Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
800289000 | The polynucleotide confers resistance to heat or cold (e.g., chilling, etc.) | 81 |
20080216195 | Drought and high light tolerant transgenic plants - Transformed plants and/or plant cells having increased tolerance to high light, drought, water-deficit, and/or other stress-inducing conditions are provided. Plants and plant cells expressing or over-expressing an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide involved in a CET pathway, including but not limited to, a PGR5 polypeptide, and methods of making the transformed plants and plant cells are also provided. | 09-04-2008 |
20080216196 | Environmental stress-responsive promoter and a gene encoding environmental stress-responsive transcriptional factor - The present invention provides a method of regulating expression of a gene by (a) preparing a recombinant plant cell line, plant tissue or plant with an expression vector having an abiotic environmental stress-responsive promoter of SEQ ID NO: 27 and the gene downstream thereof; and (b) culturing and cultivating the recombinant plant cell, plant tissue or plant under an abiotic environmental stress, wherein the promoter regulates the expression of the gene under the abiotic environmental stress. | 09-04-2008 |
20080282430 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PLANTS - The invention provides compositions and methods useful for producing plant cells or plants with altered tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity. | 11-13-2008 |
20080301839 | Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits - This invention provides recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. Also provided by this invention is transgenic seed for growing a transgenic plant having recombinant DNA in its genome and exhibiting an enhance agronomic trait, i.e. enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, increased yield, enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced tolerance to cold stress and/or improved seed compositions. Also disclosed are methods for identifying such transgenic plants by screening for nitrogen use efficiency, yield, water use efficiency, growth under cold stress, and seed composition changes. This invention also discloses a method of identifying the target genes of a transcription factor. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301840 | Conferring biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in 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, tolerance low nitrogen, cold and water deficit conditions, and resistance to disease, as compared to wild-type or other control plants. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301841 | Plants with improved yield and stress tolerance - Polynucleotides incorporated into expression vectors 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 greater size, greater organ size, greater biomass, greater yield, curlier leaves, darker coloration, greater tolerance to water deprivation, delayed flowering, delayed development, delayed senescence, greater tolerance to cold, and/or greater tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant. | 12-04-2008 |
20090031451 | GTP Binding Stress-Related Proteins and Methods of use in Plants - A transgenic plant transformed by a GTP Binding Stress-Related Protein (GBSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated GBSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding GBSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. | 01-29-2009 |
20090044297 | Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits - This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits | 02-12-2009 |
20090049573 | Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits - This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits. | 02-19-2009 |
20090089898 | Methods of increasing abiotic stress tolerance and/or biomass in plants and plants generated thereby - Polynucleotide sequences and methods of utilizing same for increasing the tolerance of a plant to abiotic stresses and/or increasing the biomass, vigor and/or yield of a plant are provide | 04-02-2009 |
20090089899 | Method for Enhancing Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants by Active AREB1 - Provided are: active AREB1 capable of improving plant tolerance against environmental stresses such as drought, salt, and low temperature through expression at high levels in plant bodies; and a method for improving plant environmental stress tolerance using the active AREB1. Also provided is an active environmental stress responsive transcription factor AREB1 gene lacking the activation control region of the plant environmental stress responsive transcription factor AREB1 and containing an N-terminal transcriptional activation domain and a DNA binding domain. | 04-02-2009 |
