Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100093619 | Insect Inhibition by Plant Serpin - The present invention relates to a method to limit damage by insects and mites in plants, by the use of endogenous plant proteinase inhibitors. More specifically, it relates to the use of serpins comprising an arginine residue in their reactive center loop, like | 04-15-2010 |
20100132071 | 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 yield-related traits and/or improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP (Growth Regulating Protein). The GRP is selected from a LOB-domain comprising protein (LOB: Lateral Organ Boundaries), herein abbreviated as LBD polypeptide, a JMJC (JUMONJI-C) polypeptide, a CKI (Casein Kinase I) polypeptide, a bHLH11-like (basic Helix-Loop-Helix 11) protein, a plant homeodomain finger-homeodomain (PHDf-HD) polypeptide, an ASR (abscisic acid-, stress-, and ripening-induced) polypeptide and/or a Squamosa promoter binding protein-like 1 1 (SPL11) transcription factor polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides novel GRP nucleic acids and GRP polypeptides as well as constructs useful in the methods of the invention. | 05-27-2010 |
20110107464 | 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 plant yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a RHL1 (Root Hairless 1). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a RHL1, which plants have enhanced various plant yield-related relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. | 05-05-2011 |
20110209241 | 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 improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a PRE-like (Paclobutrazol REsistance) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PRE-like polypeptide, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. In another embodiment, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an SCE1 (SUMO Conjugating Enzyme 1). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an SCE1, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown SCE1-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. In yet another embodiment, M the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield related-traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a YEF1 (Yield Enhancing Factor 1). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a YEF1, which plants have enhanced yield related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. In yet another embodiment, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a subgroup III glutaredoxin (Grx). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a subgroup III Grx, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. In a further embodiment, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for altering the ratio of roots to shoots in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Sister of FT protein or a homologue thereof. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a Sister of FT protein or a homologue thereof, which plants have altered root to shoot ratio relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. | 08-25-2011 |
20110214207 | 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 yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of one or more nucleic acid(s) encoding at least two iSYT (inter-actor of SYT-synovial sarcoma translocation-) polypeptides. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown nucleic acids encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Furthermore the present invention also relates to an iSYT-based protein complex. It further relates to the use of the complex to promote plant growth, and to a method for stimulating the complex formation, by overexpressing at least two members of the complex. | 09-01-2011 |
20110283420 | 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 HSFA4 or HSFA5 (Heat Shock Factor of the class A4 or A5) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a HSFA4 or a HSFA5 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 11-17-2011 |
20110321197 | Plants with Increased Yield (NUE) - A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities selected from the group consisting of 17.6 kDa class I heat shock protein, 26.5 kDa class I small heat shock protein, 26S protease subunit, 2-Cys peroxiredoxin, 3-dehydroquinate synthase, 5-keto-D-gluconate-5-reductase, asparagine synthetase A, aspartate 1-decar-boxylase precursor, ATP-dependent RNA helicase, B0567-protein, B1088-protein, B1289-protein, B2940-protein, calnexin homolog, CDS5399-protein, chromatin structure-remodeling complex protein, D-amino acid dehydrogenase, D-arabinono-1,4-lac-tone oxidase, Delta 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase, glycine cleavage complex lipoylprotein, ketodeoxygluconokinase, lipoyl synthase, low-molecular-weight heat-shock protein, Microsomal cytochrome b reductase, mitochondrial ribosomal protein, mitotic check point protein, monodehydroascorbate reductase, paraquat-inducible protein B, phosphatase, Phosphoglucosamine mutase, protein disaggregation chaperone, protein kinase, pyruvate decarboxylase, recA family protein, rhodanese-related sulfurtransferase, ribonuclease P protein component, ribosome modulation factor, sensory histidine kinase, serine hydroxymethyltransferase, SLL1280-protein, SLL1797-protein, small membrane lipoprotein, Small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein complex subunit, Sulfatase, transcription initiation factor subunit, tretraspanin, tRNA ligase, xyloglucan galactosyltransferase, YKL130C-protein, YLR443W-protein, YML096W-protein, and zinc finger family protein-activity. | 12-29-2011 |
20120227134 | Plants with Increased Yield - A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities of a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase, 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase, 3′-phosphoadenosine 5′-phosphate phosphatase, 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol kinase, 5OS chloroplast ribosomal protein L21, 57972199. R01.1-protein, 60952769. R01.1-protein, 60S ribosomal protein, ABC transporter family protein, AP2 domain-containing transcription factor, argonaute protein, AT1 G29250.1-protein, AT1 G53885-protein, AT2G35300-protein, AT3G04620-protein, AT4G01870-protein, AT5G42380-protein, AT5G47440-protein, CDS5394-protein, CDS5401_TRUNCATED-protein, cold response protein, cullin, Cytochrome P450, delta-8 sphingolipid desaturase, galactinol synthase, glutathione-S-transferase, GTPase, haspin-related protein, heat shock protein, heat shock transcription factor, histone H2B, jasmonate-zim-domain protein, mitochondrial asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase, Oligosaccharyltransferase, OS02G44730-protein, Oxygen-evolving enhancer protein, peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase, peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase family protein, plastid lipid-associated protein, Polypyrimidine tract binding protein, PRLI-interacting factor, protein kinase, protein kinase family protein, rubisco subunit binding-protein beta subunit, serine acetyltransferase, serine hydroxymethyltransferase, small heat shock protein, S-ribosylhomocysteinase, sugar transporter, Thioredoxin H-type, ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme, ubiquitin-protein ligase, universal stress protein family protein, and Vacuolar protein. | 09-06-2012 |
20120266327 | 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 CLC-like (Chloride Channel-like) polypeptide, or an OsBURP-like (BURP-domain containing protein) polypeptide, or 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 acid 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 acids and constructs comprising them, useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 10-18-2012 |
