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PERILLA-DERIVED PROMOTER FUNCTIONING IN PETALS

Application Number: 20120042421
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Mizutani, Masako; Tanaka, Yoshikazu

There is provided a novel promoter useful for altering flow color of plants. The present invention relates to a nucleic acid selected from the group consisting of:

- (1) a nucleic acid containing the nucleotide sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO. 1;
- (2) a nucleic acid able to function as a transcriptional ...

FLEXIBLE FILMS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING FLEXIBLE FILMS

Application Number: 20120042420
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Kaiser, Clive; Christensen, J. Mark

The disclosure provides compositions that can be used to make films to increase the efficiency of producing plants and plant parts. The films are designed in part to be environmentally friendly and/or edible. Also provided are methods of using such compositions as well as plants and plant parts comprising such ...

ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT TREATMENTS FOR INCREASING SEED YIELDS

Application Number: 20120042419
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Wilson, Charles L.; Heidinger, Glenn F.

UV light treatment increases harvested seed yield. UV treatment in combination with chemical treatment also increases seed yield. UV treatment of corn, soybean, and wheat varieties resulted in enhanced harvested seed yield. Hormetic response, disinfection, disinfestations, and other factors are induced by UV ...

Engineering NF-YB Transcription Factors for Enhanced Drought Resistance and Increased Yield in Transgenic Plants

Application Number: 20120042418
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventor: Kulkarni, Resham

Polynucleotides are disclosed which are capable of enhancing yield of a plant transformed to contain such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods of using such polynucleotides and transgenic plants and agricultural products, including seeds, containing such polynucleotides as ...

ENHANCED ACCUMULATION OF CAROTENOIDS IN PLANTS

Application Number: 20120042417
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Drake, Caroline Rachel; Paine, Jacqueline Ann Mary; Shipton, Catherine Ann

The present invention relates to polynucleotides and their use in methods of increasing the carotenoid content of seeds. In particular the invention provides a polynucleotide comprising: (a) a region which comprises as operably linked components (i) a promoter which provides for seed preferred expression; and (ii) a nucleotide sequence derived from a bacterium which sequence encodes a carotene desaturase; and (iii) a transcription termination region; and (b) a further region which comprises as ...

Antibody fusion-mediated plant resistance against Oomycota

Application Number: 20120042416
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Fischer, Rainer; Schillberg, Stefan; Schleker, Sylvia; Peschen, Dieter

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 ...

TRANSGENIC PLANTS EXPRESSING L3 DELTA PROTEINS ARE RESISTANT TO TRICHOTHECENE FUNGAL TOXINS

Application Number: 20120042415
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Tumer, Nilgun E.; Di, Rong

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 ...

CHIMERIC PROMOTERS AND METHODS OF USE

Application Number: 20120042414
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Castle, Linda A.; Albert, Henrik; Lu, Jian; Tao, Yumin

Compositions and methods comprising promoters from the 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) gene and active variants and fragments thereof, as well as chimeric promoters employing regulatory regions of the HPPD promoters are provided. Further provided are expression cassettes and plants comprising the various promoters disclosed herein operably linked to a polynucleotide of interest. Methods employing the various promoters described herein to modulate the expression of polynucleotides of ...

Compositions And Methods Comprising Sequences Having Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase (HPPD) Activity

Application Number: 20120042413
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Siehl, Daniel L.; Castle, Linda A.; Albert, Henrik; Bermudez, Ericka R.; Dong, Yuxia; Heckert, Matthew J.; Hou, Jingtong; Hou, Zhenglin; Lu, Jian; Tao, Yumin

Compositions and methods comprising polynucleotides and polypeptides having 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) activity and having insensitivity to an HPPD inhibitor are provided. Further provided are nucleic acid constructs, plants, plant cells, explants, seeds and grain having the HPPD sequences. Various methods of employing the HPPD sequences are provided. Such methods include, for example, methods for producing an HPPD inhibitor tolerant plant, plant cell, explant or seed and ...