20090144859 | GTP Binding Stress-Related Proteins and Methods of Use in Plants - A transgenic plant transformed by a GTP Binding Stress-Related Protein (GBSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated GBSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding GBSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. | 06-04-2009 |
20090158466 | Plants having increased tolerance to heat stress - The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means which increase the level of expression of a MYB-subgroup14 polynucleotide or a MYB68 polypeptide. The method also relates to expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a MYB-subgroup14 or a MYB68 transcriptional factor. The methods are directed to elevating the levels of a MYB-subgroup14 or a MYB68 expression, wherein a desired phenotype such as reduced flower abortion and increased yield during heat stress is observed. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences useful in such methods. | 06-18-2009 |
20090241224 | Rubisco Activase with Increased Thermostability and Methods of Use Thereof - The present invention provides thermostable polypeptides related to | 09-24-2009 |
20090265812 | Plant Gene Promoter and its Use - A method for protecting a plant from high temperature stress (HTS), comprising transforming the plant with a polynucleotide sequence. The polynucleotide sequence comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a sugar kinase under the control of an anther and/or pollen specific promoter, thereby producing a transformed plant having improved tolerance to HTS. Also disclosed is the polynucleotide sequence of the LeFRK4 promoter. | 10-22-2009 |
20100005546 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PLANTS - The invention provides compositions and methods useful for producing plant cells or plants with altered tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity. | 01-07-2010 |
20100175151 | RUBISCO ACTIVASE WITH INCREASED THERMOSTABILITY AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The present invention provides thermostable polypeptides related to | 07-08-2010 |
20100223695 | NAC Transcriptional Activators Involved in Abiotic Stress Tolerance - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions comprise novel nucleic acid sequences encoding a transcriptional activator involved in modulating gene expression in response to abiotic stress such as cold or drought. Methods for expressing the nucleic acid sequence in a plant and improving cold and/or drought tolerance of plants are also provided. | 09-02-2010 |
20100251426 | Extra-Cellular Matrix Localized Ferritin for Iron Uptake, Storage, and Stress Tolerance - The present invention relates to environmental stress responsive protein ferritin (CaFer1) of chickpea. The invention discloses identification, isolation and cloning of ECM-localized ferritin (CaFer1) of chickpea and its multifunctional role in nutrient uptake, storage and stress tolerance. Comparative proteomic analysis of the chickpea extra-cellular (ECM) was performed to identify novel components of dehydration stress signaling. In addition, the present invention relates a method for producing environmental stress tolerant transgenic plants over-expressing the said CaFer1 gene. The present invention further provides dehydration stress tolerant transgenic plants overexpressing dehydration-responsive extra cellular matrix (ECM) protein ferritin (CaFer1). | 09-30-2010 |
20100251427 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING PLANTS WITH IMPROVED STRESS TOLERANCE - The invention provides compositions and methods useful for producing plant cells or plants with altered tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity. | 09-30-2010 |
20100319088 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES, POLYPEPTIDES ENCODED THEREBY, AND METHODS OF USING SAME FOR INCREASING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE AND/OR BIOMASS AND/OR YIELD IN PLANTS EXPRESSING SAME - Provided are methods of increasing tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increasing biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant. The methods are effected by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:201, 207, 212, 202-206, 208-211, 213-391, 1655, 961-1529, and 1660-1663. Also provided are polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, polypeptides and transgenic plants expressing same which can be used to increase tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increase biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant. | 12-16-2010 |
20110055977 | Enhancement of Reproductive Heat Tolerance in Plants - The reproductive heat tolerance of plants may be enhanced by transformation with chimeric construct comprising a nucleic acid coding sequence encoding a heat shock protein operatively linked to a promoter which is effective for expression in mature pollen of the plant. Although mature pollen of plants do not normally express heat shock proteins, plants transformed with this construct express and accumulate the heat shock protein even in pollen which is mature. The mature pollen of the transformed plants exhibits significantly increased tolerance to elevated temperature stress. | 03-03-2011 |
