Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
800282000 | The polynucleotide alters pigment production in the plant | 43 |
20080276331 | Enhancement of Beta-Carotene Content in Plants - The present invention relates to a nucleic acid construct having a nucleic acid molecule configured to silence β-carotene hydroxylase expression, and host cells, expression systems, plants, and plant seeds having the nucleic acid construct. The present invention also relates to a method of enhancing beta-carotene content by growing a transgenic plant from a plant or seed transformed with the construct. | 11-06-2008 |
20080276332 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE AGRONOMIC AND NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF PLANTS - The present invention provides means and methods of transforming plant cells, seeds, tissues or whole plants in order to yield transformants capable of expressing all enzymes of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway that are essential for the targeted host plant to accumulate carotenes and/or xanthophylls of interest. The present invention also provides DNA molecules designed to be suitable for carrying out the method of the invention, and plasmids or vector systems comprising said molecules. Furthermore, the present invention provides transgenic plant cells, seeds, tissues and whole plants that display an improved nutritional quality and contain such DNA molecules and/or that have been generated by use of the methods of the present invention. | 11-06-2008 |
20090100545 | Means and Methods to Modulate Flavonoid Biosynthesis in Plants and Plant Cells - The present invention provides a method for increasing the flavonoid content of plants and plant cells wherein said method comprises increasing the activity of genes implicated in the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway. The invention further relates to recombinant plant and plant cells obtainable by the process of the invention and to flavonoids made there from. | 04-16-2009 |
20090158464 | SOYBEAN PROMOTER LTP4 AND FLOWER-PREFERRED EXPRESSION THEREOF IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS - The promoter of a soybean lipid transfer protein LTP4 and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described. | 06-18-2009 |
20090288225 | Novel Aromatic Acyltransferase Genes - The present invention provides a protein having the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 or a protein having a modified amino acid sequence thereof and having an activity of transferring an aromatic acyl group to a sugar residue of a flavonoid; a gene, especially cDNA, encoding the protein; and use thereof. For example, by introducing the above gene into a plant expressing hydroxycinnamate 1-O-glucosyltransferase gene, optionally together with a cDNA encoding a protein having the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 14, 16 or 18 or a protein having an amino acid sequence derived therefrom by modification and having an activity of glucosylating a hydroxyl group at position 1 of hydroxycinnamic acid, and then expressing the introduced gene(s), it is possible to acylate the sugar residue of flavonoids in flowers of the plant to thereby confer a blue color on the flowers. | 11-19-2009 |
20100031393 | NOVEL PROTEIN HAVING ACYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY AND GENE ENCODING THE SAME - This invention provides a means for obtaining flowering plants with a novel flower color, and a method for producing a plant having petals with a novel flower color by use of a novel acyltransferase protein and the gene encoding the same. | 02-04-2010 |
20100083402 | Transcription Factor Sequences for Conferring Advantageous Properties to Plants - 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 compared to a reference or control plant, including increased plant size, seed size, increased leaf size, lignification, water deprivation tolerance, cold tolerance, or altered flowering time. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed. | 04-01-2010 |
20100154078 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS THAT ENHANCE TRAITS IN PLANT ORGANS - Expression of two | 06-17-2010 |
20100199384 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING YELLOW FLOWER BY CONTROLLING FLAVONOID SYNTHETIC PATHWAY - There is provided a gene coding for the amino acid sequence listed as SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 70, for example. Co-expression of the 4′CGT gene and AS gene in a plant lacking natural aurone synthesis ability is carried out to successfully accumulate aurones and alter the flower color to have a yellow tint. In addition to the expression of both genes, the flavonoid pigment synthesis pathway of the host plant itself is inhibited to obtain flowers with a more defined yellow color. | 08-05-2010 |