Methods And Compositions For Targeting Sequences Of Interest To The Chloroplast

Application Number: 20120042412
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Siehl, Daniel L.; Castle, Linda A.; Albert, Henrik; Heckert, Matthew; Lu, Jian; Tao, Yumin

Chimeric polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a chloroplast transit peptide operably linked to a heterologous polynucleotide of interest are provided, wherein the chloroplast transit peptide comprises an amino acid sequence having the chloroplast transit peptide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 or a biologically active variant or fragment thereof or wherein the chloroplast transit peptide comprises the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 58 or an active variant or fragment ...

GENE TARGETING IN PLANTS

Application Number: 20120042411
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Malcuit, Isabelle; Sorokin, Alexander

An isolated polynucleotide sequence that encodes for a multi domain recombination protein, comprising a donor DNA-Binding domain (BDB); and a chromosomal binding domain (CBD). A plant cell can be transformed by introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid sequence, which comprises a plant nuclear promoter operably linked to a first nucleic acid sequence comprising the stated polynucleotide sequence, and a second nucleic acid sequence, which comprises a donor nucleic acid sequence and at least ...

ABSCISIC ACID CARRIER GENE AND TRANSGENIC PLANT EXPRESSING THE SAME

Application Number: 20120042410
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Lee, Young-Sook; Lee, Mi-Young; Martionia, Enrico; Kang, Joo-Hyun

The present invention relates to carrier genes of abscisic acid and the transgenic plant prepared using such genes, and more specifically to genes that enhance resistance to salt or dryness in relation to abscisic acid transport and the recombinant vectors including the genes, the transgenic plant prepared using the recombinant vector, a transgenic plant that is superior in terms of resistance to base and dryness, a method for environmental purification in arid regions based on the plants, and ...

PLANT TRANSFORMATION USING DNA MINICIRCLES

Application Number: 20120042409
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Deroles, Simon; Conner, Anthony; Pringle, Julie; Lokerse, Annemarie; Jacobs, Johanna; Barrell, Philippa; Boase, Murray

The invention provides methods and compositions for producing and using minicircle DNA molecules that are useful for plant transformation. The invention also provides methods for transforming plant cells and plants with such minicircle DNA molecules, plant cells and plants produced by such methods, and plants transformed with minicircle DNA molecules. The methods and compositions of the invention are particularly useful for producing “intragenic plants” which do not contain any non-native ...

PLANTS PRODUCING 2N GAMETES OR APOMEIOTIC GAMETES

Application Number: 20120042408
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: D'Erfurth, Isabelle; Cromer, Laurence; Mercier, Raphael; Froger, Nicole; Jolivet, Sylvie

The invention relates to plants wherein the protein OSD1, involved in the transition from meiosis I to meiosis II is inactive. These plants produce Second Division Restitution (SDR) 2n gametes. The invention further relates to plants wherein the inactivation of OSD1 is combined with the inactivation of a gene involved in meiotic recombination in plants, and of a gene involved in the monopolar orientation of the kinetochores during meiosis. These plants produce apomeiotic gametes. These plants ...

CORN EVENT 5307

Application Number: 20120042407
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: De Framond, Annick Jeanne; Meghji, Moez R.; New, Stephen L.; Prairie, Anna Underwood

A novel transgenic com event designated 5307, is disclosed. The invention ivlates to UNA sequences of the re- combinant constructs inserted into Uie corn genome and of genomic sequences flanking flic insertion site that resulted in the 5307 event. The invention further relates to assays for detecting the presence of the DNA sequences of 5307. to com plants and com seeds comprising the genotype of and to methods for producing a com plant by crossing a com plant comprising the 5307 geno- type ...

Lettuce Cultivar Danielle

Application Number: 20120042406
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventor: Lemont, Magali

A lettuce cultivar, designated Danielle, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Danielle, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Danielle and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Danielle with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This ...

Lettuce Cultivar Jeanine

Application Number: 20120042405
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventor: Lemont, Magali

A lettuce cultivar, designated Jeanine, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Jeanine, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Jeanine and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Jeanine with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This ...

PEPPER HYBRID PS 11446271

Application Number: 20120042404
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventor: BERKE, TERRY G.

