01st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 80 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130007911 | ENGINEERING MALE STERILITY OR NON-TRANSGENIC POLLEN - The present invention relates to methods of blocking or reducing genetically modified plant (GMO) pollen flow using a “non-lethal” approach. In this aspect, at least one transgenic polynucleotide of interest is linked to a pollen-ablation construct as described herein. The pollen-ablation construct contains a polynucleotide encoding a restriction enzyme that renders the transgenic pollen unable to fertilize a sexually compatible ovule. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007912 | 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 recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007913 | BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS INPUT-OUTPUT RESPONSE SYSTEM AND PLANT SENTINELS - A eukaryotic input circuit: computationally designed receptors, synthetic eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, and a synthetic signal sensitive promoter that allow highly specific transcriptional induction in response to an externally provided ligand is disclosed. The input circuit is able to specifically bind a targeted substance and transmit a signal to the nucleus where transcription of a gene is activated. An output circuit serves as a simple readout system of the substance detected by the input circuit. The readout circuit exemplified here is a degreening circuit which causes plants to turn white. Activation of the degreening circuit can be detected by eye, or remotely with a variety of machines (hand-held, aircraft or satellite based) and is also resettable. When linked the input circuit if operably linked to the output circuit, produces a functional plant detector. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007914 | Rice Promoters - The invention provides several promoters isolated from | 2013-01-03 |
20130007915 | PLANT WITH ENHANCED GROWTH AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - This invention provides a method for producing a plant with enhanced or suppressed growth through introduction of a mutated gene and a plant including such a mutated gene. This invention provides a method for producing a plant with enhanced growth or suppressed growth. Such method includes a step of introducing a gene encoding a chimeric myosin protein into a host plant so as to transform the host plant, wherein the chimeric myosin protein comprises: a neck domain, a coiled-coil domain, and a globular tail domain from a myosin protein involved in cytoplasmic streaming of a donor plant; and a motor domain from a myosin protein other than the myosin protein of the host plant, which has sliding velocity that is higher or lower, respectively, than that of the myosin protein involved in cytoplasmic streaming of the donor plant. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007916 | MODULATION OF LOW CARBON DIOXIDE INDUCIBLE PROTEINS (LCI) FOR INCREASED BIOMASS PRODUCTION AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS - The invention provides the disclosure of a novel plant/algae/cyanobacteria photosynthesis, biomass production, and productivity pathway involving low carbon dioxide inducible (LCI) proteins. According to the invention, the activity of one or more LCI proteins may be modulated to increase the same under conditions where such proteins are typically repressed. According to the invention, modulation of LCI protein activity was able to increase biomass production by as much as 80% under elevated CO | 2013-01-03 |
20130007917 | USE OF SILK NUMBER ASSAY TO SCREEN FOR GENES ENHANCING CORN YIELD - The invention provides a rapid and efficient method and assay for monitoring yield enhancement in a plant using a measure of silk number. The plant is transformed with a prospective gene associated with yield enhancement. The transformed plant is grown along with non-transformed control plants until silk growth is apparent. The change in the number of silks in the transformed plant correlated to the change in yield for the plant. Therefore, changes in yield enhancement can be estimated in the transformed plant prior to harvest of mature plant tissues. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007918 | SUNN HEMP CULTIVARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SEED WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES - Sunn hemp plants capable of flowering and producing seed when grown in the continental United States are provided. Two plant varieties capable of flowering and producing seed when grown in the continental United States, named AU Golden and AU Durbin, are described herein. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007919 | INTEIN-MODIFIED ENZYMES, THEIR PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS - Intein modified proteins, isolated nucleic acids encoding intein modified proteins, fragments of intein modified proteins, isolated nucleic acids encoding fragments of intein modified proteins, transgenic plants containing any of the foregoing, and antibodies recognizing epitopes on intein modified proteins are provided | 2013-01-03 |
20130007920 | STOMATA-INCREASING AGENT, POLYPEPTIDE, METHOD FOR INCREASING NUMBER AND/OR DENSITY OF STOMATA IN PLANT, AND METHOD FOR INCREASING YIELD OF PLANT - A stomata-increasing agent containing a compound capable of increasing the number and/or density of stomata in a plant, a polypeptide containing the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 or a variant thereof, a method for increasing the number and/or density of stomata in a plant and a method for increasing the yield of a plant are provided. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007921 | Manufactured Seed Having a Treated End Seal Assembly - The present disclosure includes a manufactured seed comprising a seed shell and a restraint disposed within the seed shell. The seed shell is a structure having an open end and a closed end. A primary end seal is disposed on the open end of the seed shell. A secondary end seal is arranged on the primary end seal, the secondary end seal being coated, at least partially, with a paraffin oil. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007922 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING PLANT MORPHOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY - The present invention provides methods and compositions for increasing seed size and/or weight, embryo size and/or weight, and cotyledon size and/or weight. The methods comprise expression of a cytokinin oxidase or expression of another protein that reduces the level of active cytokinins in plants or plant parts. Methods and compositions for increasing seed yield are also provided. The invention also relates to isolated plant cytokinin oxidase proteins, nucleic acid sequences encoding cytokinin oxidase proteins as well as to vectors, host cells, transgenic cells and plants comprising such sequences. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007923 | USE OF Cry1Da IN COMBINATION WITH Cry1Ca FOR MANAGEMENT OF RESISTANT INSECTS - The subject invention includes methods and plants for controlling fall armyworm lepidopteran insects, said plants comprising a Cry1Da insecticidal protein and a Cry1Ca insecticidal protein, and various combinations of other proteins comprising this pair of proteins, to delay or prevent development of resistance by the insects. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007924 | INSECTCIDAL PROTEIN COMBINATIONS COMPRISING Cry1AB AND CRY2AA FOR CONTROLLING EUROPEAN CORN BORER, AND METHODS FOR INSECT RESISTANCE MANAGEMENT - The subject invention relates in part to stacking a Cry IAb protein and a Cry2Aa protein to make plants (particularly corn or maize) more durable and less prone to allowing insects to develop that are resistant to the activity of either of these two toxins. These stacks can be used to specifically target European cornborer. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007925 | RESISTANCE TO PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN LETTUCE - Provided is a method for screening a population of plants for the presence therein of individuals that show a reduced susceptibility to ethylene and physiological disorders, in particular Russet Spotting and Yellowing, as compared to a control plant, wherein a population of seeds is germinated in darkness and in the presence of ethylene to obtain seedlings that, when having a longer hypocotyl as compared to the original ethylene-sensitive control under ethylene, are selected as plants showing a reduced susceptibility to ethylene and physiological disorders, in particular Russet Spotting or Yellowing. Also provided are plants thus selected. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007926 | ADMINISTRATION OF PLANT EXPRESSED ORAL TOLERANCE AGENTS - Protein replacement therapy for patients with hemophilia or other inherited protein deficiencies is often complicated by pathogenic antibody responses, including antibodies that neutralize the therapeutic protein or that predispose to potentially life-threatening anaphylactic reactions by formation of IgE. Using murine hemophilia B as a model, we have developed a prophylactic protocol against such responses that is non-invasive and does not include immune suppression or genetic manipulation of the patient's cells. Oral delivery of coagulation factor IX (F. IX) expressed in chloroplasts, bioencapsulated in plant cells, effectively blocked formation of inhibitory antibodies in protein replacement therapy. Inhibitor titers were mostly undetectable and up to 100-fold lower in treated mice when compared to controls. Moreover, this treatment eliminated fatal anaphylactic reactions that occurred after 4 to 6 exposures to intravenous F. IX protein. While only 20-25% of control animals survived after 6-8 F. IX doses, 90-95% of tolerized mice survived 12 injections without signs of allergy or anaphylaxis. This high-responder strain of hemophilia B mice represents the first hemophilic animal model to study anaphylactic reactions. The plant material was effective over a range of oral antigen doses (equivalent to 5-80 μg recombinant F.IX/kg), and controlled inhibitor formation and anaphylaxis long-term, up to 7 months. Oral antigen administration caused a deviant immune response that suppressed formation of IgE and inhibitory antibodies. This cost-effective and efficient approach to oral delivery of protein antigens to the gut should be applicable to several genetic diseases that are prone to pathogenic antibody responses during treatment. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007927 | NOVEL CENTROMERES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - The invention is generally related to compositions and methods related to novel centromere sequences identified in cotton, and resulting recombinant DNA constructs, such as minichromosomes, made using such sequences. Minichromosomes with novel compositions and structures can be used, for example, to transform plant cells that are in turn used to generate minichromosome-harboring plants. The invention is directed to products of such plants, including oil and textiles. The invention is also directed to novel methods for identifying centromere sequences. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007928 | METHOD OF PRODUCTION OF RECOMBINANT SUCROSE SYNTHASE, USE THEREOF IN THE MANUFACTURE OF KITS FOR DETERMINATION OF SUCROSE, PRODUCTION OF ADPGLUCOSE AND PRODUCTION OF TRANSGENIC PLANTS WHOSE LEAVES AND STORAGE ORGANS ACCUMULATE HIGH CONTENTS OF ADPGLUCOSE AND STARCH - A transgenic plant that overexpresses sucrose synthase. The transgenic plant has a genetic construct that encodes a sucrose synthase peptide. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007929 | Frequency Measuring and Control Apparatus with Integrated Parallel Synchronized Oscillators - A frequency measuring and control apparatus includes a plurality of synchronized oscillators integrated in parallel into one programmable logic device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007930 | Shrub rose plant names 'Sprolem' - A new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant is provided which forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive semi-double bright yellow cuplike blossoms having a red blotch at the center. The vegetation is strong and the growth habit is bushy. Attractive ornamental glossy dark green foliage is formed. Above average disease resistance to blackspot for the type is exhibited. Additionally, the new variety is particularly well suited for growing as distinctive ornamentation in the landscape. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007931 | Shrub rose plant named 'Sprolempink' - A new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant is provided which forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive semi-double pink blossoms having a blotch of burgundy coloration at the center. The vegetation is strong and the growth habit is compact and bushy. Attractive ornamental glossy dark green foliage is formed. Above average resistance to blackspot for the type is exhibited. Additionally, the new variety is particularly well suited for growing as distinctive ornamentation in the landscape. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007932 | Floribunda Rose Plant Named 'Bagstream' - A new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant is provided which forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive double bright orange blended with yellow blossoms. The vegetation is vigorous and the growth habit is compact and bushy. Attractive ornamental semi-glossy dark green foliage is formed. Good disease resistance to blackspot is exhibited. The new variety is well suited for growing as distinctive ornamentation in smaller gardens and along walkways. The new plant is particularly well suited for growing in West Coast, U.S.A., climates. | 2013-01-03 |
20130007933 | Lagerstroemia plant named 'Plum Magic' - A new and distinct cultivar of | 2013-01-03 |
20130007934 | Variety of calathea plant named 'PRINCESS JESSIE' - A new and distinct cultivar of | 2013-01-03 |