30th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100192248 | LETTUCE NAMED ICE 15454 - A novel lettuce cultivar, designated ICE 15454, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar ICE 15454, to the plants of lettuce line ICE 15454 and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar ICE 15454 with itself or another lettuce line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce 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 lettuce lines derived from the cultivar ICE 15454. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192249 | YIELD AND STRESS TOLERANCE IN TRANSGENIC PLANTS II - Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season vigor, increased secondary rooting, more rapid germination, greater cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, reduced stomatal conductance, altered C/N sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, increased low phosphorus tolerance, or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to the control plant as compared to a control plant. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192250 | Use of Fungicides for Making the Phenological Development of Oil Plants More Coherent - The present invention relates to the use of certain fungicides for obtaining a chronologically more uniform development of oil crops. Furthermore, it relates to a method of increasing the quality and optionally the quantity of oil crop products. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192251 | PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants grown under nutrient deficient conditions, comprising modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GGAT polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GGAT, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192252 | Transcription Factor Gene Induced by Water Deficit Conditions and Abscisic Acid from Helianthus Annuus, Promoter and Transgenic Plants - A new transcription factor coding gene induced by water deficit or abscisic acid of | 2010-07-29 |
20100192253 | METHODS FOR IMPROVING MONOCOT TRANSFORMATION - The invention provides improved plant transformation methods. In particular the method provides increased transformation frequency, especially in recalcitrant plants. The method includes various transformation protocols for monocots, such as maize and sorghum, using a combination of media and light conditions to achieve increased efficiency of monocot transformation and increased callus initiation frequencies. | 2010-07-29 |
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. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192255 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 2010-07-29 |
20100192256 | Novel Bacillus Thuringiensis Gene with Lepidopteran Activity - The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of | 2010-07-29 |
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 | 2010-07-29 |
20100192258 | Enzyme Directed Oil Biosynthesis In Microalgae - The present invention is related to biosynthetic oil compositions and methods of making thereof. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the use of endogenous enzymes in plants capable of synthesizing oil. In preferred embodiments, said plants are algae. In further embodiments, said algae are from the family | 2010-07-29 |
20100192259 | MANIPULATION OF PLANT SENESCENCE USING MODIFIED PROMOTERS - The present invention relates to methods of manipulating senescence in plants. The invention also relates to vectors useful in such methods, transformed plants with modified senescence characteristics and plant cells, seeds and other parts of such plants. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192260 | Polypeptides having alpha-glucosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding same - The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-glucosidase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192261 | INCREASING UV-B TOLERANCE IN PLANTS - Methods and materials related to UV-B tolerance in plants are disclosed, e.g., plants and seeds having a cell containing an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having UV-B tolerance activity. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192262 | Bioluminescent Plants Comprising Bacterial Lux Operon and Methods of Making Same - In one aspect, the invention relates to a transgenic bioluminescent plant including an expressible heterologous nucleotide sequence comprising a bacterial LUX operon, which includes LUX A, LUX B, LUX C, LUX D, LUX E, and LUX G genes, wherein the heterologous nucleotide sequence is expressed to render the plant bioluminescent. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192263 | Novel FRT Recombination Sites and Methods of Use - Methods and compositions using populations of randomized modified FRT recombination sites to identify, isolate and/or characterize modified FRT recombination sites are provided. The recombinogenic modified FRT recombination sites can be employed in a variety of methods for targeted recombination of polynucleotides of interest, including methods to recombine polynucleotides, assess promoter activity, directly select transformed organisms, minimize or eliminate expression resulting from random integration into the genome of an organism, such as a plant, remove polynucleotides of interest, combine multiple transfer cassettes, invert or excise a polynucleotide, and identify and/or characterize transcriptional regulating regions are also provided. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192264 | Novel Selection Process - The present invention relates to processes for preparing transformed plant cells or organisms by transforming a population of plant cells which comprises at least one marker protein having a direct or indirect toxic effect for the population, with at least one nucleic acid sequence to be inserted in combination with at least one compound, preferably a DNA construct, capable of reducing the expression, amount, activity and/or function of the marker protein, with the transformed plant cells having a growth advantage over nontransformed cells, due to the action of the compound. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192265 | NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCES FROM DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA VIRGIFERA LECONTE AND USES THEREOF - Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from the Western Corn Rootworm, | 2010-07-29 |
20100192266 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE PRECISION OF NANOSCALE FORCE AND DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS - A self-calibrating apparatus comprises a primary device and a test structure fabricated on an integrated circuit chip. The primary device and the test structure have at least one unknown property due to a fabrication process of the integrated circuit chip. An electrical measurand sensor is configured to measure an electrical measurand of the test structure. A controller coupled to the primary device and electrical measurand sensor. The controller is configured to calculate the at least one unknown property of the test structure based on the measured electrical measurand and use the calculated at least one unknown property to calibrate the primary device. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192267 | Scanning Probe Microscope with Independent Force Control and Displacement Measurements - A nanoindenter that includes an interferometer, a rod, a force actuator and a controller is disclosed. The interferometer generates a light beam that is reflected from a moveable reflector, the interferometer determining a distance between a reference location and the moveable reflector. The rod is characterized by a rod axis and includes a tip on a first end thereof, the rod includes the moveable reflector at a location proximate to the tip. The tip is disposed in a manner that allows the tip to be forced against the surface of a sample. The force actuator applies a force to the rod in a direction parallel to the rod axis in response to a force control signal coupled to the actuator. The controller receives the determined distance from the interferometer and generates the force control signal. The invention can also be used as a scanning probe microscope. | 2010-07-29 |
20100192268 | Method and Apparatus for Micromachines, Microstructures, Nanomachines and Nanostructures - Parts and structures are described for micro and nano machines and the creation of macro structures with nano and micro layers of special materials to provide improved performance. | 2010-07-29 |