The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid PS 11446271 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred parent line HAP 114-1128. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid PS 11446271 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such ...

Cucumber Hybrid Enki

Application Number: 20120042403
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Torres, Luis Mullor; Mazereeuw, Jacob Pieter

A hybrid cucumber designated Enki is disclosed having resistance to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea), cucumber mosaic virus, and cucumber vein yellowing virus. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber Enki, to the plants of hybrid cucumber Enki, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the hybrid Enki with itself or another cucumber plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a cucumber plant containing in ...

Cucumber Hybrid Menfis

Application Number: 20120042402
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Torres, Luis Mullor; Mazereeuw, Jacob Pieter

A hybrid cucumber designated Menfis is disclosed having resistance to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea), cucumber mosaic virus, and cucumber vein yellowing virus. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber Menfis, to the plants of hybrid cucumber Menfis, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the hybrid Menfis with itself or another cucumber plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a cucumber plant ...

METHOD FOR INTRODUCING MUTANT GENE, GENE HAVING MUTATION INTRODUCED THEREIN, CASSETTE FOR INTRODUCING MUTATION, VECTOR FOR INTRODUCING MUTATION, AND KNOCK-IN NON-HUMAN MAMMALIAN ANIMAL

Application Number: 20120042401
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Hirose, Shinichi; Araki, Kimi; Deshimaru, Masanobu

Disclosed is a method for introducing a mutation into a gene, which comprises the following steps: a homologous recombination step of carrying out the homologous recombination between a target gene into which the mutation is to be introduced and a target recombinant vector, thereby substituting an exon in the target gene into which the mutation is to be introduced by a target DNA sequence in the target recombinant vector; and a mutation introduction step of carrying out the specific ...

RTD RECEPTOR

Application Number: 20120042400
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Gurney, Austin; Ashkenazi, Avi J.

Novel polypeptides, designated RTD, which are capable of binding Apo-2 ligand are provided. Compositions including RTD chimeras, nucleic acid encoding RTD, and antibodies to RTD are also ...

IMMUNOGENIC PEPTIDES

Application Number: 20120042399
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Banham, Alison; Pulford, Karen; Anderson, Amanda; Ait-Taho-ar, Kamel

The present invention relates to immunogenic peptides and their various applications. In particular the invention relates to immunogenic peptides derived from the PASD1 protein and their use in therapeutic, diagnostic and prognostic ...

COMPOSITIONS FOR LABELING AND IDENTIFYING AUTOPHAGOSOMES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM

Application Number: 20120042398
Publication Date: 2012-02-16
Inventors: Gottlieb, Roberta A.; Cole, Thomas E.; Perry-Garza, Cynthia N.; Carreira, Raquel Sousa; Bartlett, Bryan J.; Finley, Kim

The invention provides methods and compositions for detecting and measuring the amount of autophagosomes in cells or tissues, including biopsy samples, in vitro, in situ and/or in vivo. By detecting and measuring the amount of autophagosomes in cells or tissues, the methods and compositions of the invention also measure the amount of autophagic activity in a cell or a tissue. In one aspect, the invention can be adapted to a plate-reader format for high-throughput screening of drugs that ...

Broccoli Type Adapted for Ease of Harvest

Application Number: 20120036601
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Boon, Meindert P.; van den Bosch, Franciscus

A broccoli plant characterized in having an exerted head having a crown higher than the leaf canopy and a harvestable head of at least about 200 grams when planted at a density of 40,000 plants per hectare, where the harvestable head comprises the top 25 centimeters of said ...

METHOD FOR GENERATING HYPOALLERGENIC GLYCOPROTEINS IN MUTATED OR TRANSGENIC PLANTS OR PLANT CELLS, AND MUTATED OR TRANSGENIC PLANTS AND PLANT CELLS FOR GENERATING HYPOALLERGENIC GLYCOPROTEINS

Application Number: 20120036600
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Kaulfuerst-Soboll, Heidi; Von Schaewen, Antje

Method for providing a hypoallergenic glycoprotein includes growing at least one of a mutated plant, a part of the mutated plant, plant cells produced from the mutated plant, a transgenic plant, a part of the transgenic plant and plant cells produced from the transgenic plant wherein an activity of an enzyme Golgi α-mannosidase II has been eliminated or decreased so as to obtain a grown material. The hypoallergenic glycoprotein is isolated from the grown ...

