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| 20080201800 | Antifungal Plant Proteins and Methods of Their Use - DNA constructions that provide for production of potent antifungal proteins in transgenic plants and transformed yeast cells are described. Methods of using the DNA constructs to produce transgenic plants that inhibit growth of plant pathogenic fungi are also disclosed. The use of transformed yeast cells containing the DNA constructs to produce the antifungal proteins and methods of isolating the antifungal proteins are also described. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080201801 | Invertebrate MicroRNAs - This invention provides plants having resistance to invertebrate pests. More specifically, this invention discloses a non-natural transgenic plant cell expressing at least one invertebrate miRNA in planta for suppression of a target gene of an invertebrate pest or of a symbiont associated with the invertebrate pest. Also provided are recombinant DNA constructs for expression of at least one invertebrate miRNA in planta, a non-natural transgenic plant containing the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention, a non-natural transgenic plant grown from the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention, and non-natural transgenic seed produced by the non-natural transgenic plants, as well as commodity products produced from a non-natural transgenic plant cell, plant, or seed of this invention. This invention further provides a method of suppressing at least one target gene of an invertebrate pest of a plant or of a symbiont associated with the invertebrate, including providing a plant including the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention, wherein the invertebrate is the invertebrate pest, the recombinant DNA is transcribed in the non-natural transgenic plant cell to the recombinant miRNA precursor, and when the invertebrate pest ingests the recombinant miRNA precursor, the at least one target gene is suppressed. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080209589 | Soybean Cultivar S060077 - A soybean cultivar designated S060077 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S060077, to the plants of soybean S060077, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S060077 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S060077 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety S060077, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S060077 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S060077 with another soybean cultivar. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209590 | Soybean Cultivar S060293 - A soybean cultivar designated S060293 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S060293, to the plants of soybean S060293, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S060293 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S060293 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety S060293, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S060293 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S060293 with another soybean cultivar. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080216192 | Potato Cultivar FL 2086 - A potato cultivar designated FL 2086 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar FL 2086, to the seeds of potato cultivar FL 2086, to the plants of potato FL 2086, to the plant parts of potato cultivar FL 2086 and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar FL 2086 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety FL 2086, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar FL 2086 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar FL 2086 with another potato cultivar. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080229447 | Transformation of immature soybean seeds through organogenesis - The present disclosure provides methods for the transformation of soybean cells or tissue and regeneration of the soybean cells or tissue into transformed plants. The disclosed methods utilize an explant prepared from an immature soybean seedling which can be induced directly to form shoots that give rise to transgenic plants via organogenesis. The disclosed methods do not require germination and are rapid and efficient. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080229448 | Plant Stress Tolerance from Modified Ap2 Transcription Factors - The invention relates to modified 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 abiotic or biotic stress tolerance, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The modifications to the plant transcription factor sequences are responsible for producing fewer and less severe adverse morphological and developmental characteristics in plants overexpressing these sequences than would be caused by overexpressing the sequences without the modifications. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080229449 | Lepidopteran-active bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin polynucleotides, compositions, and methods of use - Disclosed are | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080235822 | NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING CHIMERIC POLYPEPTIDES ALLOWING EXPRESSION OF PLANT-NOXIOUS PROTEINS - This invention relates to nucleic acids encoding chimeric polypeptides comprising vacuole targeting sequences and plant-noxious sequences and especially pest control proteins. The polypeptides are useful in methods for targeting non-vacuolar harmful proteins to plant vacuoles. Chimeric polypeptides of the invention containing pest control proteins are useful for conferring pest resistance on plants and in the production of compositions useful as pesticides. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080235823 | ROOT ACTIVE PROMOTERS AND USES THEREOF - The present invention is directed to root active promoter sequences, polynucleotide constructs comprising the root active promoters and methods of identifying the root active promoters, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present root active promoters to modulate transcript levels. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080244791 | ROOT SPECIFIC PROMOTERS - Promoters and genes involved in avenacin production in oats are cloned, characterized and shown to be useful in root-specific expression of genes operatively linked to these promoters when introduced into plants. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080250530 | Nucleic Acids Encoding Anthelmintic Agents And Plants Made Therefrom - The present invention provides DNA constructs, transgenic plants containing such constructs, and methods of making the plants. The DNA constructs encode a polypeptide that when expressed results in the production of fatty acid compounds having anthelmintic activity. Transgenic plants expressing such a polypeptide can exhibit enhanced resistance to plant parasitic nematodes, particularly when expressed in vegetative tissues. Transgenic plants expressing such a polypeptide can also be useful for non-pesticidal industrial uses. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080250531 | ENZYMES INVOLVED IN TRITERPENE SYNTHESIS - This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding a CYP51H. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotide of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080282425 | Method for Increasing Pathogen-Resistance in Transgenic Plants by Expression of Peroxidase - The present invention relates to a method for the production of transgenic plants and/or plant cells, respectively, with increased pathogen resistance, characterized in that a DNA sequence, which encodes a protein with the activity of a peroxidase, is inserted into the plant and expressed therein. The invention at hand also relates to the use of nucleic acids encoding a peroxidase for the production of transgenic plants, or plant cells, respectively, with increased pathogen resistance. Further, the invention at hand relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding a peroxidase of barley. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080282426 | MOBILIZATION OF VIRAL GENOMES FROM T-DNA USING SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION SYSTEMS - The invention relates to methods and compositions for site-specific recombinase-mediated mobilization of viral replicons and associated DNAs of interest from T-DNA. The methods of the invention comprise | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080289064 | Cotton Cultivar DP 141 B2RF - A cotton cultivar, designated DP 141 B2RF, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar DP 141 B2RF, to the plants of cotton DP 141 B2RF and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar DP 141 B2RF with itself or another cotton variety. The invention further relates to hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar DP 141 B2RF with another cotton cultivar. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080289065 | Peptide Aptamers That Bind to the Rep Proteins of Ssdna Viruses - Polypeptides and fusion proteins that bind to eukaryotic viruses, in particular, eukaryotic single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are provided. The polypeptides and fusion proteins bind to the replication initiation proteins (Rep) of ssDNA viruses and optionally inhibit viral replication and/or viral infection. The virus can be a plant pathogen or animal pathogen. Consensus sequences used to identify polypeptides that bind to eukaryotic viruses are also provided. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080295203 | EXPRESSION OF AN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE VIA THE PLASTID GENOME TO CONTROL PHYTOPATHOGENIC BACTERIA | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080301836 | Selection of transcription factor variants - The invention relates to a method for selection of modified plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, and methods of producing transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased biotic resistance and abiotic stress tolerance, as compared to wild-type or control plants. Without modifications, the transcription factor sequences, when overexpressed in plants, often produce adverse morphological and developmental effects. The disclosed method allows selection of modifications that mitigate these adverse morphological and developmental effects. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080307544 | Method to Prime Plants in Order to Increase Their Pathogen Resistance - The invention provides a method for priming plants, thereby achieving an enhancing resistance by providing these plants with a gene construct comprising a DNA sequence coding for an RKS receptor. The resistance can then be induced by contacting said plants with the pathogen or with a signal compound. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080313776 | Soybean EF1A Promoter and Its Use in Constitutive Expression of Transgenic Genes in Plants - The promoter of a soybean translation elongation factor EF1 alpha and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090013434 | Recombinant DNA constructs and methods for controlling gene expression - The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090013435 | CLOSTERVIRUS-RESISTANT MELON PLANTS - The present invention relates to plant of the species | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090019601 | Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants and uses thereof for plant improvement - Recombinant polynucleotides useful for improvement of plants are provided. In particular, polynucleotide sequences are provided from plant sources. Polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotide sequences are also provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090019602 | MASTER ACTIVATORS OF PATHOGEN RESPONSIVE GENES - Disclosed is a complete plant MAP kinase cascade (e.g., MEKK1, MKK4/MKK5, and MPK3/MPK6) and WRKY22/WRKY29 transcription factors that function downstream of the flagellin receptor FLS2, a leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) receptor kinase. Activation of such a MAPK cascade confers resistance to both bacterial and fungal pathogens. Also disclosed are disease-resistant plants expressing one or more members of this MAP kinase signaling cascade. Such members include constitutively active MEKK1 (ΔMEKK1), MKK4 (MKK4a), and MKK5 (MKK5a) or wild-type WRKY29. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090025103 | DEFENSIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090025104 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR AN INTEGRATED DUAL SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE AND CLEAN TRANSGENIC PLANTS - The present invention provides a method of producing a transgenic hybrid plant having no or reduced sexual reproduction, the method comprising: (a) stably transforming a first plant with a first nucleic acid construct comprising: (i) a promoter, P1; (ii) a site specific recombinase, RS1; (iii) a promoter, P2; (iv) a selectable marker, SM1; (v) a promoter P3; (vi) at least one nucleotide sequence the expression of which results in no or reduced sexual reproduction, NRSR; and (vii) at least two target sites, TRS2, specific for a site specific recombinase, RS2 that is different from the site specific recombinase, RS1, and further wherein P1 is operably located upstream of RS1, P2 is operably located upstream of SM1, P3 is operably located upstream, of NRSR, a first TRS2 is located immediately downstream of P1 and a second TRS2 is located upstream of NRSR; (b) stably transforming a second plant with a second nucleic acid construct comprising: (i) a promoter, P4; (ii) a site specific recombinase, RS2, that is different from the site specific recombinase, RS1, of (a); (iii) a selectable marker, SM2; (iv) at least one nucleotide sequence of interest, NOI; (v) at least two target sites, TRS1, specific for the site specific recombinase, RS1; and (vi) at least two target sites, TRS2, specific for the site specific recombinase, RS2, and further wherein P4 is operably located upstream of SM2, RS2 is located downstream of SM2, a first TRS1 is located immediately downstream of P4, a second TRS1 is located immediately downstream of SM2, a first TRS2 is located immediately upstream of RS2 and downstream of the second TRS1, a second TRS2 is located immediately downstream of RS2 and the NOI is located immediately downstream of the second TRS2; and (c) cross-pollinating the stably transformed first plant of (a) with the stably transformed second plant of (b) to produce a transgenic hybrid plant having no or reduced sexual reproduction. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090031447 | Use of a tospoviral nucleid acid molecule for broad-spectrum transgenic resistance against different tospoviruses - A use of a tospoviral nucleic acid molecule of the sequence of nt (nucleotide) 3975-4928 in accordance with GenBank Accession No. AF133128 or a full complement thereof comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining at least one fragment made from the tospoviral nucleic acid molecule; (b) obtaining a transgene from the at least one fragment; (c) introducing the transgene into a plant to generate a transgenic plant; (d) culturing the transgenic plant; (e) selecting a transgenic plant with broad-spectrum resistance; and (f) obtaining the transgenic plant with broad-spectrum resistance. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090031448 | DEFENSIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090031449 | DEFENSIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090038031 | AXMI-028 AND AXMI-029, A FAMILY OF NOVEL DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 4, 15, 17, or 19, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 3, 14, 16, or 18, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090044296 | HRPN INTERACTORS AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules configured to increase or decrease expression of a nucleic acid molecule that encodes a HrpN-interacting protein; nucleic acid constructs that include these nucleic acid molecules; host cells, transgenic plants, and transgenic plant seeds transformed thereby; and methods of increasing plant growth or imparting disease resistance to plants. Also disclosed are an isolated HIPM nucleic acid molecule and an isolated HIPM protein or polypeptide. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090055969 | AXMI-028 AND AXMI-029, A FAMILY OF NOVEL DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 4, 15, 17, or 19, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 3, 14, 16, or 18, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090070895 | VACUOLE TARGETING PEPTIDE AND NUCLEIC ACID - The present invention relates to a plant vacuole targeting sequence X | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090070896 | INSECT RESISTANT TRANSGENIC TURF GRASS - This invention relates to transgenic turf grass having resistance to turf grass pest insects. Methods of producing such insect-resistant transgenic turf grass lines are disclosed. The invention further relates to the use of the insect-resistant transgenic turf grass to eliminate or reduce the usage of spray-on insecticides to protect the turf grass from insect damage. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090077687 | NEMATODE RESISTANT TRANSGENIC PLANTS - Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077688 | DEFENSIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077689 | DEFENSIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077690 | DEFENSIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090077691 | Root-Preferred Regulatory Elements - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a root-preferred promoter and terminator isolated from the maize MSY coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090083880 | MODIFIED PLANT DEFENSIN - The invention herein includes a general method for reducing or eliminating a toxic effect of transgenic defensin expression in a host plant. The invention also includes a method of modifying a nucleic acid encoding a defensin, a nucleic acid modified thereby and a modified defensin encoded by the modified nucleic acid sequence. The invention also includes a transgenic plant containing and expressing the modified defensin-coding nucleic acid sequence, the plant exhibiting reduced or eliminated toxic effects of defensin, compared with otherwise comparable transgenic plants expressing an unmodified defensin. The modified defensin is termed a chimeric defensin having a mature defensin domain of a first plant defensin combined with a C-terminal propeptide domain of a second plant defensin or a vacuolar translocation peptide. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090083881 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING MUTATION OF PATHOGENS EXPOSED TO TRANSGENIC PLANTS - A method for preventing mutation of pathogens or pest insects due to exposure to genetically-modified or transgenic plants, comprising: (a) introducing separately a plurality of resistance genes conferring pest and disease resistance to a given recipient plant variety or combinations of the varieties to form a plurality of transgenic plant lines each harboring different resistance genes; (b) multiplying the transgenic plant lines separately to obtain separate transgenic plant lines; and (c) mixing seeds of the separate transgenic plant lines in a specific weight ratio to form a final transgenic product. Additionally, small number of seeds of the non-transformed plants is incorporated in the transgenic plant lines according to demand. As a result, an excessive selective pressure for targeted insects and pathogens are alleviated considerably, the possibility of auto mutation of the targeted insects and pathogens will be reduced, and the application duration of transgenic crop varieties will be prolonged effectively. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090089894 | Metacaspase II in engineering soybean for disease resistance - The present invention is in the field of soybean genetics. More specifically, the invention relates to nucleic acid molecules from regions the soybean genome, which are associated with soybean | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089895 | ANTIFUNGAL POLYPEPTIDES - Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from fungal fermentation broths. Nucleic acids that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention are also disclosed. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090089896 | PLANT METABOLITE EXPORTER GENE PROMOTERS - The invention provides plant gene promoters, and essential promoter elements, which are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090094713 | Plant Regulatory Region that Directs Transgene Expression in the Maternal and Supporting Tissue of Maize Ovules and Pollinated Kernels - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a maize actin depolymerization factor 4 promoter. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090094714 | Coleopteran-Toxic Polypeptide Compositions And Insect-Resistant Transgenic Plants - Disclosed are novel insecticidal polypeptides, and compositions comprising these polypeptides, peptide fragments thereof, and antibodies specific therefor. Also disclosed are vectors, transformed host cells, and transgenic plants that contain nucleic acid segments that encode the disclosed δ-endotoxin polypeptides. Also disclosed are methods of identifying related polypeptides and polynucleotides, methods of making and using transgenic cells comprising these polynucleotide sequences, as well as methods for controlling an insect population, such as Colorado potato beetle, southern corn rootworm and western corn rootworm, and for conferring to a plant resistance to a target insect species. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090100542 | Promoter for epidermis-specific, pathogen-inducible transgenic expression in plants - The invention relates to promoter regions, under the control of which transgenes can be expressed in plants in an epidermis-specific and pathogen-inducible manner. The invention also relates to recombinant nucleic acid molecules, including said promoters, to transgenic plants and plant cells, transformed with said nucleic acid molecules and to methods for producing the same. Said invention also provides nucleic acid molecules, including a promoter according to the invention, nucleic acid sequences or transgenes, which can convey resistance to pathogens, plants and cell plants, transformed with said nucleic acid molecules and methods for producing the same. Said invention also relates to the use of the promoter region according to the invention for analyzing pathogen-induced signal transduction pathways in plant cells. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090100543 | AXMI-018, AXMI-020, AND AXMI-021, A FAMILY OF DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 4, or 6, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 3, or 5, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090100544 | Drought Tolerant Corn with Reduced Mycotoxin - Transgenic corn plants having recombinant DNA for expressing a protein or proteins that provides water-deficit tolerance have improved yield under water deficit conditions and improved fungal resistance, and exhibit lower levels of colonization by mycotoxins in grain that is harvested from plants that experience water deficit tolerance. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090106858 | Isolation and Characterization of the Csb3-1 Mutant of Arabidopsis Thaliana and Use Thereof as a Regulator of Resistance in Plants to Diseases Caused by Biotrophic Pathogens - The invention relates to the technical field of plant biotechnology and, more specifically, to the identification and characterization of the csb3-1 mutant of | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106859 | Root-Preferred Regulatory Elements - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a root-preferred promoter and terminator isolated from the maize 6PGD coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090106860 | Regulatory Elements Associated with CBF Transcription Factor of Rye - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a stress-induced promoter endogenously associated with the rye CBF31 coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to a regulatory sequence of the present invention and optionally regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090119798 | Barley Row Type Gene and Use Thereof - The present invention provides the chromosomal location and structure of a gene involved in the determination of row type and panicle morphology of barley. The present inventors have found that the row type and panicle morphology of barley can be altered by introducing the Vrs1 gene provided by the present invention into barley and regulating its expression. Furthermore, the present inventors found the possibility of enhancing the resistance of barley to | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090119799 | Maize Antimicrobial Protein Useful for Enhancing Plant Resistance to Pathogens - Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include novel amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from maize. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the embodiments are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant a DNA construct comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the embodiments, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090126042 | Polynucleotides and polypeptides involved in plant fiber development and methods of using same - Isolated polynucleotides are provided. Each of the isolated polynucleotides comprise a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 26, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 115, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124, 126, 95 or 96, wherein the polypeptide is capable of regulating cotton fiber development. Also provided are methods of using such polynucleotides for improving fiber quality and/or yield of a fiber producing plant, as well as methods of using such polynucleotides for producing plants having increased biomass/vigor/yield. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090126043 | GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH IMPROVED PATHOGEN RESISTANCE AND DROUGHT TOLERANCE - The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype due to altered expression of a PRDT1 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090126044 | SYNTHETIC GENES ENCODING CRY1AC - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions containing a synthetic nucleotide sequence encoding a Cry1Ac protein are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided, wherein the nucleotide sequences are set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090133158 | BS3 RESISTANCE GENE AND METHODS OF USE - Isolated nucleic acid molecules that confer resistance to the plant pathogen | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090133159 | SOYBEAN EF1A2 PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The promoter of a soybean translation elongation factor EF1 alpha and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090138988 | MODIFICATION OF PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE - The invention provides methods of increasing resistance to disease in a plant. Also provided are plant steroid biosynthesis enzyme coding sequences, including sequences for squalene synthase, constructs comprising these sequences, plants transformed therewith and methods of use thereof. Methods for producing a plant with increased disease resistance are also provided. In certain aspects of the invention, methods for producing plants transformed with the nucleic acids are provided, the transformed plants exhibiting improved disease resistance. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138989 | Methods and Compositions for Selecting Corn Plants Resistant to Diplodia Ear Rot - The present invention relates to the field of plant breeding and disease resistance. More specifically, the invention includes a method for breeding corn plants containing quantitative trait loci that are associated with diplodia ear rot (DER), a fungal disease associated with | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090144853 | Control of Gene Expression in Plants - Disclosed is an isolated nucleic acid molecule, which molecule comprises at least 500 bases of the nucleotide sequence shown in FIG. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144854 | Novel Bacterial Proteins with Pesticidal Activity - Provided are pesticidal, particularly insecticidal, proteins which resemble S-layer proteins, as well as variants or mutants thereof, and DNAs encoding them. Further provided are methods and means for using said DNA or protein for controlling pests, particularly plant insect pests. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144855 | Compositions and Methods Comprising Stinging Capsules/Cells For Delivering a Biologically Active Agent Into a Plant Cell - The invention relates to stinging cells or isolated capsules and to their use in compositions and methods for efficient delivery of biologically active agents into a plant cell or plant tissue. The biologically active agent to be delivered by the methods of the present invention is selected from a nucleic acid, a peptide, a polypeptide, a plant hormone, an enzyme, an herbicidal agent, an anti-viral agent, an anti-bacterial agent and an anti-fungal agent. Particularly, the invention is related to compositions and methods for the efficient transformation of polynucleotide construct into a plant cell or tissue, to obtain transgenic plants. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144856 | Methods for producing pathogen-resistant plants with allene oxide synthase and divinyl ether synthase, and the amino acid and nucleotide sequences thereof - The present invention relates to enzymes from the cytochrome P450 family and to the nucleotide sequences encoding them, and to their use in a method for the generation of pathogen-resistant plants. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090144857 | RECEPTORS FOR HYPERSENSITIVE RESPONSE ELICITORS AND USES THEREOF - The present invention is directed to an isolated protein which serves as a receptor in plants for a plant pathogen hypersensitive response elicitor. Also disclosed are nucleic acid molecules encoding such receptors as well as expression vectors, host cells, transgenic plants, and transgenic plant seeds containing such nucleic acid molecules. Both the protein and nucleic acid can be used to identify agents targeting plant cells to enhance a plant's receptivity to treatment with a hypersensitive response elicitor and to directly impart plant growth enhancement as well as resistance against disease, insects, and stress. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090151019 | LATE BLIGHT RESISTANCE GENE FROM WILD POTATO - A novel resistance gene and its encoded protein isolated from the wild potato, | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090151020 | CHIMERIC AND PROLINE RICH PROTEIN PROMOTERS FOR EXPRESSION IN PLANTS - The present invention provides regulatory polynucleotide molecules isolated from plant proline rich protein genes and linked to a viral enhancer molecule. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090165171 | Transgenic Plants Exhibiting Increased Tolerance to Stress and Methods of Generating Same - Methods of increasing tolerance of a plant to stress are provided. According to an exemplary aspect a method of increasing tolerance of a plant to a biotic stress is provided. The method comprising expressing within the plant an exogenous thereby increasing the tolerance of the plant to the biotic stress. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs and transgenic plants comprising same. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090165172 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INCREASING BIOMASS IN GENETICALLY MODIFIED PERENNIALS USED FOR BIOFUELS - Genes can be introduced into plants that confer desirable traits such as, drought and stress tolerance, insect and pest resistance, as well as traits for enhancing biofuel production, such as increased vegetative biomass and prolonged vegetative growth. The development of reproductive structures diverts resources from vegetative growth resulting in lower biomass and fixed growing seasons. Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for generating controlled vegetative growth and prolonged growing seasons for the purpose of increasing biomass in plants used for biofuels. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090165173 | NOVEL NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES AND THEIR USE IN METHODS FOR ACHIEVING PATHOGEN RESISTANCE IN PLANTS - The invention relates to novel RacB cDNA sequences from barley and to expression cassettes and vectors comprising these promoter sequences. The invention furthermore relates to transgenic plants transformed with these expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or transgenic propagation material derived from them, and to their use for the production of foodstuffs, feeding stuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals. The invention furthermore relates to methods of generating or increasing a pathogen resistance in plants by reducing the expression of an RacB protein or of a functional equivalent thereof. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090172836 | Resistance to Powdery Mildew and Absence of Necrosis in Cucumis Sativus - The present invention relates to a powdery mildew-resistant | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090178158 | RESISTANCE AGAINST PARASITIC WEEDS - The seeds of parasitic plants of the genera | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090178159 | PLANTS WITH ALTERED ROOT ARCHITECTURE, INVOLVING THE RUM1 GENE, RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS - Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering root structure of plants, 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 functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide useful for altering plant root architecture. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090183276 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090183277 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090183278 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090183279 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090188005 | METHODS FOR GENETIC CONTROL OF PLANT PEST INFESTATION AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The present invention is directed to controlling plant pest infestation, and particularly plant nematode infestation, by inhibiting one or more biological functions in the plant pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling plant pest infestation by providing one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules in the diet of the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of pest gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, to methods for detecting cells comprising the disclosed sequences, and to methods for detecting the disclosed sequences in biological samples. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090188006 | PATHOGEN-INDUCIBLE SYNTHETIC PROMOTER - The invention relates to a pathogen-inducible synthetic promoter which is suitable for regulating the transcription of a nucleic acid, and includes a minimal promoter, characterized in that the minimal promoter includes a sequence motif a) dbrmwa or b) twcccmt which is disposed downstream from a TATA region and in front of a transcription starting point which is located on the minimal promoter and at which transcription of the nucleic acid to be regulated starts. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090188007 | PLANTS HAVING TOMATO TORRADO VIRUS RESISTANCE - The present invention relates to a tomato plant having within its genome at least one allele of a gene that confers resistance to Tomato torrado virus (ToTV), said virus having been deposited with the Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH on 24 Nov. 2004 under depositors reference number ToTV-E01 (DSM 16999). | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090188008 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF TARGET POLYNUCLEOTIDES - Methods and compositions which increase the concentration of an inhibitory RNA specific for a target sequence in a cell are provided. In one embodiment, the methods and compositions employ a first polynucleotide comprising a silencing element for a target pest sequence operably linked to a promoter active in the plant cell; and, a second polynucleotide comprising a suppressor enhancer element comprising the target pest sequence or an active fragment or variant thereof operably linked to a promoter active in the plant cell. The combined expression of the silencing element with the target pest sequence, or an active variant or fragment thereof, leads to the amplification of the inhibitory RNA produced from the silencing element over the achievable with only the expression of the silencing element alone. Thus, the various methods and compositions of the invention provide improved methods for the delivery of inhibitory RNA to a target organism. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090193539 | GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH IMPROVED PATHOGEN RESISTANCE - The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance phenotype due to altered expression of a PPR2 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance phenotype. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090193540 | GENERATION OF PLANTS WITH IMPROVED PATHOGEN RESISTANCE - The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance phenotype due to altered expression of a PPR2 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance phenotype. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090205078 | Maize Leaf- and Stalk-Preferred Promoter - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the tissue-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090210966 | rice blast susceptibility gene pi21, resistance gene pi21 and uses thereof - The present inventors succeeded in isolating the rice field resistance gene pi21 by linkage analysis, and found that field resistance to blast in plants could be modified by introducing or controlling the expression of the gene. Thus, it became possible to efficiently confer plants with field resistance. It also became possible to select, at an early stage, rice plants having field resistance to blast. Moreover, by changing the tissue specificity of expression and the expression level of the gene involved in field resistance, varieties having resistance as well as high practical use can be grown. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090217416 | Genetic marker linked to gene locus involved in barley resistance to yellow mosaic disease and use thereof - Through creation of a detailed linkage map of barley and QTL analysis thereof, there have been found five genetic markers linked to gene locus involved in barley resistance to yellow mosaic disease and situated on barley 1H chromosome, two genetic markers linked to gene locus involved in barley resistance to yellow mosaic disease and situated on barley 2H chromosome barley resistance to yellow mosaic disease, five genetic markers linked to gene locus involved in barley resistance to yellow mosaic disease and situated on barley 3H chromosome, four genetic markers linked to gene locus involved in barley resistance to yellow mosaic disease and situated on barley 4H chromosome, and two genetic markers linked to gene locus involved in barley resistance to yellow mosaic disease and situated on barley 5H chromosome. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090222949 | Constructs and Methods for Generating Plants Exhibiting Altered Plasmodesmatal Conductance - A plant cell including a heterologous polynucleotide sequence capable of directing overexpression of a reversibly glycosylated polypeptide or a functional portion thereof is provided. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222950 | Soybean Cultivar S070157 - A soybean cultivar designated S070157 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S070157, to the plants of soybean S070157, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S070157 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S070157 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety S070157, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S070157 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S070157 with another soybean cultivar. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090229011 | DISEASE-RESISTANT PLANTS AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME - It is the object of the present invention to provide disease-resistant plants which have been transformed to cause an effective defense reaction, and methods for producing the same. The present invention provides expression cassettes comprising a promoter capable of promoting a constitutive, inducible, or organ- or phase-specific gene expression, and a gene, under the control of said promoter, encoding an elicitor protein. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090241221 | TANDEM REAPEAT DNA CONSTRUCTS PRODUCING PROTEINS THAT ATTACK PLANT PATHOGENIC VIRUSES, FUNGI, AND BACTERIA BY DISRUPTING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS ESSENTIAL FOR REPLICATION THEREOF IN PLANTS - Methods and compositions reduce growth of Geminiviruses employing a compound with the following structure: | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090241222 | TANDEM REAPEAT DNA CONSTRUCTS PRODUCING PROTEINS THAT ATTACK PLANT PATHOGENIC VIRUSES, FUNGI, AND BACTERIA BY DISRUPTING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS ESSENTIAL FOR REPLICATION THEREOF IN PLANTS - Methods and compositions reduce growth of Geminiviruses employing a compound with the following structure: | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090260106 | ANTIFUNGAL POLYPEPTIDES - Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include novel amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from microbial fermentation broths. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the invention are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090260107 | Coleopteran-Resistant Transgenic Plants and Methods of Their Production - Disclosed are nucleic acid segments comprising synthetically-modified genes encoding Coleopteran-toxic | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090265807 | Polynucleotides and polypeptides 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 compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265808 | P15 HAIRPIN CONSTRUCTS AND USE - The present invention concerns a method of genetic modification of a TGB-3 wild type viral sequence for reducing or suppressing the possible deleterious effects of the agronomic properties of a transformed plant or plant cell by said TGB-3 viral sequence. The invention further relates to genetically modified TGB-3 viral sequences suitable to induce gene silencing. In particular hairpin constructs based on such sequences proved highly efficient to induce a PTGS mechanism and degradation of the whole of RNA2 thereby. When plants are transformed accordingly the spread of the virus in the plant is significantly reduced or blocked. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090265809 | Modified Cry3A Toxins and Nucleic Acid Sequences Coding Therefor - Methods for making a modified Cry3A toxin are disclosed. Such methods include the insertion of a protease recognition site that is recognized by a gut protease of a target insect, such as corn rootworm, into at least one position of a Cry3A toxin so that a modified Cry3A toxin is thus designed. The coding sequence of the modified Cry3A toxin may be transformed into a host cell and the host cell grown under conditions that allow the host cell to produce the modified Cry3A toxin. The host cell may be a plant cell and the plant may be comprised in a transgenic plant. Thus, the transgenic plant may be used to produce the modified Cry3A toxin. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090271890 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING A PLANT WITH A LASTING RESISTANCE TO A PATHOGEN - Corresponding results were obtained with A method for obtaining a plant, in particular a cultivated lettuce plant ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090271891 | Pathogen Inducible Plant Thehalose-6-Phophate Phophatase Gene Promoters and Regulatory Elements - The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants roots. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090293148 | Improved Methods Controlling Gene Expression - The present invention is in the field of genetics, especially plant genetics, and provides agents capable of controlling gene expression. The present invention specifically provides sequences of naturally occurring, tissue-specifically expressed microRNAs. The invention further provides for transgenic expression constructs comprising sequences encoding said microRNAs. By incorporation of the microRNA encoding sequence the expression from said expression construct is specifically silenced in the tissue where the naturally occurring microRNA is naturally expressed. Thereby the expression profile resulting from the promoter is modulated and leakiness is reduced. The invention further provides for a method for modulating transgenic expression by incorporating sequences encoding said microRNAs into transgenic expression constructs. The compositions and methods of the invention can be used to enhance performance of agricultural relevant crops and for therapy, prophylaxis, research and diagnostics in diseases and disorders, which afflict mammalian species. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090300795 | AUTOACTIVATED RESISTANCE PROTEIN - The invention relates to nucleic acid, which codes for an autoactivated resistance protein for creating a resistance to pathogens in plants, characterized in that the nucleic acid has a limited portion of an NBS-LRR resistance gene, which extends from the 5′-end of the coded region of the NBS-LRR resistance downstream to the beginning of the NBS domain of the NBS-LRR resistance gene, the NBS-LRR resistance gene not being a TIR-NBS-LRR resistance gene. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300796 | Transgenic Plant-Based Methods for Plant Pests Using Rnai - The present invention relates to methods for controlling pest infestation using double stranded RNA molecules. The invention provides methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, as well as pesticidal agents and commodity products produced by the inventive plants. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300797 | PLANT HAVING IMPROVED GROWTH ABILITY AND DISEASE RESISTANCE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - Disclosed is a transgenic plant improved in growth ability and disease resistance. Also disclosed is a method for production of the transgenic plant. It is found that a transgenic plant having DNA encoding a glutathione-binding plastid-type fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase introduced therein is improved in growing ability and disease resistance compared to a wild-type one. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090307798 | Polynucleotides and Methods for Making Plants Resistant to Fungal Pathogens - This invention relates to polynucleotide sequences encoding genes that can confer resistance to the plant pathogen | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307799 | METHOD TO IDENTIFY DISEASE RESISTANT QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI IN SOYBEAN AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The present invention is in the field of plant breeding and genetics, particularly as it pertains to the genus, Glycine. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for screening soybean plants containing one or more quantitative trait loci for disease resistance, species of Glycine having such loci and methods for breeding for and screening of Glycine with such loci. The invention further relates to the use of exotic germplasm in a breeding program. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090313721 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090313722 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090320159 | Nucleic acid compositions conferring disease resistance - This invention encompasses the identification and isolation of genes that confer disease control properties in plants, as well as plants comprising such genes. These genes are derived from the following sources: | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090320160 | SOYBEAN TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATORS AND USE IN EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - Five novel plant transcription terminators MYB2, KTI1, PIP1, EF1A2, and are isolated from soybean and their functions in the regulation of RNA transcription and processing in plants are described. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090328254 | NOVEL VIP3 TOXINS AND METHODS OF USE - Nucleic acid molecules encoding novel Vip3 toxins that are highly active against a wide range of lepidopteran insect pests are disclosed. The nucleic acid molecules can be used to transform various prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the Vip3 toxins. These recombinant organisms can be used to control lepidopteran insects in various environments. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090328255 | NITROGEN LIMITATION ADAPTABILITY GENE AND PROTEIN AND MODULATION THEREOF - The present invention relates to a nitrogen-regulated RING-like ubiquitin E3 ligase gene required for sugar sensing and the modulation of the expression of this gene to modulate a characteristic in a plant. The RING-like ubiquitin E3 ligase of the present invention is involved in mediating nitrogen limitation adaptive responses in plants and its expression is influenced by nitrogen status. Increased expression of this or substantially similar genes can produce plants with improved nitrogen utilization and increased yield. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100005543 | TOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:61-121 and 133-141, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-60, 124-132, and 142-283, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005544 | Nematode Inducible Plant MTN3-Like Gene Promotors and Regulatory Elements - The invention provides promoter polynucleotides that are root-preferred and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoter polynucleotides of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100005545 | Compositions and Methods of Using RNA Interference of SCA1-Like Genes for Control of Nematodes - The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential nematode gene, which is a nematode sca1-like gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100011467 | METHOD FOR INCREASING RESISTANCE TO PATHOGENS IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS - The present invention relates to a method of increasing the pathogen resistance in transgenic plants and/or plant cells, where a DNA sequence which codes for a protein with a leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) domain and/or a kinase activity is introduced into the plant or plant cell and expressed therein. The present invention also relates to the use of nucleic acids which code for such a protein, for the generation of transgenic plants or plant cells with an increased pathogen resistance. The present invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid sequences which code for a protein which confers an increased pathogen resistance in plants. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100011468 | FUNGUS RESISTANT PLANTS AND THEIR USES - The present invention relates to a novel method for increasing the resitance of a plant, in particular of a Solanaceae, preferably of potato and tomato, to plant pathogens of the phylum Oomyceta comprising increasing the activity of the polypeptide of the present invention. The invention further relates to polynucleotides and vectors comprising these polynucleotides. The invention furthermore relates to corresponding vectors, cells, transgenic plants and transgenic propagation material derived from them, methods to produce them and to their use for the production of foodstuffs, feeding stuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100017911 | VIRAL-BASED TRANSIENT-EXPRESSION VECTOR SYSTEM FOR TREES - Disclosed herein are viral vectors suitable for transfection into woody trees for purposes of delivering and expressing beneficial genes with increased stability. Specifically exemplified herein are vectors for transfecting citrus trees. The vectors allow for the expression of useful proteins, such as those that can protect the tree from disease. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017912 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USING RNA INTERFERENCE OF CAD-LIKE GENES FOR CONTROL OF NEMATODES - The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of genes essential to establishing or maintaining nematode infestation in a plant, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target CAD-like plant gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017913 | DISEASE RESISTANT PLANTS - The invention provides transgenic plants with resistance to infection by a root-infecting fungal plant pathogen such as | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100017914 | INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS - Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, novel engineered hybrid insecticidal proteins (eHIPs) having toxicity to at least corn rootworm are provided. By fusing unique combinations of complete or partial variable regions and conserved blocks of at least two different | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100024068 | Antimicrobial Peptides and Uses Thereof - The subject invention pertains to methods and materials for enhancing microbial resistance in plants. Specifically exemplified herein are grapevines transformed with polynucleotides that express a peptide which confers antimicrobial resistance. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100024069 | EXPRESSION AND USE OF NOVEL PESTICIDAL TOXINS - A novel pesticidal toxin that is highly active against a wide range of lepidopteran insect pests is disclosed. The DNA encoding the pesticidal toxin can be used to transform various prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the pesticidal toxin. These recombinant organisms can be used to control lepidopteran insects in various environments. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100031391 | ANTIFUNGAL POLYPEPTIDES - Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include an amino acid sequence, and variants and fragments thereof, for an antipathogenic polypeptide that was isolated from a fungal fermentation broth. Nucleic acid molecules that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the invention, and antipathogenic domains thereof, are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention are also disclosed. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100037348 | AXMI-010, A DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, as well as variants thereof. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100037349 | VARIANTS OF NRR ACTIVATE PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE - Methods and compositions for improving plant disease resistance by expression of NPR1-biding domain/transcriptional activation domain fusions are provided. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100043101 | Method for controlling root parasitic plants - It is an objective to provide a method for controlling root parasitic plants. The present invention is directed to a method for protecting plants from root parasitic plants comprising regulating the activity of a protein associated with the strigolactone biosynthetic pathway (including the strigolactone biosynthetic and signalling pathway) in plants or expression of a gene encoding such a protein. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100043102 | Nematode Inducible Promotors and Methods of Use - The invention provides promoter polynucleotides that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100050294 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING INSECT RESISTANCE OF PLANTS BY UTILIZING RNAI TECHNIQUE - A method for improving insect resistance of plants, in which dsRNA of insect's gene is expressed in plants by using transgenic technique, and then the interfering RNAs are formed in the plants. The interfering RNAs then enter into insects' bodies after being ingested by the insect that eats the plant, and conduct RNA interference against the target gene, thereby expression of the target gene is suppressed by RNA interference. A new plant-mediated method for improving insect resistance by suppressing the growth of insects by RNA interference mechanism. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100064388 | Use of Alanine Racemase Genes to Confer Nematode Resistance to Plants - The invention provides alanine racemase encoding polynucleotides, which are capable of conferring increased nematode resistance in a plant. Specifically, the invention relates to methods of producing transgenic plants with increased nematode resistance, expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding alanine racemase, and transgenic plants and seeds generated thereof. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064389 | Polynucleotides Encoding Truncated Sucrose Isomerase Polypeptides for Control of Parasitic Nematodes - The invention provides polynucleotides encoding N-terminal truncated forms of sucrose isomerase polypeptides which are capable of conferring increased nematode resistance in a plant. The invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with increased nematode resistance, seeds of such transgenic plants, and expression vectors, all of which comprise the polynucleotides of the invention. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100064390 | SOYBEAN MTH1 PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The promoter of a soybean metallothionein protein (MTH1) and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100071088 | Plant Expression Constructs and Methods of Utilizing Same - A Geminivirus based expression construct being capable of systemic symptomeless spread in a plant host is provided as well as methods of utilizing same for plant gene expression, gene silencing and plant protection. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100071089 | Method For Increasing Pathogen Resistance In Transgenic Plants - The invention relates to a method of increasing the resistance to one or more penetrating pathogen(s) in a monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plant or a part of a plant, for example in an organ, tissue, a cell or a part of a plant cell, for example in an organell, wherein a DNA sequence which codes for an armadillo repeat ARM1 protein and which mediates an increased pathogen resistance, preferably an increased resistance to fungal pathogens, is increased into, and expressed in, the plant or plant cell; or wherein an endogenous DNA sequence which codes for an armadillo repeat ARM1 protein and which mediates an increased pathogen resistance, preferably an increased resistance to fungal pathogens, is increased in the plant or plant cell in comparison with the original, or wild-type, plant, or wherein the endogenous gene sequence or preferably the 5′-untranslated region (5′UTR) is modified in comparison with the original sequence. The invention also relates to plants, to parts of a plant, for example an organ, tissue, a cell or a part of a plant cell, for example an organelle, which are obtained by the above methods, and to corresponding propagation material. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100071090 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EXPRESSION OF A HETEROLOGOUS NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE IN PLANTS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for targeting polypeptides to the chloroplasts of higher plants. Compositions include expression cassettes having a nucleotide sequence encoding a chloroplast targeting peptide (CTP) operably linked to a nucleotide sequence of interest, wherein the CTP is derived from | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100077506 | Peroxidase Gene Nematode Inducible Promotors and Methods of Use - The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants roots. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077507 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077508 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100095402 | Materials and methods for engineering resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus (tylcv) in plants, - The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing genetically-engineered resistance in plants to geminivirus, such as, using polynucleotides containing all or a portion of a replication associated protein (Rep) gene of TYLCV and all or a portion of a Rep intergenic region (IR). Virus-resistant plants produced according to the present invention have horticulturally acceptable phenotypic traits. Methods of the invention comprise transforming a plant with a polynucleotide wherein when the polynucleotide is expressed in the plant, the transformed plant exhibits resistance to plant viral infections. An exemplified embodiment utilizes a polynucleotide comprising a Rep gene derived from a Florida isolate of TYLCV. The methods of the invention can be used to provide resistance to TYLCV infection in plants such as tomato and tobacco. The present invention also concerns transformed and transgenic plants and plant tissue that comprise a polynucleotide of the invention. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100095403 | PearlI1-Like Pathogen Control Genes and Methods of use in Plants - The invention provides pEARLI1-like polynucleotides which are capable of conferring increased nematode resistance to a plant. Also provided are inhibitory polynucleotides based on pEARLI1-like genes, which are capable of conferring resistance to necrotrophic fungi to plants. Specifically, the invention relates to transgenic plants, transgenic seeds, and expression vectors based on polynucleotides encoding pEARLI1-like genes, and methods of use thereof. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100095404 | Use of Nematode Chitinase Genes to Control Plant Parasitic Nematodes - The invention provides transgenic plants with increased nematode resistance which comprise a polynucleotide that encodes a nematode chitinase, seeds of such transgenic plants, expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding nematode chitinases, and methods for conferring nematode resistance to crop plants. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100100984 | Transgenic Plants Exhibiting Increased Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses or Accelerated Flowering Time and Methods for Producing the Same - The invention relates to plants, especially transgenic plants, plant parts and plant cells overproducing a secretory phospholipase A2 protein (e.g. sPLA2-a or sPLA2-b) and having an enhanced resistance against a wide range of abiotic (e.g., against osmotic stress) and biotic stress (e.g., bacterial, or fungal infections) conditions as well as inducing early flowering. The invention also comprises nucleic acid sequences encoding a secretory phospholipase A2 or functional isoforms thereof and the use of such sequences for rendering plants resistant against abiotic and biotic stress conditions. The invention is useful for mitigating crop damages by a wide variety of pathogen infections and stress conditions and for accelerating flowering time. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100115663 | Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase Herbicide Resistant Sorghum - The present invention provides for compositions and methods for producing crop plants that are resistant to herbicides. In particular, the present invention provides for sorghum plants, plant tissues and plant seeds that contain altered acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) genes and proteins that are resistant to inhibition by herbicides that normally inhibit the activity of the ACC protein. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115664 | Use of Trehalase Genes to Confer Nematode Resistance to Plants - The invention provides transgenic plants that exhibit increased resistance to nematode infection by virtue of overexpression of a gene that encodes trehalase in nematode-induced syncytia. Expression vectors comprising trehalase-encoding polynucleotides and methods of employing such vectors to increase nematode resistance of plants are also provided. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100115665 | VIRUS TOLERANT PLANTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME - The present invention relates to plants with enhanced tolerance to viral diseases, particularly to diseases caused by insect-transmitted viruses. The invention discloses transgenic plants expressing GroEL protein, and to engrafted plant comprising said transgenic plants or parts thereof, that are tolerant to insect-transmitted viral diseases. The present invention further discloses means and methods of producing same. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100122374 | Disease resistance in plants by introducing transcription factor gene - The present inventors analyzed genes involved in plant disease resistance. As a result, they discovered the transcription factor gene OsWRKY45, which is induced in leaf blades of rice plants by activating the systemic acquired resistance (SAR) that plants inherently have, i.e., by treating rice plants with benzothiadiazole (hereafter may be abbreviated as BTH), which is an agent thought to induce disease resistance in plants. It was further discovered that rice blast disease resistance and rice bacterial leaf blight resistance were markedly improved by reintroducing the gene into rice plants and constitutively expressing it. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100122375 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING DISEASE RESISTANCE IN PLANTS - Compositions and methods for enhancing disease resistance in plants by modulating levels or activities of GmUBox1 polynucleotides and polypeptides are provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided having enhanced disease resistance. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100122376 | METHODS OF ENHANCING THE RESISTANCE OF PLANTS TO BACTERIAL PATHOGENS - Methods are provided for enhancing the resistance of plants to bacterial pathogens. The methods involve transforming a plant with a polynucleotide molecule comprising a plant promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes a plant receptor that binds specifically with bacterial elongation factor-Tu. Further provided are expression cassettes, transformed plants, seeds, and plant cells that are produced by such methods. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100132069 | PATHOGEN-INDUCIBLE PROMOTERS AND THEIR USE IN ENHANCING THE DISEASE RESISTANCE OF PLANTS - Methods for producing pathogen-inducible promoters for the expression of genes in plants are provided. The pathogen-inducible promoters are inducible by one, two, three, or more plant pathogens. Methods for producing R genes that are inducible in a plant by more than one plant pathogen are further provided. Additionally, provided are R genes and other nucleic acid molecules comprising the pathogen-inducible promoters and that are made by such methods as well as plants, plant parts, plant cells, seeds, and non-human host cells comprising the R genes and other nucleic acid molecules | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100132070 | Plant Defense Genes and Proteins and Methods of Use - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding plant defense proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100138957 | HYBRID PEPTIDES HAVING ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING HYBRID PEPTIDES - The present invention concerns the development and utilization of hybrid lytic peptides derived from non-venomous molecular sources to confer a high level of sustainable resistance to phytopathogens in transgenic plants. In an exemplified embodiment, a composition of the invention comprises a cecropin-pleurocidin hybrid peptide of 27 amino acids. The peptide was designed based on optimization of critical molecular and physiochemical parameters. Peptides of the invention offer significantly enhanced antimicrobial activity and molecular properties associated with low cytotoxicity. Transgenic plants of grapevine ( | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138958 | Plant Responses - The present invention relates to methods and uses for improving traits in plants which are important in the field of agriculture. In particular, the methods and uses of the invention use a plant Hsf to increase plant productivity, water use efficiency, drought or pathogen resistance. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138959 | Method of Fabricating Bioinsecticide Obtained from Mammalian Galectin - A bioinsecticide is fabricated. Galectin widely found in mammalian is used for the fabrication. The bioinsecticide thus fabricated targets on chitin of peritrophic membrane in intestinal tract for killing insect. The bioinsecticide can be easily decomposed. The present invention is highly safe; is environment protected; and can be widely applied. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138960 | Nucleic Acids Encoding Anthelmintic Agents And Plants Made Therefrom - The present invention provides DNA constructs, transgenic plants containing such constructs, and methods of making the plants. The DNA constructs encode a polypeptide that when expressed results in the production of fatty acid compounds having anthelmintic activity. Transgenic plants expressing such a polypeptide can exhibit enhanced resistance to plant parasitic nematodes, particularly when expressed in vegetative tissues. Transgenic plants expressing such a polypeptide can also be useful for non-pesticidal industrial uses. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138961 | AXMI-010, A DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, as well as variants thereof. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100146667 | Transgenic plants expressing L3 delta proteins are resistant to trichothecene fungal toxins - Disclosed are specific mutants of L3 and transgenic plants that produce them. The plants exhibit increased resistance to fungal toxins that target ribosomal L3 protein. Also disclosed are transgenic plants that co-produce L3 mutant and an RIP protein, and exhibit increased resistance to various fungal toxins and viruses, while reducing toxicity normally associated with production of the RIP. Uses of the L3 mutants in animals are further disclosed. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146668 | INSECT-RESISTANT PROTEIN AND INSECT-RESISTANCE GENE ENCODING THE INSECT-RESISTANT PROTEIN - There are provided an insect-resistant protein exhibiting a sufficient resistance to insects even in a small amount; an insect-resistance gene encoding said insect-resistant protein; a recombinant vector containing said insect-resistance gene; a host cell and a plant cell having the recombinant vector transferred thereinto; a transformant transformed by the insect-resistance gene and a method for producing the same; a protein recovered thereby; and an insect-resistant agent comprising them as active ingredients. In accordance with the present invention, the insect-resistant protein derived from a plant, comprises a first amino acid sequence having a 50% or more homology with the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 in Sequence Listing, a second amino acid sequence having a 50% or more homology with the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2 in Sequence Listing and a third amino acid sequence having a 50% or more homology with the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 3 in Sequence Listing, wherein the second amino acid sequence has at least one spppp sequence. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100162437 | FUNCTIONAL R-GENE FROM SOLANUM BULBOCASTANUM - The invention relates to a resistance gene and functional homologues or fragments thereof isolated from | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162438 | INDUCTION OF Xa27 BY THE avrXa27 GENE IN RICE CONFERS BROAD-SPECTRUM RESISTANCE TO Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae AND ENHANCED RESISTANCE TO Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola - The present invention generally provides a method to generate broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight disease in plants. More specifically, the present invention provides a method to generate broad-spectrum resistance to | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162439 | PESTICIDAL GENES FROM BREVIBACILLUS AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring insecticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions including a coding sequence for a | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100170005 | USE OF SUBTILISIN (RNR9) POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR ACHIEVING A PATHOGEN RESISTANCE IN PLANTS - The invention relates to a method of generating or increasing a pathogen resistance in plants by reducing the expression of at least one subtilisin polypeptide or a functional equivalent thereof. The invention relates to novel nucleic acid sequences coding for a | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100170006 | METHODS FOR SCREENING OF NOVEL FUNCTIONS OF RECEPTOR LIKE KINASES - The disclosure relates to methods for modulating plant growth and organogenesis using dominant-negative receptor-like kinases. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100180351 | NOVEL GENES ENCODING INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS - The present invention relates to novel DNA sequences encoding insecticidal Cry1 C proteins derived from | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100180352 | Compositions and Methods of Using RNA Interference for Control of Nematodes - The present invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of plant parasitic nematode target let-70 genes, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100186112 | Novel Environmental Stress Resistance Transcription Factor and Method For Enhancing Environmental Stress Resistance of Plants Using the Same - The present invention relates to a novel environmental stress-resistant transcription factor and a method for enhancing the environmental stress resistance of plants using the same. More particularly, the invention relates to an environmental stress-resistant transcription factor isolated from barley and a method for enhancing the environmental stress resistance of plants by introducing a vector comprising the transcription factor into the plants. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100186113 | Root-Tip Preferred Promoter from Maize - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a root tip-preferred promoter from maize. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stabling incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100186114 | Modification of Plant Flavonoid Metabolism - 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: MADS box factor, WRKY box factor, MYC factor, TT1, HLH factor, MYB factor, FMT, UG3E, GST, OMT, RT, CYTb5, laccase, and ABC transporter proteins, and functionally active fragments and variants thereof. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100186115 | Maize Tissue-Preferred Promoter - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the tissue-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100186116 | Maize Tissue-Preferred Promoter - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the tissue-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100192254 | METHOD OF INCREASING RESISTANCE AGAINST SOYBEAN RUST IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS - The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against soybean rust in transgenic plants and/or plant cells, as well as to the use of a nucleic acid molecule for the production of these plants and/or plant cells. In these plants, the content and/or the activity of at least one MLO protein is altered in comparison to the wild-type plants. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against soybean rust and to expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical, homologous or complementary to a sequence encoding an functional or non-functional MLO or fragments thereof. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100192255 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100192256 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100192257 | LATE BLIGHT RESISTANCE GENES AND METHODS - This invention provides novel gene sequences, compositions and methods for enhancing the resistance in crops, in particular but not limited to, potato, to late blight caused by the oomycete pathogen | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100199383 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100212048 | METHODS FOR COUPLING RESISTANCE ALLELES IN TOMATO | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100218276 | MAIZE MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Compositions and methods are provided for modulating the level of phytate in plants. More specifically, the invention relates to methods of modulating the level of phytate utilizing nucleic acids comprising multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP) nucleotide sequences to modulate the expression of MRP(s) in a plant of interest. The compositions and methods of the invention find use in agriculture for improving the nutritional quality of food and feed by reducing the levels of phytate and/or increasing the levels of non-phytate phosphorus in food and feed. The invention also finds use in reducing the environmental impact of animal waste. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100218277 | METHOD OF PLASTID TRANSFORMATION IN ASTERACEAE, VECTOR FOR USE THEREIN AND PLANTS THUS OBTAINED - The present invention relates to a method for the transformation of plastid genomes of plant species, in particular Asteraceae plant species, comprising the steps of providing a transformation vector carrying a DNA sequence of interest; subjecting a plant material, which comprises plastids, to a transformation treatment in order to allow the plastids to receive the transformation vector; placing the thus treated plant material for a period of time into contact with a culture medium without selection agent; subsequently placing the plant material into contact with a culture medium comprising a selection agent; and refreshing the culture medium comprising a selection agent to allow plant material comprising plastids that have acquired the DNA of interest to grow into transformants. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100218278 | METHOD FOR IMPROVED STRESS TOLERANCE - A method of improving the vigor or yield of a crop plant is disclosed herein. The method involves introgressing a transgenic event comprising transgenes that encode an insecticidal protein and selectable marker protein into a crop plant, wherein the transgenic event and/or a protein thereof modulates in a transgenic crop plant tolerance to at least one abiotic stress condition when grown in a location essentially free of an insect pest population that is susceptible to the insecticidal protein. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100218279 | PLANT RESISTANCE TO BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS - This invention relates to a nucleic acid construct. The construct includes a nucleic acid molecule configured to silence Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV), a 5′ DNA promoter sequence, and a 3′ terminator sequence. The nucleic acid molecule, the promoter, and the terminator are operatively coupled to permit transcription of the nucleic acid molecule. The present invention also relates to expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants containing the nucleic acid construct of the present invention. Also disclosed are methods of imparting BBTV resistance to plants. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100223693 | METHODS OF USING PLANTS CONTAINING THE GDHA GENE - Disclosed are new effects of increased gdhA gene expression on plants that are susceptible to | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100223694 | Recombinant DNA Constructs and Methods for Controlling Gene Expression - The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100235946 | PLANT TRANSCRIPTIONAL FACTORS AS MOLECULAR MARKERS - The present invention discloses methods for identification and use of nucleotide sequences associated with loci encoding plant transcription factors as markers for genetic mapping and breeding in plant species including legume species such as | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100251421 | DIRECT REGENERATION OF PLANTLETS IN JATROPHA CURCAS - This invention provides an efficient process for in vitro propagation of | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100251422 | Application of ERF genes from Bupleurum kaoi - The use of | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100263089 | USE OF POLYPEPTIDE DERIVED FROM A PA1B LEGUME ALBUMEN AS INSECTICIDE - The invention concerns the use of a polypeptide derived from a PAlb legume albumen as insecticide, particularly for protecting cereal grains against insect pests. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100269220 | ENHANCING EXPRESSION OF VALUE-ADDED GENES BY TRANSGENIC EXPRESSION OF TOMBUSVIRUS-BASED P19 GENE MUTANTS - A method of enhancing expression of at least one desired gene product in a plant, comprises transgenically introducing a Tombusvirus p19/R43W mutant gene (SEQ. ID NO: 3) into the plant, expressing at least one desired gene product in the plant, wherein expression of said product is susceptible to RNA silencing; and co-expressing the transgenically introduced p19/R43W, to produce an amount of P19/R43W mutant protein (SEQ. ID NO: 4) sufficient to suppress silencing of expression of said desired gene product. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269221 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269222 | ROOT ACTIVE PROMOTERS, AND USES THEREOF - The present invention is directed to root active promoter sequences, polynucleotide constructs comprising the root active promoters and methods of identifying the root active promoters, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present root active promoters to modulate transcript levels. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269223 | DIG-3 INSECTICIDAL CRY TOXINS - DIG-3 Cry toxins, polynucleotides encoding such toxins, and transgenic plants that produce such toxins are useful to control insect pests. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269224 | Multiple Virus Resistance in Plants - The present invention provides gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by multiple plant viruses. The present invention relates to achieving a plant protective effect through the identification of target coding sequences and the use of recombinant DNA technologies for post-transcriptionally repressing or inhibiting expression of the target coding sequences of plant-parasitic viruses. Protein-expression based approaches may also be utilized to augment phenotype resistance. Thus, transcription of a single transgenic event comprising one or more plant expression cassettes can allow for broad spectrum resistance of a plant to multiple plant viral strains and species among the | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269225 | TISSUE SPECIFIC PROMOTERS - The invention relates to tissue specific promoters which can be used in plants for one or more of the following purposes: a. altering carbohydrate metabolism b. preventing memory substance loss c. expression of an invertase inhibitor d. expression of a fructosyl transferase e. expression of a levan sucrase f. expression of genes coding for transported proteins for N-compounds g. expression of characteristics which increase resistance/tolerance with respect to pathogens. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269226 | TISSUE SPECIFIC PROMOTERS - The invention relates to tissue specific promoters which can be used in plants for one or more of the following purposes: a. altering carbohydrate metabolism b. preventing memory substance loss c. expression of an invertase inhibitor d. expression of a fructosyl transferase e. expression of a levan sucrase f. expression of genes coding for transported proteins for N-compounds g. expression of characteristics which increase resistance/tolerance with respect to pathogens. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269227 | TISSUE SPECIFIC PROMOTERS - The invention relates to tissue specific promoters which can be used in plants for one or more of the following purposes: a. altering carbohydrate metabolism b. preventing memory substance loss c. expression of an invertase inhibitor d. expression of a fructosyl transferase e. expression of a levan sucrase f. expression of genes coding for transported proteins for N-compounds g. expression of characteristics which increase resistance/tolerance with respect to pathogens. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100281568 | TRANSFORMATION OF POINSETTIA PLANTS - The invention relates to a process for the | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281569 | MAIZE 17KD OLEOSIN SEED-PREFERRED REGULATORY ELEMENT - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a seed-preferred promoter associated with the maize 17 KD OLE (17 kilodalton oleosin) coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281570 | MAIZE 18KD OLEOSIN SEED-PREFERRED REGULATORY ELEMENT - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a seed-preferred promoter associated with the maize 18 KD OLE (18 kilodalton oleosin) coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281571 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES INVOLVED IN PLANT FIBER DEVELOPMENT AND METHODS OF USING SAME - Isolated polynucleotides are provided. Each of the isolated polynucleotides comprise a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 26, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 115, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124, 126, 95 or 96, wherein the polypeptide is capable of regulating cotton fiber development. Also provided are methods of using such polynucleotides for improving fiber quality and/or yield of a fiber producing plant, as well as methods of using such polynucleotides for producing plants having increased biomass/vigor/yield. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281572 | NEMATODE RESISTANT TRANSGENIC PLANTS - Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100287663 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING PLANTS WITH ALTERED LEVELS OF SULPHATED SECONDARY METABOLITES - According to the present invention there is provided a method of producing a plant or a plant cell having an altered level of at least one glucosinolate, said method comprising obtaining a plant or plant cell comprising at least one active Adenosine-5′-Phosphosulphate Kinase (APS kinase, Apk) gene and preventing or inhibiting the production and/or function of the gene product encoded by at least one Adenosine-5′-Phosphosulphate Kinase (APS kinase, Apk) gene, preferably disrupting expression of at least one Adenosine-5′-Phosphosulphate Kinase (APS kinase, Apk) gene. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287664 | Genes for enhancing resistance to magnaporthe oryzae and uses thereof - The present invention relates to Pi5-1 and Pi5-2 proteins which enhance resistance to | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100293667 | Environmental Stress-inducible Promoter and its Application in Crops - The subject application provides polynucleotides, compositions thereof and methods for regulating gene expression in a plant using a promoter that initiates transcription in an inducible manner. In a further aspect of the invention, methods for modulating expression of a gene product in a stably transformed plant comprising the steps of (a) transforming a plant cell with a DNA construct comprising the disclosed promoter or fragments thereof that are capable of driving the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid sequence operably linked to at least one nucleotide sequence; (b) growing the plant cell under plant growing conditions and (c) regenerating a stably transformed plant from the plant cell wherein the induced expression of the operably linked nucleotide sequence alters the phenotype of the plant. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100299786 | MARKER GENETICALLY LINKED TO TOBAMOVIRUS RESISTANCE IN CUCUMBER AND THE USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a molecular marker genetically linked to, and capable of identifying, a genetic locus in the cucumber plant ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100306875 | RESISTANCE GENE AND USES THEREOF - The invention provides methods for producing a plant with altered resistance to powdery mildew, the methods comprising transformation of a plant with a genetic construct including a polynucleotide encoding of a polypeptide with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a variant of fragment thereof. The invention also provides isolated polypeptides, polynucleotides, constructs and vectors useful for producing a plant cell and plants transformed to contain and express the polypeptides, polynucleotides and constructs. The invention also provides plants produced by methods of the invention. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100313302 | Viral Promoter, Truncations Thereof, and Methods of Use - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100319084 | METABOLIC ENGINEERING FOR PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE - The invention provides methods and compositions for making a dicotyledonous plant that is susceptible to Phymatotrichopsis Root Rot (PRR) more resistant to PRR, by metabolic engineering of the plant's flavonoid and isoflavonoid biosynthetic pathways. Thus, methods for increasing the synthesis and accumulation of medicarpin and/or 7,4′-dihydroxyflavone in plants such as alfalfa are provided. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110010801 | MAIZE CYSTATIN PROMOTER FOR PERICARP PREFERRED EXPRESSION - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences of interest in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a pericarp-preferred promoter associated with the maize cystatin coding region. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant using the regulatory sequence disclosed herein is provided. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110010802 | Antifungal Plant Proteins and Methods of their Use - DNA constructions that provide for production of potent antifungal proteins in transgenic plants and transformed yeast cells are described. Methods of using the DNA constructs to produce transgenic plants that inhibit growth of plant pathogenic fungi are also disclosed. The use of transformed yeast cells containing the DNA constructs to produce the antifungal proteins and methods of isolating the antifungal proteins are also described. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110023182 | ENZYMES INVOLVED IN TRITERPENE SYNTHESIS - This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding enzymes consisting of a carboxypeptidase-like protein, a methyltransferase and a glucosyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of β-amyrin-derived triterpenes in plants and seeds. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotides of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110023183 | Switchgrass Promoter and Uses Thereof - The subject application provides polynucleotides, compositions thereof and methods for regulating gene expression in a plant. Polynucleotides disclosed herein comprise novel sequences for a promoter that initiates transcription of an operably linked nucleotide sequence. Thus, various embodiments of the invention comprise the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 or fragments thereof that are capable of driving the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid sequence. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110023184 | AXMI-205 PESTICIDAL GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 3, or 4, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 9, 10, or 11, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110030095 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE RESISTANCE OF A PLANT TO ENDOPARASITIC NEMATODES - The invention relates to a method for increasing the resistance of a plant to an endoparasitic nematode by inhibiting in said plant a microtubule associated protein of the MAP65 protein family. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110030096 | AXMI-192 Family of Pesticidal Genes and Methods for Their Use - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:28-62, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-27, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035838 | Recombinant DNA Constructs and Methods for Controlling Gene Expression - The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035839 | Recombinant DNA Constructs and Methods for Controlling Gene Expression - The present invention provides molecular constructs and methods for use thereof, including constructs including heterologous miRNA recognition sites, constructs for gene suppression including a gene suppression element embedded within an intron flanked on one or on both sides by non-protein-coding sequence, constructs containing engineered miRNA or miRNA precursors, and constructs for suppression of production of mature microRNA in a cell. Also provided are transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing such constructs, and methods for their use. The invention further provides transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing recombinant DNA for the ligand-controlled expression of a target sequence, which may be endogenous or exogenous. Also disclosed are novel miRNAs and miRNA precursors from crop plants including maize and soy. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110041212 | STORAGE-INDUCED PROMOTER - The invention relates to a promoter with an organ-specific activity in plants. Said promoter is characterised in that it exhibits greater activity in the storage organs of plants than in other organs of said plants and that the promoter activity is modified after the harvest of the storage organs and is greater than prior to said harvest. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110041213 | NOVEL BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS - The invention pertains to novel insecticidal compounds derived from | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110041214 | Genetic Markers For Orobanche Resistance in Sunflower - Methods for identifying sunflower plants or germplasm that display resistance, improved resistance, or susceptibility to | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110047645 | Compositions and Methods of Using RNA Interference for Control of Nematodes - The present invention provides double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential nematode gene, which is a nematode innexin-like, pas-1, tep-1, snurportin-1 like, pol delta S, prs-4, rtp-1 or rpn-5 gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes, | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110047646 | Armyworm Insect Resistance Management in Transgenic Plants - This invention relates to a process for preventing or delaying the development of resistance in populations of | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055968 | NOVEL BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS CRYSTAL POLYPEPTIDES, POLYNUCLEOTIDES, AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The present invention provides insecticidal polypeptides related to shuffled | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110061128 | IN PLANTA RNAi CONTROL OF FUNGI - The present invention relates to control of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pathogen, a reduction in disease may be obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic agents for use in protecting plants from pathogen infection. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110061129 | Disease Resistant Transgenic Plants - Provided are transgenic plants, seed and plant parts which display increased resistance to fungal disease or mycotoxin. Also provided are methods of making transgenic plants with increased resistance to fungal disease or mycotoxin. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110067144 | METHOD FOR CREATING BROAD-SPECTRUM RESISTANCE TO FUNGI IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS - The present invention relates to the creation of broad-spectrum resistance in transgenic plants by inserting inhibitory nucleic acid sequences inhibiting the expression of fungal genes. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110072537 | Genetically modified plants having desirable traits - A method for genetically modifying a turfgrass plant cell such that a plant, produced from said cell, is characterized as having modulated brassinolide activity as compared with a wild-type plant, said method comprising: introducing at least one exogenous BAS1 polynucleotide, homologue or functional fragment thereof, into a plant cell to obtain a transformed plant cell; and growing the transformed plant cell under conditions which permit expression of BAS1 gene product, homologue or functional fragment thereof, thereby producing a plant having modulated brassinolide activity, wherein the plant cell is a turf grass cell wherein said genetically modified plant further comprising a drought resistance, salt resistance, insect resistance and the like. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072538 | Use of a Chimeric Gene 4-CL Encoding 4-Coumarate:CoA Ligase in Brassicaceae - The use of a lignin monomer synthetic gene 4-CL encoding 4-coumarate: CoA ligase from | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110078820 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TRANSGENIC PLANTS PRODUCING ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES FOR ENHANCED DISEASE RESISTANCE - The present invention provides methods and compositions for producing transgenic plants having increased disease resistance resulting from the expression of exogenous nucleotide sequences encoding antimicrobial peptides. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110099668 | Expressing GLK in plants - The present invention provides, in part, GLK1 nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides that can be used to confer resistance to a pathogen in a plant. The present invention also provides methods of detecting disease resistance genes and plants. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110107457 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TRANSGENIC PLANT CELL, A PLANT OR A PART THEREOF WITH INCREASED RESISTANCE TO PLANT DISEASE - The invention relates to the control of pathogens. Disclosed herein are methods of producing transgenic plants with increased pathogen resistance, expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding for functional proteins, and transgenic plants and seeds generated thereof. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110107458 | SOMATIC OVULE SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND METHODS OF USE - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for an | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110107459 | GENES AND METHODS FOR INCREASING DISEASE RESISTANCE IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to the regulation of the natural defense system of plants through the introduction of foreign/native genes into plant cells, preferably into their genomes. More specifically, the methods relate to increasing citrus plant disease resistance by over-expressing genes involved in the innate plant defense system. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110113511 | Viral promoter, truncations thereof, and methods of use - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110119788 | METHOD FOR GENERATING RESISTANCE AGAINST CITRUS DISEASES CAUSED BY INSECTS, FUNGI, OOMYCETES, BACTERIA OR NEMATODES - The invention consists in modifying the levels of accumulation and emission of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes in citrus as a mechanism to achieve systemic resistance against pathogens or repellency against pests. The alteration of the content of d-limonene and other terpenes is achieved by genetic transformation via the introduction of a gene that encodes an enzyme with d-limonene synthase activity, from a citrus fruit or plant or from another living organism, in antisense or RNAi (RNA interference) configuration. Genetic modification is achieved either by | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119789 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS FOR INCREASING YIELD - The invention is directed to transgenic plants transformed with nucleic acids that encode a plant transcription factor that increases the transgenic plant's size and yield and/or delays flowering in the plant, and methods of using and producing the transgenic plants. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110126316 | USE OF RICE POLYPEPTIDES/NUCLEIC ACIDS FOR PLANT IMPROVEMENT - A method of making a transgenic plant by transforming into a host plant a recombinant DNA construct that expresses in the transgenic plant a rice polypeptide and the transgenic plant thus produced. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110138498 | Modulation of receptor-like kinases for promotion of plant growth - The invention provides the disclosure of a novel plant growth pathway involving several receptor like kinases. The pathway was shown to work largely independent of brassinosteroids and involves several members of the CrRLK1L family of receptor kinases. According to the invention, HERK1, HERK2, FER, THE1 and the brassinosteroid BES1 may be modulated to influence plant growth and elongation. The invention includes methods, and transformed plants, cells tissues and seeds with increased cellular elongation and other related yield traits. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110145945 | Nematode-Resistant Transgenic Plants - The invention provides nematode-resistant transgenic plants and seed comprising polynucleotides encoding | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110154534 | Wheat plants with immunity to wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) - The present invention provides a transgenic wheat cell or wheat plant, the wheat cell or wheat plant comprising a chimeric DNA molecule which encodes a dsRNA molecule which is capable of inhibiting wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) replication, wherein the wheat cell or plant is immune to WSMV. The present invention also provides a chimeric DNA, the chimeric DNA comprising (i) a wheat expressible promoter; (ii) a region which encodes a dsRNA which is capable of inhibiting WSMV replication; and (iii) a transcription termination and polyadenylation signal. Finally, the present invention provides a process for producing the aforementioned transgenic wheat cell or plant, comprising (i) introducing a chimeric DNA molecule comprising (a) a wheat expressible promoter; (b) a region which encodes a dsRNA which is capable of inhibiting WSMV replication; and (c) a transcription termination and polyadenylation signal into a parental wheat cell; and optionally (ii) regenerating a wheat plant from the wheat cell comprising the chimeric DNA molecule; and (iii) identifying and/or selecting a plant which is immune to WSMV. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154535 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154536 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154537 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110162102 | Novel root-knot-nematode-resistance gene and application thereof - This invention relates to an excellent root-knot nematode-resistance gene and a method for using the same. More particularly, this invention relates to a novel root-knot nematode-resistance gene that is unaffected by high temperature and is applicable to and quantitatively resistant to a wide variety of root-knot nematode species and strains and a root-knot nematode-resistant transgenic plant into which such gene has been introduced. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110167518 | ZEA MAYS SARK PROMOTER AND USES THEREOF - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a Zea maize SARK promoter isolated from maize. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110173718 | HERBICIDE TOLERANT PLANTS - The present invention relates, inter alia, a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of a pesticide composition comprising an homogentisate solanesyltransferase (HST) inhibiting herbicide and/or hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) inhibiting herbicide, wherein the crop plants comprise at least one recombinant polynucleotide which comprises a region which encodes an HST; to a method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising crop plants and weeds, wherein the method comprises application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of a pesticide composition comprising an homogentisate solanesyltransferase (HST) inhibiting herbicide, wherein the crop plants comprise at least one recombinant polynucleotide which comprises a region which encodes a HPPD enzyme and to recombinant polynucleotides and vectors for utilised in the methods. The present invention further relates to a herbicidal composition comprising a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide and a HST-inhibiting herbicide. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110179520 | TISSUE-ENHANCED PROMOTERS - Tissue-enhanced promoter sequences were identified that enhance expression of a polypeptide in one or more plant tissues. These promoters may be used to produce transgenic plants that have an altered trait relative to control plants. In preferred embodiments, the transgenic plants with the improved traits are morphologically and/or developmentally similar to control plants (examples of the latter include wild-type or non-transformed plants of the same species). Any of these tissue-enhanced promoters may be incorporated into a nucleic acid construct that comprises a polynucleotide regulated by one such promoter and that encodes a polypeptide or RNA molecule that, when ectopically expressed, confers an improved trait in plants. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179521 | PLANT SHOWING RESISTANCE TO MULTIPLE DISEASES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - It is found that multiple different resistance genes adjacent to each other on the genome of | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179522 | DEFENSIN POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110179523 | Method for Producing a Transgenic Plant Cell, a Plant or a Part Thereof with Increased Resistance Biotic Stress - The invention relates to the control of pathogens. Disclosed herein are methods of producing transgenic plants with increased pathogen resistance, expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding for functional proteins, and transgenic plants and seeds generated thereof. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110191903 | ENGINEERING PLANT RESISTANCE TO DISEASES CAUSED BY PATHOGENS - Methods for identifying one or more amino acid substitutions in an oxalate oxidase (OXOX) variant polypeptide that confer maintained or increased OXOX activity are described herein. Methods and compositions for increasing a plant's resistance to a pathogen using the modified OXOX variant polypeptides are provided. Transformed plants, plant cell, tissues, seed, and expression vectors are also provided. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110197312 | Indigenous Viral Satellite RNA Associate with Cucumber Mosaic Virus used as a Biological Control Agent against Tomato Diseases caused by Virus Strains, Viroids, and Fungi - Viral satellite RNA associated with cucumber mosaic virus KU1 strain used as a biological control agent against a severe viral strain KU2 caused tomato necrosis. Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) caused tomato stunting, fusarium wilt disease in tomato caused by | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110197313 | Pepper Hybrid E42.2346 - A hybrid pepper designated E42.2346 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid pepper E42.2346 to the plants of hybrid pepper E42.2346 and to methods for producing a hybrid plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the hybrid E42.2346 with itself or another pepper plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a pepper plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other pepper lines, cultivars or hybrids derived from the hybrid pepper E42.2346. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110197314 | Methods and Compositions for Controlling Plant Pests - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-24 or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12 and 25-44, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110203013 | DELIVERING COMPOSITIONS OF INTEREST TO PLANT CELLS - Methods and mixtures for providing a composition of interest to a plant cell are provided. Methods using a mixture of particles are provided, wherein the mixture includes at least one nanoparticle associated with a microparticle via a lipid compound. Methods include methods for plant cell transformation, methods to increase transformation frequency, methods to increase gene targeting, and methods for plastid transformation. The nanoparticle comprises at least one composition of interest. Also provided are transformed plant cells, plants, and seeds produced using the methods and mixtures described herein. Further provided are the methods of making and using the mixtures of particles. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110203014 | AXMI218, AXMI219, AXMI220, AXMI226, AXMI227, AXMI228, AXMI229, AXMI230, AND AXMI231 DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-30, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110203015 | AXMI221z, AXMI222z, AXMI223z, AXMI224z, AND AXMI225z DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:21-32, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-20, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110209246 | Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants and uses thereof for plant improvement - Recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides useful for improvement of plants are provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110209247 | Transgenic Plant Having Enhanced Drought Tolerance - The present invention relates to the field of transgenic plants with novel phenotypes, especially plants with enhanced drought and pathogen resistance. Provided are transgenic crop plants comprising integrated in their genome a chimeric gene, characterized by said chimeric gene comprising a transcription regulatory sequence active in plant cells operably linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a protein having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 or a protein at least 70% identical to SEQ ID NO: 3, or an ortholog protein or a functional fragment thereof. In addition to enhanced drought tolerance the transgenic plants may show enhanced disease resistance and enhanced root structure. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110209248 | NOVEL SUGAR TRANSPORTERS - A novel class of transporter protein, referred to as SWEET, GLUE or Glü, is disclosed. These transporters provide a novel system for the transportation of sugars across membranes within a cell and between the inside and outside of a cell. Such transporters are useful for understanding and altering the sugar concentration within certain organs of an organism, and within certain organelles within the cell. These transporters are also useful in protecting plants from a pathogen attack. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110239327 | Nematicidal Effects of Cysteine Proteinases and Methods of Use Thereof to Treat Nematode Infestation - This invention provides methods and compositions for control of nematicidal damage to economically important plants by contacting the nematodes with cysteine proteinases. The cysteine proteinases may be provided as crude plant extracts or as refined enzyme extracts. In addition, the cysteine proteinases may be provided by the plants expressing these enzymes. Furthermore, the cysteine proteinase treatment according to this invention may be utilized to potentiate the anti-nematode effects of a non-enzymatic nematicide. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110247096 | Plant Root-Specific Nematode Resistance - The invention provides expression vectors comprising root-specific promoters in operative association with polynucleotides that are down-regulated in syncytia of nematode-infected plants, for use in methods of producing transgenic plants with increased resistance to nematode infestation. The invention also provides nematode-resistant transgenic plants and seeds comprising such expression vectors. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110258736 | Pathogen Control Genes and Methods of Use in Plants - This invention provides methods for conferring increased pathogen resistance to a plant. Specifically, the invention relates to methods of producing transgenic plants with increased nematode resistance, expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding polypeptides with anti-nematode activity, and transgenic plants and seeds generated thereof. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258737 | RICE GENE CAPABLE OF IMPARTING WIDE-SPECTRUM DISEASE RESISTANCE - A three-step screening of selection for resistance against pathogenic bacteria infection, selection for resistance against pathogenic fungi infection, and selection for sensitivity to salicylic acid was carried out on | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110271400 | DEFENSE PEPTIDES AGAINST FUNGAL INFECTION AND METHOD OF THEIR USE - , the fungal pathogen that causes Asian soybean rust, has the potential to cause significant losses in soybean yield in many production regions of the U.S. To assist the development of new modes of soybean resistance to fungal infection, peptides were identified from combinatorial phage-display peptide libraries which inhibit germ tube growth from urediniospores of | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110277184 | Insecticidal proteins from bacillus thuringiensis - The invention pertains to novel insecticidal compounds derived from | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110277185 | INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS FROM BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS - The invention pertains to novel insecticidal compounds derived from | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110283417 | Secreted Insecticidal Protein and Gene Compositions from Bacillus Thuringiensis and Uses Therefor - The present invention relates to the isolation and characterization of nucleotide sequences encoding novel insecticidal proteins secreted into the extracellular space from | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110289624 | GENE-TRANSFER VECTOR COMPRISING HELPER-COMPONENT PROTEASE GENE OF PAPAYA RINGSPOT VIRUS FOR BROAD-SPECTRUM VIRUS RESISTANCE IN CROPS AND USE THEREOF - Provided is a recombinant plasmid having a control sequence and a coding sequence fragment of Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) helper-component protease gene (HC-Pro gene) operably linked to the control sequence. A recombinant microorganism derived therefrom is also provided. A method for providing plants with resistance against virus is also provided. Use of PRSV HC-Pro gene or fragment thereof in generating plants with resistance against virus is also provided. It is proven that the PRSV HC-Pro transgenic plants can solve the problem resulting from breakdown by gene silencing suppression and provide broad-spectrum resistance to various PRSV strains of different geographical origins. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289625 | ALTERED LEAF MORPHOLOGY AND ENHANCED AGRONOMIC PROPERTIES IN PLANTS - The invention provides methods for enhancing agronomic properties in plants by down-regulation of a PALM transcription factor. Nucleic acid constructs for down-regulation of PALM are described. Transgenic plants are provided that comprise increased leafy tissue and increased disease resistance. Plants described herein may be used, for example, as improved forage crops or in biofuel production. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289626 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO PESTS AND PATHOGENS OF PLANTS - Methods and materials for conferring pest resistance to plants are provided. Plants are transformed with a silencing construct homologous to a gene of a plant pest that is essential for the survival, development, or pathogenicity of the pest. This results in the plant producing RNAi to the selected gene, which, when ingested by the pest results in silencing of the gene and a subsequent reduction of the pest's ability to harm the plant. In other embodiments, the pest's reduced ability to harm the plant is passed on to pest progeny. Methods and materials for depathogenesis of pests is also provided. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289627 | MODIFIED CRY3A TOXINS AND NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES CODING THEREFOR - Methods for making a modified Cry3A toxin are disclosed. Such methods include the insertion of a protease recognition site that is recognized by a gut protease of a target insect, such as corn rootworm, into at least one position of a Cry3A toxin so that a modified Cry3A toxin is thus designed. The coding sequence of the modified Cry3A toxin may be transformed into a host cell and the host cell grown under conditions that allow the host cell to produce the modified Cry3A toxin. The host cell may be a plant cell and the plant may be comprised in a transgenic plant. Thus, the transgenic plant may be used to produce the modified Cry3A toxin. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110296553 | ENGINEERING BROAD AND DURABLE RESISTANCE TO GRAPEVINE FANLEAF VIRUS IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules useful for conferring broad and durable resistance to grapevine fanleaf virus in plants. The invention also relates to methods of enhancing resistance to plant pathogens and plants or plant components (such as grape plants) expressing such nucleic acid molecules. In addition, the invention relates to products (e.g., foodstuffs including beverages such as wine or juice) derived from grape plants transformed with such nucleic acids. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110321192 | TOMATO PLANTS HAVING HIGHER LEVELS OF RESISTANCE TO BOTRYTIS - The present invention relates to a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with resistance to | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120011616 | Modification of Plant Development and Morphology - A method of modifying morphology in a plant by introducing into a plant at least one chimaeric gene having a promoter sequence operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence, the promoter sequence being operable to direct expression in specific cells of the plant and the nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one gene product capable of altering the metabolism of or causing death of the specific cells and/or nearby cells. In particular, the promoter sequence is operable to direct expression in lateral bud or lateral shoot and the nucleic acid encoding at least one gene product capable of disrupting the metabolism of or causing the death of the lateral bud or lateral shoot or nearby cells. Preferably the promoter sequence has the sequence shown as SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 7 or SEQ ID No. 4, or a part thereof capable of regulating expression of a gene, or a sequence having at least 60%, preferably at least 75%, homology to SEQ ID No. I or SEQ ID No. 7 and being capable of regulating expression of a gene. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011617 | Regulatory Elements Associated with CBF Transcription Factors of Maize - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of a polynucleotide of interest in a plant are provided. Compositions include novel nucleotide sequences comprising an isolated stress-induced promoter natively linked to the maize ZmCBF2 coding region. A method for expressing a polynucleotide of interest in a plant or plant cell, using a regulatory sequence described herein, is provided. The method may comprise transforming a plant cell to comprise a polynucleotide sequence of interest operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120017331 | RESISTANCE TO DOWNY MILDEW OF ONION CAUSED BY THE FUNGUS PERONOSPORA DESTRUCTOR - The present invention relates to plants of the | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120023618 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO PESTS AND PATHOGENS OF PLANTS - Methods and materials for conferring pest resistance to plants are provided. Plants are transformed with a silencing construct homologous to a gene of a plant pest that is essential for the survival, development, or pathogenicity of the pest. This results in the plant producing RNAi to the selected gene, which, when ingested by the pest results in silencing of the gene and a subsequent reduction of the pest's ability to harm the plant. In other embodiments, the pest's reduced ability to harm the plant is passed on to pest progeny. Methods and materials for depathogenesis of pests is also provided. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023619 | LINEAR DNA MOLECULE DELIVERY USING PEGYLATED QUANTUM DOTS FOR STABLE TRASFORMATION IN PLANTS - Methods for introducing a linear nucleic acid molecule of interest into a cell comprising a cell wall include use of nanoparticles coated with polyethylene glycol. In some embodiments, the cell comprising a cell wall is a plant cell. Methods include genetically or otherwise modifying plants and for treating or preventing disease in plant cells comprising a cell wall. Transgenic plants include a nucleic acid molecule of interest produced by regeneration of whole plants from plant cells transformed with linear nucleic acid molecules. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023620 | PRODUCTION OF FUNCTIONALIZED LINEAR DNA CASSETTE AND QUANTUM DOT/NANOPARTICLE MEDIATED DELIVERY IN PLANTS - Methods for introducing a functionalized linear nucleic acid cassette molecule of interest into a plant cell comprising a cell wall include use of nanoparticles. In some embodiments, the cell comprising a cell wall is a cultured plant cell. Methods include genetically or otherwise modifying plant cells and for treating or preventing disease in any plant, especially crop plants. Transgenic plants include a nucleic acid molecule of interest produced by regeneration of whole plants from plant cells transformed with functionalized linear nucleic acid cassette molecules. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030834 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ROOT KNOT NEMATODE CONTROL - The present invention discloses gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by nematodes of the genus | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120030835 | ENGINEERING HEAT-STABLE DISEASE RESISTANCE IN PLANTS - Disclosed are nucleic acid molecules which encode heat-stable plant resistance polypeptides having NB-LRR structural motifs, where the LRR domain includes a sub-domain which confers heat-stability to a plant defense response. The invention further involves transgenic plants and transformed host cells that express these nucleic acid molecules and exhibit enhanced disease resistance over a wide range of temperatures. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120042415 | TRANSGENIC PLANTS EXPRESSING L3 DELTA PROTEINS ARE RESISTANT TO TRICHOTHECENE FUNGAL TOXINS - Disclosed are specific mutants of L3 and transgenic plants that produce them. The plants exhibit increased resistance to fungal toxins that target ribosomal L3 protein. Also disclosed are transgenic plants that co-produce L3 mutant and an RIP protein, and exhibit increased resistance to various fungal toxins and viruses, while reducing toxicity normally associated with production of the RIP. Uses of the L3 mutants in animals are further disclosed. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042416 | Antibody fusion-mediated plant resistance against Oomycota - The present invention relates to fusion proteins comprising anti-Oomycotic proteins or peptides linked to an antibody or fragment thereof specifically recognising an epitope of an Oomycota. The invention is also directed to polynucleotides coding for the fusion proteins. The embodiments of the present invention are particularly useful for the protection of plants against Oomycota. The invention therefore comprises transgenic plants expressing the fusion proteins of the present invention. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120047604 | NOVEL KINASE-START GENE CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO PLANT DISEASE AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS COMPRISING IT - An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes a polypeptide comprising both a steroidogenic acute regulatory protein-related lipid transfer (START) domain and a kinase domain is provided, as well as plant cells and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acid molecule, said transgenic plants being resistant to plant disease. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047605 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047606 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120047607 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Coleopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120066793 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CONTROLLING PLANT PESTS - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-24 or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12 and 25-44, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120073016 | AXMI-150 DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions including a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules having nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120079620 | STORAGE-INDUCED PROMOTER - A promoter with an organ-specific activity in plants. The promoter is characterized in that it exhibits greater activity in the storage organs of plants than in other organs of said plants and that the promoter activity is modified after the harvest of the storage organs and is greater than prior to said harvest. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084882 | NEMATODE-RESISTANT TRANSGENIC PLANTS - The present invention provides expression vectors encoding double stranded RNAs that target certain plant genes required for maintenance of parasitic nematode infection, nematode-resistant transgenic plants that express such double-stranded RNAs, and methods associated therewith. The targeted plant gene is a GLABRA-like gene, a homeodomain-like gene, a trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase-like gene, an unknown gene having at least 80% homology to SEQ ID NO:16, a ringH2 finger-like gene, a zinc finger-like gene, or a MIOX-like gene. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120102595 | Novel Antifungal Proteins and Methods of Use - Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for novel variants of antipathogenic polypeptides generated through DNA shuffling that exhibit improved antipathogenic activity. Polynucleotides that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the polynucleotides disclosed herein is further provided. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a microorganism comprising an antipathogenic polynucleotide of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising an antipathogenic polynucleotide or polypeptide of the invention are also disclosed. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120110696 | LysM Receptor-Like Kinases To Improve Plant Defense Response Against Fungal Pathogens - Perception of chitin fragments (chitooligosaccharides) is an important first step in plant defense response against fungal pathogen. LysM receptor-like kinases (LysM RLKs) are instrumental in this perception process. LysM RLKs also play a role in activating transcription of chitin-responsive genes (CRGs) in plants. Mutations in the LysM kinase receptor genes or the downstream CRGs may affect the fungal susceptibility of a plant. Mutations in LysM RLKs or transgenes carrying the same may be beneficial in imparting resistance against fungal pathogens. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120117689 | CHIMERIC PROMOTERS CAPABLE OF MEDIATING GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS UPON PATHOGEN INFECTION AND USES THEREOF - Described are synthetic promoters capable of mediating gene expression in plants upon pathogen infection. Furthermore, recombinant genes and vectors comprising said chimeric promoters as well as host cells transformed with such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, or vectors are provided. Additionally, diagnostic compositions and kits comprising such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors or cells are described. Provided are further methods for the identification of compounds being capable of activating or inhibiting genes that are specifically expressed in plants upon pathogen infection employing the above described means. Furthermore, transgenic plant cells, plant tissue, and plants containing the above-described chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, and vectors as well as the use of the aforementioned chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors and/or compounds identified by the method of the invention in plant cell and tissue culture, plant breeding, and/or agriculture are described. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120117690 | NOVEL BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS CRYSTAL POLYPEPTIDES, POLYNUCLEOTIDES, AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The present invention provides insecticidal polypeptides related to shuffled | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120124699 | Plant Defense Genes and Proteins and Methods of Use - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding plant defense proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120137387 | METHODS FOR GENETIC CONTROL OF INSECT INFESTATION IN PLANTS AND COMPOSITIONS THEREOF - The present invention relates to control of pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control, By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pest, a reduction in pest infestation is obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120137388 | Cucumber Vein Yellowing Virus (CVYV) Resistant Cucumber Plants (Cucumis Sativus L.) - Molecular markers genetically linked to, and capable of identifying, a genetic locus in the cucumber plant ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120151629 | Nematode-Resistant Transgenic Plants - The invention provides nematode-resistant transgenic plants and seed that express polynucleotides encoding AP2/EREBP transcription factors, harpin-induced proteins, TINY-like transcription factors, annexins, laccases, isoflavone 7-O-methyltransferases, anthocyanidin 3-glucoside rhanmosyltransferases, hsr201-like, or AUX/IAA proteins. The invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with increased resistance to plant parasitic nematodes and expression vectors for use in such methods. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120159667 | VARIANTS OF NRR ACTIVATE PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE - Methods and compositions for improving plant disease resistance by expression of NPR1-biding domain/transcriptional activation domain fusions are provided. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120159668 | Polynucleotides derived from chickpea and uses thereof - Polynucleotides isolated from chickpea are disclosed herein. The disclosed polynucleotides of the present invention provide genotype-dependent spatial information on the presence and relative abundance of each gene. The transcriptomic analysis of the polynucleotides revealed (649) non-cannonical genes besides many unexpected candidates with known biochemical functions, which have never been associated with pathostress-responsive transcriptome. The polynucleotides disclosed in the present invention can be used as a molecular tool for isolation of novel genes from plants that can be used for plant improvement. Further, the polynucleotide responsible for improving immunity against fungal pathogen in plants is disclosed herein. The present invention also provides a method of improving immunity against fungal pathogen in plants. Transgenic plants exhibiting improved immunity against fungal pathogen are also provided in the present invention. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120167249 | VIRAL PROMOTER, TRUNCATIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF USE - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120167250 | VIRAL PROMOTER, TRUNCATIONS THEREOF, AND METHODS OF USE - The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120167251 | AXMI-031, AXMI-039, AXMI-040 AND AXMI-049, A FAMILY OF NOVEL DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120174258 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120174259 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT TARGET THE VACUOLAR ATPASE C SUBUNIT AND CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120174260 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT TARGET THE RHO1 SMALL GTP-BINDING PROTEIN AND CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120180160 | ANTIFUNGAL PLANT PROTEINS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE - DNA constructions that provide for production of potent antifungal proteins in transgenic plants and transformed yeast cells are described. Methods of using the DNA constructs to produce transgenic plants that inhibit growth of plant pathogenic fungi are also disclosed. The use of transformed yeast cells containing the DNA constructs to produce the antifungal proteins and methods of isolating the antifungal proteins are also described. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120185964 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR STRESS TOLERANCE IN PLANTS - We characterise a plant transcription factor and disclose its use in modifying plant responses to stress conditions, including freezing, drought, salinity and pathogen invasion. Microarray analyses were performed indicating that such tolerance occurs via the increase of antifreeze proteins localized in the cellular apoplast which inhibit the growth of large extracellular ice crystals. We also disclose the use of such proteins. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120192310 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene With Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120192311 | RIPENING PROMOTER - The presence of expansins was investigated in various developmental and ripening stages of cherry fruits by SDS PAGE and immunoblotting. An expansin gene and three fragments (242, 607, and 929 bp) of its promoter region were cloned. The genomic clone of the expansin gene contained three introns, two exons spanning a 1.6 kb and a 1.0 kb upstream region. Semi quantitative PCR analysis showed that this gene was ripening specific Chimeric promoter—GUS constructs were made and truncated forms of the expansin promoter were introduced into tomatoes by agroinjection and fruits were analyzed for GUS expression by histochemical GUS staining and enzyme activity assays. The 0.60 kb expansin promoter efficiently induced GUS expression in transgenic tomatoes, whereas constructs with the 0.25 kb promoter did not display significant GUS staining. The highest GUS activity was detected in tomatoes containing the 1.0 kb promoter construct. Both large base pair promoter constructs drove the expression of the GUS gene at an equal or higher rate than the tomato E8 promoter. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120198585 | ENHANCING DROUGHT TOLERANCE AND BACTERIAL RESISTANCE OF CROP SPECIES BY FUNCTIONAL INTERFERENCE OF 14-3-3 - The present invention generally relates to plants and methods of producing modified plants that exhibit enhanced drought resistance and bacterial resistance relative to non-modified plants. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198586 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT TARGET THE VACUOLAR ATPASE H SUBUNIT AND CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120204290 | AGRONOMICALLY ELITE LETTUCE WITH QUANTITATIVE BREMIA LACTUCA RESISTANCE - The invention provides compositions and methods relating to the separation of quantitative Downy Mildew resistance traits from linked but undesirable agronomic traits. The invention further provides plants, plant parts, and seeds comprising such Downy Mildew Resistance traits, which do not comprise alleles specifying undesirable agronomic traits that are genetically linked to the resistance traits. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120204291 | STRESS TOLERANT PLANTS - The invention relates to methods for increasing stress tolerance in plants by expressing a nucleic acid encoding a FId polypeptide and a nucleic acid sequence encoding a FNR polypeptide in a plant. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120210462 | SYNTHETIC INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS ACTIVE AGAINST CORN ROOTWORM - Traditionally, the primary method for impacting insect pest populations is the application of broad-spectrum chemical insecticides. However, there is increasing concern about the environmental hazards associated with the production and use of synthetic chemical pesticides. Thus, there is substantial interest in developing alternative pesticides, including biological control of insect pests of agricultural significance using a microbial agent or another species of insect. The present invention provides compositions and methods for such biological control. Modified Cry3 pesticidal polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides, and methods of use are disclosed. The modified polynucleotides provided herein can be used to transform organisms and cells of hosts comprising plant, insects, and microorganisms. The expression of modified polypeptides can provide the host with improved insecticidal activity against one or more insect pathogens. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120210463 | Root-Preferred Promoter and Methods of Use - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter for the gene encoding | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120210464 | INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS - Improved compositions and methods for controlling pests are disclosed. In particular, novel engineered Cry1Ba (eCry1Ba) proteins having improved toxicity to lepidopteran insect pests are provided. By substituting at least one amino acid in domain I of a Cry1Ba protein an engineered Cry1Ba protein having substantially altered insecticidal properties is designed. Further, a method of making the engineered Cry1Ba proteins and methods of using the ecry1Ba nucleic acid sequences, for example in transgenic plants to express eCry1B proteins to confer protection from insect damage are disclosed. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120233726 | NOVEL BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS GENE WITH LEPIDOPTERAN ACTIVITY - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120240288 | CONTROL OF PESTS IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to the field of controlling pests, such as insects, using a virus to express pest genes in hosts. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for rapidly screening for pest genes which can lead to mortality of the pest when the pest has ingested host tissues expressing virus-linked pest gene sequences. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling pests by viral expression of target pest sequences to modify endogenous expression of pest genes in cells or tissues of the pest. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120246758 | Methods for Increasing the Resistance of Plants to Fungi by Silencing the Fungal SMT1-Gene - The present invention relates to methods for generating or increasing resistance to at least one fungi, in particular soy bean rust, in a plant or a part of a plant by the expression of RNA which is at least partial complementary and/or identical to the STM1-gene, wherein the RNA is capable to provide ds-RNA and/or siRNA and/or miRNA. Moreover, the invention relates to respective plants, parts thereof and vector constructs capable to provide such RNA and the use of such vector constructs to provide fungal resistant plants. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120255065 | Novel Bacterial Proteins with Pesticidal Activity - Provided are pesticidal, particularly insecticidal, proteins which resemble S-layer proteins, as well as variants or mutants thereof, and DNAs encoding them. Further provided are methods and means for using said DNA or protein for controlling pests, particularly plant insect pests. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120260368 | Genes Implicated In Resistance To Soybean Cyst Nematode Infection And Methods Of Their Use - Genes whose expressions are up-regulated or down-regulated in plant roots in response to nematode infection are disclosed. These genes may play an important role in plant defense against SCN infection. Several nematode-inducible promoters have also been identified in plants which ma be used in nematode inducible gene expression construct. Expression of these SCN responsive genes may be manipulated to obtain SCN resistant lines. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120272404 | ISOLATED NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULE, GENIC CONSTRUCT, VECTOR, TRANSGENIC CELL, METHOD OF OBTAINING A CELL AND A TRANSGENIC PLANT, ISOLATED AND PURIFIED POLYPEPTIDE, BIODEGRADABLE PESTICIDE COMPOSITION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING A PEST, METHOD OF OBTAINING TRANSGENIC STRAINS RESISTANT TO AN INSECT PEST - The present invention belongs to an insecticide compound derived from a strain of | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120272405 | REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS AND GENETIC APPROACHES FOR CONTROLLING HUANGLONGBING - The invention provides a method for controlling Huanglongbing (HLB) disease of citrus plants through expressing genes encoding synthases for sesquiterpenes such as β-caryophyllene, and α-copaene, and combinations thereof, in citrus plants. Methods of controlling HLB comprising applying at least one purified sesquiterpene, which repels | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120278946 | ISOLATION OF PROTEINS INVOLVED IN POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING AND METHODS OF USE - The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to methods of increasing viral resistance in a plant, methods of increasing transgene expression in a plant, and methods of suppressing expression of a native gene in a plant. In some embodiments, the disclosure also relates to polypeptides involved in post-translational gene silencing (PTGS), for e.g., a protein active in PTGS or a suppressor of PTGS. The disclosure further relates to transgenic plant cells in which PTGS is altered (e.g., enhanced or suppressed) according to some embodiments. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120284873 | APOMICTIC SOYBEAN VARIETIES AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAID VARIETIES - The present invention provides apomictic soybean varieties and methods of making the same. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120291156 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE RESISTANCE OF A PLANT OR A PART THEREOF TO A PATHOGEN, METHOD FOR SCREENING THE RESISTANCE OF A PLANT OR PART THEREOF TO A PATHOGEN, AND USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to the field of plant biotechnology. More in particular, the present invention relates to methods for increasing the resistance of a plant or part thereof that is susceptible to infection with a pathogen comprising an ortholog of the Avr4 protein of | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120291157 | GPAV GENE RESISTANT TO NEMATODES IN THE SOLANACEA - The invention relates to a GpaV gene providing resistance to nematodes in plants belonging to the nightshade family, and in particular potatoes ( | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120291158 | SOYBEAN TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATORS AND USE IN EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - Five novel plant transcription terminators MYB2, KTI1, PIP1, EF1A2, and MTH1 are isolated from soybean and their functions in the regulation of RNA transcription and processing in plants are described. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120297503 | Novel Bacillus thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120331582 | METHOD TO CONTROL SPIDER MITES - The present invention relates to a method of controlling spider mites on plants. More specifically, the invention relates to plants expressing RNAi of one or more essential genes of the spider mite, and the use of those plants to control the spider mite proliferation into pest proportions. In a preferred embodiment, the spider mite is | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130025000 | PROMOTER FOR REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANT ROOTS - The invention is directed to a promoter isolated from maize. The promoter of the invention have particular utility in driving root preferred expression, specifically root-cap expression, of heterologous genes that impart increased agronomic, horticultural and/or pesticidal characteristics to a given transgenic plant. The invention is also drawn to DNA molecules comprising the promoter of the invention and transformed plant tissues containing DNA molecules comprising a promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous gene or genes, and seeds thereof. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130031666 | ENGINEERING BROAD-SPECTRUM DISEASE RESISTANCE AGAINST HAUSTORIUM-FORMING PATHOGENS USING RPW8 AS A DELIVERY VEHICLE - The present invention relates to the increased expression of RPW8 proteins causing an increased level of the RPW8 proteins at extrahaustorial membrane with subsequent induction of pathogen inhibition reactions against haustorium forming pathogens. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130031667 | Anti-nematode peptides and methods of use thereof - The invention provides novel polypeptides, and variants and fragments thereof, having pesticidal activity against nematodes. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, biopesticide compositions, expression cassettes, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the invention. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant parasitic nematodes. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130047299 | Defensin-Encoding Nucleic Acid Molecules Derived From Nicotiana Alata, Uses Therefor And Transgenic Plants Comprising Same - The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules derived from | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130055469 | PESTICIDAL PROTEINS AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:50-96, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-47, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130061350 | PLANTS AND SEEDS OF COMMON WHEAT CULTIVAR WB-700 - A wheat cultivar, designated WB-700, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-700, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-700 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-700, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-700, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-700 with another wheat cultivar. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130067620 | Improved Compositions and Methods for Pathogen Control in Plants - Methods and compositions for use in reducing biotic stress in plants by providing recombinant DNA molecules encoding methkyletone thioesterase into the cells of a plant in order to achieve a reduction in infestation by nematodes, insects and other pests are described. The plant cells in some cases produce one or more of 2-nonanone, 2-undecanone, 2-tridecanone and 2-pentadecanone. Also described are methods for making transgenic plants that express the recombinant DNA molecule for use in protecting plants from pest infestations. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130074217 | TRANSGENIC SOYBEAN PLANTS EXHIBITING IMPROVED INNATE IMMUNITY - This disclosure provides for compositions and methods to increase the innate immunity of soybean plants. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130074218 | METHOD FOR OPTIMISING GENE EXPRESSION USING SYNONYMOUS CODON OPTIMISATION - The present invention discloses a method for modulating the quality of a selected phenotype that is displayed by an organism or part thereof and that results from the expression of a polypeptide-encoding polynucleotide by replacing at least one codon of that polynucleotide with a synonymous codon that has a higher or lower preference of usage by the organism or part thereof to produce the selected phenotype than the codon it replaces. The present invention is also directed to the use of a codon-modified polynucleotide so constructed for modulating the quality of a selected phenotype displayed by an organism or part thereof. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130091598 | Nematode-Resistant Transgenic Plants - The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of plants genes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target plant gene which is a plant a CLASP1 gene, an Aspartic Proteinase Delta Subunit gene, a Secreted Protein 1 gene, a Lectin Receptor Kinase-like gene, a Pectin Methylesterase-like gene, and an N PY1 gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091599 | Cosmid Vector for Transforming Plant and Use Thereof - The present invention provides novel cosmid vectors for plant transformation. The cosmid vectors have a full length of 15 kb or less and contain: 1) an origin of replication of an IncP plasmid, but not any origin of replication of other plasmid groups; 2) the trfA1 gene of an IncP plasmid; 3) an oriT of an IncP plasmid; 4) the incC1 gene of an IncP plasmid; 5) a cos site of lambda phage, which is located outside the T-DNA; 6) a drug resistance gene expressed in | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091600 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT TARGET PP1-87B AND CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091601 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT TARGET RPA70 AND CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130097728 | AXMI115 VARIANT INSECTICIDAL GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. The toxin coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, polynucleotide sequences and the toxin proteins encoded thereby are provided. Also provided are antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the invention encompasses nucleotide sequences encoding fusion proteins, as well as biologically active variants and fragments thereof, wherein the fusion protein contains the C-terminal portion of SEQ ID NO:43. The fusion protein may also contain the N-terminal portion of SEQ ID NO:45. The invention also includes the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:47 and 1-14, or a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:48 and 15-31, including biologically active variants and fragments thereof. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097729 | Aphicidal Toxins and Methods - Provided are chimeric aphicidal and insecticidal toxin proteins comprising peptide, peptide multimer or fusion protein containing such peptide which binds to the gut of sap-sucking insects, e.g., aphids, thrips, leafhoppers, or other target interest. When bound, this peptide mediates the binding of the chimeric aphicidal or other insecticidal protein to the target insect gut. Also described are coding sequences, vectors, and transgenic plants genetically modified to contain and express such aphicidal or insecticidal proteins. Thus, the use of such transgenic plants reduces economic loss due to feeding by the target insect and also reduces loss due to plant diseases spread by the target insect. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097730 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT TARGET RPS6 AND CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097731 | PEST-RESISTANT PLANTS CONTAINING A COMBINATION OF A SPIDER TOXIN AND A CHITINASE - An isolated polynucleotide is disclosed comprising:
| 04-18-2013 |
| 20130104259 | AXMI-115, AXMI-113, AXMI-005, AXMI-163 AND AXMI-184: INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring insecticidal activity to host cells are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in host cells. Compositions also comprise transformed host cells. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, 6, 13, or 14, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 2, 3, 11, or 12, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130104260 | Use of Armadillo Repeat (ARM1) Polynucleotides for Obtaining Pathogen Resistance in Plants - The invention relates to a method of generating or increasing a pathogen resistance in plants by reducing the expression of at least one Armadillo repeat polypeptide or a functional equivalent thereof. The invention relates to novel nucleic acid sequences coding for a | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130111632 | OVERPRODUCTION OF JASMONIC ACID IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130117884 | AXMI-001, AXMI-002, AXMI-030, AXMI-035, AND AXMI-045: TOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:6-11, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-5, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117885 | Novel Microrna Precursor and Methods of Use for Regulation of Target Gene Expression - Methods for modulating target gene expression in plants by expression of recombinant microRNA precursors are provided. Uses of the said recombinant microRNA precursors for the control of nematodes, in particular the control of soybean cyst nematodes are also provided. Methods for introduction of genetic material into plants that are susceptible to nematodes in order to increase resistance to nematodes are further provided. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130125257 | CORN WITH INCREASED YIELD AND NITROGEN UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY - The subject invention relates in part to the use of insect-protected corn to modify fertility recommendations for given yield targets on any transgenic corn type. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130133107 | GENES ENCODING NEMATODE TOXINS - Compositions and methods for conferring nematicidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions including a coding sequence for nematicidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated nematicidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules including nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 47, 48, or 49, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 45, or 46, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130133108 | EXTRACTS FROM PIRIN+ AND PIRIN- PLANTS AND USES THEREOF - The present disclosure provides methods of making and using plant extracts that include quercetin, which are generated from transgenic plants that have decreased pirin activity (prn-). Such transgenic plants and their extracts can be used to increase tolerance of a plant to a stressor, such as UV light, as well as treat tumor cells (such as kill cancer cells), prevent certain types of fungal infections (such as | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130152227 | ENHANCED DISEASE RESISTANCE BY INTRODUCTION OF NH3 - Methods and compositions for improving plant resistance by expression of NPR homolog 3 (NH3) polypeptides are provided. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130152228 | Method of Increasing Resistance Against Fungal Infection in Transgenic Plants by HCP-2-Gene - The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal infection in transgenic plants and/or plant cells. In these plants, the content and/or the activity of a HCP-2-protein are increased in comparison to the wild-type plants not including a recombinant HCP-2-gene. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130160159 | GEMINI VIRUS REPLICATION INHIBITOR - A replication inhibitor, which is an agent for inhibiting replication of a geminivirus, and comprises a zinc finger protein that can specifically bind to at least full length of stem loop region DNA of the geminivirus, or a part thereof, and can inhibit formation of a stem loop structure. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130160160 | METHOD FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSGENE TRANSCRIPTION - The present invention relates to constructs and methods for improving expression of transgenes in plants, animals and humans. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130180006 | Pollen Preferred Promoters and Methods of Use - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences encompasses a strong pollen preferred promoter which drives strong, specific expression of gene products in pollen. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130180007 | Somatic Ovule Specific Promoters and Methods of Use - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for several Arabidopsis thaliana ovule somatic tissue-preferred promoters AT-CYP86C1, AT-PPM, AT-EXT, AT-GILT1 and AT-TT2. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130180008 | Ovule Specific Promoter and Methods of Use - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for an | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130185824 | Method of Increasing Resistance Against Soybean Rust in Transgenic Plants by ADR-1-Gene - The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against soybean rust in transgenic plants and/or plant cells. In these plants, the content and/or the activity of an ADR-1-protein are increased in comparison to the wild-type plants not including a recombinant ADR-1-gene. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130198901 | NOVEL REPORTER CONSTRUCTS FOR COMPOUND SCREENING - The instant description provides reporter constructs, transgenic cells, and transgenic organisms and methods for identifying agents that can regulate gene expression and improve performance. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198902 | MULTIPLE VIRUS RESISTANCE IN PLANTS - The present invention provides gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by multiple plant viruses. The present invention relates to achieving a plant protective effect through the identification of target coding sequences and the use of recombinant DNA technologies for post-transcriptionally repressing or inhibiting expression of the target coding sequences of plant-parasitic viruses. Protein-expression based approaches may also be utilized to augment phenotype resistance. Thus, transcription of a single transgenic event comprising one or more plant expression cassettes can allow for broad spectrum resistance of a plant to multiple plant viral strains and species among the geminiviruses, tospoviruses, and potexviruses. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198903 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR EXPRESSION OF A HETEROLOGOUS NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE IN PLANTS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for targeting polypeptides to the chloroplasts of higher plants. Compositions include expression cassettes having a nucleotide sequence encoding a chloroplast targeting peptide (CTP) operably linked to a nucleotide sequence of interest, wherein the CTP is derived from | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130205443 | PATHOGEN RESISTANT CITRUS COMPOSITIONS, ORGANISMS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to pathogen resistant citrus compositions, organisms, systems, and methods. For example, a composition may comprise a peptide (e.g., a defensin peptide) and/or a nucleic acid (e.g., a defensin nucleic acid). A pathogen resistant citrus plant may comprise, in some embodiments, a defensin peptide and/or an expressable nucleic acid encoding a defensin peptide. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130212739 | PROCESS FOR TRANSFECTING PLANTS - A process of transfecting a plant, comprising spraying parts of said plant with an aqueous suspension containing cells of an | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130219555 | PATHOGEN-INDUCIBLE PROMOTERS AND THEIR USE IN ENHANCING THE DISEASE RESISTANCE OF PLANTS - Methods for producing pathogen-inducible promoters for the expression of genes in plants are provided. The pathogen-inducible promoters are inducible by one, two, three, or more plant pathogens. Methods for producing R genes that are inducible in a plant by more than one plant pathogen are further provided. Additionally, provided are R genes and other nucleic acid molecules comprising the pathogen-inducible promoters and that are made by such methods as well as plants, plant parts, plant cells, seeds, and non-human host cells comprising the R genes and other nucleic acid molecules | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130227743 | INTEGRATED METHOD FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL PESTICIDAL COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREFOR - Methods to rapidly identify nucleic acid sequences encoding novel biotoxins are provided. Particularly, methods to rapidly sample and screen extrachromosomal genetic content of microorganisms for novel sequences of interest are described. Compositions comprising coding sequences for biotoxins, and polypeptides and uses derived therefrom are provided. Compositions and methods are useful, for example, for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130227744 | MOLECULAR INTERACTION BETWEEN XA10 AND AVRXA10 - The present invention provides nucleic acids and methods for conferring resistance to bacterial disease in plants. The present invention also provides promoters and promoter sequences useful for controlling expression in transgenic plants. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130239254 | MODULATION OF RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASES FOR PROMOTION OF PLANT GROWTH - The invention provides the disclosure of a novel plant growth pathway involving several receptor like kinases. The pathway was shown to work largely independent of brassinosteroids and involves several members of the CrRLK1L family of receptor kinases. According to the invention, HERK1, HERK2, FER, THE1 and the brassinosteroid BES1 may be modulated to influence plant growth and elongation. The invention includes methods, and transformed plants, cells tissues and seeds with increased cellular elongation and other related yield traits. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130247245 | ENZYMES INVOLVED IN TRITERPENE SYNTHESIS - This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding enzymes consisting of a carboxypeptidase-like protein, a methyltransferase and a glucosyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of β-amyrin-derived triterpenes in plants and seeds. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotides of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254933 | CRY1I PROTEINS AND GENES FOR INSECT CONTROL - Novel insecticidal toxins isolated from | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254934 | DISEASE-RESISTANT PLANT AND METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME - It is intended to identify a novel gene involved in the induction of pathogen resistance by brassinosteroid and to prepare a disease-resistant plant with enhanced disease resistance by introducing the gene into plant cells of interest. Pathogen-resistant brassinosteroid mutants are isolated, and four genes obtained on the basis of the analysis of causative genes of the mutants were introduced into plant cells of interest to prepare transgenic plants. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130263325 | METHOD TO TRIGGER RNA INTERFERENCE - A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130263326 | Anti-Pathogen Systems - Provided is a system for protecting plants from attack by pests, including pathogens such as fungi. Specifically, a plant defensin is provided in conjunction with a protease inhibitor protects a plant from pest attack or reduces severity of an attack. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130269057 | TARGET GENES FOR CONTROL OF PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODES AND USE OF SAME - The invention relates to identifying and evaluating target coding and non-coding sequences for control of plant parasitic nematodes by inhibiting one or more biological functions, and their use. The invention provides methods and compositions for identification of such sequences and for the control of a plant-parasitic nematode population. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the nematode, a reduction in disease may be obtained through suppression of nematode gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130269058 | PLANTS RESISTANT TO FUNGAL PATHOGENS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - The present invention relates to plant genes involved in positive regulation of resistance to fungal pathogens and uses thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to plants which overexpress WAK91 gene, or an ortholog thereof, and having increased resistance to fungal pathogens. The invention also relates to methods for producing modified plants having increased or improved fungal disease and pathogen resistance. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods of screening and identifying molecules that induce WAK91 gene expression. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130269059 | Anti-Pathogen Systems - Provided is a system for protecting plants from attack by pests, including pathogens such as fungi. Specifically, a plant defensin is provided in conjunction with a protease inhibitor protects a plant from pest attack or reduces severity of an attack. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130269060 | Proteins Toxic To Hemipteran Insect Species - The present invention discloses Hemipteran insect inhibitory proteins, methods of using such proteins, nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins, methods of detecting and isolating such proteins, and their use in agricultural systems. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130276168 | STRATEGIES FOR THE TRANSGENIC MANIPULATION OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGI - Disclosed is a new technology that enables the transgenic modification of a mushroom-forming fungus to confer a transgenic genotype and/or phenotype. According to the invention herein, one can manipulate the fruiting body of a fungus conferring an altered phenotype, but a wild-type genotype. The fruiting body itself is devoid of any cognate transgene, and Applicants have discovered a new mechanism of protein synthesis and accumulation in fungi and a technique to independently control the genotype and phenotype of the fruiting body. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130283479 | THRIPS RESISTANT CABBAGE - The present invention relates to a tomato plant ( | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130291222 | ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS-INDUCIBLE PROMOTER AND ITS APPLICATION IN CROPS - The subject application provides polynucleotides, compositions thereof and methods for regulating gene expression in a plant using a promoter that initiates transcription in an inducible manner. In a further aspect of the invention, methods for modulating expression of a gene product in a stably transformed plant comprising the steps of (a) transforming a plant cell with a DNA construct comprising the disclosed promoter or fragments thereof that are capable of driving the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid sequence operably linked to at least one nucleotide sequence; (b) growing the plant cell under plant growing conditions and (c) regenerating a stably transformed plant from the plant cell wherein the induced expression of the operably linked nucleotide sequence alters the phenotype of the plant. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130305410 | RHG1 MEDIATED RESISTANCE TO SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE - Methods of increasing the resistance of plants, in particular soybeans, to nematodes, in particular soybean cyst nematodes, are provided herein. The methods include increasing the expression of Glyma18g02580, Glyma18g02590 and/or Glyma18g2610 in cells of a plant and in particular in root cells of a plant to increase the resistance of the plant and plant cells to nematodes. The methods include increasing the expression using constitutive promoters or by increasing the copy number of the polynucleotides. Constructs for expressing these polypeptides, transgenic cells, transgenic plants and methods of generating the same are also provided. Methods of screening plant cells for resistance or susceptibility to nematodes are also provided. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130305411 | METHOD FOR CONFERRING DISEASE RESISTANCE TO PLANT - Disease resistance is conferred to a plant by a technique completely differing from conventional techniques. The method of the present invention comprises a step of introducing at least one of the genes belonging to the TIFY family to a plant or enhancing the expression of the gene endogenous to the plant. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130305412 | TOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:61-121 and 133-141, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-60, 124-132, and 142-283, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130326729 | PREFORMED DEFENSE IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to plants having increased pre-formed defense, their production and uses. The invention more particularly discloses plants which overexpress a p33kD or BURP protein, or an ortholog thereof, and exhibit an increased pre-formed resistance to pathogens. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130333070 | SMALL INTERFERING RNAS WITH TARGET-SPECIFIC SEED SEQUENCES - Disclosed are methods for design and synthesis of siRNA libraries, siRNA libraries produced thereby, siRNA molecules, and uses thereof. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130340115 | GENETIC LOCI ASSOCIATED WITH RESISTANCE OF SOYBEAN TO CYST NEMATODE AND METHODS OF USE - Various compositions and methods are provided for identifying and selecting plants with enhanced resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Further provided are transgenic plants, plant parts, and seed and methods of their use comprising a heterologous polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter active in the plant are provided, as are methods of making such plants and methods of use, wherein said heterologous polynucleotide comprises at least one, or any combination thereof, of Glyma18g2580, Glyma18g2590, Glyma18g2600, Glyma18g2610; and Glyma18g2570 or an active variant or fragment thereof. Expression of the heterologous polynucleotide enhances the resistance of the plant to cyst nematode. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130340116 | SWITCHGRASS PROMOTER AND USES THEREOF - The subject application provides polynucleotides, compositions thereof and methods for regulating gene expression in a plant. Polynucleotides disclosed herein comprise novel sequences for a promoter that initiates transcription of an operably linked nucleotide sequence. Thus, various embodiments of the invention comprise the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 or fragments thereof that are capable of driving the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid sequence. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130340117 | 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), Ieucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130340118 | 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), Ieucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130347141 | BACTERIAL RESISTANT TRANSGENIC PLANTS HAVING DYSFUNCTIONAL T3SS PROTEINS - A nucleic acid expression vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a dominant negative T3SS protein is disclosed. The nucleic acid expression vector further comprising a cis acting regulatory element capable of driving transcription of the nucleic acid sequence in a plant cell. Moreover, the dominant negative T3SS protein mediates assembly of a dysfunctional needle complex. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140007292 | Novel Insecticidal Proteins and Methods for Their Use | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140007293 | Inducible Plant Promoters and the Use Thereof | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140007294 | Plant Responses | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140007295 | Overexpression of Plant Mirnas for Parasite Control | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140007296 | Methods and Compositions Using Small Interfering RNA (SIRNA) for Nematode Control in Plants | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140013468 | EXTENDING JUVENILITY IN GRASSES - The present invention relates to compositions and methods for modulating the juvenile to adult developmental growth transition in plants, such as grasses (e.g. maize). In particular, the invention provides methods for enhancing agronomic properties in plants by modulating expression of GRMZM2G362718, GRMZM2G096016, or homologs thereof. Modulation of expression of one or more additional genes which affect juvenile to adult developmental growth transition such as Glossy15 or Cg1, in conjunction with such modulation of expression is also contemplated. Nucleic acid constructs for down-regulation of GRMZM2G362718 and/or GRMZM2G096016 are also contemplated, as are transgenic plants and products produced there from, that demonstrate altered, such as extended juvenile growth, and display associated phenotypes such as enhanced yield, improved digestibility, and increased disease resistance. Plants described herein may be used, for example, as improved forage or feed crops or in biofuel production. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140026256 | Nematode-Resistant Transgenic Plants - The invention provides nematode-resistant transgenic plants and seed produced by expression of polynucleotides encoding certain plant polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of producing soybean cyst nematode-resistant transgenic plants in which those plant polynucleotides are expressed and expression vectors for use in such methods. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140033361 | Novel Insecticidal Proteins and Methods for Their Use - Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033362 | Methods and Materials for Conferring Resistance to Pests and Pathogens of Plants - Methods and materials for conferring pest resistance to plants are provided. Plants are transformed with a silencing construct homologous to a gene of a plant pest that is essential for the survival, development, or pathogenicity of the pest. This results in the plant producing RNAi to the selected gene, which, when ingested by the pest results in silencing of the gene and a subsequent reduction of the pest's ability to harm the plant. In other embodiments, the pest's reduced ability to harm the plant is passed on to pest progeny. Methods and materials for depathogenesis of pests is also provided. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033363 | AXMI238 TOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2-5, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033364 | Modification of Plant Development and Morphology - A method of modifying morphology in a plant by introducing into a plant at least one chimaeric gene having a promoter sequence operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence, the promoter sequence being operable to direct expression in specific cells of the plant and the nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one gene product capable of altering the metabolism of or causing death of the specific cells and/or nearby cells. In particular, the promoter sequence is operable to direct expression in lateral bud or lateral shoot and the nucleic acid encoding at least one gene product capable of disrupting the metabolism of or causing the death of the lateral bud or lateral shoot of nearby cells. Preferably the promoter sequence has the sequence shown as SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 7 or SEQ ID No. 4, or a part thereof capable of regulating expression of a gene, or a sequence having at least 60%, preferably at least 75%, homology to SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 7 or SEQ ID No. 4 and being capable of regulating expression of a gene. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140041080 | CHIMERIC PROMOTERS CAPABLE OF MEDIATING GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS UPON PATHOGEN INFECTION AND USES THEREOF - Described are synthetic promoters capable of mediating gene expression in plants upon pathogen infection. Furthermore, recombinant genes and vectors comprising said chimeric promoters as well as host cells transformed with such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, or vectors are provided. Additionally, diagnostic compositions and kits comprising such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors or cells are described. Provided are further methods for the identification of compounds being capable of activating or inhibiting genes that are specifically expressed in plants upon pathogen infection employing the above described means. Furthermore, transgenic plant cells, plant tissue, and plants containing the above-described chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, and vectors as well as the use of the aforementioned chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors and/or compounds identified by the method of the invention in plant cell and tissue culture, plant breeding, and/or agriculture are described. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140047581 | CHIMERIC PROMOTERS CAPABLE OF MEDIATING GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS UPON PATHOGEN INFECTION AND USES THEREOF - Described are synthetic promoters capable of mediating gene expression in plants upon pathogen infection. Furthermore, recombinant genes and vectors comprising said chimeric promoters as well as host cells transformed with such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, or vectors are provided. Additionally, diagnostic compositions and kits comprising such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors or cells are described. Provided are further methods for the identification of compounds being capable of activating or inhibiting genes that are specifically expressed in plants upon pathogen infection employing the above described means. Furthermore, transgenic plant cells, plant tissue, and plants containing the above-described chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, and vectors as well as the use of the aforementioned chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors and/or compounds identified by the method of the invention in plant cell and tissue culture, plant breeding, and/or agriculture are described. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140068813 | CHIMERIC PROMOTERS CAPABLE OF MEDIATING GENE EXPRESSION IN PLANTS UPON PATHOGEN INFECTION AND USES THEREOF - Described are synthetic promoters capable of mediating gene expression in plants upon pathogen infection. Furthermore, recombinant genes and vectors comprising said chimeric promoters as well as host cells transformed with such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, or vectors are provided. Additionally, diagnostic compositions and kits comprising such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors or cells are described. Provided are further methods for the identification of compounds being capable of activating or inhibiting genes that are specifically expressed in plants upon pathogen infection employing the above described means. Furthermore, transgenic plant cells, plant tissue, and plants containing the above-described chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, and vectors as well as the use of the aforementioned chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors and/or compounds identified by the method of the invention in plant cell and tissue culture, plant breeding, and/or agriculture are described. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140075594 | USE OF AT(n) INSERTIONS IN PROMOTER ELEMENTS FOR CONTROLLING THE EXPRESSION LEVELS OF CODING SEQUENCES IN PLANTS - The present invention refers to the use of AT(n) insertions in promoter elements for controlling the expression levels of coding sequences in plants. The expression levels of the heat shock protein (Gmhsp17.6-L), when compared in resistant and susceptible individuals in the population, demonstrated that the largest expression levels per quantitative PCR were present in the individuals that contained the largest AT insertions in the promoter region. The invention also refers to gene expression cassettes containing promoter regions of the gene with different numbers of AT insertions fused to the GUS protein, for transforming soybean embryos. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140082766 | ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF - The subject invention pertains to methods and materials for enhancing microbial resistance in plants. Specifically exemplified herein are grapevines transformed with polynucleotides that express a peptide which confers antimicrobial activity. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140090104 | INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS - Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, novel engineered hybrid insecticidal proteins (eHIPs) having toxicity to at least corn rootworm are provided. By fusing unique combinations of complete or partial variable regions and conserved blocks of at least two different | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140090105 | Methods for Increasing Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode in Soybean Plants - The invention relates to methods and compositions for increasing resistance to infection by soybean cyst nematode on a soybean plant, plant part or plant cell. Nucleotide sequences that confer resistance to soybean cyst nematode when expressed in soybean are provided. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140090106 | LYSM RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASES TO IMPROVE PLANT DEFENSE RESPONSE AGAINST FUNGAL PATHOGENS - Perception of chitin fragments (chitooligosaccharides) is an important first step in plant defense response against fungal pathogen. LysM receptor-like kinases (LysM RLKs) are instrumental in this perception process. LysM RLKs also play a role in activating transcription of chitin-responsive genes (CRGs) in plants. Mutations in the LysM kinase receptor genes or the downstream CRGs may affect the fungal susceptibility of a plant. Mutations in LysM RLKs or transgenes carrying the same may be beneficial in imparting resistance against fungal pathogens. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140096281 | AXMI232, AXMI233, AND AXMI249 TOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:4-19, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1-3, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140096282 | VACCINE FOR CONTROL OF BEET CURLY TOP VIRUS INFECTION OF PLANTS - The disclosure provides plant vaccine compositions and methods for inducing immunity to Beet Curly Top Virus (BCTV) and related curtoviruses in a susceptible plant. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140101790 | QTLs ASSOCIATED WITH AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING WHOLE PLANT FIELD RESISTANCE TO SCLEROTINIA - Markers associated with | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101791 | Resistance Genes - The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding adult plant pathogen resistance proteins. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing these polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of the plants to pathogens. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140109258 | RNA CONSTRUCTS - The present invention concerns concatemer and/or stabilized RNA constructs capable of forming dsRNA, optionally comprising a sequence capable of protecting the dsRNA against RNA processing in a host cell. The invention also relates to methods of producing these constructs and to methods for using these constructs. The constructs according to the present invention are particularly useful in plant pest control. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140109259 | Guard Cell Promoters and Uses Thereof - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences encompassing a guard-cell-preferred promoter which drives preferential expression of gene products in guard cells. Also provided is a method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using a promoter sequence disclosed herein. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140123342 | Regulation of Stomatal Apertures by Apyrases and Extracellular Nucleotides - The role of extracellular nucleotides and apyrase enzymes in the guard cells that border stomata in regulating stomatal aperture and the plant's resistance to drought and pathogens is disclosed herein. Expression of apyrases APY1 and APY2, in guard cell protoplasts is strongly correlated with cell growth, cell secretory activity and with conditions that favor stomatal opening. Both short-term inhibition of ectoapyrase activity and long-term suppression of APY1 and APY2 transcript levels significantly disrupt normal stomatal behavior in light. Furthermore, two punnoceptor inhibitors in mammals, pyridoxalphosphate-6-azo-phenyl-2′,4′-disulphonic acid (PPADS) and Reactive Blue 2, block ATPS- and ADPβS-induced opening and closing, and also partially block the ability of abscisic acid (ABA) to induce stomatal closure, and light-induced stomatal opening. Treatment of epidermal peels with ATPyS induces increased levels of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species, and genetically suppressing the synthesis of these agents blocks the effects of nucleotides on stomatal aperture. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140130207 | METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO PESTS AND PATHOGENS OF PLANTS - Methods and materials for conferring pest resistance to plants are provided. Plants are transformed with a silencing construct homologous to a gene of a plant pest that is essential for the survival, development, or pathogenicity of the pest. This results in the plant producing RNAi to the selected gene, which, when ingested by the pest results in silencing of the gene and a subsequent reduction of the pest's ability to harm the plant. In other embodiments, the pest's reduced ability to harm the plant is passed on to pest progeny. Methods and materials for depathogenesis of pests is also provided. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140130208 | METHODS AND MEANS TO PRODUCE ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANT PLANTS - The present invention relates to the field of plant molecular biology and concerns methods for enhancing the abiotic stress tolerance in plants by modulating the expression of a gene involved in the ethylene signal transduction pathway during the period of abiotic stress. The present invention also provides chimeric constructs useful in the methods in the invention. In addition, the invention provides transgenic plants having an enhanced abiotic stress resistance. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140137292 | CITRUS TREES WITH RESISTANCE TO CITRUS CANKER - Methods and compositions for making citrus plants with enhanced resistance to Asiatic citrus canker (ACC) and other forms of citrus canker caused by | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140143906 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING PLANT RESISTANCE TO INSECTS - A method for improving plant insect resistance includes providing target genes derived from insects. Constructs based on the nucleotide sequences of these target genes are designed to form interfering molecules. After being eating by insects, the plant can significantly inhibit expression of corresponding genes in insects. This inhibition is not affected by barrier of the insect digestive systems. The method can improve the insect resistance of plants, reduce pesticide applications, lower the costs of agricultural production, and protect the environment. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140150134 | INSECT-COMBATING PREPARATION AND METHOD BASED ON RNAI TECHNOLOGY - The present invention relates to pesticide preparations and methods based on RNAi technology. The invention discloses target genes (fragments) useful in the control of Lepidoptera insects. Nucleic acid inhibitors or hosts expressing the nucleic acid inhibitors, based on the nucleic acid sequences of these target genes, can effectively kill Lepidoptera insects. The invention also discloses applications using the nucleic acid inhibitors or hosts expressing the nucleic acid inhibitors. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140157454 | Powdery Mildew Resistance Providing Genes in Cucumis Sativus - The present invention relates to powdery mildew resistance providing genes of the | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140157455 | GALL WASP CONTROL AGENTS - The present invention relates to the field of RNA-mediated gene silencing in insect species. The present invention is based, in part, on the inventors' sequencing of genes from | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140157456 | PEST RESISTANT PLANTS - The disclosure provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a 7-epizingiberene synthase, a chimeric gene comprising said nucleic acid molecule, vectors comprising the same, as well as isolated 7-epizingiberene synthase proteins themselves. In addition, transgenic plants and plant cells comprising a gene encoding a 7-epizingiberene synthase, optionally integrated in its genome, and methods for making such plants and cells, are provided. Especially Solanaceae plants and plant parts (seeds, fruit, leaves, etc.) with enhanced insect pest resistance are provided. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140165226 | Antimicrobial Agents from Microbial Genomes - We describe a method for mining microbial genomes to discover antimicrobial genes and proteins having broad spectrum of activity. Also described are antimicrobial genes and their expression products from various microbial genomes that were found using this method. The products of such genes can be used as antimicrobial agents or as tools for molecular biology. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140189907 | TRANSGENIC COTTON PLANTS RELATED TO EVENT 281-24-236 AND TO EVENT 3006-210-23 - This invention relates to plant breeding and the protection of plants from insects. More specifically, this invention includes novel transformation events of cotton plants comprising one or more polynucleotide sequences, as described herein, inserted into specific site(s) within the genome of a cotton cell. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189908 | Powdery Mildew Resistance Providing Genes in Cucumis Melo - The present invention relates to powdery mildew resistance providing genes of the | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140189909 | PLANT REGULATORY ELEMENTS AND USES THEREOF - The invention provides novel recombinant DNA molecules and constructs useful for modulating gene expression in plants, plant cells, seeds, and progeny plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and progeny plants comprising the recombinant DNA molecules of the invention, along with methods of their use. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140196174 | Development of Phytophthora Resistant Potato with Increased Yield - The present invention relates to transgenic potato plants having an increased resistance against | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140196175 | AXMI221z, AXMI222z, AXMI223z, AXMI224z and AXMI225z DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:21-32, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1-20, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140201864 | Polynucleotides and Polypeptides 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 compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140208458 | Plant Having Complex Disease Resistance - The present invention relates to plants that have been transformed so as to have both disease resistance and acceptable agronomic traits. More specifically, the present invention relates to transgenic plants that have acquired disease resistance through expression in the plants of a polynucleotide encoding the transcription factor WRKY45 in an infection-responsive manner, and methods for generating the transgenic plants. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140208459 | TYCLV RESISTANCE - Molecular markers are described for determining the presence or absence of a gene conferring resistance to tomato yellow leaf curl virus from | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140208460 | Phacosporacea Resistant Soybean Plants - The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacosporaceae in transgenic plants and/or plant cells. In these plants, the ethylene signaling pathway and/or activity of the ethylene signaling compounds is changed. This is achieved by priming the ethylene signaling pathway in these plants in comparison to wild type plants and/or wild type plant cells. Depending on the activating or inhibitory function of a particular signaling compound overexpression or knock-down of the cognate gene might be used. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140208461 | DEFENSIN-ENCODING NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES DERIVED FROM NICOTIANA ALATA, USES THEREFOR AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS COMPRISING SAME - The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules derived from | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140223598 | AXMI270 TOXIN GENE AND METHODS OF USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:3-5, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140223599 | AXMI279 PESTICIDAL GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 3, or 4, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140245491 | AXMI218, AXMI219, AXMI220, AXMI226, AXMI227, AXMI228, AXMI229, AXMI230 AND AXMI231 DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-30, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140259218 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES AND OTHER MOLECULES ASSOCIATED WITH PLANTS AND USES THEREOF FOR PLANT IMPROVEMENT - Recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides useful for improvement of plants are provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259219 | SOYBEAN EF1A2 PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The promoter of a soybean translation elongation factor EF1 alpha and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259220 | MANIPULATING PHB GENES FOR PLANT BIOMASS ACCUMULATION AND YIELD - The present invention provides methods for increasing plant biomass and plant seed yield through overexpression of a PHB gene. Also provided are plants with increased biomass and seed yield comprising overexpression of a PHB gene produced by such methods. Plants described herein may be used, for example, for improved production of biofuels. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259221 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS TO ENHANCE PLANT BREEDING - The present invention provides breeding methods and compositions to enhance the germplasm of a plant. The methods describe the identification and accumulation of transgenes and favorable haplotype genomic regions in the germplasm of a breeding population of crop plants. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259222 | PATHOGEN RESISTANCE - Disease in food crops caused by fungal pathogens is a major concern to the agricultural industry, with annual losses typically in the billions of dollars. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140259223 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING CINNAMOLIDE AND/OR DRIMENDIOL - Described is a nucleic acid sequence isolated from | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140283205 | Root-Preferred Promoter and Methods of Use - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter for the gene encoding | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283206 | Root-Preferred Promoter and Methods of Use - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter for the gene encoding | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283207 | IDENTIFICATION OF P. PACHYRHIZI PROTEIN EFFECTORS AND THEIR USE IN PRODUCING ASIAN SOYBEAN RUST (ASR) RESISTANT PLANTS - The invention relates to novel nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides from ASR and methods of use that enhance the plant's defensive elicitation response. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283208 | Novel Insecticidal Proteins and Methods of Use - Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are isolated insecticidal proteins and nucleic acids. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The insecticidal proteins find use in controlling or killing lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283209 | Complex Disease Resistant Monocot Having Optimized Agronomic Characteristics - The present inventors isolated many promoters having various expression characteristics from monocots, connected the OsWRKY45 gene downstream of these promoters, and then re-introduced them into a monocot (rice plant), and thereby strived to produce a rice line having both complex disease resistance and excellent agronomic traits. As a result, the present inventors succeeded in producing transgenic plants having both disease resistance and good agronomic traits by expressing OsWRKY45 using upstream sequences of the EF1α or OsUbi7 gene as promoters. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283210 | SOYBEAN EF1A PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The promoter of a soybean translation elongation factor EF1 alpha and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants are described. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283211 | Methods and Compositions for Plant Pest Control - Provided are methods and compositions to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants. Also provided are combinations of compositions and methods to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283212 | MARKERS LINKED TO RENIFORM NEMATODE RESISTANCE - This disclosure concerns methods and compositions for identifying cotton plants that have a reniform nematode resistance trait. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct reniform nematode resistant plants and germplasm, or to identify and counter-select relatively susceptible plants. This disclosure also concerns cotton plants comprising a reniform nematode resistance trait that are generated by methods utilizing at least one marker described herein. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283213 | MARKERS LINKED TO RENIFORM NEMATODE RESISTANCE - This disclosure concerns methods and compositions for identifying cotton plants that have a reniform nematode resistance trait. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct reniform nematode resistant plants and germplasm, or to identify and counter-select relatively susceptible plants. This disclosure also concerns cotton plants comprising a reniform nematode resistance trait that are generated by methods utilizing at least one marker described herein. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140298536 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140298537 | Crop Resistance to Nematodes - Methods of inhibiting plant parasitic nematodes, methods of obtaining transgenic plants useful for inhibiting such nematodes, and transgenic plants that are resistant to plant parasitic nematodes through inhibition of plant nematode CLE peptide receptor genes are provided. Methods for expressing genes at plant parasitic nematode feeding sites with plant nematode CLE peptide receptor gene promoters are also provided, along with nematode CLE peptide receptor gene promoters that are useful for expressing genes in nematode feeding sites as well as transgenic plants and nematode resistant transgenic plants comprising the promoters. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140298538 | AXMI205 VARIANT PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, or 6, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140304855 | Novel Bacterial Proteins with Pesticidal Activity - Provided are pesticidal, particularly insecticidal, proteins which resemble S-layer proteins, as well as variants or mutants thereof, and DNAs encoding them. Further provided are methods and means for using said DNA or protein for controlling pests, particularly plant insect pests. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140317778 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES ENCODING ENZYMES THAT CONFER DISEASE RESISTANCE IN JUTE - The invention further relates to vectors, host cells, seeds, and plants comprising such a nucleic acid molecule. One aspect of the invention is an isolated antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof that specifically binds to a polypeptide molecule of the present invention. One aspect of the invention is a plane or plant cell transfected by a vector of the present invention. One aspect of the invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and fragments thereof encoding enzymes or proteins involved in disease resistance in jute. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140317779 | P0 GENE SILENCING CONSTRUCTS AND USE - A recombinant BMYV P0 viral nucleotide sequence when transcribed in a cell is capable of forming a double stranded self-complementary RNA sequence. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140325702 | Methods for genetic control of plant pest infestation and compositions thereof - The present invention is directed to controlling plant pest infestation, and particularly plant nematode infestation, by inhibiting one or more biological functions in the plant pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling plant pest infestation by providing one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules in the diet of the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of pest gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, to methods for detecting cells comprising the disclosed sequences, and to methods for detecting the disclosed sequences in biological samples. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325703 | METHODS AND MEANS FOR GENERATING MICROBIAL DISEASE RESISTANT PLANTS - Described are genes and chimeric genes encoding anti-microbial peptides. These genes can be used to generate transgenic plants with an improved resistance to, for example, plant pathogenic fungi. Alternatively, the peptides encoded by these genes can be applied as agrochemical formulations to plants suffering from microbial diseases such as fungal diseases. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140344997 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING ENZYMES FROM THE JUTE LIGNIN BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY - Disclosed are polynucleotides encoding polypeptides that comprise the biosynthetic pathway for lignin in the jute plant. The present invention relates generally to the field of plant lignin biosynthesis genes, polypeptides encoded by such genes, and the use of such polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences for controlling plant lignin production. Also disclosed are methods for using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to influence the quality and amount of fiber produced by jute. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344998 | SOYBEAN ATPS PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN CONSTITUTIVE EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to the promoter of a soybean ATP sulfurylase (ATPS) and fragments thereof and theft use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-independent or constitutive manner in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344999 | FAMILY OF PESTICIDAL PROTEINS AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37 or 61, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, or 60, or the nucleotide sequence deposited in a bacterial host as Accession No. B-30955, B-30956, B-30957, B-30958, B-30942, B-30939, B-30941, B-50047, B-30959, B-30960, B-30943, or B-50048, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140352000 | NOVEL BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS GENE WITH LEPIDOPTERAN ACTIVITY - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140352001 | NOVEL BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS GENE WITH LEPIDOPTERAN ACTIVITY - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140359898 | TRANSGENIC CEREAL PLANTS WITH INCREASED RESISTANCE TO RUST DISEASES - A transgenic wheat 2174 cultivar with increased resistance to diseases caused by foliar pathogens is provided, as are methods for making the transgenic cultivar. The methods involve genetically engineering (transforming) 2174 to overexpress cDNA encoding the resistance gene LR34 in a form that is correctly spliced. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359899 | Sucrose Transporters and Methods of Generating Pathogen-Resistant Plants - The present invention relates to genetically modified plant cells that have altered expression or activity of at least one sucrose efflux transporter compared to levels of expression or activity of the at least one sucrose efflux transporter in an unmodified plant cell. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140366217 | MUTANTS OF ALPHA-AMYLASE INHIBITORS ISOLATED FROM PHASEOLUS VULGARIS CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING INSECT PESTS, COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THESE MUTANTS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - The present invention relates to the field of insect pests control, using methods and compositions which comprise of alpha-amylase analogous mutant inhibitors (αAIs). More specifically, the invention provides new αAIs analogous mutant molecules for controlling insect pests, in particular boll weevils ( | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140366218 | SOYBEAN BB13 PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN EMBRYO-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to the promoter of a soybean Bowman-Birk type proteinase isoinhibitor gene (BBI3) and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleotide sequences in an embryo-specific manner in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140366219 | Increasing Soybean Defense Against Pests - Disclosed are pest resistance genes isolated from soybean. In several embodiments, a pest resistance gene isolated from soybean includes a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 2 or a degenerate variant thereof, or a fragment thereof. Also disclosed are expression vectors and constructs that include such nucleic acids. Methods are disclosed of producing a transgenic plant that has enhanced resistance to pests. Transgenic plants, plant cells or tissue (such as a dicotyledon or a monocotyledon plants, plant cells or tissue) transformed with the disclosed constructs are also disclosed. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140373194 | METHOD AND CONSTRUCTS FOR DELIVERING DOUBLE STRANDED RNA tO PEST ORGANISMS - The present invention relates in generally to RNAi and its use in gene silencing. In particular, the present invention relates to methods and constructs for delivering double stranded RNA (dsRNA) to pest organisms. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140373195 | AXMI345 DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140373196 | METHOD TO TRIGGER RNA INTERFERENCE - A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140373197 | DSRNA AS INSECT CONTROL AGENT - The present invention relates to methods for controlling pest infestation using double stranded RNA molecules. The invention provides methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, as well as pesticidal agents and commodity products produced by the inventive plants. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140380521 | AXMI277 NEMATODE TOXIN AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2 or 3, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140380522 | SOYBEAN RESISTANT TO CYST NEMATODES - A transgenic soybean plant or parts thereof, resistant to soybean cyst nematodes, transformed to express Glyma18g02570, Glyma18g02580, or Glyma18g02590, or a variant thereof. Also provided is a method of making such a plant. Also provided is an artificial DNA construct encoding Glyma18g02570, Glyma18g02580, or Glyma18g02590, or a variant thereof. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150020236 | ENGINEERED PESTICIDAL PROTEINS - Engineered pesticidal polypeptides that are highly active against a wide range of pests and methods of making such polypeptides are disclosed. The nucleotide sequences encoding the pesticidal polypeptide can be used to transform various prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, which organisms can be used to produce the pesticidal polypeptides. The recombinant organisms and/or the polypeptides produced by the recombinant organisms can be used to control pests in various environments. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150033410 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR EMERGENCY POST-INFECTION TREATMENT OF ANTHRAX - Compositions effective for treating or preventing an anthrax infection in a subject in need thereof and recombinant proteins included in the compositions are provided. Methods for producing recombinant proteins in plants are described. Transgenic plants engineered to produce recombinant proteins as well as genetic constructs comprising nucleic acids encoding recombinant proteins thereof are also described. Methods of protecting subjects against anthrax infection with plant-derived compositions are provided. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150033411 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS HAVING IMPROVED SACCHARIFICATION PROPERTIES - The invention relates to methods for increasing saccharification potential in a plant, comprising overexpressing a polynucleotide encoding an acetyl xylan esterase polypeptide in at least one cell type in said plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing genetically modified plants overexpressing a polynucleotide encoding an acetyl xylan esterase polypeptide, as well as to genetically modified plants produced by such methods. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150040268 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE DELIVERY OF NUCLEIC ACIDS TO SEEDS - The present invention relates to methods of seed treatment and introduction of nucleic acid particles into intact seeds. In particular, the methods are non-priming seed treatment protocols capable of delivering naked DNA plasmids into seeds, without the use of microorganism or any additional means, and which are not plant species limited. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150040269 | NOVEL PLANT-DERIVED CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PATHOGEN-RESPONSIVE CHIMERIC PROMOTORS - The invention relates to an isolated cis-regulatory element imparting pathogen inducibility or elicitor inducibility, which comprises a nucleic acid molecule, the nucleotide sequence of which corresponds to one of the core sequence motifs comprising a) vaaagtm, b) aaacca, c) scaaam, d) acrcg, e) sktgkact, f) mrtsack, g) ccaccaa, h) tcgtctcttc (SEQ ID NO: 35), i) wwkgwc or a core sequence motif complementary to a) to i). | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150040270 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENES IN PLANTS - Transgenic plants are provided comprising a plurality of transgenes comprised in a single locus. In certain aspects, 7 or more transgenes may be expressed from a first locus. Methods are provided for transformation of plant cells with a plurality of transgenes. Also provided are methods for expressing and enhancing the expression of one or more transgenes in a plant. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150067916 | GENERATION OF GRAPEVINE ROOTSTOCKS THAT PROVIDE RESISTANCE AND SANITATION IN RELATION TO GRAPEVINE FANLEAF VIRUS (GFLV) - The invention discloses a vector plasmid called “GFLV silencing construct” that confers resistance and sanitation against the grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV); plant cells transformed with said vector plasmid and a method to impart resistance and sanitation against the grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV) in non-transgenic grapevines when being grafted onto seedlings generated from cells transformed with said plasmid vector. The “GFLV silencing construct” plasmid vector of the invention comprises inverted sequence duplicates coding for the grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV) capsid protein. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067917 | ANTI PATHOGEN SYSTEMS - Provided is a system for protecting plants from attack by pests, including pathogens such as fungi. Specifically, a plant defensin is provided in conjunction with a protease inhibitor protects a plant from pest attack or reduces severity of an attack. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150074850 | MOLECULAR MARKERS FOR BLACKLEG RESISTANCE GENE RLM2 IN BRASSICA NAPUS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - This disclosure concerns methods and compositions for identifying canola plants that have a blackleg resistant phenotype. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct blackleg resistant plants and germplasm, or to identify and counter-select plants that are susceptible or have low resistance to blackleg disease. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct blackleg resistant plants that carry the rlm2 gene. This disclosure also concerns canola plants comprising a blackleg resistant phenotype that are generated by methods utilizing at least one marker described herein. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074851 | MOLECULAR MARKERS FOR BLACKLEG RESISTANCE GENE RLM4 IN BRASSICA NUPUS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - This disclosure concerns methods and compositions for identifying canola plants that have a blackleg resistant phenotype. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct blackleg resistant plants and germplasm, or to identify and counter-select plants that are susceptible or have low resistance to blackleg disease. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct blackleg resistant plants that carry the rlm4 gene. This disclosure also concerns canola plants comprising a blackleg resistant phenotype that are generated by methods utilizing at least one marker described herein. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074852 | GENETIC LOCI ASSOCIATED WITH HEAD SMUT RESISTANCE IN MAIZE - Head smut is one of the most devastating diseases in maize, causing severe yield loss worldwide. The present invention describes the fine-mapping of a major QTL conferring resistance to head smut. Markers useful for breeding, and methods for conferring head smut resistance are described. Nucleic acid sequence from the genetic locus conferring head smut resistance is disclosed. Genes encoding proteins conferring head smut resistance are disclosed. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150082482 | Bronze Bug Control Agents - The present invention relates to the field of RNA-mediated gene silencing in insect species. The present invention is based, in part, on the inventors' sequencing of genes from | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082483 | SPINACH PLANTS THAT ARE RESISTANT TO DOWNY MILDEW - The present invention relates to the field of spinach breeding, in particular to a new dominant resistance gene, designated RPF11, which confers resistance against races 7 to 14 of | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082484 | PROTECTION AGAINST HERBIVORES - The present invention relates to genes, proteins and methods comprising molecules that alter amino acid levels. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to altering guanidino substrate hydrolysis activities in plants, arthropods and microorganisms using molecules within the arginase family and other molecules that alter an amino acid levels. In ones embodiment, the present invention relates to altering threonine substrate deamination and dehydration activities in plants, arthropods and microorganisms using molecules within the threonine deaminase family and other molecules that alter amino acid levels. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to using genes, proteins and methods comprising arginase or threonine deaminase for altering the pathophysiology of plants, arthropods and microorganisms. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to altering guanidino substrate hydrolysis activity in plants, arthropods, and microorganisms using arginase. In another preferred embodiment, the invention relates to altering threonine substrated deamination and dehydration activity in plants, arthropods, and microorganisms using threonine deaminase. In some embodiments, the invention related to overexpression and increased activity of arginase, threonine deaminase and a proteinase inhibitor. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082485 | POTYVIRUS RESISTANCE IN POTATO - The present invention is drawn to novel genes from wild plants, such as wild potato and pepper plants, that confer potyvirus resistance to plants, such as in transformed cultivated plants. Also encompassed are cultivated plants transformed with the novel gene, food products made from the transformed cultivated plants, and methods for making such plants and food products. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150089686 | Plant Germplasm Resistant to RNA Viruses - Disclosed is a dsRNA construct used to silencing specific eukaryotic translation initiation factor in plants to produce a plant resistant to viruses such as Potyviruses, Luteoviruses, and Furoviruses. More specifically, the plant would be resistant to viruses such as Wheat streak mosaic virus, Triticum mosaic virus, Soil bourne mosaic virus, or Barley yellow dwarf virus. Also disclosed are non-transgenic wheat plants having the genes for eIF(iso)4E-2 or eIF4G silenced. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089687 | Novel Antifungal Proteins and Methods of Use - Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for novel variants of antipathogenic polypeptides generated through DNA shuffling that exhibit improved antipathogenic activity. Polynucleotides that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the polynucleotides disclosed herein is further provided. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a microorganism comprising an antipathogenic polynucleotide of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising an antipathogenic polynucleotide or polypeptide of the invention are also disclosed. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089688 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF GENE SILENCING IN PLANTS - Compositions and methods for inducing gene silencing events in plants are disclosed. The compositions typical include a polynucleotide encoding an miRNA target sequence operably linked to a sequence of from a target gene, cDNA or mRNA, or fragment thereof. When expressed in the presence of an miRNA specific for the miRNA target sequence the compositions can induce production of trans-acting siRNA that silence the target of interest. Transgenic plants and preferred plant pathways that can be targeted using the disclosed methods and compositions are also disclosed. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150106972 | PLANT DEFENSE GENES AND PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE - Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding plant defense proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150113682 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ROOT KNOT NEMATODE CONTROL - The present invention discloses gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by nematodes of the genus | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113683 | METHODS FOR PLANT TRANSFORMATION USING SPECTINOMYCIN SELECTION - The present invention relates to methods and compositions for transforming soybean, corn, cotton, or canola explants using spectinomycin as a selective agent for transformation of the explants. The method may further comprise treatment of the explants with cytokinin during the transformation and regeneration process. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150121568 | OVULE SPECIFIC PROMOTER AND METHODS OF USE - Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions include nucleotide sequences for an | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150128303 | TRANSGENIC PLANT-BASED METHODS FOR PLANT PESTS USING RNAI - The present invention relates to methods for controlling pest infestation using double stranded RNA molecules. The invention provides methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, as well as pesticidal agents and commodity products produced by the inventive plants. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150135363 | Compositions and Methods for the Control of Root Lesion Nematode - The present invention discloses gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by nematodes of the genus | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150143580 | Compositions and Methods for Controlling Leptinotarsa - Disclosed herein are methods of controlling insect pests, in particular | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143581 | Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants and uses thereof - Polynucleotides useful for improvement of plants are provided. In particular, polynucleotide sequences are provided from plant sources. Polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotide sequences are also provided. The disclosed polynucleotides and polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143582 | PATHOGEN-INDUCIBLE SYNTHETIC PROMOTER - The invention relates to a pathogen-inducible synthetic promoter which is suitable for regulating the transcription of a nucleic acid, and includes a minimal promoter, characterized in that the minimal promoter includes a sequence motif a) dbrmwa or b) twcccmt which is disposed downstream from a TATA region and in front of a transcription starting point which is located on the minimal promoter and at which transcription of the nucleic acid to be regulated starts. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150291974 | BROAD-SPECTRUM RESISTANCE TO BACTERIAL BLIGHT - The present invention relates to synthetic promoter and a synthetic gene which confers broad-spectrum disease resistance to Xanthomonands in plants. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants containing the synthetic gene and plants derived by crossing plants with such transgenic plants. More specifically, the synthetic promoter is a synthetic Xa10 promoter and the synthetic gene is a synthetic Xa10 gene which contains the synthetic Xa10 promoter. The resistance is resistance to bacterial blight and the plants are rice plants. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150299273 | AXMI335 TOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2 or 4, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 3, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150299274 | AXMI-115, AXMI-113, AXMI-005, AXMI-163 AND AXMI-184: INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring insecticidal activity to host cells are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in host cells. Compositions also comprise transformed host cells. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, 6, 13, or 14, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 2, 3, 11, or 12, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150299720 | EXPRESSION OF MICROBIAL PROTEINS IN PLANTS FOR PRODUCTION OF PLANTS WITH IMPROVED PROPERTIES - Recombinant constructs and methods useful for improvement of plants are provided. In particular, recombinant constructs comprising promoters functional in plant cells positioned for expression of polynucleotides encoding polypeptides from microbial sources are provided. The disclosed constructs and methods find use in production of transgenic plants to provide plants, particularly crop plants, having improved properties. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150322455 | SEC23 NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN AND HEMIPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran and/or hemipteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran and/or hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran and/or hemipteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150322456 | DRE4 NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES THAT CONFER RESISTANCE TO COLEOPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150329595 | PEPTIDE APTAMERS THAT BIND TO THE REP PROTEINS OF SSDNA VIRUSES - Polypeptides and fusion proteins that bind to eukaryotic viruses, in particular, eukaryotic single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) viruses are provided. The polypeptides and fusion proteins bind to the replication initiation proteins (Rep) of ssDNA viruses and optionally inhibit viral replication and/or viral infection. The virus can be a plant pathogen or animal pathogen. Consensus sequences used to identify polypeptides that bind to eukaryotic viruses are also provided. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150337294 | DESIGNER BIOACTIVE PROTEINS - Methods and compositions are provided for binding a target molecule comprising expressing a recombinant binding protein, such as an anticalin, an OB-domain protein, or an alpha-helix coiled-coil forming polypeptide in a plant. Methods for producing such a recombinant binding protein that binds to a target molecule are also provided. Further provided are plant lipocalin, OB-domain, and alpha-helix coiled-coil forming polypeptide coding sequences and recombinant polypeptides derived therefrom. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150337329 | GENE SEQUENCES AND USES THEREOF IN PLANTS - 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. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150353945 | NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES AND PEPTIDES/PROTEINS OF THE FT FAMILY PROVIDING FLOWER REPRESSING PROPERTIES IN TOBACCO AND TRANSGENIC PLANTS TRANSFORMED THEREWITH - The present invention is directed to nucleic acid sequences coding for a protein which, (1) under a respective promoter, is able to suppress or repress or delay flowering of a plant, and (2) includes the motive “NAPDIIDS” (SEQ ID NO: 10) or, in preferred cases, “VNAPDIIDS” SEQ ID NO: 67), with the exception of the nucleic acid of the gene StSP5G or a part thereof. Preferably, the nucleic acid sequence belongs phylogenetically to the FT-clade of the PEBP gene family, wherein the motive “(V)NAPDIIDS” (SEQ ID NO: 68) is in place of the “(V)YAPGW” motive_ (SEQ ID NO: 69) of the flowering promoting proteins AtFT and BvFT2. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150353954 | REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS AND GENETIC APPROACHES FOR CONTROLLING HUANGLONGBING - The invention provides a method for controlling Huanglongbing (HLB) disease of citrus plants through expressing genes encoding synthases for sesquiterpenes such as β-caryophyllene, and α-copaene, and combinations thereof, in citrus plants. Methods of controlling HLB comprising applying at least one purified sesquiterpene, which repels | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150353955 | REPELLENT COMPOSITIONS AND GENETIC APPROACHES FOR CONTROLLING HUANGLONGBING - The invention provides a method for controlling Huanglongbing (HLB) disease of citrus plants through expressing genes encoding synthases for sesquiterpenes such as β-caryophyllene, and α-copaene, and combinations thereof, in citrus plants. Methods of controlling HLB comprising applying at least one purified sesquiterpene, which repels | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150361445 | A METHOD FOR THE CONTROL OF NEMATODES IN PLANTS - The present invention relates to the field of double-stranded RNA (ds RNA) mediated gene silencing of root knot nematodes. The invention particularly provides an effective method for reducing the number of reproducing population and the number of progenies per individual of the root knot nematodes. The present invention also relates to host delivered dsRNA for controlling infection of root knot nematodes. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150368305 | AXMI218, AXMI219, AXMI220, AXMI226, AXMI227, AXMI228, AXMI229, AXMI230 AND AXMI231 DELTA-ENDOTOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-30, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150368649 | GENETIC CONTROL METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS AGAINST INSECT PESTS IN COTTON PLANTS BY THE SILENCING OF GENES OF THE LACCASE FAMILY - The present invention relates to the control of infestation of pests by inhibiting or reducing the expression of genes of the family of chitin synthase. The invention further provides methods and compositions for controlling pests by feeding them with one or more double-strand RNA molecules provides by the present invention. The invention further describes a method of obtaining transgenic plants that express double-strand RNA molecules. The present invention is preferably used for cotton-plants. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150373995 | KP6 ANTIFUNGAL PROTEIN-INDUCED FUNGAL RESISTANCE IN FOOD CROPS - Provided are transgenic plants expressing KP6 antifungal protein and/or KP6 α and β polypeptides, exhibiting high levels of fungal resistance. Such transgenic plants contain a recombinant DNA construct comprising a heterologous signal peptide sequence operably linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding these molecules. Also provided are methods of producing such plants, methods of protecting plants against fungal infection and damage, as well as compositions that can be applied to the locus of plants, comprising microorganisms expressing these molecules, or these molecules themselves, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing these molecules. Human and veterinary therapeutic use of KP6 antifungal protein and/or KP6 α and β polypeptides are also encompassed by the invention. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150376243 | Use of AXMI184 for the Control of Rootworm Insects - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. In particular, methods for killing or controlling a coleopteran pest population, particularly a corn rootworm pest population, are provided. The methods include contacting the coleopteran pest with a pesticidally-effective amount of a polypeptide comprising a coleopteran toxin, particularly a corn rootworm toxin. Further included are methods for increasing yield in plants by expressing the toxin of the invention. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150376244 | AXMI115 VARIANT INSECTICIDAL GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. The toxin coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, polynucleotide sequences and the toxin proteins encoded thereby are provided. Also provided are antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the invention encompasses nucleotide sequences encoding fusion proteins, as well as biologically active variants and fragments thereof, wherein the fusion protein contains the C-terminal portion of SEQ ID NO:43. The fusion protein may also contain the N-terminal portion of SEQ ID NO:45. The invention also includes the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:47 and 1-14, or a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:2, 3, 7-14 and 47, including biologically active variants and fragments thereof. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150376631 | SOYBEAN HRP1 PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN TISSUE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to the promoter of a soybean hypersensitive-induced response protein gene and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-specific manner in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150376643 | CONSTITUTIVE SOYBEAN PROMOTERS - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include two novel promoter nucleotide sequences for the genes encoding gamma tonoplast intrinsic protein and plasma membrane intrinsic protein in soybean, as well as vectors, microorganisms, plants and plant cells comprising the promoter nucleotide sequences, or variants and fragments thereof. Methods for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein are also provided. The methods comprise stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150376644 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING RESISTANCE TO NORTHERN LEAF BLIGHT IN MAIZE - The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying and selecting maize plants with enhanced resistance to northern leaf blight. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160000086 | METHOD AND COMPOSITIONS FOR THE GENETIC CONTROL OF INSECT PESTS IN COTTON PLANTS BY CHITIN SYNTHASE GENE SILENCING - The present invention relates to the control of infestation of pests by inhibiting or reducing the expression of genes of the family of chitin synthase. The invention further provides methods and compositions for controlling pests by feeding them with one or more double-stranded RNA molecules provides by the present invention. The invention further describes a method of obtaining transgenic plants that express double-stranded RNA molecules. The present invention is preferably used for cotton-plants. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160002659 | POLYPEPTIDE - The present invention relates to a polypeptide, or a fragment thereof, capable of enhancing callose biosynthesis and/or accumulation, wherein at least one of the conserved amino acid residues selected from the group consisting of residue corresponding to R84 of SEQ ID NO: 1, residue corresponding to R1926 or SEQ ID NO: 1 and residue corresponding to P189 of SEQ ID NO: 1, of the polypeptide or a fragment thereof, is modified by a mutation selected from the group consisting of substitution and deletion. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160002664 | GENERATION OF CROPS RESISTANT TO CEREAL RUST DISEASE BY SILENCING OF SPECIFIC PATHOGEN GENES - Genetically modified (transgenic) true grasses that are resistant to infection by rust fungi are provided, as are methods of making such transgenic plants. The true grasses are genetically modified by gene silencing of fungal patliogenicity genes that are normally expressed in haustoria. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160017346 | SOYBEAN AGB1 PROMOTER AND ITS USE IN TISSUE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF TRANSGENIC GENES IN PLANTS - The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to the promoter of a soybean predicted allergen Gly m Bd 28K peptide gene and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-specific manner in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160017362 | BIOLOGICAL DEVICES AND METHODS FOR INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF LYCOPENE FROM PLANTS - Described herein are devices and methods for enhancing the physiological properties of plants. For example, the devices and methods described herein increase the production of lycopene, which has industrial and economic value. The lycopene produced by the devices and methods does not require the ultra purification that is common in conventional or commercial methods. The devices and methods described herein also enhance the growth rate of plants. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160017363 | TOXIN GENES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:21-74, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1-20, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160024512 | Methods For Enhancing Segregation of Transgenes in Plants and Compositions Thereof - The compositions and methods are provided that enhance the selection of transgenic plants having two T-DNA molecules integrated into a plant genome at different physical and genetic loci. The compositions are DNA constructs that comprise novel arrangements of T-DNA molecules containing genes of interest, positive selectable marker genes, and conditional lethal genes. The methods disclosed herein comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise the DNA constructs of the present invention, regenerating the plant cell into a plant and identifying independent transgene loci, where the selectable marker genes or transgenic elements can be segregated in the progeny. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160024518 | PRODUCTION OF SMALL INTERFERING RNAS IN PLANTA - Disclosed herein are methods for reducing the expression of target nucleotide sequences using microRNAs. Also disclosed herein are recombinant DNA constructs comprising nucleotide sequences encoding such microRNAs. Plants or plant part thereof comprising these recombinant DNA constructs and microRNAs are also provided. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160032303 | PATHOGEN-INDUCIBLE PROMOTERS AND THEIR USE IN ENHANCING THE DISEASE RESISTANCE OF PLANTS - Methods for producing pathogen-inducible promoters for the expression of genes in plants are provided. The pathogen-inducible promoters are inducible by one, two, three, or more plant pathogens. Methods for producing R genes that are inducible in a plant by more than one plant pathogen are further provided. Additionally, provided are R genes and other nucleic acid molecules comprising the pathogen-inducible promoters and that are made by such methods as well as plants, plant parts, plant cells, seeds, and non-human host cells comprising the R genes and other nucleic acid molecules | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160032314 | CONTROLLING FUNGAL PATHOGENS BY DISABLING THEIR SMALL RNA PATHWAYS USING RNAi-BASED STRATEGY - The present invention relates to pathogen-resistant plants. In one aspect, plants comprising a heterologous expression cassette are provided, wherein the expression cassette comprises a polynucleotide that inhibits expression of a fungal pathogen dicer-like (DCL) gene and wherein the plant has increased resistance to a fungal pathogen compared to a control plant lacking the expression cassette. Methods of making and cultivating pathogen-resistant plants are also provided. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160032315 | SOYBEAN RESISTANT TO CYST NEMATODES - A transgenic soybean resistant to soybean cyst nematode (SCN), or parts thereof, including an artificial DNA construct encoding a serine hydroxymethyltransferase protein (e.g., GmSHMT). Also provided are GmSHMT alleles containing mutations R130P and Y358N along with research and breeding methods and compositions including such. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160040183 | miRNA396 AND GROWTH REGULATING FACTORS FOR CYST NEMATODE TOLERANCE IN PLANTS - The present invention presents methods to alter the genetic composition of crop plants susceptible to nematode infection to improve tolerance to the same. Methods and compositions for modulating key pathways involved in the syncytial event of nematode infection and for preventing the cascade of differential gene expression caused by the same as disclosed. Applicants have found that the microRNA miR396 acts as a master switch of syncytial gene expression changes in plants after infection, and further that miR396 and certain growth regulating transcription factors (GRF) are connected through feedback interaction in syncytium initiation and maintenance. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160040184 | PHI-4 POLYPEPTIDES AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The insecticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160053275 | KEY GENE REGULATING PLANT CELL WALL RECALCITRANCE - This disclosure provides plants having desirable levels of lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens; methods of selecting plants with such desirable levels of lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens; methods of genetically modifying plants to modulate lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens; and uses of such plants. The inventors have determined that the expression and/or activity of POPTR_0014s08530, a gene encoding an | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160068852 | Methods and DNA Constructs for Autoregulating Transgene Silencing - This invention provides a method to autoregulate expression of a transgene susceptible to sRNA silencing by concomitantly transcribing RNA from DNA of a transgene and RNA from DNA from at least one sRNA silencing pathway gene. An aspect of the invention provides use of a recombinant DNA construct that includes DNA of a transgene and DNA of an sRNA silencing regulator. Also disclosed are transgenic cells and organisms having in their genome a recombinant DNA construct that includes DNA of a transgene and DNA of an sRNA silencing regulator. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160075743 | Methods and Materials for Encapsulating Proteins - The invention provides a method for encapsulating a protein of interest, the method comprising the step of expressing a fusion protein comprising an N-terminal region of a rearrangement hot spot (RHS)-repeat-containing protein fused to the protein of interest. The invention further provides applications for the encapsulation, release and delivery of the protein of interest. The invention also encompasses the encapsulated protein of interest and compositions comprising the encapsulated protein of interest. The invention also provides uses of the encapsulated protein of interest, optionally after release from encapsulation, to control pests. The encapsulated protein of interest may for example be produced via expression in a plant to control a pest of the plant, such as an insect pest. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160076050 | Methods of Enhancing the Resistance of Plants to Bacterial Pathogens - Methods are provided for enhancing the resistance of plants to bacterial pathogens. The methods involve transforming a plant with a polynucleotide molecule comprising a plant promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes a plant receptor that binds specifically with bacterial elongation factor-Tu. Further provided are expression cassettes, transformed plants, seeds, and plant cells that are produced by such methods. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160097054 | ROOT-PREFERRED PROMOTER AND METHODS OF USE - The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a promoter for the gene encoding | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160108424 | METHOD FOR INCREASING PATHOGEN RESISTANCE IN PLANTS - The invention relates to a method of increasing the resistance to one or more pathogens, preferably fungal or bacterial pathogens, in a monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plant or a part of a plant, for example in an organ, tissue, a cell or a part of a plant cell, for example in an organelle, wherein a DNA sequence which codes for YODA protein or wherein an endogenous DNA sequence which codes for a YODA protein is increased in the plant or plant cell in comparison with the original, or wild-type, plant. The invention also relates to plants, to parts of a plant, for example an organ, tissue, a cell or a part of a plant cell, for example an organelle, which are obtained by the above methods, and to the corresponding propagation material. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160108426 | Lepidopteran-Active Cry1Da1 Amino Acid Sequence Variant Proteins - Engineered Cry1Da amino acid sequences are provided that exhibit improved Lepidopteran insecticidal activity and an enhanced Lepidopteran spectrum compared to the naturally occurring Cry1Da protein toxin. Polynucleotide sequences intended for use in expression of the improved proteins in plants are also provided. Particular embodiments provide compositions containing insect inhibitory amounts of the engineered proteins, as well as recombinant plants, plant parts, and seeds containing polynucleotide constructs encoding one or more of the improved engineered proteins. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160122399 | DIG-303 INSECTICIDAL CRY TOXINS - DIG-303 insecticidal toxins, polynucleotides encoding such toxins, use of such toxins to control pests, and transgenic plants that produce such toxins are disclosed. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160138041 | IDENTIFICATION OF A XANTHOMONAS EUVESICATORIA RESISTANCE GENE FROM PEPPER (CAPSICUM ANNUUM) AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PLANTS WITH RESISTANCE - The present invention relates to the identification of the xcv-1 gene, which is responsible for a recessive resistance to | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160145638 | MUTATED ALLENE OXIDE SYNTHASE 2 (AOS2) GENES - Provided are compositions and methods relating to gene and/or protein mutations in plants. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to mutations in the allene oxide synthase 2 gene (i.e., AOS2). In some embodiments the disclosure relates to plants that are pathogen resistant. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160152998 | Transgenic Expression Of Archaea Superoxide Reductase | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160152999 | RHIZOMANIA-RESISTANT GENE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160160233 | Downy Mildew Resistance Providing Genes in Sunflower - Described herein are downy mildew resistant genes in sunflower and downy mildew resistance sunflower plants. Specifically, the present invention relates to sunflower plants being resistant to the plant pathogen downy mildew, wherein the plant comprises a downy mildew resistance conferring gene encoding a protein including the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID No. 2 or SEQ ID No. 4 and wherein the expression of the resistance conferring gene is reduced as compared to the expression of said resistance conferring gene in a sunflower plant not being resistant to the plant pathogen downy mildew or the enzymatic activity of said protein is reduced as compared to the enzymatic activity of said protein in a sunflower plant not being resistant to the plant pathogen downy mildew. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160177332 | AXMI281 TOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160177333 | Pesticidal Genes and Methods of Use | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160185830 | AXMI440 TOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a toxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated toxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:3-6, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, as well as variants and fragments thereof. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160186194 | TEMPORAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION BY MICRORNAS - This invention provides molecular constructs and methods for the temporally specific control of gene expression in plants or in plant pests or pathogens. More specifically, this invention provides plant miRNA genes having novel circadian expression patterns that are useful for designing recombinant DNA constructs for temporally specific expression of at least one gene. Also provided are non-natural transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing in their genome a recombinant DNA construct of this invention. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160186201 | PLANTS RESISTANT TO PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS GROWING IN VASCULAR TISSUES - The present invention relates to the generation of transgenic plants resistant to infections caused by microorganisms restricted to the phloem, and it comprises the induction of the expression of a chimeric or fusion protein, which comprises a phloem protein of | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160186202 | AXMI115 VARIANT INSECTICIDAL GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE - Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. The toxin coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, polynucleotide sequences and the toxin proteins encoded thereby are provided. Also provided are antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the invention encompasses nucleotide sequences encoding fusion proteins, as well as biologically active variants and fragments thereof, wherein the fusion protein contains the C-terminal portion of SEQ ID NO:43. The fusion protein may also contain the N-terminal portion of SEQ ID NO:45. The invention also includes the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:47 and 1-14, or a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:48 and 15-31, including biologically active variants and fragments thereof. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160186203 | GHO/SEC24B2 AND SEC24B1 NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES TO CONTROL COLEOPTERAN AND HEMIPTERAN PESTS - This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of insect pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in insect pests, including coleopteran and/or hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of insect pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160194364 | INSECTICIDAL POLYPEPTIDES HAVING BROAD SPECTRUM ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160194658 | NUCAMPHOLIN NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES TO CONTROL COLEOPTERAN INSECT PESTS | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160201079 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND METHODS FOR MAKING PLANTS RESISTANT TO FUNGAL PATHOGENS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160201080 | PLANT RESISTANT TO HELMINTHOSPORIUM TURCICUM | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160201082 | AXMI422 TOXIN GENE AND METHODS FOR ITS USE | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160201083 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES ENCODING INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160251667 | A SOYBEAN U6 POLYMERASE III PROMOTER AND METHODS OF USE | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160376606 | IDENTIFICATION AND USE OF TARGET GENES FOR CONTROL OF PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODES - The invention relates to identifying and evaluating target coding sequences for control of plant parasitic nematodes by inhibiting one or more biological functions, and their use. The invention provides methods and compositions for identification of such sequences and for the control of a plant-parasitic nematode population. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the nematode, a reduction in disease may be obtained through suppression of nematode gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160376607 | NOVEL INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS AND METHODS OF USE - Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are isolated insecticidal proteins and nucleic acids. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The insecticidal proteins find use in controlling or killing lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity. | 12-29-2016 |
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| 20170233712 | PROCESS FOR THE PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF BACTERIAL DISEASES IN PLANTS | 08-17-2017 |
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