for genome modification of a target sequence in the genome of a plant or plant cell. The methods and compositions employ a guide RNA/Cas endonuclease system to provide an effective system for modifying or altering target sites within the genome of a plant, plant cell or seed. Also provided are compositions and methods employing a guide polynucleotide/Cas endonuclease system for genome modification of a nucleotide sequence in the genome of a cell or organism, for gene editing, and/or for inserting or deleting a polynucleotide of interest into or from the genome of a cell or organism. Once a genomic target site is identified, a variety of methods can be employed to further modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest. Breeding methods and methods for selecting plants utilizing a two component RNA guide and Cas endonuclease system are also disclosed. Compositions and methods are also provided for editing a nucleotide sequence in the genome of a cell. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082479 | CHEMICAL SELECTION OF RESISTANT GAMETES OF PLANTS IN THE FIELD - The present invention provides methods for chemical selection of female gametes that do not contain a transgene of interest in plants. The methods result is increased efficiency of a breeding program to provide increased trait purity by ensuring that inbreds and plants are homozygous for a transgene of interest. Herbicides such as glyphosate can be used as the chemical gametocide to selectively eliminate female gametes that do not contain the gene conferring glyphosate resistance, resulting in seed or progeny substantially homozygous for such herbicide resistance on a large scale in a single generation. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082480 | Methods to alter plant cell wall composition for improved biofuel production and silage digestibility - The disclosure provides means for altering the expression of non-cellulosic polysaccharides in plants using Golgi targeted enzyme nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present disclosure provides methods and compositions relating to altering feruloylation, acetylation and crosslinking in plants, leading to improved biomass available for biofuel production and silage digestibility. The disclosure further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082481 | Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with transcription in 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 production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082482 | Bronze Bug Control Agents - The present invention relates to the field of RNA-mediated gene silencing in insect species. The present invention is based, in part, on the inventors' sequencing of genes from | 2015-03-19 |
20150082483 | SPINACH PLANTS THAT ARE RESISTANT TO DOWNY MILDEW - The present invention relates to the field of spinach breeding, in particular to a new dominant resistance gene, designated RPF11, which confers resistance against races 7 to 14 of | 2015-03-19 |
20150082484 | PROTECTION AGAINST HERBIVORES - The present invention relates to genes, proteins and methods comprising molecules that alter amino acid levels. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to altering guanidino substrate hydrolysis activities in plants, arthropods and microorganisms using molecules within the arginase family and other molecules that alter an amino acid levels. In ones embodiment, the present invention relates to altering threonine substrate deamination and dehydration activities in plants, arthropods and microorganisms using molecules within the threonine deaminase family and other molecules that alter amino acid levels. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to using genes, proteins and methods comprising arginase or threonine deaminase for altering the pathophysiology of plants, arthropods and microorganisms. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to altering guanidino substrate hydrolysis activity in plants, arthropods, and microorganisms using arginase. In another preferred embodiment, the invention relates to altering threonine substrated deamination and dehydration activity in plants, arthropods, and microorganisms using threonine deaminase. In some embodiments, the invention related to overexpression and increased activity of arginase, threonine deaminase and a proteinase inhibitor. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082485 | POTYVIRUS RESISTANCE IN POTATO - The present invention is drawn to novel genes from wild plants, such as wild potato and pepper plants, that confer potyvirus resistance to plants, such as in transformed cultivated plants. Also encompassed are cultivated plants transformed with the novel gene, food products made from the transformed cultivated plants, and methods for making such plants and food products. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082486 | ISOLATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES, AND METHODS OF USING SAME FOR INCREASING YIELD OF PLANTS - Provided are isolated polynucleotides and nucleic acid constructs which comprise a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to a nucleic acid sequence selected form the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 1-219, 367-5628, 9688-9700, and 9709-9752; and isolated polypeptides which comprise an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 220-366, 5629-9400, 9701-9708, and 9753-9796. Also provided are transgenic cells and plants expressing same and methods of using same for increasing yield, growth rate, biomass, vigor, oil content, seed yield, fiber yield, fiber quality, nitrogen use efficiency, and/or abiotic stress of a plant. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082487 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES, POLYPEPTIDES ENCODED THEREBY, AND METHODS OF USING SAME FOR INCREASING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE, BIOMASS AND/OR YIELD IN PLANTS EXPRESSING SAME - Provided are isolated polynucleotides comprising a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO:619, 617, 606, 615, 629, 1-36, 40, 41, 43-45, 49, 52-56, 58, 113-343, 351, 354-358, 605, 607-614, 616, 618, 620-628, 630-638, 642, 645, 650, 651, 670, or 671. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs comprising same, isolated polypeptides encoded thereby, transgenic cells and transgenic plants comprising same and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance, yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082488 | ISOLATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING A MAP65 POLYPEPTIDE AND METHODS OF USING SAME FOR INCREASING PLANT YIELD - Provided are methods of increasing yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, and/or abiotic stress tolerance of a plant by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 27 or 868; or an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 132 (MAP65 from | 2015-03-19 |