20110107461 | CLONING OF NOVEL GENE SEQUENCES EXPRESSED AND REPRESSED DURING WINTER DORMANCY IN THE APICAL BUDS OF TEA - The present invention relates to cloning of novel gene sequences expressed and repressed during winter dormancy in the apical buds of | 05-05-2011 |
20110119790 | Gene Participating in Low Temperature Germinability in Rice and Utilization of the Same - The present invention provides a gene participating in the low temperature germinability in rice and utilization of the same, and the invention relates to a gene for a low temperature germinability which is an isolated qLTG-3-1 gene from the rice line Italica Livorno, has low temperature germinability and has the base sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; an amino acid sequence encoded by the gene; a transgenic plant transformed with the gene for the low temperature germinability to improve the low temperature germinability; a method of analyzing low temperature germinability, including analyzing the low temperature germinability of a cultivar by comparing the base sequence of the gene for the low temperature germinability with the genotype of the cultivar; a method of improving the low temperature germinability of rice, including transforming the gene for the low temperature germinability into a rice cultivar to improve the low temperature germinability of the cultivar under low temperature conditions; and a method of analyzing the low temperature germinability of a rice cultivar by utilizing the expression of the gene for the low temperature germinability. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119791 | ISOLATED POLYPEPTIDES, POLYNUCLEOTIDES USEFUL FOR MODIFYING WATER USER EFFICIENCY, FERTILIZER USE EFFICIENCY, BIOTIC/ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE, YIELD AND BIOMASS IN PLANTS - Polynucleotides, polypeptides, plant cells expressing same and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance water use efficiency (WUE), fertilizer use efficiency (FUE), biomass, vigor and/or yield of a plant. The method is effected by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:33, 34, 30, 27-29, 31, 32, 35-52, 1401-1403, 1405-1435, 1437-1494, 1496-1542, 1544-1553, 1555-1559, 1561-1827, 1829-1866, 1868-2450, 2453-2458, 2460-2463, 2465-2481, 2483, 2485-2746, 2765-2769, 3052-3065 and 3067-3259, thereby increasing the water use efficiency (WUE), the fertilizer use efficiency (FUE), the biomass, the vigor and/or the yield of the plant. | 05-19-2011 |
20110126322 | Plant having resistance to low-temperature stress and method of production thereof. - The present invention relates to a method of production of plants having improved resistance to low-temperature stress, comprising a stage of conversion of the cells of a plant with a sequence of exogenous arginine decarboxylase gene ADC1 under control of a promoter capable of functioning in the plant. Plants thus obtained show resistance to low-temperature stress without the phenotype being affected when compared with the phenotype of plants of the wild type. | 05-26-2011 |
20110126323 | METHODS OF INCREASING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE AND/OR BIOMASS IN PLANTS AND PLANTS GENERATED THEREBY - Isolated polynucleotides having a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162-204, 206-211, 214-287 and/or encoding polypeptides having an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13-56, 58-63, 66-121, 141-156 or 157 are provided. Also provided are methods of utilizing same for increasing the tolerance of a plant to abiotic stresses and/or increasing the biomass, vigor and/or yield of a plant. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131681 | Increased Stress Tolerance, Yield, and Quality via Glutaredoxin Overexpression - Oxygenic photosynthesis is the major site of production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Under high temperature stress, increased ROS damage the photosynthetic machinery, membranes and proteins of plants. The present invention is directed to methods for increasing the stress tolerance of plants by expressing PvGrx5 in the plants. | 06-02-2011 |
20110167519 | HEAT STABLE VARIANTS OF PLANT ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE SMALL SUBUNIT - The subject invention concerns polynucleotides encoding a small subunit of plant AGP having one or more mutations in the amino acid sequence wherein the mutation confers increased heat stability to the expressed AGP enzyme. Mutations in the N-terminus of the small subunit of heat labile plant AGP results in AGP enzymes that are significantly more heat stable compared to wild type AGP in that the mutant AGP retains significant levels of enzymatic activity following exposure to heat treatment. In one embodiment, the polynucleotide encodes a mutant small subunit of maize AGP. The subject invention also concerns methods for providing a plant with increased resistance to heat conditions. Plants with heat labile AGP can be transformed with a polynucleotide of the present invention. The subject invention also concerns these transformed plants and transgenic progeny thereof. The subject invention also concerns mutant polypeptides encoded by polynucleotides of the present invention. | 07-07-2011 |