NOVEL FUNGAL ENZYMES

Application Number: 20120036599
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Sinitsyn, Arkady Panteleimonovich; Gosink, Mark; Jiang, Zhijie; Gusakov, Alexander Vasilievich; Van der Meij, Jacoba; Vlasenko, Elena; Verdoes, Jan Cornelis; Punt, Peter J.; Hinz, Sandra Wilhelmina Agnes

This invention relates to novel enzymes and novel methods for producing the same. More specifically this invention relates to a variety of fungal enzymes. Nucleic acid molecules encoding such enzymes, compositions, recombinant and genetically modified host cells, and methods of use are described. The invention also relates to a method to convert lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars with enzymes that degrade the lignocellulosic material and novel combinations of enzymes, including those ...

PLANTS WITH IMPROVED MORPHOGENESIS AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING THE SAME

Application Number: 20120036598
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: KASUKABE, Yoshihisa; IHARA, Izumi; TACHIBANA, Shoji; MATSUI, Keisuke; MIZUTANI, Masako

The invention relates to plants and their progeny with improved morphogenesis in a variety of organs; to a method for producing the plants; and to a method for producing ...

Cold-Tolerant Plants

Application Number: 20120036597
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Yu, Su-May; Su, Chin-Fen

Disclosed are chill- or cold-tolerant plants and methods of making the plants. Also disclosed are methods for identifying a plant that is tolerant to ...

MAMMALIAN-TYPE GLYCOSYLATION IN PLANTS BY EXPRESSION OF NON-MAMMALIAN GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES

Application Number: 20120036596
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Rouwendal, Gerard Johan Adolph; Bosch, Hendrik Jan; Florack, Dionisius Elisabeth Antonius

The present invention relates to non-mammalian β-1,4-galactosyltransferases that can be used in their wild-type or in modified forms. The invention further relates to transformed plants and plant cells expressing non-mammalian β-1,4-galacto-syltransferase and methods to produce glycoproteins with altered and preferably mammalian-type glycosylation. The invention additionally provides nucleic acid molecules and expression vectors of non-mammalian ...

Whole Seed Specific Promoter

Application Number: 20120036595
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Brown, Jeffrey A.; Fu, Huihua; Francis, Kirk; Song, Hee-Sook

The present invention is concerned with the provision of means and methods for gene expression. Specifically, it relates to a polynucleotide comprising an expression control sequence which allows for seed specific of a nucleic acid of interest being operatively linked thereto in plants. Furthermore, vectors, host cells, transgenic plants and methods for expressing nucleic acids of interest are provided which are based on the said ...

RNA-Mediated Induction of Gene Expression in Plants

Application Number: 20120036594
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Ren, Peifeng; Cardoza, Vinitha Joyce; Talton, Lawrence Winfield

The present invention is in the field of plant genetics and provides methods for increasing gene expression of a target gene in a plant or part thereof. In addition the invention relates to methods for modifying the specificity of plant specific promoters and for engineering small non-coding activating RNA (sncaRNA) in order to increase expression of a target gene in a plant or part thereof. The present invention also provides methods for the identification of sncaRNA, and its primary ...

Plant Promoter Operable in Endosperm and Uses Thereof

Application Number: 20120036593
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Spangenberg, German; Fu, Huihua; Zhen, Rui-Guang; John, Ulrik; Ramage, Carl; Song, Hee-Sook

The present invention provides compositions of matter comprising plant-operable promoter sequences that confer selective/specific endosperm expression on genes to which they are operably connected and uses of such compositions to confer gene expression, especially in developing ...

Process for Producing a Hybrid Maize Having Insulated Casing and Individual Shield for Grains, by Means of a Genetic Tool, and a Hybrid Maize Thereof

Application Number: 20120036592
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventor: Bottega, Jean Carlo Landivar

A process for the generation of hybrid maize whose grains are differentiated and preserved by entirely covering their surfaces, isolating the entire endosperm from the outside and conserving all the nutritious and germinative characteristics from the parentals; and the maize produced by the ...