20150082489 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES FOR INCREASING DESIRABLE PLANT QUALITIES - Polynucleotides and isolated polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs comprising the isolated polynucleotides, transgenic plants expressing same and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance, yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant are disclosed. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082490 | Glycaspis Brimblecombei Control Agents - The present invention relates to the field of RNA-mediated gene silencing in insect species. The present invention is based, in part, on the inventors' sequencing of genes from eucalyptus invasive species Gb pest, | 2015-03-19 |
20150082491 | Genetic reduction of male fertility in plants - Genetic male sterile plants are provided in which complementing constructs result in suppression of a parental phenotype in the progeny. Methods to generate and maintain such plants and methods of use of said plants, are provided, including use of parental plants to produce sterile plants for hybrid seed production. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082492 | PLANTS HAVING ONE OR MORE ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a flavodoxin polypeptide in a specific way is provided and unknown constructs useful in performing the method are provided. Plants having the expression of a nucleic acid encoding a flavodoxin polypeptide modulated by a particular type of promoter, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants, are also provided. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082493 | GH61 Polypeptide Variants and Polynucleotides Encoding Same - The present invention relates to GH61 polypeptide variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082494 | Cell Modified in the Expression of a Nucleotide Sugar Transporter - The present invention provides for a genetically modified eukaryotic host cell comprising (a) a gene encoding a first nucleotide sugar transporter (NST) operably linked to a promoter, wherein the gene and/or the promoter is heterologous to the cell, and/or (b) a native gene encoding a second NTS is disrupted and/or a promoter of the native gene is disrupted. Such modified cells can be altered in the production of polysaccharide and/or glycopeptides. The present invention also provides for methods of making or using such modified cells. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082495 | RNAi FOR THE CONTROL OF FUNGI AND OOMYCETES BY INHIBITING SACCHAROPINE DEHYDROGENASE GENE - The present invention relates to control of plant pathogens, particularly fungi or oomycetes, by inhibiting one or more biological functions, particularly by inhibiting saccharopine dehydrogenase gene(s) using RNA interference. The invention provides methods and compositions using RNA interference of plant pathogens target genes for such control. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants tolerant to said plant pathogens, and to transgenic plants and seeds generated thereof. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082496 | RICE GENE, GS3, EXERTING PRIMARY CONTROL OVER GRAIN LENGTH AND GRAIN WEIGHT - The present invention relates to an isolated major gene GS3 which regulates grain weight and grain length in the rice and the cloning of said gene. The DNA sequence of GS3 gene is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1 and is 7883 bp in length. GS3 gene comprises 5 exons and encodes 232 amino acids. It is predicted based on bioinformatics analysis that said protein contains conserved domains including a PEBP-like domain, a transmembrane domain, a cysteine-rich domain of TNFR/NGFR and a VWFC domain. cDNA sequence of said gene is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 2. By sequence alignment between three large grain species and 3 small grain species of rice, it is revealed there is only one common single nucleotide mutation in a 7.9-kb region between the two different grain-length groups. Said nucleotide mutation is located at the second exon of the GS3 gene, in which a cysteine codon (TGC) in the small-grain group is mutated to a termination codon (TGA) in the large-grain group. This mutation causes a premature termination in the large-grain group which leads to a 178-amino acids truncation (including part of the PEBP-like domain and all the other three conserved domains). The present invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants comprising sequences disclosed herein. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082497 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUBSTANTIALLY ISOLATING PLANT TISSUES - The present invention provides methods and devices for the rapid isolation of monocot plant embryos suitable for transformation or tissue culture. The invention includes mechanical devices for substantially isolating plant embryos for use as transformable explants. Media suitable for isolating plant embryos and methods for their preparation are also provided. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082498 | SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE WITH IMPROVED FEATURE LOCATION CAPABILITIES - An SPM assembly includes an SPM and a wide field image acquisition device that can be used to rapidly locate a region of interest and position that region within a SPM scan range of 100 microns or less. The wide field image acquisition device may include a low resolution camera having wide field of view in excess of 12 mm, and a high magnification camera having a field of view in the single mm range. Alternatively, a single camera could be used if it has sufficient zoom capability to have functionalities commensurate with both cameras. Collocation preferably is employed to coordinate translation between the low magnification and high magnification cameras (if separate cameras are used) and between the high magnification camera and the SPM. | 2015-03-19 |
20150082499 | Apple tree named 'Pink Chief' - A new and distinct apple tree ( | 2015-03-19 |
20150082500 | Achillea plant named 'NOVAACHDUS' - A new and distinct | 2015-03-19 |
20150082501 | Vanda plant named SPCDW1318 - ‘SPCDW1318’ is a distinctive variety of | 2015-03-19 |
20150082502 | Cosmos plant named 'HAMCOEC' - A new cultivar of | 2015-03-19 |