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Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes April category listing, related patent applications 04/06

20060090214 - Method of treatment and an animal model useful for same: The present invention relates generally to a method of treatment and to an animal model for the identification of molecules and genetic sequences useful in method of treatment including inducing or reducing fertility of male animals. More particularly, the present invention contemplates a method for the treatment of infertility or...

20060090212 - Novel human genes and proteins encoded thereby: The present invention relates to novel human genes involved in the regulation of signal transduction pathways, and the proteins and polypeptides encoded thereby. In particular, the invention relates to polynucleotides that encode the polypeptides, the polypeptides, antibodies directed to the polypeptides, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of various disorders,...

20060090213 - Transgenic mice containing kir5.1 inwardly rectifying potassium channel gene disruptions: The present invention relates to transgenic animals, as well as compositions and methods relating to the characterization of gene function. Specifically, the present invention provides transgenic mice comprising mutations in a Kir5.1 gene. Such transgenic mice are useful as models for disease and for identifying agents that modulate gene expression...

20060090217 - Isolation of proteins involved in posttranscriptional gene silencing and methods of use: The present invention includes a method for detecting and isolating sugarcane proteins that interact with the HC-Pro and P1 proteins of SrMV and other proteins involved in gene silencing, particularly in sugarcane. The method uses a two hybrid assay with an HC-Pro, P1, or other silencing-related protein-containing bait protein and...

20060090215 - Low allergen plant and animal genotypes: The selection of low allergen plant and animal subspecies, subgroups, and genotypes for production of low allergen food products is described....

20060090218 - Method of controlling gene expression and gene silencing: The present invention relates to methods to regulate gene expression in plants. In particular, manipulation of the expression in a plant cell of a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising a 3′-5′ exonuclease domain is disclosed. More stable and predictable expression is thus obtained. The present invention also relates to...

20060090219 - Methods for producing plants with improved growth under nitrogen-limited conditions: The present invention provides a method of producing a plant which exhibits improved growth and/or yield under reduced nitrogen conditions, that is, under cultivation conditions where nitrogen is limited as compared to ordinary cultivation conditions, by increasing 2-OG content in plants. Particularly, the present invention provides a method of producing...

20060090216 - Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels....

20060090220 - Polypeptide having larvae growth inhibiting or insecticidal effect on scarabaeidae insects and polynucleotide encoding the same: Through screening using an antibody to a polypeptide that constitutes a parasporal body in sporangia of Bacillus popilliae and has a larvae growth inhibiting or insecticidal effect on a Scarabaeidae insect and through polymerase chain reaction, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptide and polypeptides similar thereto are isolated....

20060090221 - Desaturases and methods of using them for synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids: The amino acid and nucleic acid sequences of a Δ5-desaturase enzyme and a Δ8-desaturase enzyme are disclosed. The nucleic acid sequences can be used to design recombinant DNA constructs and vectors. These vectors can then be used to transform various organisms, including for example, plants and yeast. The transformed organisms...

20060090222 - Diacylglycerol acyltransferase gene from plants: The present invention relates to the isolation, purification, characterization and use of the plant diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) gene and genetic products. The invention includes isolated and purified DGAT DNA and relates to methods of regulating seed oil content, the ratio of diacylglycerol/triacylglycerol proportions in the seed oil, fatty acid synthesis,...

20060090223 - Method for accumulating arbitrary peptide in plant protein granules: The present inventors presumed that rice globulins accumulating in vacuole-derived type II protein bodies comprise a vacuolar translocating signal and proceeded to identify such a signal. As a result, fusion proteins composed of a 15 amino acid residue peptide of globulin, extending from the 72nd leucine residue to the 86th...

20060090224 - Cotton cultivar dp 6226 bg/rr acala: A cotton cultivar, designated DP 6226 BG/RR Acala, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar DP 6226 BG/RR Acala, to the plants of cotton DP 6226 BG/RR Acala and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar DP 6226 BG/RR Acala with...

20060090225 - Wheat variety yw03w: A wheat variety designated YW03W, the plants and seeds of wheat variety YW03W, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety YW03W with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety YW03W with another wheat line or plant, and the creation...

20060085866 - Method for generating an animal homozygous for a genetic modification: Methods of generating modified embryos and mammals by introduction of donor cells into an early stage embryo are provided, such that the resulting embryo and animal generated therefrom has a significant or complete contribution to all tissues from the donor cells and is capable of transmitting the donor cell DNA....

20060085865 - Transgenic mice containing gpcr-like gene disruptions: The present invention relates to transgenic animals, as well as compositions and methods relating to the characterization of gene function. Specifically, the present invention provides transgenic mice comprising mutations in a GPCR-like gene. Such transgenic mice are useful as models for disease and for identifying agents that modulate gene expression...