METHODS FOR MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLACEMENT IN OOCYTES

Application Number: 20120036591
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventor: Mitalipov, Shoukhrat M.

Methods are provided for producing a primate oocyte in vitro. The methods include removing nuclear DNA from a recipient primate oocyte from a first primate in a manner that does not lower levels of maturation promoting factor (MPF) to form an enucleated recipient primate oocyte. The recipient primate oocyte is enucleated using a non-UV-based spindle imaging system. Nuclear genetic material or DNA including chromosomes from a donor primate oocyte arrested at metaphase II from a second primate is ...

INTERFERON-LIKE PROTEIN ZCYTO21

Application Number: 20120036590
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Gilbert, Teresa; Fox, Brian A.; Sheppard, Paul O.; Haldeman, Betty A.; Grant, Francis J.; Presnell, Scott R.

The present invention relates to polynucleotide and polypeptide molecules for Zcyto21, an interferon-like protein, which is most closely related to interferon-α at the amino acid sequence level. The present invention also includes antibodies to the Zcyto21 polypeptides, and methods of using the polynucleotides and ...

VACCINE

Application Number: 20120036589
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Poobalane, Saravanane; Thompson, Kim; Adams, Alexandra

The present invention is concerned with the development of a vaccine against Aeromonas hydrophila for use especially in fish. The invention provides an immunogenic S-layer protein of approximately 50 kDa of A. hydrophila for use in the development of a vaccine, as well as the nucleic acid encoding said protein and vaccines comprising said protein or nucleic acid encoding said ...

METHOD FOR OBSERVING GAD67-POSITIVE CELL IN TRANSGENIC ANIMAL

Application Number: 20120036588
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventor: Yanagawa, Yuchio

A method for observing glutamate decarboxylase 67-positive cells in a transgenic mouse includes providing the transgenic mouse in which a nucleic acid sequence encoding green fluorescent protein is inserted in a frame within exon 1 of an endogenous glutamate decarboxylase 67 gene, whereby the transgenic mouse is capable of a functional expression of the green fluorescent protein in place of the endogenous glutamate decarboxylase 67 gene. Then, the glutamate decarboxylase 67-positive cells which ...

PROSTATE CANCER CELL LINES AND THEIR USE IN SCREENING METHOD

Application Number: 20120036587
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Chauchereau, Anne; Fizazi, Karim; Gaudin, Catherine; Al Nakouzi, Nader; Benard, Jean

The present invention relates to a prostate cancer cell line CNCM deposit number I-4126, the use thereof for preparing resistant prostate cancer cell lines, the resistant prostate cancer cell lines, and the use of these prostate cancer cell lines for screening compounds of ...

PRODUCTION OF HER RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES IN PLANT

Application Number: 20120034207
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: MCLEAN, MICHAEL D.; GARABAGI, FREYDOUN; HALL, J. CHRISTOPHER

A method of making an antibody in plants that binds to a HER receptor is described. The antibody preferably contains sequences from trastuzumab that have been optimized for expression in ...

AMYLOID BETA(1-42) OLIGOMERS, DERIVATIVES THEREOF AND ANTIBODIES THERETO, METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF AND USE THEREOF

Application Number: 20120034166
Publication Date: 2012-02-09
Inventors: Striebinger, Andreas; Mueller, Reinhold; Hillen, Heinz; Krantz, Carsten; Moeller, Achim

The invention relates to neuromodulatory oligomers of the amyloid-β(1-42) protein, a particular production method, by means of which the oligomer can be obtained in a reproducible manner at high yield, the use of the oligomers as diagnostic and therapeutics agents, for the generation of oligomer-specific antibodies and for the discovery of substances which can interact with the oligomers and in the formation thereof. Corresponding methods for the production of the antibodies and for discovery ...

METHODS FOR ALTERING THE REACTIVITY OF PLANT CELL WALLS

Application Number: 20120030844
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventors: DE BLOCK, Marc; Meulewaeter, Frank; Koch, Rainhard; Essigmann, Bernd

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 ...