20110185452 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING PLANTS - The invention provides an isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide with the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a variant thereof, wherein the variant is a polypeptide capable of modulating in a plant at least one of: i) biomass, ii) seed yield, and III) tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity. The invention also provides, construct, vectors, host cells, plant cells and plants genetically modified to comprise the polynucleotide. The invention also provides methods for producing and selecting plants that are altered for at least one of: i) biomass, ii) seed yield, and iii) tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity, making use of the polynucleotides of the invention. | 07-28-2011 |
20110197316 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED ABIOTIC STRESS RESISTANCE AND BIOMASS PRODUCTION - The present invention provides methods and compositions for producing transgenic plants having enhanced tolerance to biotic and/or abiotic stress and/or enhanced biomass production resulting from the expression of exogenous nucleotide sequences encoding SUMO E3 ligase or an active fragment thereof. | 08-11-2011 |
20110209250 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANT IMPROVEMENT - The invention provides an isolated polynucleotide comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a variant thereof, wherein the variant encodes a polypeptide capable of modulating in a plant tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity. The invention also provides construct, vectors, host cells, plant cells and plants genetically modified to comprise the polynucleotide. The invention also provides methods for producing and selecting plants that are tolerant to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity, making use of the polynucleotides of the invention. | 08-25-2011 |
20110258740 | GENES, PROTEINS AND VECTORS FOR INCREASING TOLERANCE OF PLANTS AND MICROBES TO ABIOTIC STRESSES AND THE USE THEREOF - A new gene, the recombinant expression vector containing the gene, the polypeptide encoded by the gene and the use thereof are provided. The gene can effectively increase tolerance of plants and microbes to abiotic stresses, such as drought, acid-alkaline, saline-alkaline and heat. The methods for producing transgenic plants and microbes are also provided. The methods are simple and effective. The transgenic plants and microbes exhibit enhanced tolerance to environmental stresses. | 10-20-2011 |
20110302674 | Methods and Compositions for the Improvement of Plant Tolerance to Environmental Stresses - The invention provides methods, polynucleotides and polypeptides useful for producing or selecting plants with increased tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity. The invention also provides constructs, cells, plant cells and plants comprising the polynucleotides of the invention. The invention also provides plants produced by the methods of the invention. The invention also provides groups of plants selected by the methods of the invention. | 12-08-2011 |
20120005783 | ICE RECRYSTALLISATION INHIBITION PROTEIN OR ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS FROM DESCHAMPSIA, AND FESTUCA SPECIES OF GRASS - The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in plants. More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for ice recrystallisation inhibition proteins (IRIPs) in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of plant response to freezing and/or low temperature stress. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in | 01-05-2012 |
20120005784 | PLANT TOLERANCE TO LOW WATER, LOW NITROGEN AND COLD II - 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 floral organ retention, increased cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, altered carbon-nitrogen balance sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, and/or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant. | 01-05-2012 |
20120036597 | Cold-Tolerant Plants - Disclosed are chill- or cold-tolerant plants and methods of making the plants. Also disclosed are methods for identifying a plant that is tolerant to chill. | 02-09-2012 |
20120060236 | AUXIN RECEPTORS - The invention is directed to isolated polynucleotide and polypeptides of the PsAFB2 and PsAFB6 genes from | 03-08-2012 |
20120060237 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING THERMOTOLERANCE OF PLANT AND GENETIC ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS THEREOF - A method for providing thermotolerance of a plant and the genetic engineering applications thereof are disclosed. DNA fragment containing a gene encoded EXPORTIN1A is transferred into a plant cell to provide or enhance thermotolerance of the plant. The method can be applied in genetic engineering to select transgenic plant. | 03-08-2012 |
