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| 800284000 | The polynucleotide alters carbohydrate production in the plant | 78 |
| 20080209591 | Mutant Allele of Cucurbita Pepo - The present invention relates to a | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209592 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 6600375 - A soybean cultivar designated 6600375 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 6600375, to the plants of soybean 6600375, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 6600375 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 6600375 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 6600375, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 6600375 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 6600375 with another soybean cultivar. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209593 | SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 6421326 - A soybean cultivar designated 6421326 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 6421326, to the plants of soybean 6421326, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 6421326 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 6421326 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 6421326, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 6421326 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 6421326 with another soybean cultivar. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080209594 | Soybean Cultivar 6733322 - A soybean cultivar designated 6733322 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 6733322, to the plants of soybean 6733322, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 6733322 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 6733322 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 6733322, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 6733322 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 6733322 with another soybean cultivar. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080229455 | Altered metabolism - The present invention relates to methods for increasing the yield of a compound produced by an organism. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods for increasing the total or soluble carbohydrate content or sweetness or increasing the content of an endogenous carbohydrate of a plant tissue by producing a sugar-metabolizing enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of an endogenous sugar (one that is normally produced in the plant) to an alien sugar (one that is not normally produced in the plant at the same developmental stage). The invention also relates to plants and plant parts that produce a sugar-metabolizing enzyme to yield an alien sugar, with the consequence of higher total fermentable carbohydrate content, and to fermentable carbohydrates and other products derived therefrom. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080235825 | Methods and means for modulating cellulose biosynthesis in fiber producing - The present invention provides novel genes involved in cellulose biosynthesis and methods using such genes to modulate cellulose biosynthesis in fiber-producing plants such as cotton. The invention also provides methods for identifying and isolating alleles of these genes in a population of fiber-producing plants that correlate with the quality of the produced fibers. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080250533 | Plants With an Increased Production of Hyaluronan II - The present invention relates to plant cells and plants which synthesize an increased amount of hyaluronan, and to methods for preparing such plants, and also to methods for preparing hyaluronan with the aid of these plant cells or plants. Here, plant cells or genetically modified plants according to the invention have hyaluronan synthase activity and additionally an increased UDP-glucose dehydrogenase (UDP-Glc-DH) activity compared to wild-type plant cells or wild-type plants. The present invention furthermore relates to the use of plants having increased hyaluronan synthesis for preparing hyaluronan and food or feedstuff containing hyaluronan. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080282428 | Method of Constructing Novel Higher Plant and Method of Promoting the Growth of Higher Plant - The present invention provides a method of producing a higher plant having cytochrome c | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090007297 | Fructan Biosynthetic Enzymes - This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding fructosyltransferases. More specifically, this invention relates to polynucleotides encoding 1-FFTs, 6-SFTs, or 1-SSTs. The invention also relates to the construction of a recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of the fructosyltransferases, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct results in production of altered levels of the fructosyltransferases in a transformed host cell. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090019605 | PLANT HAVING REDUCED LIGNIN AND CELLULOSE CONTENTS WITHOUT REDUCING GLUCAN CONTENT, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME AND UTILIZATION THEREOF - By inhibiting the function of a transcription factor that promotes transcription of a gene associated with the amounts of lignin and cellulose, a plant in which the amounts of lignin and cellulose are reduced without reducing the amount of glucan is produced. In this plant, glucan in the obtained cell wall components is in the state of highly easily undergoing saccharification. In this plant, moreover, natural dehiscence of pods is suppressed. A method of inhibiting the transcription factor includes a method in which a chimeric gene between a transcription factor gene and a polynucleotide that encodes a functional peptide capable of converting the transcription factor into a transcription repressor is introduced into a plant cell so that a chimeric protein in which the transcription factor is fused with the functional peptide is produced in a plant cell, and a method of inhibiting the expression of the transcription factor, such as knockout method or RNAi method. Thus, a plant in which the amounts of lignin and cellulose are reduced without reducing the amount of glucan is provided. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090064372 | Transformed Plant Expressing a Dextransucrase and Synthesizing a Modified Starch - The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, wherein the genetic modification leads to the expression in plastids of such plant cells and plants of an enzyme having the activity of a dextransucrase. Furthermore, the present invention relates to means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. Plant cells and plants of this type synthesis a modified starch. The present invention therefore also relates to the starch synthesized by the plant cells and plants according to the invention as well as to methods for the manufacture of the starch and to the manufacture of starch derivatives of this modified starch. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090119800 | METHODS FOR INCREASING STARCH CONTENT IN PLANTS - Methods and compositions for increasing the starch content in green tissues of a plant are provided. The method comprises down-regulating me activity of starch degradation enzymes in a plant. The resulting transgenic plants of the invention have increased starch content in green tissues and exhibit a starch excess phenotype. In one embodiment the method involves manipulating a monocot plant to down-regulate the activity of a starch degradation enzyme. The plants are useful for improving the yield of free sugars from plant biomass and increase dried green tissue storage stability. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090205080 | CHLAMYDOMONAS GLUCAN DIKINASE GENE, ENZYME AND MODIFIED STARCH, USES, METHODS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - The present invention relates the nucleotide sequence from | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090241223 | MODULATING PLANT SUGAR LEVELS - This document provides methods and materials related to plants having modulated (e.g., increased) levels of sugars (e.g., glucose, fructose, and/or sucrose). For example, this document provides plants having increased sugar levels as well as methods and materials for making plants and plant products having increased sugar levels. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090260108 | PLANT PRODUCING HYALURONIC ACID - It is intended to provide by improving a known method of producing hyaluronic acid in a plant, a plant or a cultured plant cells which can produce hyaluronic acid at a lower cost and a further higher yield than before, a method of preparing the same, an expression vector for transformation, a method of producing hyaluronic acid using the plant or the cultured plant cells and the like. The method of producing hyaluronic acid comprising obtaining hyaluronic acid by co-expressing a protein with hyaluronic acid synthase activity and an exogenous protein with sugar-nucleotide synthase activity in a plant cell or a plant is provided. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090300798 | Transformed Plant Expressing a Mutansucrase and Synthesizing a Modified Starch - The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, wherein the genetic modification leads to the expression in plastids of such plant cells and plants of an enzyme having the activity of a mutansucrase. Furthermore, the present invention relates to means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. Plant cells and plants of this type synthesise a modified starch. The present invention therefore also relates to the starch synthesised by the plant cells and plants according to the invention as well as to methods for the manufacture of the starch and to the manufacture of starch derivatives of this modified starch. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300799 | PLANT GALACTINOL SYNTHASE HOMOLOGS - Isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding galactinol synthase are disclosed. Recombinant DNA construct(s) for use in altering expression of endogenous genes encoding galactinol synthase are also disclosed. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100017915 | Manipulation of Plant Polysaccharide Synthases - The present invention provides compositions and methods for manipulation of plant polysaccharides and plant polysaccharide syntheses. Compositions include novel nucleotide sequences encoding polysaccharide synthases polypeptides, and biologically active variants thereof. Further provided are methods for polysaccharide manipulation using the sequences disclosed herein. One method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell, a nucleotide sequence of the present invention operably linked to a heterologous promoter and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100064391 | Methods and Means for Producing Starch Having at Least One Altered Characteristic - The invention provides a method for modifying a starch producing plant and a method for producing starch having at least one altered characteristic. The invention particularly provides a method for producing starch comprising introducing a nucleic acid comprising an amylosucrase encoding sequence functionally linked to a granule-targeting sequence and functionally linked to a promoter sequence active in a starch storage organ of said plant into suitable plant material of said plant and producing a plant from said material, further comprising allowing said plant to grow and harvesting starch from said plant. The invention further provides starch having an altered characteristic and plants and parts thereof and products comprising such starch. Furthermore, the invention provides fusion proteins and cells comprising a fusion protein. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100077509 | NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES ENCODING PLANT PROTEINS IN THE C3HC4 FAMILY AND METHODS FOR THE ALTERATION OF PLANT CELLULOSE AND LIGNIN CONTENT - Polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, and methods are disclosed for the modification of cellulose and/or lignin content in plant tissues. Plants are genetically engineered with a gene encoding a C3HC4 protein, which leads to increased cellulose content when over-expressed in the plant vascular system. Plant transformants harboring the C3HC4 protein gene show increased content of cellulose and/or decreased lignin content, traits that are thought to improve hardwood trees for cellulose extraction during pulping and papermaking. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077510 | PLANT GALACTINOL SYNTHASE HOMOLOGS - Isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding galactinol synthase are disclosed. Recombinant DNA construct(s) for use in altering expression of endogenous genes encoding galactinol synthase are also disclosed. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100186118 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR REGULATING POLYSACCHARIDES OF A PLANT CELL - Novel plant polysaccharide synthesis genes and polypeptides encoded by such genes are provided. These genes and polynucleotide sequences are useful regulating polysaccharide synthesis and plant phenotype. Moreover, these genes are useful for expression profiling of plant polysaccharide synthesis genes. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100199385 | Methods and materials for increasing starch biosynthesis in plants - The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing plants or plant tissue with increased starch biosynthesis. Increased starch biosynthesis provides for increased yield. One aspect of the invention concerns polynucleotides that encode a mutant plant large subunit of AGPase. In one embodiment, a polynucleotide of the invention encodes a plant AGPase large subunit having an amino acid mutation wherein the cysteine amino acid corresponding to amino acid position 424 of wild type maize AGPase large subunit is substituted with an amino acid that results in increased AGPase activity when provided in an AGPase enzyme. In a specific embodiment, the cysteine corresponding to amino acid position 424 of wild type maize AGPase large subunit is substituted with a valine amino acid. The subject invention also comprises a mutant plant large subunit of AGPase encoded by a polynucleotide of the invention. Characterization of kinetic and allosteric properties indicates increased starch yield is provided when the polynucleotides of the invention are expressed in plants such as monocot endosperms. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100199386 | CONTROL OF COLD-INDUCED SWEETENING AND REDUCTION OF ACRYLAMIDE LEVELS IN POTATO OR SWEET POTATO - The present invention is directed to methods and compositions to eliminate cold storage-induced sweetening of potato or sweet potato. The invention is accomplished in part by silencing the vacuolar acid invertase gene using RNAi technology. The resulting potatoes withstand cold storage without significant hexogenesis, producing potatoes or sweet potatoes that have reduced Maillard reactions when fried in hot oil. The fried products accumulate significantly lower levels of acrylamide compared to controls. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110030098 | Glycosyltransferases, Polynucleotides Encoding These And Methods Of Use - The invention provides method for producing a plant cell or plant with increased phlorizin or phloretin glycosyltransferase activity, the method comprising transformation of a plant cell or plant with a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide with phloretin glycosyltransferase activity. The invention also provides host cells, plant cells and plants, genetically modified to contain and or express the polynucleotides. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110061131 | SUGARCANE PLANTS WITH AN INCREASED STORAGE CARBOHYDRATE CONTENT - The present invention relates to a method for increasing the storage carbohydrate content of sugarcane plants. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110078821 | HEAT RESISTANT PLANTS AND PLANT TISSUES AND METHODS AND MATERIALS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME - The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing plants or plant tissue with increased resistance to heat conditions and/or increased starch biosynthesis. Increased resistance of a plant or plant tissue to heat conditions provides for decreased yield losses as compared to the yield losses generally observed at elevated temperatures. One aspect of the invention concerns polynucleotides that encode a mutant plant small subunit of AGPase. The subject invention also comprises a mutant plant small subunit of AGPase encoded by a polynucleotide of the invention. The subject invention also concerns plants comprising a polynucleotide of the invention and method for making the plants. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110173720 | Method for Modifying Sugar Chain Structure in Plant, and Plant Produced by the Method - The present invention provides a method for reducing or inhibiting fucose modification to a N-linked sugar chain in a plant, and a transgenic plant, or the like, in which the fucose modification has been reduced or inhibited. Transcription or translation of a gene coding for an enzyme involved in synthesis of sugar nucleotide GDP-fucose is inhibited by post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) or transcriptional gene silencing (TGS), and an amount of GDP-fucose in a plant cell is reduced, to reduce or inhibit fucose modification to a sugar chain including glycoprotein sugar chain, glycolipid sugar chain, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide, and the like, thereby enabling production of a glycoprotein, or the like, from which fucose modification, which may become an allergen, has been removed, and enabling clinical application of a medicinal glycoprotein produced with a plant. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110179525 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR BIOFUEL CROPS - Using the natural variation of sweet and grain sorghum to uncover genes that are conserved in rice, sorghum, and sugarcane, but differently expressed in sweet versus grain sorghum by using a microarray platform and the syntenous alignment of rice and sorghum genomic regions containing these genes. Indeed, enzymes involved in carbohydrate accumulation and those that reduce lignocellulose can be identified. Interestingly, C4 photosynthesis is enhanced as well. Furthermore, genetic analysis has shown that a specific microRNA is linked to flowering time and high sugar content in stems. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110271401 | PROCEDURE FOR PRODUCING TRANSGENIC PLANTS PROVIDING HIGH STARCH CONTENT AND YIELD AND HIGH AMYLOSE/AMYLOPECTIN BALANCE - A process for the production of transgenic plants that have a high starch content and yield and a high amylose/amylopectin ratio. The alpha-1,4-glucan phosphorylases (GPs) catalyze the reversible cutting of bonds α-1,4 of the non-reducing ends of homopolysaccharides with at least 5 glucose molecules such as starch, maltodextrin and glycogen, leading to production of glucose-1-phosphate. The GPs in bacteria and animal cells are responsible for the breakdown of glycogen. Although the increase in GP activity leads to a reduction in intracellular levels of glycogen in bacteria and animal cells, this invention discloses the production of plants that have high starch levels and yields and high amylose/amylopectin ratio, as result of the expression of genes coding for GPs. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110277187 | Modification of Fructan Biosynthesis, Increasing Plant Biomass, and Enhancing Productivitiy of Biochemical Pathways in a Plant - The present invention relates to the modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to methods of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells, and to related nucleic acids and constructs. The present invention also relates to increasing plant biomass and, more particularly, to methods of enhancing biomass yield and/or yield stability, including shoot and/or root growth in a plant, and to related nucleic acids and constructs. The present invention also relates to methods of enhancing the productivity of biochemical pathways and, more particularly, to fusion proteins in plants, and to related nucleic acids and constructs. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110289629 | INCREASING CELL WALL DEPOSITION AND BIOMASS DENSITY IN PLANTS - Modulating in planta expression of a gene encoding WALLDOF, a transcription factor involved in plant cell wall biogenesis, results in increased cell wall deposition and higher plant biomass density. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120005780 | UDP-Xylose Synthases (UXS) Polynucleotides, Polypeptides and Uses Thereof - The present disclosure concerns methods and compositions relating to UXS polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding UXS polypeptides. In certain claims, the methods and compositions are of use to improve digestibility and/or ease of grain processing. Such improvements relate to a modulation in arabinoxylan and/or hemicellulose content in transgenic plants. Such plants can, for example, comprise one or more nucleic acid sequences that inhibit expression of one or more UDP-Xylose Synthase (UXS) genes. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120017333 | PLANTS WITH INCREASED ACTIVITY OF A STARCH PHOSPHORYLATING ENZYME - The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, whereby the genetic modification leads to an increase in the activity of a starch-phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison to the corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have not been genetically modified. In addition, the present invention concerns means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. These types of plant cells and plants synthesise a modified starch. Therefore, the present invention also concerns the starches synthesised from the plant cells and plants according to the invention, methods for manufacturing these starches, and the manufacture of starch derivatives of these modified starches, as well as flours containing starches according to the invention. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120060235 | NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCROSE ACCUMULATION IN COFFEE - Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules isolated from coffee ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120079621 | GENES ASSOCIATED TO SUCROSE CONTENT - Modern sugarcane cultivars are complex hybrids resulting from crosses among several species of the | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120102597 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TRANSGENIC PLANTS HAVING HIGH STARCH AND BIOMASS CONTENT AND YIELD - Process for the production of transgenic plants that have high content and yield of starch and biomass. The starch synthases (SSs) in plants (including SSIV) and glycogen synthase (GlgA) in bacteria catalyse the transfer of the glucosidic part of the ADP-Glucose molecule (the activated donor of glucose) to a pre-existing α(1, 4)-glucan. However, in contrast to the other SSs, SSIV is able to add glucose units to maltotriose. Also, in contrast to other soluble SSs, SSIV is bound to the starch granule. This invention describes for the first time how to obtain plants that have high levels and yields of starch and biomass as a consequence of the expression of genes coding for SSIV. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120110697 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING NOVEL HIGHER PLANT AND METHOD OF PROMOTING THE GROWTH OF HIGHER PLANT - The present invention provides a method of producing a higher plant having cytochrome c | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120117691 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS FOR MODIFICATION OF LIGNIN CONTENT IN PLANTS - The invention provides methods for modifying lignin, cellulose, xylan, and hemicellulose content in plants, and for achieving ectopic lignification and, for instance, secondary cell wall synthesis in pith cells, by altered regulation of a WRKY transcription factor. Nucleic acid constructs for altered WRKY-TF expression are described. Transgenic plants are provided that comprise modified pith cell walls, and lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose content. Plants described herein may be used, for example, as improved biofuel feedstock and as highly digestible forage crops. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120144526 | Manipulating fructan biosynthesis and enhancing plant biomass - Genetic constructs capable of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells of a plant include a promoter, or functionally active fragment or variant thereof, operatively linked to a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial FT enzyme, or a functionally active fragment or variant thereof. Such constructs can be used in the modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to methods of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells, for increasing plant biomass and, more particularly, to methods of enhancing biomass yield and/or yield stability, including shoot and/or root growth in a plant, and for enhancing the productivity of biochemical pathways. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120167252 | POLYNUCLEOTIDES, DNA CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS FOR THE ALTERATION OF PLANT CELLULOSE CONTENT - Polynucleotide, DNA constructs and methods are disclosed for the modification of cellulose content in plant tissues. Plants are transformed with constructs encoding either an active | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120180161 | Method of Modifying the Carbohydrate Content of a Plant - A method of modifying at least one carbohydrate in a tissue of a plant is described. The method is typically applied to a sugarcane plant of the genus | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120185966 | FRUCTAN BIOSYNTHETIC ENZYMES - This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding fructosyltransferases. More specifically, this invention relates to polynucleotides encoding 1-FFTs, 6-SFTs, or 1-SSTs. The invention also relates to the construction of a recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of the fructosyltransferases, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct results in production of altered levels of the fructosyltransferases in a transformed host cell. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120192312 | Production of Plants with Reduced Lignin Content - The invention relates to the production of plants having a reduced lignin content and in which the cellulose hydrolysis of the walls is increased, via the total or partial inhibition of the expression and/or the activity of two laccases in said plant. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120192313 | Method for Modifying Plant Architecture and Enhancing Plant Biomass And/Or Sucrose Yield - The present invention relates to methodology and constructs for modifying plant architecture and enhancing plant biomass and/or sucrose yield. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120216316 | Amylopectin Type Starch with Enhanced Retrogradation Stability - This invention relates to transgenic potato plants producing amylopectin-type starch with enhanced retrogradation stability. The invention further provides a method for producing and identifying such transgenic potato plants. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120284874 | Method for speeding up plant growth and improving yield by altering expression levels of kinases and phosphatases - Transgenic plants having increased growth rate and increase yield are disclosed, and methods for making the same. In one embodiment, the method comprises: transforming a plant or plant cell with a nucleic acid molecule comprising a plant kinase and/or phosphatase gene selected from NG6, NG21, NG24, NG28, and NG32, and over-expressing said kinase and/or phosphatase gene in the plant or plant cell. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120324601 | COMPOSITION FOR PRODUCTION OF PLANT BODY HAVING IMPROVED SUGAR CONTENT, AND USE THEREOF - The composition, in accordance with the present invention, for producing a plant body having an improved sugar content includes glutathione, a polynucleotide encoding γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, or a polynucleotide encoding glutathione-binding plastid type fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase. The composition preferably includes oxidized glutathione. This allows provision of a composition for easily producing a plant body having an improved sugar content. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130014290 | UDP-XYLOSE SYNTHASES (UXS) POLYNUCLEOTIDES, POLYPEPTIDES AND USES THEREOF - The present disclosure concerns methods and compositions relating to UXS polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding UXS polypeptides. In certain claims, the methods and compositions are of use to improve digestibility and/or ease of grain processing. Such improvements relate to a modulation in arabinoxylan and/or hemicellulose content in transgenic plants. Such plants can, for example, comprise one or more nucleic acid sequences that inhibit expression of one or more UDP-Xylose Synthase (USX) genes. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130042372 | USING CORNGRASS1 TO ENGINEER POPLAR AS A BIOENERGY CROP - Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to new bioenergy crops and methods of creating new bioenergy crops. For example, genes encoding microRNAs (miRNAs) are used to create transgenic crops. In some embodiments, over-expression of miRNA is used to produce transgenic perennials, such as trees, with altered lignin content or composition. In some embodiments, the transgenic perennials are | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130091602 | METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING PLANT CELL WALLS COMPRISING CHITIN - Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant secondary cell walls, particularly in cotton cell walls found in cotton fibers. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding a | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130160161 | INHIBITION OF SNL6 EXPRESSION FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION - The invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting the expression of the gene Snl6 in plants. Plants with inhibited expression of Snl6 have use in biofuel production, e.g., by increasing the amount of soluble sugar that can be extracted from the plant. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130160162 | Nucleic Acid Molecules Encoding Plant Proteins in the C3HC4 Family and Methods for the Alteration of Plant Cellulose And Lignin Content - Polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, and methods are disclosed for the modification of cellulose and/or lignin content in plant tissues. Plants are genetically engineered with a gene encoding a C3HC4 protein, which leads to increased cellulose content when over-expressed in the plant vascular system. Plant transformants harboring the C3HC4 protein gene show increased content of cellulose and/or decreased lignin content, traits that are thought to improve hardwood trees for cellulose extraction during pulping and papermaking. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130191944 | REGULATING METABOLISM BY MODIFYING THE LEVEL OF TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE - Method for the inhibition of carbon flow in the glycolytic direction in a cell by increasing the intracellular availability of trehalose-6-phosphate. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130254938 | PRECISE BREEDING-SIMULTANEOUS SILENCING - The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130269061 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PROCESSING BIOMASS WITH ELEVATED LEVELS OF STARCH - Genetically engineered plants having altered levels of one or more starch regulation enzymes and a polysaccharide degrading enzyme are provided. Methods of genetically engineering plants to express products altering expression of one or more starch regulation enzymes and polysaccharide degrading enzymes, and genetic constructs are provided. Methods of agricultural processing and animal feed using the genetically engineered plants are described. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130291224 | METHOD FOR SPEEDING UP PLANT GROWTH AND IMPROVING YIELD BY INTRODUCING PHOSPHATASES IN TRANSGENIC PLANT - Transgenic plants having increased growth rate, increased sugar content, and increase yield are disclosed, and methods for making the same. The transgenic plants have a gene coding for a phosphatase having a C-terminal motif under control of a heterologous promoter incorporated into the genomic DNA of the plant. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130312138 | PLANTS WITH INCREASED ACTIVITY OF A STARCH PHOSPHORYLATING ENZYME - The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, whereby the genetic modification leads to an increase in the activity of a starch-phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison to the corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have not been genetically modified. In addition, the present invention concerns means and methods for the manufacture of such plant cells and plants. These types of plant cells and plants synthesise a modified starch. Therefore, the present invention also concerns the starches synthesised from the plant cells and plants according to the invention, methods for manufacturing these starches, and the manufacture of starch derivatives of these modified starches, as well as flours containing starches according to the invention. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130318656 | PLANTS WITH ALTERED LEVELS OF VEGETATIVE STARCH - Vectors for altering the expression of one or more starch regulation enzymes are provided. Methods of transformation of plant tissues to express elements altering expression of one or more starch regulation enzymes, and resulting transgenic plants are provided. Methods of using the transgenic plants are provided. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140033365 | Inhibition of a Xylosyltransferase to Improve Saccharification Efficiency - The invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting the expression of the gene XAX1 in grass plants. Plants with inhibited expression of XAX1 have use, e.g., in biofuel production by increasing the amount of soluble sugar that can be extracted from the plant. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140059715 | PLASTIDIAL NUCLEOTIDE SUGAR EPIMERASES - Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs of plastidial sugar epimerases useful for conferring improved agronomic performance including yield and drought are disclosed. Compositions (such as plants or seeds) having these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs are also disclosed. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140090107 | PLANT VARIANT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PLANT VARIANT, AND METHOD FOR ACCUMULATING SOLUBLE SUGAR - This invention is intended to allow accumulation of large quantities of soluble sugars in tissue other than plant seeds. A plant is modified so as to suppress a gene encoding a subunit exhibiting the highest sequence similarity with the subunit encoded by the AGPL1 gene of rice among subunits constituting. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140223602 | ENZYMES FOR THE TREATMENT OF LIGNOCELLULOSICS, NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING THEM AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM - The invention provides polypeptides having a lignocellulolytic activity, e.g., a glycosyl hydrolase, a cellulase, an endoglucanase, a cellobiohydrolase, a beta-glucosidase, a xylanase, a mannanse, a xylosidase (e.g., a β-xylosidase), an arabinofuranosidase, and/or a glucose oxidase activity, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention provides polypeptides that can enzymatically process (hydrolyze) sugarcane bagasse, i.e., for sugarcane bagasse degradation, or for biomass processing, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one embodiment, the invention provides thermostable and thermotolerant forms of polypeptides of the invention. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140259224 | TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED TRAITS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THEREOF - The present disclosure provides methods of producing a plant that exhibits an enhanced trait selected from the group consisting of altered hexose sugar level, altered starch level, altered sucrose phosphate synthase activity, altered ureide level and delayed senescence, as compared to a control plant. The present disclosure also provides transgenic cells, plants, plant parts, seeds, progeny plants, products or commodity products produced by this method. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140283214 | MAIZE SUGARY ENHANCER SEQUENCES - The sugary enhancer phenotype in maize results from the absence of expression of a nucleotide sequence located on Chromosome 2. Methods for screening, selecting or identifying plants containing the sequence and for estimating the sucrose content in maize plants are disclosed. Genetically modified plants having altered expression of the nucleotide sequence are provided. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140283215 | METHODS FOR INCREASING STARCH CONTENT IN PLANT COBS - Methods and compositions for increasing the starch content in cob tissues of a plant are provided. The method comprises down-regulating the activity of starch degradation enzymes in a plant. The resulting transgenic plants of the invention have increased starch content in cob tissues. In one embodiment the method involves manipulating a monocot plant to down-regulate the activity of a starch degradation enzyme in cob tissues. The plants are useful for improving the yield of free sugars from plant biomass. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140366220 | Compositions and Methods for Increased Expression in Sugar Cane - A sugar cane plant cell comprising a recombinant nucleic acid molecule is provided, the recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence of interest, a promoter and the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein the promoter is downstream of and in operative association with the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and upstream of and in operative association with the nucleotide sequence of interest, and the nucleotide sequence of interest is expressed at a level at least about 6 times greater than the level of expression of said nucleotide sequence of interest in a control. Additionally, a method of increasing the expression of a nucleotide sequence of interest in a sugar cane plant cell using the recombinant nucleic acid molecule of the invention is provided. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150052634 | TRANSGENIC PLANTS HAVING ALTERED BIOMASS COMPOSITION - Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052635 | GENE ENCODING ENZYME THAT REDUCES POSITION 24 OF STEROID SKELETON AND PLANT IN WHICH EXPRESSION LEVEL OF THE GENE IS LOWERED - This invention provides a plant belonging to the family Solanaceae that does not produce cholesterols, including glycoalkaloids. This invention concerns a protein having activity of an enzyme that reduces position 24 of the steroid skeleton of a plant belonging to the family Solanaceae, a novel plant in which a gene encoding such protein is suppressed, and a method for producing and testing such plant. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150299717 | Transgenic Plants with Modified Sugar Content and Methods of Generating Same - This application provides and discloses small RNAs and their target genes that are involved in controlling the levels of sucrose, glucose, and fructose and methods of modulating expression or activity of these mi RNAs and target genes. This application further provides transgenic plants, plant parts, e.g., seeds, that have altered expression of these mi RNAs and target genes and have increased levels of sucrose, increased sucrose to glucose ratios, increased sucrose to hexose ratios, altered carbohydrate levels, or increased Brix in fruit from transgenic plants. This application also provides methods of producing and growing transgenic plants or seeds that have increased levels of sucrose, increased sucrose to glucose ratios, increased sucrose to hexose ratios, altered carbohydrate levels, or increased Brix in fruit from transgenic plants. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150299719 | TRANSGENIC TREE INDUCED BY RABG3BCA AND USE THEREOF - Provided to a transgenic tree induced by RabG3bCA and a use thereof. The transgenic tree serves to control xylem growth through RabG3b of | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150322448 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR ALTERING LIGNIN COMPOSITION IN PLANTS - The invention provides methods for decreasing lignin content in plants by reducing expression of a folylpolyglutamate synthetase 1 (FPGS1) coding sequence in the plant. Also provided are methods for reducing lignin content in a plant by down-regulation of FPGS1 expression in the plant. Nucleic acid molecules for modulation of FPGS1 expression and transgenic plants the same are also provided. Plants described herein may be used, for example, as improved biofuel feedstock and as highly digestible forage crops. Methods for processing plant tissue and for producing biofuels by utilizing such plants are also provided. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150368659 | POTATOES WITH REDUCED GRANULE-BOUND STARCH SYNTHASE - Materials and methods for making plants (e.g., | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160046953 | WHEAT WITH INCREASED RESISTANT STARCH LEVELS - A series of independent human-induced non-transgenic mutations found at one or more of the SBEII genes of wheat; wheat plants having these mutations in one or more of their SBEII genes; and a method of creating and finding similar and/or additional mutations of SBEII by screening pooled and/or individual wheat plants. The seeds and flour from the wheat plants of the present invention exhibit an increase in amylose and resistant starch without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes. Additionally, the wheat plants of the present invention exhibit altered SBEII activity without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160053276 | PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME - A method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants is provided. More specifically, a method for enhancing one or more yield-related traits in plants is provided, by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a POI (protein of interest) polypeptide. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a POI polypeptide, which plants have one or more enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Constructs useful in performing the methods of the invention are further provided. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160251670 | WHEAT HAVING HIGH LEVELS OF BETA-GLUCAN | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160251671 | TRANSGENIC TREES HAVING REDUCED XYLAN CONTENT | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160376571 | FAGOPYRITOL SYNTHASE GENES AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to an isolated DNA molecule encoding a fagopyritol synthase. A method for producing a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor is also described. The method includes providing a fagopyritol synthase, providing a substrate comprising a galactosyl donor and a galactosyl acceptor, and combining the fagopyritol synthase with the substrate under conditions effective produce a fagopyritol, an insulin mediator, an insulin mediator analogue, an insulin mediator homologue, or an insulin mediator inhibitor. | 12-29-2016 |