DOVER LETTUCE VARIETY

Application Number: 20120030843
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventor: GIBSON, George D.

A new and distinct lettuce variety designated ‘Dover’ is described. ‘Dover’ is an iceberg lettuce variety exhibiting vigorous growth, increased weight, and increased yield. ‘Dover’ is also characterized as having a large head size, a short core length, and a longer harvest ...

METHODS OF PRODUCING GABA

Application Number: 20120030842
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventors: Turano, Frank; Turano, Kathleen

The present invention describes an alternative approach to increase GABA production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes, namely by the insertion of the putrescine catabolic pathway in organisms where the pathway does not exist or has not clearly been identified. The invention describes methods for the use of polynucleotides that encode functional putrescine aminotransferase (PAT) and gamma-aminobutyricaldehyde dehydrogenase (GABAlde DeHase) polypeptides in plants to increase GABA production. The ...

Isoxazoline compounds for combating invertebrate pests

Application Number: 20120030841
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventors: Dickhaut, Joachim; Gross, Steffen; Koerber, Karsten; von Deyn, Wolfgang; Pohlman, Matthias; Rankl, Nancy B.; Culbertson, Deborah L.; Bandur, Nina Gertrud; Braun, Franz-Josef; Ebuenga, Cecille; Kaiser, Florian; Deshmukh, Prashant; Anspaugh, Douglas D.

The present invention relates to isoxazoline compounds which are useful for combating or controlling invertebrate pests, in particular arthropod pests and nematodes. The invention also relates to a method for controlling invertebrate pests by using these compounds and to plant propagation material and to an agricultural and a veterinary composition comprising said ...

MODIFICATION OF MULTIDOMAIN ENZYME FOR EXPRESSION IN PLANTS

Application Number: 20120030840
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventor: Miles, Stacy M.

Compositions and methods for expressing a multidomain enzyme in a plant are provided. The compositions include plants, seeds, plant tissues, and plant parts expressing a modified multidomain enzyme enzyme. The modified multidomain enzyme has a heterologous linker region that is not cleaved when the modified multidomain enzyme is expressed in a plant. In various embodiments, the linker region comprises the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:18, 19, or 20. Further provided are methods for producing ...

Expression and High-Throughput Screening of Complex Expressed DNA Libraries in Filamentous Fungi

Application Number: 20120030839
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventors: Burlingame, Richard P.; Emalfarb, Mark A.; Van Zeijl, Cornelia; Van Den Hondel, Cornelius; Verdoes, Jan; Punt, Peter J.

The invention provides a method for the expression and subsequent screening of DNA libraries, particularly synthetic, genomic, and cDNA libraries, in filamentous fungal hosts. In particular, the invention provides vectors, host strains, and a method for the expression and screening of complex DNA libraries, including, but not limited to, combinatory (combinatorial) libraries expressing one, two or more variable constituents and/or prepared from two or more sublibraries (e.g., for the expression ...

NOVEL FUNGAL ENZYMES

Application Number: 20120030838
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventors: Sinitsyn, Arkady Panteleimonovich; Gosink, Mark; Jiang, Zhijie; Gusakov, Alexander Vasilievich; Vlasenko, Elena; Verdoes, Jan Cornelis; Van der Meij, Jacobs; Punt, Peter J.; Hinz, Sandra Wilhelmina Agnes

MISCANTHUS TRANSFORMATION METHODS

Application Number: 20120030837
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventor: Trieu, Anthony Thinh Ngoc

Methods and materials for genetic transformation of Miscanthus in tissue culture via Agrobacterium are ...

Plants Having Enhanced Abiotic Stress Tolerance and/or Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same

Application Number: 20120030836
Publication Date: 2012-02-02
Inventors: Hatzfeld, Yves; Reuzeau, Christophe; Bruynseels, Koen; Frankard, Valerie; Sanz Molinero, Ana Isabel

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Brevis Radix-like (BRXL) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a BRXL polypeptide, which plants have increased yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention additionally relates to ...