20120110698 | Expression of Transcription Regulators that Provide Heat Tolerance - The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means to increase expression level of a bHLH subgroup 1b gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased heat tolerance relative to a wild type control plant following heat stress results in reduced flower abortion and increased yield. Included are plants produced by said methods. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences and constructs useful such methods and methods of generating and isolating plants having increased expression of a bHLH subgroup 1b expression or activity. | 05-03-2012 |
20120222169 | ISOLATED POLYPEPTIDES, POLYNUCLEOTIDES USEFUL FOR MODIFYING WATER USER EFFICIENCY, FERTILIZER USE EFFICIENCY, BIOTIC/ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE, YIELD AND BIOMASS IN PLANTS - Polynucleotides, polypeptides, plant cells expressing same and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance water use efficiency (WUE), fertilizer use efficiency (FUE), biomass, vigor and/or yield of a plant. The method is effected by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:33, 34, 30, 27-29, 31, 32, 35-52, 1401-1403, 1405-1435, 1437-1494, 1496-1542, 1544-1553, 1555-1559, 1561-1827, 1829-1866, 1868-2450, 2453-2458, 2460-2463, 2465-2481, 2483, 2485-2746, 2765-2769, 3052-3065 and 3067-3259, thereby increasing the water use efficiency (WUE), the fertilizer use efficiency (FUE), the biomass, the vigor and/or the yield of the plant. | 08-30-2012 |
20120227135 | PLANT HAVING ENHANCED RESISTANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS - An object of the present invention is to provide a plant having enhanced resistance to environmental stress by controlling the expression of a histone modifying enzyme in a plant. The present invention relates to a method of producing a plant having enhanced resistance to environmental stress, comprising a step of suppressing or increasing the expression of a histone deacetylase gene. | 09-06-2012 |
20120266326 | FREEZE TOLERANT EUCALYPTUS - The present disclosure relates to freeze-tolerant transgenic | 10-18-2012 |
20120272408 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING PLANTS RESISTANCE TO ABIOTIC STRESS - A method of increasing tolerance of a plant to an abiotic stress or increasing biomass, vigor or yield of a plant is disclosed. The method comprising upregulating within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide of a microRNA or a precursor thereof, wherein the microRNA is selected from the group consisting of miR-156, miR-169, miR-164, miR-159, miR-167, miR-529, miR-168, ppt-miR395, sof-miR408 | 10-25-2012 |
20130019344 | Rubisco Activase with Increased Thermostability and Methods of Use Thereof - The present invention provides thermostable polypeptides related to | 01-17-2013 |
20130031669 | PLANT TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS OF ABIOTIC STRESS II - The instant disclosure relates to plant regulatory 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 plant, including improved abiotic stress tolerance. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods to identify related sequences and is also disclosed. | 01-31-2013 |
20130055470 | GENES ENCODING PROTEINS ABLE TO ENHANCE HEAT RESISTANCE OF PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS AND USES THEREOF - Genes encoding proteins able to enhance heat resistance of plants and microorganisms, proteins encoded by the same and uses thereof are provided, wherein the genes contain nucleotide sequences encoding the following peptide fragments: N′-CRICQE X | 02-28-2013 |
20130117889 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE, POLYPEPTIDE SEQUENCES AND METHODS THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to identifying and characterizing polynucleotide sequences encoding proteins more particularly from | 05-09-2013 |
20130133110 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS INVOLVED IN ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions comprise novel polypeptides involved in modulating gene expression in response to abiotic stress such as cold or drought, and the polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Methods for expressing the polynucleotides in a plant and improving cold and/or drought tolerance of plants are also provided. | 05-23-2013 |
20130133111 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF USE OF MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE - Methods and compositions for modulating plant response, development and yield under varying environmental conditions are provided. Methods employing MAPKKK are provided. The MAPKKK sequences are used in a variety of methods including modulating root development, modulating leaf and/or shoot development, modulating tolerance under abiotic stress and modulating yield. Transformed plants, plant cell, tissues, seed and expression vectors are also provided. | 05-23-2013 |
20130167265 | ISOLATED POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES, AND METHODS OF USING SAME FOR INCREASING NITROGEN USE EFFICIENCY, YIELD, GROWTH RATE, VIGOR, BIOMASS, OIL CONTENT, AND/OR ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE - 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: 277, 1-276, 278-469 and 785-2397; 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: 482, 470-481, 483-784 and 2398-3818. Also provided are transgenic cells and plants expressing same and methods of using same for increasing nitrogen use efficiency, yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, and/or abiotic stress tolerance of a plant. | 06-27-2013 |
20130174298 | DROUGHT AND HEAT TOLERANCE IN PLANTS - Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185826 | MATERIALS, SYSTEMS, ORGANISMS, AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE, INCREASING BIOMASS, AND/OR ALTERING LIGNIN COMPOSITION - The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to materials, systems, organisms, and methods for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance (e.g., cold, salinity, drought, wind), increasing biomass, and/or altering lignin composition in plants. For example, enhancing abiotic stress tolerance may be achieved using a plant-specific family of transcription factors is APETALA2 (AP2), that includes c-repeat binding factor (e.g., CBF1, CBF3) and AP37 nucleic acids and/or polypeptides. In some embodiments, increasing biomass may be achieved by altering expression of gibberellin oxidases (e.g., GA3ox3/GA2ox4) nucleic acids and/or polypeptides. Altering lignin composition may be achieved by suppression of stem-thickening in pith (e.g., STP1) nucleic acids and/or polypeptides. | 07-18-2013 |
20130198906 | NUCLEIC ACID CONSTRUCT FOR INCREASING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE IN PLANTS - Provided are nucleic acid constructs which comprise a polynucleotide encoding adenosine phosphate-isopentenyltransferase (IPT) operably linked to a stress-related promoter. Also provided are host cells transformed with the nucleic acid constructs, transgenic plants expressing the IPT coding sequence under the transcriptional regulation of a stress-related promoter and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance of a plant, and biomass of plants under stress or normal conditions. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198907 | Protein for Use in Modifying Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Yeast - A method is presented for selecting and isolating nucleic acids capable of conferring tolerance or resistance to environmental stress conditions in plants or yeast. Furthermore, nucleic acids, the proteins they encode and their use for the production of plants or yeast with enhanced environmental stress resistance is disclosed. | 08-01-2013 |
20130219561 | STRESS TOLERANT PLANTS AND METHODS THEREOF - The present invention provides a method and DNA molecules that when expressed in a plant produces transgenic plants with improved abiotic stress tolerance. The invention includes plant expression vectors comprising the DNA molecules, and plants containing such DNA molecules. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219562 | ISOLATED POLYPEPTIDES, POLYNUCLEOTIDES USEFUL FOR MODIFYING WATER USER EFFICIENCY, FERTILIZER USE EFFICIENCY, BIOTIC/ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE, YIELD AND BIOMASS IN PLANTS - Polynucleotides, polypeptides, plant cells expressing same and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance water use efficiency (WUE), fertilizer use efficiency (FUE), biomass, vigor and/or yield of a plant. The method is effected by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:33, 34, 30, 27-29, 31, 32, 35-52, 1401-1403, 1405-1435, 1437-1494, 1496-1542, 1544-1553, 1555-1559, 1561-1827, 1829-1866, 1868-2450, 2453-2458, 2460-2463, 2465-2481, 2483, 2485-2746, 2765-2769, 3052-3065 and 3067-3259, thereby increasing the water use efficiency (WUE), the fertilizer use efficiency (FUE), the biomass, the vigor and/or the yield of the plant. | 08-22-2013 |
20130239255 | METHODS OF INCREASING ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE AND/OR BIOMASS IN PLANTS AND PLANTS GENERATED THEREBY - Provided are methods of increasing the tolerance of a plant to abiotic stresses and/or increasing the biomass and/or increasing the yield of a plant by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide homologous to SEQ ID NO:13. | 09-12-2013 |
20130269063 | DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING MATE-EFFLUX POLYPEPTIDES - 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 recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a MATE-efflux polypeptide. | 10-10-2013 |