20100275329 | PRODUCTION OF PROVITAMIN A CAROTENOIDS IN MUSHROOMS AND USES THEREOF - Mushrooms genetically engineered to produce provitamin A carotenoids including α-carotene, β-carotene, γ-carotene, and β-cryptoxanthin are provided. In some embodiments, mushrooms are transformed with genes that encode enzymes that have phytoene synthase, pyhtoene dehydrogenase and lycopene cyclase activities and function to convert GGPP to one or more provitamin A carotenoids. Mushrooms are transformed using known methods, including | 10-28-2010 |
20100281575 | ROSE CONTAINING FLAVONE AND MALVIDIN, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention provides a rose characterized by comprising a flavone and malvidin added by a genetic modification method. The flavone and malvidin are typically produced by expression of a transferred flavone synthase gene, pansy flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase gene and anthocyanin methyltransferase gene. The flavone synthase gene is, for example a flavone synthase gene of the family Scrophulariaceae, and specifically it may be the flavone synthase gene of snapdragon of the family Scrophulariaceae, or the flavone synthase gene of | 11-04-2010 |
20100287666 | Brassica Rapa Transparent Testa Genes for Controlling Seed Colour in Brassica Species - Seed coat color is a very important trait in oilseed type | 11-11-2010 |
20100287667 | ROSE CONTAINING FLAVONE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention provides a rose characterized by comprising a flavone added by a genetic modification method. The flavone is typically produced by expression of a transferred flavone synthase gene. The flavone synthase gene is, for example, a flavone synthase gene of the family Scrophulariaceae, and specifically it may be the flavone synthase gene of snapdragon of the family Scrophulariaceae, or the flavone synthase gene of | 11-11-2010 |
20100287668 | ROSE CONTAINING FLAVONE AND DELPHINIDIN, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention provides a rose characterized by comprising a flavone and delphinidin added by a genetic modification method. The flavone and delphinidin are typically produced by expression of a transferred flavone synthase gene and flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase gene, respectively. The flavone synthase gene is, for example, a flavone synthase gene of the family Scrophulariaceae, and specifically it may be the flavone synthase gene of snapdragon of the family Scrophulariaceae, or the flavone synthase gene of torenia of the family Scrophulariaceae. The flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase gene is, for example, the pansy ( | 11-11-2010 |
20100293668 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS WITH ALTERED INFLORESCENCE - The present invention relates to genetically modified plants expressing altered inflorescence. More particularly, expression of at least two flavonoid 3′S′ hydroxylases and at least one dihydroflavonol-4-reductase is achieved, leading to the production of dephinidin pigments and altered colour phenotypes. | 11-18-2010 |
20100306877 | FLAVONOID GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE AND USE OF SAME - A novel flavonoid glucosyltransferase originating from rose, a nucleic acid encoding that enzyme, for example, a flavonoid glucosyltransferase having an amino acid sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 2 or SEQ ID NO. 4, a nucleic acid encoding that enzyme, a method for changing the color of a rose flower using that nucleic acid, and a rose plant capable of changing color, are provided. | 12-02-2010 |
20100313303 | TRANSGENIC BIOLUMINESCENT PLANTS - Transgenic plants, and a method for making the same, wherein genes encoding the enzyme luciferase and its corresponding substrate luciferin are incorporated into a native plant genome. Once transformed into plant cells, these genes may be regulated such that under certain endogenous or exogenous conditions, their expression in the mature plant results in bioluminescence. Different luciferin/luciferase complexes and/or mechanisms of regulation may be utilized for these transgenic plants, depending on a variety of factors such as plant species and the circumstances under which a bioluminescent reaction is desired. Phototransformation may be utilized to vary the wavelength of light emitted from the mature plant. | 12-09-2010 |
20110035842 | SOYBEAN PROMOTERS SC194 AND FLOWER-PREFERRED EXPRESSION THEREOF IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS - The promoters of a soybean SC194 polypeptide and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described. | 02-10-2011 |
