45th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 71 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130298283 | Production of Plants with Improved Tolerance to Water Deficit - The present invention relates to a method for increasing the tolerance of a plant to water deficit, which method comprises the overexpression in said plant of a FatA TE (acyl-ACP thioesterase) protein. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298284 | PLASTIDIC PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE GENES - An isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a plastidic phosphoglucomutase protein is disclosed. Also disclosed is the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a substantial portion of the plastidic phosphoglucomutase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the plastidic phosphoglucomutase in a transformed host cell. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298285 | DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING miR827 - 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 miR827 microRNA. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298286 | Reverse Breeding - The present invention relates to a method for efficiently producing homozygous organisms from a heterozygous non-human starting organism, comprising providing of a heterozygous starting organism; allowing the starting organism to produce haploid cells; creating homozygous organisms from the haploid cells thus obtained; and selecting the organisms having the desired set of chromosomes; wherein during production of the haploid cells no recombination occurs in order to obtain a limited number of genetically different haploid cells. Recombination can also be prevented or suppressed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298287 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same - The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, 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 Harpin-associated Factor G polypeptide (hereinafter termed HpaG”). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an HpaG polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising HpaG-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention. The present invention also provides a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants relative to control plants, by modulating (preferably increasing) expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a SWITCH 2/SUCROSE NON-FERMENTING 2 (SWI2/SNF2) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a SWI2/SNF2 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298288 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and Method for Making the Same - The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, 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 HAB1 (Hypersensitive to ABA1) polypeptide or a KELP polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a HAB1 polypeptide or a KELP polypeptide, which have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown HAB1-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising HAB1 or KELP-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298289 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same - The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and discloses a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention discloses a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a CYP704-like (Cytochrome P450 family 704) polypeptide, a DUF1218 polypeptide, a translin-like polypeptide, or an ERG28-like polypeptide. The present invention also discloses plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a CYP704-like (Cytochrome P450 family 704) polypeptide, a DUF1218 polypeptide, a translin-like polypeptide, or an ERG28-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown DUF1218 polypeptide-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298290 | PLANT IRRIGATION METHODS WITH 1-MCP - The present invention is directed to novel methods of increasing the abiotic environmental stress tolerance of a plant, to methods of improving the quality and/or yield of a plant crop, to methods of application of a cyclopropene such as 1-MCP to a plant, and to crops produced using said methods. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298291 | Cyanoenamines and Their use as Fungicides - The present invention relates to cyanoenamine derivatives, their process of preparation, intermediate compounds, their use as fungicide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi, notably of plants and in material protection, using these compounds or compositions. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298292 | PEPPER PLANT - The present invention generally relates to seedless pepper (SLP); and more specifically, it pertains to male sterile pepper plants having unique characteristics including the capability of growing edible seedless fruits, wherein the “seedless” trait is controlled by a genetic determinant independent of exogenous factors. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298293 | Broccoli type having curds with detached florets - The present invention includes broccoli plants with curds having detached florets and methods for obtaining such broccoli plants. The present invention also provides reagents that can be used in methods for obtaining such broccoli plants. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298294 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGING SOFT MATERIALS - A method of measuring properties of a sample, the method comprising: measuring a deflection of a cantilever of a COIFM; measuring a voltage at an actuator contacting the cantilever and configured to counteract the deflection of the cantilever; measuring a voltage at a scan signal source, wherein the scan signal source is communicably coupled to the piezotube and configured to move the piezotube along an X- and a Y-axis; measuring a voltage at a feedback controller, wherein the feedback controller is communicably coupled to the piezotube and configured to move the piezotube along a Z-axis; switching a switch from a first position to a second position; switching the switch to a third position; correlating at least one of the measurements to (i) a repulsive force, and (ii) an attractive force. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298295 | NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL PROBE MANUFACTURING USING ORGANO-MINERAL MATERIAL AND SOL-GEL PROCESS - A method is provided for manufacturing near-field optical probes including at least one organo-mineral material with an organic part and a mineral part, the method including steps of irradiating at least partially the organo-mineral material with a radiation beam to polymerize the organic part in the irradiated areas, and polycondensing the mineral part by sol-gel process. Also disclosed are near-field optical probes and AFM and SNOM systems using the probes. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298296 | Blueberry plant named 'ZF08-095' - The new blueberry plant variety ‘ZF08-095’ is provided. ‘ZF08-095’ is an ornamental variety intended for nursery, landscape, and home garden use. The variety is a semi-dwarf with a round shape and shiny dark green leaves that turn shades of red, purple and yellow in the fall. ‘ZF08-095’ has attractive fruit that ripens from red to black in mid to late July, and has a mild, sweet flavor. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298297 | PHK 6 cornus kousa 'Pam's Mountain Bouquet' - A new and distinct cultivar of flowering dogwood, which has fused bracts is provided. This dogwood is botanically known as | 2013-11-07 |
20130298298 | Beech mushroom plant named "FINC-1" - A new and distinct variety of mushroom plant of beech mushroom, | 2013-11-07 |