20140075598 | ICE RECRYSTALLISATION INHIBITION PROTEIN OR ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS FROM DESCHAMPSIA, AND FESTUCA SPECIES OF GRASS - The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in plants. More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for ice recrystallisation inhibition proteins (IRIPs) in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of plant response to freezing and/or low temperature stress. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in | 03-13-2014 |
20140143907 | GENE IMPLICATED IN ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE AND GROWTH ACCELERATING AND USE THEREOF - The present invention provides a method for improving the tolerance of a plant to an abiotic stress and a method for promoting growing of a plant, comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the AtSRP ( | 05-22-2014 |
20140143908 | METHODS OF INCREASING YIELD AND STRESS TOLERANCE IN A PLANT - The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and regards various polynucleotides, polypeptides and methods that may be employed to enhance yield in transgenic plants. Specifically the transgenic plants may exhibit any one of the traits consisting of increased yield, increased tolerance to abiotic stress, increased cell growth and increased nutrient use efficiency. | 05-22-2014 |
20140165228 | IDENTIFICATION OF DIURNAL RHYTHMS IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC AND NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC TISSUES FROM ZEA MAYS AND USE IN IMPROVING CROP PLANTS - The present disclosure provides polynucleotide sequences relating to the diurnal cycling in maize leaf and ear tissues. The disclosure provides polynucleotide sequences and the use of encoded polypeptides associated with the oscillation. The disclosed sequences are responsible for controlling plant growth, source-sink relationships and yield in crop plants. | 06-12-2014 |
20140245493 | USE OF PLANT-DERIVED DHAR OR MDHAR GENE AS A MODULATOR FOR CROP YIELD AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS - The present invention relates to a method for increasing crop yield or enhancing resistance of a plant to environmental stress by using dhar (dehydroascorbate reductase) gene derived from rice ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140325706 | PLANTS WITH INCREASED YIELD - The present invention provides a method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising increasing or generating one or more activities in a plant or a part thereof. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids enhancing or improving one or more traits of a transgenic plant, and cells, progenies, seeds and pollen derived from such plants or parts, as well as methods of making and methods of using such plant cell(s) or plant(s), progenies, seed(s) or pollen. Particularly, the improved trait(s) are manifested in an increased yield, preferably by improving one or more yield-related trait(s), e.g. low temperature tolerance. | 10-30-2014 |
20140345000 | METHODS OF MODULATING STOMATA CONDUCTANCE AND PLANT EXPRESSION CONSTRUCTS FOR EXECUTING SAME - Plant expression construct are provided. According to an embodiment, the plant expression construct comprises a nucleic acid sequence encoding a hexokinase under a transcriptional control of a guard cell-specific cis-acting regulatory element. Also provided are methods of using the constructs and transgenic plants, plant cells and plant parts expressing same. | 11-20-2014 |
20150121573 | ISOLATED POLYPEPTIDES, POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING SAME, TRANSGENIC PLANTS EXPRESSING SAME AND METHODS OF USING SAME - Nucleic acid constructs are provided. These constructs comprise any of the, nucleic acid sequences at least 85% identical to nucleotide sequences selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 68, 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 30, 32, 37, 42, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 64, 69, 70, 73, 77, 78, 79, 80, 84, 86, 87, 93, 94, 98, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 and 109 and a promoter sequence capable of directing transcription of said nucleic acid sequence in a host cell. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing these nucleic acid constructs and methods of using same. | 04-30-2015 |
20150128304 | Plant Body Showing Improved Resistance Against Environmental Stress and Method for Producing Same - [Problem] To impart an improved resistance against environmental stress to a plant body without inducing a delay in the growth or dwarfing of the plant body. [Solution] The present invention clarifies for the first time that | 05-07-2015 |
20150135365 | PLANTS HAVING ONE OR MORE ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants is provided. More specifically, a method for enhancing one or more yield-related traits in plants is provided, by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a POI (protein of interest) polypeptide. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a POI polypeptide, the plants having one or more enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants Unknown POI-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same that useful in performing the methods of the invention are further provided. | 05-14-2015 |
