Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090028837 | Methods for Altering the Reactivity of Plant Cell Walls - Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant cell walls, particularly as they can be found in natural fibers of fiber producing plants by inclusion of positively charged oligosaccharides or polysaccharides into the cell wall. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, particularly an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, capable of being targeted to the membranes of the Golgi apparatus in cells of a plant. | 01-29-2009 |
20100180351 | NOVEL GENES ENCODING INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS - The present invention relates to novel DNA sequences encoding insecticidal Cry1 C proteins derived from | 07-15-2010 |
20100235951 | NOVEL GENES ENCODING INSECTICIDAL PROTEINS - The present invention relates to novel gene sequences encoding insecticidal proteins produced by | 09-16-2010 |
20120030844 | METHODS FOR ALTERING THE REACTIVITY OF PLANT CELL WALLS - Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant cell walls, particularly as they can be found in natural fibers of fiber producing plants by inclusion of positively charged oligosaccharides or polysaccharides into the cell wall. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, particularly an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, capable of being targeted to the membranes of the Golgi apparatus in cells of a plant. | 02-02-2012 |
20120096600 | METHODS AND MEANS FOR OBTAINING PLANTS WITH ENHANCED GLYPHOSATE TOLERANCE - The present invention relates to plants with a chimeric DNA molecule encoding a glyphosate tolerant EPSPS enzyme under the control of a plant constitutive promoter and a replacement histone intron 1, thereby conferring enhanced glyphosate tolerance to said plants. | 04-19-2012 |
20130081154 | NOVEL FIBER-PREFERENTIAL PROMOTER IN COTTON - The present application discloses an isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising (a) at least 700 consecutive nucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a nucleotide sequence with at least 80% sequence identity to the nucleotide sequence of (a); (c) a nucleotide sequence hybridizing under stringent conditions to the nucleotide sequence of (a) or (b); and (d) a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of any one of (a) to (c). Further disclosed herein is a chimeric gene comprising the isolated nucleic acid described herein operably linked to a nucleic acid coding for an expression product of interest, and a transcription termination and polyadenylation sequence. Also disclosed herein are a vector, a transgenic plant cell, a transgenic plant and a seed as characterized in the claims. Methods disclosed herein relate to the production of a transgenic plant, growing cotton, producing a seed, effecting fiber-preferential expression of a product in cotton and of altering fiber properties in a cotton plant as characterized in the claims. | 03-28-2013 |
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 |
20130198976 | METHODS FOR ALTERING THE REACTIVITY OF PLANT CELL WALLS - Methods and means are provided to produce positively charged oligosaccharides in the plant cell wall by introducing into said plant cell a Nodulation C protein fused to a heterologous Golgi signal anchor sequence. | 08-08-2013 |
20130276170 | FIBER SELECTIVE PROMOTERS - The present invention relates to materials and methods for the expression of a gene of interest selectively in cotton fibers. In particular, the invention provides an expression cassette for regulating fiber-selective expression in plants. | 10-17-2013 |
20130312141 | METHODS FOR ALTERING THE REACTIVITY OF PLANT CELL WALLS - Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant cell walls, particularly as they can be found in natural fibers of fiber producing plants by inclusion of positively charged oligosaccharides or polysaccharides into the cell wall. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, particularly an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, capable of being targeted to the membranes of the Golgi apparatus in cells of a plant. | 11-21-2013 |
20140196169 | METHODS AND MEANS TO MODIFY A PLANT GENOME - Methods and means are provided to modify in a targeted manner the genome of a plant in close proximity to an existing elite event using a double stranded DNA break inducing enzyme. Also provided are plants, in particular cotton plants showing tolerance to a field dose of at least 1× of at least one HPPD inhibitor, and methods for making such plants. | 07-10-2014 |
20140359901 | SEED-SPECIFIC PROMOTER IN COTTON - The present application discloses a(n) (isolated) nucleic acid sequence comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from (a) SEQ ID NO: 1 or a fragment thereof, wherein said fragment comprises at least 400 consecutive nucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1 and has seed-specific promoter activity; (b) a nucleotide sequence with at least 80% sequence identity with SEQ ID NO: 1 and having seed-specific promoter activity; (c) a nucleotide sequence hybridizing under stringent conditions to the nucleotide sequence of (a) or (b); and (d) a nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of any one of (a) to (c). Further disclosed herein is a chimeric gene comprising the (isolated) nucleic acid described herein operably linked to a nucleic acid coding for an expression product of interest, and optionally a transcription termination and polyadenylation sequence. Also disclosed herein are a vector, a transgenic plant cell, a transgenic plant and a seed as characterized in the claims. Methods disclosed herein relate to the production of a transgenic plant, growing cotton, producing a seed, effecting seed-specific expression of a product in cotton and of altering fiber properties in a cotton plant as characterized in the claims. | 12-04-2014 |