34th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110209231 | TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF INFLUENZA - The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules comprising a double-stranded region, and nucleic acid constructs encoding therfor, that are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of influenza. In particular, the present invention relates to nucleic acid constructs encoding a double stranded RNA molecule(s) that can be used to produce transgenic poultry, for example chickens, such that they are at least less susceptible to an avian influenza infection. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules comprising a double-stranded region that can be used as a therapeutic to treat and/or prevent, for example, avian influenza in poultry. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209232 | HERBICIDE-RESISTANT SUNFLOWER PLANTS, POLYNUCLEOTIDES ENCODING HERBICIDE-RESISTANT ACETOHYDROXYACID SYNTHASE LARGE SUBUNIT PROTEINS, AND METHODS OF USE - Herbicide-resistant sunflower plants, isolated polynucleotides that encode herbicide-resistant and wild-type acetohydroxyacid synthase large subunit (AHASL) polypeptides, and the amino acid sequences of these polypeptides, are described. Expression cassettes and transformation vectors comprising the polynucleotides of the invention, as well as plants and host cells transformed with the polynucleotides, are described. Methods of using the polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of plants to herbicides, and methods for controlling weeds in the vicinity of herbicide-resistant plants are also described. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209233 | Tillandsia plant named 'Mora' - A new and distinct | 2011-08-25 |
20110209234 | COTTON VARIETY 09R796B2R2 - The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 09R796B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 09R796B2R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 09R796B2R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 09R796B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209235 | COTTON VARIETY 09R549B2R2 - The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 09R549B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 09R549B2R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 09R549B2R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 09R549B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209236 | COTTON VARIETY 09R550B2R2 - The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 09R550B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 09R550B2R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 09R550B2R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 09R550B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209237 | COTTON VARIETY 09R555B2R2 - The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 09R555B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 09R555B2R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 09R555B2R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 09R555B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209238 | COTTON VARIETY 09R619B2R2 - The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 09R619B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 09R619B2R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 09R619B2R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 09R619B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants produced by such methods. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209239 | TOMATO HYBRID PS01533588 - The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01533588 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred tomato line FDR 15-2090. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01533588 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209240 | HYBRID TOMATO PS01544291 AND PARENT LINES THEREOF - The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01544291 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred parent line FDS 15-2102. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01544291 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209241 | Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same - The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a PRE-like (Paclobutrazol REsistance) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PRE-like polypeptide, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. In another embodiment, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an SCE1 (SUMO Conjugating Enzyme 1). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an SCE1, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown SCE1-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. In yet another embodiment, M the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield related-traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a YEF1 (Yield Enhancing Factor 1). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a YEF1, which plants have enhanced yield related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. In yet another embodiment, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a subgroup III glutaredoxin (Grx). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a subgroup III Grx, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. In a further embodiment, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for altering the ratio of roots to shoots in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Sister of FT protein or a homologue thereof. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a Sister of FT protein or a homologue thereof, which plants have altered root to shoot ratio relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209242 | Green Tissue-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 green tissue-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. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209243 | SALINITY TOLERANCE IN PLANTS - The present invention is predicated, in part, on the identification of a gene involved in salinity tolerance in plants. As such, the present invention relates to methods for modulating salinity tolerance in plants. The present invention also provides plant cells and plants having modulated salinity tolerance. In further embodiments, the present invention also provides methods for determining the salinity tolerance of plant cells and plants. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209244 | METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF PLANT IMPARTED WITH STRESS TOLERANCE AND USE THEREOF - The present invention provides a method for producing a plant with a stress tolerance, comprising the step of inhibiting, in a plant, a function of a first polypeptide including an amino acid sequence represented by any one of SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. This enables developing a new technique capable of producing a plant with a stress tolerance such as a salt tolerance and a high osmotic pressure tolerance. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209245 | PLANTS HAVING ALTERED AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS UNDER NITROGEN LIMITING CONDITIONS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING LNT6 POLYPEPTIDES AND HOMOLOGS THEREOF - Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering agronomic characteristics of plants under nitrogen limiting conditions, 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 an LNT6 polypeptide or homolog thereof. | 2011-08-25 |
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. | 2011-08-25 |
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. | 2011-08-25 |
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. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209249 | Plants having improved growth characteristics and a method for making the same - The present invention is a method for improving plant growth by increasing activity of DP protein in shoot tissue. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having improved growth characteristics, which plants have increased expression of a DP nucleic acid specifically in shoot-tissue. The increased expression of the nucleic acid encoding a DP protein, according to the methods of the present invention, may be mediated by a shoot-tissue-specific promoter. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209250 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PLANT IMPROVEMENT - The invention provides an isolated polynucleotide comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a variant thereof, wherein the variant encodes a polypeptide capable of modulating in a plant tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity. The invention also provides construct, vectors, host cells, plant cells and plants genetically modified to comprise the polynucleotide. The invention also provides methods for producing and selecting plants that are tolerant to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity, making use of the polynucleotides of the invention. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209251 | METHOD FOR PROMOTING EFFICIENCY OF GENE INTRODUCTION INTO PLANT CELLS - A method for gene introduction by which higher efficiency for gene introduction than that by the conventional | 2011-08-25 |
20110209252 | SLOW-RELEASE FERTILIZER AND METHOD OF MAKING AND USING SAME - There is disclosed a fertilizer composition comprising a water-insoluble slow-release reacted nitrogen fertilizer and an effective amount of a water-soluble, non-aromatic poly(amino acid) of the group poly(aspartic acid), poly(glutamic acid), poly(glycine), poly(lysine) a copolymer of cystein and glutamic acid and a terpolymer of cystein and glutamic acid and aspartic acid, wherein the poly(amino acid) has a molecular size larger than that which can be absorbed by a plant. A method of making and using the fertilizer composition is also disclosed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209253 | Method for Improving Plant Health - A method for improving the health of a plant, which method comprises treating the plant and/or the locus where the plant is growing or is intended to grow and/or the plant propagules with a plant health improving amount of at least one heteroaroyl-substituted alanine compound (A) of the formula I, | 2011-08-25 |
20110209254 | QTL CONTROLLING SCLEROTINIA STEM ROT RESISTANCE IN SOYBEAN - Markers associated with | 2011-08-25 |
20110209255 | KIWI PLANT NAMED 'AU GOLDEN SUNSHINE' - A new and distinct cultivar of the species | 2011-08-25 |
20110209256 | KIWI PLANT NAMED 'AU GOLDEN TIGER' - A new and distinct cultivar of the species | 2011-08-25 |
20110209257 | Peach tree named 'UFSharp' - A new and distinct variety of nectarine tree, denominated ‘UFSharp’, has a low winter chilling requirement estimated at 325 chill units (cu). The tree is of medium size, has a moderate vigorous and upright growth habit. It has non-showy, pink flowers, and leaves with globose glands. Trees of ‘UFSharp’ are self-fertile and regularly bear heavy annual crops of early season fruit that are large for its ripening season. Fruit are uniformly firm and yellow with non-melting flesh which are semi-freestone. Fruit are oval, and uniform with substantially symmetrical shape, and have an attractive 50 to 70% bright red skin. The fruit of ‘UFSharp’ ripens about 6 days after ‘UF2000’ peach in late May at Gainesville, Fla. | 2011-08-25 |
20110209258 | Cypress tree named 'Green Rocket' - ‘Green Rocket’ is a new | 2011-08-25 |