20150361441 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits And A Method For Making The Same - The present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a CLC-like (Chloride Channel-like) polypeptide, an OsBURP-like (BURP-domain containing protein) polypeptide, an AP2/ERF polypeptide, or a protein fusion comprising a TPS (trehalose-6-phosphate synthase) and a TPP (trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase) polypeptide, or modulating one or more nucleic acids encoding a TPS and a TPP enzyme, whether comprised in the same or in separate molecules. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a CLC-like polypeptide, an OsBURP-like polypeptide, an AP2/ERF polypeptide, or a TPP polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. Also provided are unknown TPS-encoding and TPP-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, and constructs a CLC-like, OsBURP-like, or AP2/ERF coding nucleic acid useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 12-17-2015 |
20150376642 | Transgenic Plant With Increased Stress Tolerance and Yield - Polynucleotides are disclosed which are capable of enhancing growth, yield under water-limited conditions, and/or increased tolerance to an environmental stress of a plant transformed to contain such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods of using such polynucleotides and transgenic plants and agricultural products, including seeds, containing such polynucleotides as transgenes. | 12-31-2015 |
20150376720 | METHODS AND MEANS FOR DETERMINING AND CONFERRING STRESS TOLERANCE IN PLANTS - The current invention provides a method for rapid testing of stress tolerance in a plant and a method of producing plants with enhanced stress tolerance, in particular cold and/or drought tolerance. Such a method may be applied in breeding and selection programs for this trait, or for determining the timing of induction of stress and cold tolerance or hardening of a plant, for instance for agricultural purposes. The current invention exploits a difference in the temperature and light regimen induced transcriptional regulation of several types of dehydrins, in order to determine a ratio of dehydrin types that is indicative of cold and/or drought tolerance, induction of hardening and dormancy in a plant. | 12-31-2015 |
20160010109 | ENHANCED ADAPTATION OF CORN | 01-14-2016 |
20160032313 | METHODS OF INCREASING RESISTANCE OF CROP PLANTS TO HEAT STRESS AND SELECTING CROP PLANTS WITH INCREASED RESISTANCE TO HEAT STRESS - Methods of increasing the resistance of a crop plant to heat stress and in particular methods of improving the grain yield and quality of crop plants grown under heat stress in the form of increased minimal temperatures are provided. The methods include selecting plants with increased expression of HYR and growing these plants in regions expected to experience minimal temperatures above 25° C. during the growing season. Methods of screening plants for increased resistance to heat stress and methods of producing grain in regions having minimal temperatures of 25° C. or more are also provided. | 02-04-2016 |
20160046956 | MUTANT GIBBERELLIN 2-OXIDASE GENES AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to mutant gibberellin 2-oxidase (GA2ox) genes and uses thereof. In particular, the effective mutations disclosed herein can reduce GA2ox enzymatic activity to different extents, leading to various degrees of GA deficient yet beneficial agronomic traits in transgenic plants. | 02-18-2016 |
20160122778 | STRESS TOLERANT PLANTS AND METHODS THEREOF - The present invention provides a method and DNA molecules that when expressed in a plant produces transgenic plants with improved abiotic stress tolerance. The invention includes plant expression vectors comprising the DNA molecules, and plants containing such DNA molecules. | 05-05-2016 |
20160152996 | PLANT HEAT-RESISTANCE GENE JAZ5A AND USE THEREOF | 06-02-2016 |
20160160231 | USE OF POLYPEPTIDES AND NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR IMPROVING PLANT GROWTH, STRESS TOLERANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY - Transgenic plants that over-express a Big Grain 2 (BG2) gene and methods of using such for improving the growth, productivity, or stress tolerance of a plant. | 06-09-2016 |
20160201077 | PLANTS WITH INCREASED TOLERANCE AND/OR RESISTANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND INCREASED BIOMASS PRODUCTION | 07-14-2016 |
20160251674 | ICE RECRYSTALLISATION INHIBITION PROTEIN OR ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS FROM DESCHAMPSIA, AND FESTUCA SPECIES OF GRASS | 09-01-2016 |
20170233754 | MATERIALS AND METHODS TO INCREASE PLANT GROWTH AND YIELD | 08-17-2017 |