20060085867 - Reproductive ablation constructs: The present invention relates to the regulation of reproductive development, particularly to the genetic ablation of reproductive tissues in angiosperm and gymnosperm species. Reproductive-preferred promoters, regulatory elements, and cytotoxic nucleotide sequences are disclosed herein, as are constructs and methods for genetic ablation....

20060085868 - Celery named ads-2: A novel celery cultivar, designated ADS-2, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar ADS-2, to the plants of celery line ADS-2 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar ADS-2 with itself or another celery line. The invention further relates to methods...

20060085869 - Celery named ads-3: A novel celery cultivar, designated ADS-3, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar ADS-3, to the plants of celery line ADS-3 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar ADS-3 with itself or another celery line. The invention further relates to methods...

20060085870 - Modified cry3a toxins: Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, novel nucleic acid sequences encoding modified Cry3A toxins having increased toxicity to corn rootworm are provided. By inserting a protease recognition site, such as cathepsin G, that is recognized by a gut protease of a target insect in at...

20060085871 - Systems and methods for clonal expression in plants: The present invention provides systems and methods for generating clonal root lines, clonal root cell lines, clonal plant cell lines, and clonal plants and for expressing gene products in such cell lines and plants. According to certain of the inventive methods, a viral vector containing a polynucleotide of interest operably...

20060085872 - Increased plant seed yield: The invention provides methods of producing plants with increased seed production. Also provided are nucleic acids and transformation constructs conferring increased seed yields and plants transformed with these sequences. The invention allows the modification of plant seed production and therefore represents an important advance to agriculture....

20060085873 - Plasmid vector for expression of hepatitis b virus genes in plants, transgenic cell lines for the genes, and the use thereof in manufacture: Transgenic plant cell lines and the plant cell expression systems which express HBsAg. The present invention further relates to the method of preparing the above-mentioned cell lines or expression systems, and the use of the above-mentioned cell lines or expression systems in the manufacture of HBsAg protein. The cell lines...

20060085874 - Non-pungent ornamental peppers: The present invention relates to new, distinct and stable Capsicum annuum plants that have an ornamental phenotype and produce fruit that is non-pungent....

20060080744 - Novel chemokine-like polypeptides: The present invention discloses open reading frames (ORFs) in human genome encoding for novel chemokines-like polypeptides, and reagents related thereto including variants, mutants and fragments of said polypeptides, as well as ligands and antagonists directed against them. The invention provides methods for identifying and making these molecules, for preparing pharmaceutical...

20060080745 - Gene reactivation by somatic hypermutation: The invention provides an inactivated or attenuated gene functionally linked to a hotspot for somatic hypermutation. Inventive nucleic acids include inactivated genes operatively linked to immunoglobulin gene control elements. Embodiments of the invention include murine models of plasma cell disease and germinal center cell lymphoma....

20060080746 - Methods of embryo transfer: Methods for the efficient production of cloned porcine fetuses/piglets following the production of cloned embryos, including culture of the embryos for extended periods prior to transfer of the embryos into the uterus of the recipient. Transfer can be accomplished surgically or through less-invasive laparoscopic or non-surgical transfer....

20060080747 - Constitutive expression cassettes for regulation of plant expression: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with constitutive expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At5g17920, At3g03780, At2g01100, At2g34770, At5g61560, At4g00830, At3g10220, At4g38520, At3g11110, At2g47170, At1g64090, At5g60690, At1g76350, At1g76580, At1g31930, At5g18230, At1g20970, or At4g35620....

20060080748 - Cross-incompatibility traits from teosinte and their use in corn: The present invention relates to a teosinte crossing barrier trait. Plants containing said trait exhibit the phenotype of cross-incompatiblity. The present invention also relates to new cross-incompatible plants, including inbred, hybrid, haploid, apomictic and/or genetically engineered plants, containing the teosinte crossing barrier trait and exhibiting commercially desirable characteristics....

20060080749 - Nematode resistant transgenic plants: Compositions and methods for providing nematode resistance are provided. One aspect provides transgenic plants or cells comprising an inhibitory nucleic acid specific for one or more nematode esophageal polypeptides. Other aspects provide transgenic plants or cells resistant to at least two different root-knot nematode species....

20060080750 - Nucleic acid constructs and methods for producing altered seed oil compositions: The present invention is in the field of plant genetics and provides recombinant nucleic acid molecules, constructs, and other agents associated with the coordinate manipulation of multiple genes in the fatty acid synthesis pathway. In particular, the agents of the present invention are associated with the simultaneous enhanced expression of...