20110055974 | MANIPULATION OF FLAVONOID BIOSYNTHESIS IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to nucleic acids and nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. More particularly, the flavonoid biosynthetic enzyme is selected from the group consisting of chalcone isomerase (CHI), chalcone synthase (CHS), chalcone reductase (CHR), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR), leucoanthocyanidin reductase (LCR), flavonoid 3′,5′ hydrolase (F3′5′H), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase (F3′H), phenylalanine ammonia-olyase (PAL) and vestitone reductase (VR), and functionally active fragments and variants thereof. | 03-03-2011 |
20110072539 | 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 polynucleotides, and to host cells, plant cells and plants transformed with the polynucleotides, constructs and vectors. The invention also relates to methods of producing plants with altered anthocyanin production and plants by the methods. | 03-24-2011 |
20110126320 | Method for producing rose with altered petal colors - A method for producing a rose characterized by artificially suppressing the rose endogenous metabolic pathway and expressing the pansy gene coding for flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase. | 05-26-2011 |
20110138499 | 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, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation. | 06-09-2011 |
20110179524 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF MOTH ORCHID HAVING MODIFIED FLOWER COLOR - To provide a method for changing the flower color of a moth orchid, particularly a method for producing a moth orchid having a red or reddish flower color from a white moth orchid. | 07-21-2011 |
20110191907 | FLAVONOID-3',5'-HYDROXYLASE GENE OF COMMELINA COMMUNIS - To provide a highly expressed F3′5′H gene, whereby a blue moth orchid can be produced and a method using the gene for producing Orchids having blue flowers. | 08-04-2011 |
20110277186 | Modification of Flavonoid Biosynthesis in Plants - The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of TRANSPARENT TESTA 12 (TT12), TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1), TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2), TRANSPARENT TESTA 8 (TT8), leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof. | 11-10-2011 |
20120073017 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANT HAVING PETALS CONTAINING MODIFIED ANTHOCYANIN - Disclosed are a method for controlling flavonoid synthesis in a | 03-22-2012 |
20120090051 | PLANTS CONTAINING A HETEROLOGOUS FLAVOHEMOGLOBIN GENE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - Plant nitrogen use efficiency in corn has been improved by transformation with a flavohemoglobin gene. Plants comprising a flavohemoglobin gene have decreased nitric oxide (NO) levels, increased biomass accumulation under a sufficient nitrogen growth condition, and increased chlorophyll content under a limiting nitrogen growth condition. Additionally, these transformed plants evidence higher levels of yield. | 04-12-2012 |
20120096589 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANT HAVING DELPHINIDIN-CONTAINING PETALS - Disclosed are: a method for producing a chrysanthemum plant having delphinidin-containing petals using a transcriptional regulatory region for a chrysanthemum-derived flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) gene; and a chrysanthemum plant, a progeny or a vegetative proliferation product of the plant, or a part or a tissue of the plant, the progeny or the vegetative proliferation product, and particularly a petal or a cut flower of the plant. In the method for producing a chrysanthemum plant having delphinidin-containing petals, a flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase (F3′5′H) is caused to be expressed in a chrysanthemum plant using a transcriptional regulatory region for a chrysanthemum-derived flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H) gene. | 04-19-2012 |
20120159669 | METHOD FOR ALTERING DEPTH OF FLOWER COLOR FOR THE LIGHTER OR DEEPER - Disclosed is a novel method for altering the depth of flower color for the lighter or deeper. Specifically disclosed is a method for altering the depth of flower color of a plant for the lighter or deeper by varying the anthocyanin content in petals of the plant, which comprises a step of regulating the expression of type IV chalcone isomerase in the plant. | 06-21-2012 |
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. | 01-03-2013 |
20130031668 | NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODULATED PLANT CHARACTERISTICS - The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides. The present invention further relates to the uses of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides. For example, the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides could be used in making enzymes or used to make plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions. | 01-31-2013 |
20130347143 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LILIES CONTAINING DELPHINIDIN IN THE PETALS THEREOF - Provided is a method for producing lilies containing a blue pigment (delphinidin) in the petals thereof by introducing a foreign gene into lilies. The method pertaining to the present invention is a method for producing lilies containing delphinidin in the petals thereof, including the following steps: introducing, into a lily, a F3′5′H gene derived from a campanula and comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a peptide having flavonoid 3′5′-hydroxylase (F3′5′H) activity, such as a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 11; while also introducing a F3′H gene fragment derived from a lily and comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a peptide having flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase activity, such as a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 3 or SEQ ID NO: 16; and inhibiting the expression of endogenous F3′H expression, which acts on cyanidin synthesis in lily petals, while the F3′5′H gene that has been introduced acts to cause the synthesis of delphinidin. | 12-26-2013 |
20140201865 | Methods for Expanding Color Palette in Dendrobium Orchids - A nucleotide sequence encoding Flavonoid 3′-hydroxylase (F3′H) of | 07-17-2014 |
20140289901 | MODULATING BETA-DAMASCENONE IN PLANTS - A mutant, non-naturally occurring or transgenic plant cell comprising: (i) a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence encoding a neoxanthin synthase and having at least 60% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID No. 6; (ii) a polypeptide encoded by the polynucleotide set forth in (i); (iii) a polypeptide having at least 66% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:2 or at least 60% sequence identity to SEQ ID No. 7; or (iv) a construct, vector or expression vector comprising the isolated polynucleotide set forth in (i), and wherein the expression or activity of the neoxanthin synthase is modulated as compared to a control or wild type plant. | 09-25-2014 |
20150052633 | MUTATION OF THE EAR MOTIF OF CLASS II HD-ZIP POLYPEPTIDES - The application describes producing polynucleotide variants of the AtHB 17 clade members and introducing the mutant variants into plants to improve plant traits. The mutant polynucleotides encode polypeptides that comprise mutations in the EAR motifs. | 02-19-2015 |
20150074855 | NOVEL CAMPANULA FLAVONOID 3',5'-HYDROXYLASE GENE AND ITS USE - There is provided a novel | 03-12-2015 |
20150074856 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED CHRYSANTHEMUMS - The present invention relates to genetically modified chrysanthemum plants expressing altered inflorescence. The chrysanthemum flavonoid pathway is manipulated to produce plants with blue or violet inflorescence. Blue delphinidin pigments are produced by the expression of flavonoid 3′5′ hydroxylase and (optionally) the suppression of flavonoid 3′ hydroxylase activity. | 03-12-2015 |
20150315551 | Method for Modifying Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Plants - Methods are provided for modifying and screening for carotenoid biosynthesis in a plant. The methods are useful for enhancing plant adaptation to climate change and food security, providing increased carotenoid content to a plant, improving stress resistance to climate changes in a plant, and for selecting plants having improved stress resistance to climate changes | 11-05-2015 |
20150322444 | ENHANCED ACCUMULATION OF CAROTENOIDS IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to polynucleotides and their use in methods of increasing the carotenoid content of seeds. In particular the invention provides a polynucleotide comprising: (a) a region which comprises as operably linked components (i) a promoter which provides for seed preferred expression; and (ii) a nucleotide sequence derived from a bacterium which sequence encodes a carotene desaturase; and (iii) a transcription termination region; and (b) a further region which comprises as operably linked components (i) a promoter which provides for seed preferred expression; and (ii) a nucleotide sequence encoding a phytoene synthase which sequence is derived from maize ( | 11-12-2015 |
20150353948 | Transcription Factor Which Regulates Flavonoid, Phenylpropanoid, Tyrosine, and Tryptophan Pathways - The invention provides plants having desirable levels of sugar release and/or lignin synthesis. The invention further provides methods of selecting plants with such desirable levels of sugar release and/or lignin synthesis; methods of genetically modifying plants to modulate lignin synthesis, sugar release, and modulating phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan and flavonoid production; and uses of such plants. | 12-10-2015 |
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