20130031670 | 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 Protein Of Interest (POI) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of nucleic acid encoding a POI polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. The invention also provides novel POI-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the method of the invention. | 01-31-2013 |
20130117888 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same - Nucleic acids and the encoded CER2-like polypeptides, At1g68440-like polypeptides or DEAD-box RNA helicase polypeptides are provided. A method of enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of nucleic acids encoding CER2-like polypeptides or At1g68440-like polypeptides is provided. A method of enhancing yield-related traits in plants by reducing or substantially eliminating expression of nucleic acids encoding DEAD-box RNA helicase polypeptides and/or the activity of DEAD-box RNA helicase polypeptides in said plants is provided. Plants with modulated expression of the nucleic acids encoding CER2-like polypeptides or At1g68440-like polypeptides have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. Plants with reduction or elimination of the expression of endogenous nucleic acids encoding DEAD-box RNA helicase polypeptides have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. | 05-09-2013 |
20130125264 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same - Nucleic acids and the encoded embryonic flower 2 (EMF2) polypeptides or Ubiquitin C-terminal Hydrolase 1 (UCH1-like) polypeptides are provided. A method of enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of nucleic acids encoding EMF2 polypeptides or UCH1-like polypeptides is provided. Plants with modulated expression of the nucleic acids encoding EMF2 polypeptides or UCH1-like polypeptides have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. | 05-16-2013 |
20130160165 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and Method for Making the Same - The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and to the methods for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding an OsRSZ33 RRM polypeptide or a growth-related protein (GRP) having at least 25% amino acid sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:251 or a ZPR polypeptide. The present invention also relates to plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an OsRSZ33 RRM polypeptide or a growth-related polypeptide as defined herein or a ZPR polypeptide. Such plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to controls. The invention also provides hitherto unknown OsRSZ33 RRM-encoding nucleic acids or GRP-encoding nucleic acids or a ZPR polypeptide, and constructs comprising the same, which are useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 06-20-2013 |
20140026257 | 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 WI12-like (WIL) polypeptide or a SAWADEE-like polypeptide or a POZ-like (Pox virus and Zn Finger) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a WIL polypeptide or a SAWADEE-like polypeptide or a POZ-like polypeptide, which have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown WIL-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, and hitherto unknown POZ-like encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 01-23-2014 |
20140033368 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and Producing Methods Thereof - Provided are a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a WAK-like polypeptide, or a CDKB-RKA polypeptide, or a UPA20-like polypeptide, and plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a WAK-like polypeptide, or a CDKB-RKA polypeptide, or a UPA20-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. Also provided are WAK-like-encoding nucleic acids, or CDKB-RKA-encoding nucleic acids, or UPA20-like-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods for enhancing yield-related traits in plants. | 01-30-2014 |
20140053298 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and Method for Making the Same - Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a bZIP-like polypeptide or a BCAT4-like polypeptide in a plant. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a bZIP-like polypeptide or a BCAT4-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are constructs comprising bZIP-like polypeptide-encoding nucleic acids or BCAT4-like polypeptide-encoding nucleic acids, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants. | 02-20-2014 |
20140250548 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same - Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are NEMTOP6-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants. | 09-04-2014 |
20140298545 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same - The present invention provides a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an F-box Skp2-like polypeptide, or a DUF584 polypeptide. The present invention also provides plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an F-box Skp2-like polypeptide, or a DUF584 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared to control plants. | 10-02-2014 |
20140345002 | 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 plant yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a RHL1 (root hairless 1) polypeptide, a TGase (transglutaminase) polypeptide, a TRY-like (tryptichon) polypeptide, or a BZR (brassinazole-resistant) polypeptide. Constructs useful for performing the methods, as well as plants having enhanced various plant yield-related traits thus obtained, are also provided. | 11-20-2014 |
20140352004 | PLANTS HAVING EHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP (Growth Related Protein) polypeptide is provided. Plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants, and constructs comprising the GRP-encoding nucleic acid, useful in performing the methods for enhancing yield-related traits in plants are also provided. | 11-27-2014 |
20140366222 | 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 HSFA4 or HSFA5 (Heat Shock Factor of the class A4 or A5) polypeptide, an oligopeptide transporter protein (OPT4-like) polypeptide, a plastochron2-like (PLA2-like) polypeptide, or a Wuschel related homeobox 1-like (WOX1-like) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding any of the aforementioned polypeptides, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Also provided are novel OPT4-like-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. | 12-11-2014 |
20150052637 | PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - The present invention concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PRE-like (Paclobutrazol REsistance) polypeptide. The invention further concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding an SCE1 (SUMO Conjugating Enzyme 1), a YEF1 (Yield Enhancing Factor 1), or a subgroup III glutaredoxin (Grx). The invention also concerns a method for altering the ratio of roots to shoots in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a Sister of FT protein or a homologue thereof. Plants having modulated expression of a PRE-like polypeptide, an SCE1, a YEF1, a subgroup III Grx, or Sister of FT protein and improved growth characteristics, enhanced yield-related traits, or altered root to shoot ratio relative to a corresponding wild type or control plant are also provided. Further provided are constructs useful in the methods of the invention. | 02-19-2015 |