20060075511 - Muir-torre-like syndrome in fhit deficient mice: The invention provides nonhuman transgenic animals with a disrupted FHIT gene. The invention further provides transgenic mice in which one or both Fhit alleles have been inactivated. Preferably, the Fhit-deficient mice develop multiple tumors of both visceral and sebaceous origin, similar to those of Muir-Torre familial cancer syndrome. The present...

20060075510 - Murine genomic polynucleotide sequence encoding a g-protein coupled receptor and methods of use therefor: The present invention particularly relates to a newly identified murine genomic polynucleotide that encodes an ortholog of the human P2T receptor which is expressed at high levels in the central nervous system, the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides, as well as the production of such polynucleotides and polypeptides. The...

20060075512 - Transgenic mice containing pafr gene disruptions: The present invention relates to transgenic animals, as well as compositions and methods relating to the characterization of gene function. Specifically, the present invention provides transgenic mice comprising mutations in a platelet-activating factor receptor gene. Such transgenic mice are useful as models for disease and for identifying agents that modulate...

20060075513 - Avian transgenesis and exogenous proteins: This invention provides vectors and methods for the stable introduction of exogenous nucleic acid sequences into the genome of a bird and for expressing said exogenous sequences to alter the phenotype of the bird or to produce desired proteins. In particular, transgenic chickens are produced which express exogenous sequences in...

20060075514 - Transport across nuclear membranes by impulse transients: A method for temporarily permeabilizing a nuclear membrane to allow a molecule to enter a nucleus of a cell includes exposing the cell to a fluid medium containing the molecule; and causing, in the fluid medium an impulse having a peak pressure sufficient to permeabilize the nuclear membrane....

20060075516 - Canola cultivar nqc02cnx12: A canola cultivar designated NQC02CNX12, plants and seeds of the NQC02CNX12 canola cultivar, methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the NQC02CNX12 cultivar with itself or with another canola plant, and hybrid canola seeds and plants produced by crossing the NQC02CNX12 cultivar with another canola cultivar or plant...

20060075517 - Canola cultivar nqc02cnx25: A canola cultivar, designated NQC02CNX25, plants and seeds of the NQC02CNX25 canola cultivar, methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the NQC02CNX25 cultivar with itself or with another canola plant, and hybrid canola seeds and plants produced by crossing the NQC02CNX25 cultivar with another canola cultivar or plant...

20060075515 - Enhanced zein reduction in transgenic corn seed: Anti-sense-oriented RNA gene suppression agents in the form of a loop of anti-sense-oriented RNA is produced in cells of transgenic organisms, e.g. plants, by transcription from a recombinant DNA construct that comprises in 5′ to 3′ order a promoter element operably linked to more than one anti-sense-oriented DNA element and...

20060075518 - Polypeptides having lipase activity and polynucleotides encoding same: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having lipase 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....

20060075519 - Polypeptides having cellobiase activity and ploynucleotides encoding same: The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiase activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid constructs as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides....

20060075520 - Brittle stalk 2 polynucleotides, polypeptides and uses thereof: This invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide encoding a BRITTLE STALK 2 (BK2) polypeptide. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the BK2 polypeptide, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered...

20060075521 - Method of producing and screening antibodies produced in transgenic plants: The present invention relates to the production of antibodies in transgenic plants and screening of said antibodies for binding to antigens. The invention provides a method by which a large number of antibodies with variations in the multivariable regions are produced and screened for binding to antigens. The invention is...

20060075523 - Abiotic stress responsive polynucleotides and polypeptides: Abiotic stress responsive polynucleotides and polypeptides are disclosed. Also disclosed are vectors, expression cassettes, host cells, and plants containing such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods for using such polynucleotides and polypeptides, for example, to alter the responsiveness of a plant to abiotic stress....

20060075522 - Genes and uses for plant improvement: Transgenic seed for crops with improved traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more improved traits as compared to a control plant. Exemplary recombinant DNA expresses a succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase....

20060075524 - Method of controlling a cellular process in a multi-cellular organism: A method of controlling a genetically-modified multi-cellular organism or a part thereof, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a multi-cellular organism or a part thereof, whereby cells of said multi-cellular organism or said part contain a heterologous nucleic acid, (b) causing expression of a I protein from said heterologous nucleic...

20060075525 - Transgenic echinacea plants: A method of producing a transformed Echinacea plant cell or a transgenic Echinacea plant. Also disclosed are a transformed Echinacea plant cell and a transgenic Echinacea plant containing a recombinant nucleic acid....

20060075526 - Udp-glucose modifiers: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a UDP-galactose 4-epimerase. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the UDP-galactose 4-epimerase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels...