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Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes February patents, inventions by USPTO category 02/07

20070044161 - Rnai modulation of the rho-a gene in research models: The invention relates to compositions and methods for modulating the expression of the RhoA gene, and more particularly to the downregulation of RhoA by chemically modified oligonucleotides.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070044163 - Interferon gamma-like protein: This invention relates to a novel protein, termed INSP101, herein identified as a novel splice variant of human pituitary growth hormone and to the use of this protein and nucleic acid sequence from the encoding genes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070044164 - Methods for producing micrornas: The invention relates to recombinant vectors for inducible and/or tissue specific expression of double-stranded RNA molecules that interfere with the expression of a target gene. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to the use of Tet (tetracycline)-responsive RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) promoters (e.g., TetON or TetOFF) to direct inducible... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070044162 - Transgenic rat as animal model for human huntingdon's disease: Huntington's Disease (HD) is an autosomal-dominant inherited progressive neurodegenerative disease from the group of CAG repeat/polyglutamine diseases and is characterized by a triad of psychiatric alterations, dementia and motor dysfunction. On a sub-cellular level, a mutation with extended CAG tri-nucleotide repeats has been identified as the cause of HD. The... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070044165 - Non-human mammal model comprising heterologous nucleated cells - use for screening compounds: The invention relates to a method of malting a non-human mammal model comprising: a. implanting, into an immunocompromised non-human mammal host, heterologous nucleated cells previously bound to a biocompatible support, b. controlling non-adaptive defences of the non-human mammal host, c. recovering a non-human mammal model harbouring settled heterologous nucleated cells... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070044166 - P2y4 receptor transgenic and knockout non-human mammals: This invention provides a receptor having a preference for pyrimidine nucleotides preferably uridine triphosphate over purine nucleotides. A receptor having a preference for pyrimidine nucleotides over purine nucleotides means a receptor for which pyrimidine nucleotides and purine nucleotides are not equally active and equipotent. This means that the receptor according... Agent: Palmer & Dodge, LLP Kathleen M. Williams

20070044167 - Method for producing avian chimera using spermatogonial cells and avian chimera: The present invention relates to a method for producing an avian chimera using spermatogonial cells which comprising the steps: (a) retrieving a testis from a donor ave; (b) isolating a testicular cell population from the testis; (c) culturing the testicular cell population in a medium supplemented with a cell growth... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20070044168 - Transplantable tumor model: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating cancer. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods comprising transplantable tumor lines as a non-mammalian model of tumor growth and methods of using the same in research, diagnostic and therapeutic applications (e.g., in pharmacologic and cancer research and... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20070044173 - Agrobacterium transformation of stolons: The invention provides methods for transforming monocotyledonous plants with Agrobacterium, for example, using stolons as a target tissue. The invention allows creation of transgenic plants without the need for callus as a target tissue for transformation, thus providing a rapid method for the production of transgenic plants. The ability to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070044175 - Genes conferring herbicide resistance: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance to plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a polypeptide that confers resistance or tolerance to glyphosate herbicides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070044177 - Genetically engineered duckweed: Methods and compositions for the efficient transformation of duckweed are provided. Preferably, the methods involve transformation by either ballistic bombardment or Agrobacterium. In this manner, any gene or nucleic acid of interest can be introduced and expressed in duckweed plants. Transformed duckweed plants, cells, tissues are also provided. Transformed duckweed... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070044169 - Method of selectively producing male for female sterile plants: A method of producing male or female sterile plants comprising providing means for inactivating a herbicide and means for reactivating the thus inactivated herbicide, wherein the herbicide inactivating means is provided within vegetative tissues and the reactivating means is provided in either the male or female reproductive structures of the... Agent: Pentti V Multala

20070044176 - Nitrate transport components: This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding high affinity nitrate transport components. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of nitrate transport components, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct may alter levels of... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070044171 - 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.... Agent: Gail P. Wuellner Patent Department, E2na

20070044172 - Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying nitrogen use efficiency characteristics in plants: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased nitrogen use efficiency. The present invention further relates to nucleotide sequences and the use of those nucleotide sequences in the genetic-engineering of plants to display enhanced nitrogen assimilatory and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070044170 - Rna virus-derived plant expression system: A process of expressing a sequence of interest in a plant, plant part, or plant cell culture, comprising: (a) providing a plant, plant part, or plant cell culture containing in cell nuclei a heterologous DNA having a sequence encoding an RNA replicon operably linked or linkable to a transcription promoter,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070044174 - Vanillin production: Novel compositions and methods for improving vanillin production in cultured Vanilla planifolia and in intact plants are provided. Transgenic cells and plants having improved vanillin production are also provided.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070044178 - Axmi-028 and axmi-029, a family of novel delta-endotoxin genes and methods for their use: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070044179 - Insecticidal compositions and methods of using the same: The subject application concerns novel materials and methods for controlling non-mammalian pests. In a certain embodiments, the subject materials and methods for the control of coleopteran or lepidopteran pests are provided. The subject application also provides pesticidal proteins and compositions comprising pesticidal proteins that are derived from Beauvaria bassiana. These... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20070044180 - Brachytic2 (br2) promoter from maize and methods of use: The invention relates to the regulation of gene expression, particularly to methods and compositions for regulating gene expression in plants. Expression cassettes comprising a polynucleotide molecule of interest operably linked to the Brachytic2 (Br2) promoter, or a functional fragment or variant thereof, are provided. Methods of using such expression cassettes,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070044181 - Methods and compositions for the production of stably transformed, fertile monocot plants and cells thereof: This invention relates to a reproducible system for the production of stable, genetically transformed maize cells, and to methods of selecting cells that have been transformed. One method of selection disclosed employs the Streptomyces bar gene introduced by microprojectile bombardment into embryogenic maize cells which were grown in suspension cultures,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070039062 - Goodpasture's syndrome model mouse: The present invention provides a non-human model animal of Goodpasture's syndrome that contributes to the treatment of Goodpasture's syndrome where the development of therapy had been delayed due to the lack of adequate disease models, a method for screening a remedy for Goodpasture's syndrome by using the model animal, and... Agent: Venable LLP

20070039063 - Protein kinase c epsilon as modulator of anxiety, alcohol consumption and self-administration of drugs of abuse: The present invention relates to: cells and non-human animals deficient for the PKC isozyme ε (PKCε); the use of PKCε as a target for drugs; the use of inhibitors of PKCε in methods of reducing anxiety and treating conditions associated with insufficient activity of the GABAA receptor; the use of... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070039064 - Protein kinase c epsilon as modulator of anxiety, alcohol consumption and self-administration of drugs of abuse: The present invention relates to: cells and non-human animals deficient for the PKC isozyme ε (PKCε); the use of PKCε as a target for drugs; the use of inhibitors of PKCε in methods of reducing anxiety and treating conditions associated with insufficient activity of the GABAA receptor; the use of... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070039065 - Maize genomic marker set: Maize markers useful for genotyping and association studies, e.g. association with oil content QTLs in populations derived from the Illinois High Oil and Illinois Low Oil maize lines. Primers and hybridization probes for Taqman™ assays are provided for 488 SNP markers in 484 loci.... Agent: Monsanto Company

20070039066 - Biological containment system: The invention relates to materials and methods useful for controlling the unwanted spread of transgenic traits. The methods involve an apomictic plant containing a transgene for a desired trait and a transgene causing seed infertility. The methods also involve one or more transcription activators that activates expression of both transgenes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070039068 - High threonine producing lines of nicotiana tobacum and methods for producing: The present invention provides a method for producing plants with a desired phenotypic trait which comprises subjecting plants to mutagenesis, screening chimeric progeny for plants having the desired phenotypic trait, and propagating the survivors. In an embodiment, the phenotypic trait comprises an altered amino acid content. Preferably, the technique is... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070039067 - Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070039069 - Nucleic acid molecules associated with oil in plants: Polynucleotides that encode proteins associated with oil content in plants are useful in constructs to make transgenic plants, e.g., maize or soybean, with desirable oil content phenotype and progeny of any generation derived from the fertile transgenic plants. Markers associated with oil content QTL are useful in breeding for plants... Agent: Monsanto Company

20070039071 - Cell signaling genes and related methods: Novel plant cell signaling genes and gene products are provided. These gene, polypeptide and oligonucleotide sequences are useful in regulating plant phenotype. Moreover, these genes and gene products are useful for expression profiling of plant cell signaling genes. The invention specifically provides polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences isolated from Eucalyptus and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070039070 - Transcription factors: The invention provides polynucleotide sequences isolated from plants encoding transcription factors. Polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides are also provided. Products and methods of use are disclosed.... Agent: Foley And Lardner Suite 500

20070039072 - Functional and hyperfunctional sirna: Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rationale design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes.... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20070039073 - Novel synthetic genes for plant gums: A new approach in the field of plant gums is described which presents a new solution to the production of hydroxyproline(Hyp)-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs), repetitive proline-rich proteins (RPRPs) and arabino-galactan proteins (AGPs). The expression of synthetic genes designed from repetitive peptide sequences of such glycoproteins, including the peptide sequences of gum... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070039074 - High efficiency gene targeting in plants: The present invention provides a method for the targeted insertion of a nucleotide of interest into a specific chromosomal site within a plant cell. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a plant cell, the plant cell optionally but preferably having a heterologous target site on a chromosome thereof,... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070039075 - Fertile transplastomic leguminous plants: The invention relates to the transformation of plastids from plants, and more precisely to the production of fertile transplastomic leguminous plants, in particular of fertile transplastomic soybean.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070039076 - Plant genome sequence and uses thereof: The present invention is in the field of plant biochemistry and genetics. More specifically the invention relates to nucleic acid molecules from plant cells, in particular, genomic DNA sequences from rice plants and nucleic acid molecules that contain markers, in particular, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and repetitive element markers. In... Agent: Arnold & Porter, LLP

20070033660 - Method for selectively destroying dividing cells: When dividing cells with polarizable intracellular members exist within living tissue, those cells can be destroyed by positioning insulated electrodes in relation to the living tissue and applying an alternating electric potential across the first and second insulated electrodes, so that the living tissue is subjected to an alternating electric... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20070033661 - Suppression of b-cell apoptosis in transgenic animals expressing humanized immunoglobulin: The invention provides a novel approach to increase immunoglobulin expression in non-human transgenic animals. For instance, the invention provides a method to increase humanized immunoglobulin production in animals genetically engineered to express one or several human or humanized immunoglobulin transloci. This can be done by overexpressing the apoptosis inhibitor, i.e.... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070033663 - Es cells having enhanced rnai effect: The object of the present invention is to provide ES cells and mammals having enhanced RNAi effect, which can be used to analyze gene functions at an individual level. The present invention provides ES cells having enhanced RNAi effect, which are obtained by performing genetic manipulation on ES cells.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070033662 - Glp-2 receptor gene promoter and uses thereof: The invention is directed to the promoter region of the GLP-2 receptor gene and uses thereof.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070033664 - Quiescent cell populations for nuclear transfer: A method of reconstituting an animal embryo involves transferring the nucleus from a quiescent donor cell into a suitable recipient cell. The donor cell is quiescent, in that it is caused to exit from the growth and division cycle at G1 and to arrest in the G0 state. Nuclear transfer... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070033665 - Unactivated oocytes as cytoplast recipients for nuclear transfer: A method of reconstituting an animal embryo involves transferring a diploid nucleus into an oocyte which is arrested in the metaphase of the second meiotic division. The oocyte is not activated at the time of transfer, so that the donor nucleus is kept exposed to the recipient cytoplasm for a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070033668 - Inbred miniature swine and uses thereof: The invention provides a swine which is homozygous for a major histocompatibility complex haplotype and at least 60% homozygous at all other genetic loci and such animal is propagatable, and a cell or an organ derived therefrom. The invention also provides a method for providing a swine which is homozygous... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070033667 - Method for the production of nuclear transfer embryos: Methods for the production of nuclear transfer embryos, nuclear transfer embryos and animals derived therefrom are described. The method generally comprises at least the steps of: providing at least one enucleated recipient cell; providing at least one donor cell or nucleus; providing a fusion media which is substantially free of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070033666 - Using cytosine deaminases to diminish retroelement transfer from pigs to humans: Transgenic pigs that express one or more non-porcine cytosine deaminases are described as well as methods of making and using such pigs.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070033669 - Semaphorin gene family: A novel class of proteins, semaphorins, nucleic acids encoding semaphorins, semaphorin peptides, and methods of using semaphorins and semaphorin-encoding nucleic acids are disclosed. Semaphorin peptides and receptor agonists and antagonists provide potent modulators of nerve cell growth and regeneration. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, methods for screening chemical libraries for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070033672 - Inbred corn line be9515: An inbred corn line, designated BE9515, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line BE9515, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line BE9515 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing... Agent: Dow Agrosciences LLC

20070033671 - Polynucleotides and polypeptides in plants: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be... Agent: Jeffrey M. Libby, Ph.d. Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.

20070033670 - Wheat plants having increased tolerance to imidazolinone herbicides: The present invention is directed to wheat plants and triticale plants having increased tolerance to an imidazolinone herbicide. More particularly, the present invention includes wheat plants or triticale plants containing one or more Triticum turgidum IMI nucleic acids. The present invention also includes seeds produced by these wheat plants and... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Basf Corporation

20070033673 - Annexin and p34 promoters and use in expression of transgenic genes in plants: A seed specific plant annexin and P34 promoters and subfragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070033674 - Flavanoid 3',5' hydroxylase gene sequences and uses therefor: The present invention relates generally to a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase (F3′5′H) activity and to the use of the genetic sequence and/or its corresponding polypeptide thereof inter alia to manipulate color in flowers or parts thereof or in other plant tissue. More particularly, the F3′5′H has... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070033675 - Brassica plants with high levels of anticarcinogenic glucosinolates: The present invention relates to a method for providing plants belonging to the Brassicaceae family with elevated levels of anticarcinogenic glucosinolates. The plants are obtained by 1) the production of a Brassica oleracea plant with elevated levels of anticarcinogenic glucosinolates in the edible parts and 2) the use of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070033677 - Plant shsp gene bidirectional promoter and uses thereof: A plant sHSP gene bidirectional promoter and uses thereof. This invention relates to the use of a single bidirectional promoter from rice sHSP gene to regulate expression of two separate genes linked in opposite orientations. More particularly it relates to the use of said bidirectional promoter to regulate expression of... Agent: Troxell Law Offfice PLLC

20070033676 - Process for producing plant storage organ with high production of recombinant protein and novel recombinant protein: The present invention provides a method for highly producing a recombinant protein in a plant storage organ and a GLP-1 derivative. The plant storage organ in which the recombinant protein is highly produced is obtained by transformation with the use of a vector which comprises a recombinant protein gene, a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070033678 - Precise cutting: The present invention provides methods for enhancing plant transformation. One such method entails making an excision in a selected seedling at the point where two cotyledons meet, and then vortexing the cut seedling in a solution comprising a transforming bacterium such as Agrobacterium.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070033679 - Brown mushrooms for commercial production: Hybrid Agaricus bisporus mushroom strains having one or more genetic characteristics of a wild mushroom strain deposited under ATCC accession No. PTA-6903 or a progeny thereof and having specified physical and genetic characteristics are disclosed along with methods of producing brown mushrooms for commercial use.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070028310 - Apparatus for selectively destroying dividing cells: Dividing cells within living tissue that contain polarizable intracellular members can be destroyed using at least two insulated electrodes and an electric field source that applies an alternating electric potential across the conductors within the insulated electrodes. The electric field is transformed into a non-homogenous electric field that produces an... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20070028311 - Therapeutic and diagnostic means for papillomas and other diseases involving ped/pea-15: The present invention discloses diagnostic methods and means, as well as medicaments in diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of diseases where PED/PEA-15 plays an etiopathogenetic role, in particular papilloma and diabetes. Said methods are based on the determination of PED/PEA-15 levels and the medicaments are based on antisense oligonucleotides. A non-human... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070028313 - Quiescent cell populations for nuclear transfer: A method of reconstituting an animal embryo involves transferring the nucleus from a quiescent donor cell into a suitable recipient cell. The donor cell is quiescent, in that it is caused to exit from the growth and division cycle at G1 and to arrest in the G0 state. Nuclear transfer... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070028312 - Unactivated oocytes as cytoplast recipients for nuclear transfer: A method of reconstituting an animal embryo involves transferring a diploid nucleus into an oocyte which is arrested in the metaphase of the second meiotic division. The oocyte is not activated at the time of transfer, so that the donor nucleus is kept exposed to the recipient cytoplasm for a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070028314 - Bone and/or joint disease-associated genes: This invention provides a method for obtaining a gene involved in regulation of cartilage differentiation, in which a transcription factor, preferably Runx2/Cbfa1, is forcedly expressed in a cell that is deficient such transcription factor, preferably in a Runx2/Cbfa1-deficient chondrocyte, and the gene, the expression of which is thereby induced, is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070028315 - Dna encoding snorf33 receptor: This invention provides isolated nucleic acids encoding mammalian SNORF33 receptors, purified mammalian SNORF33 receptors, vectors comprising nucleic acid encoding mammalian SNORF33 receptors, cells comprising such vectors, antibodies directed to mammalian SNORF33 receptors, nucleic acid probes useful for detecting nucleic acid encoding mammalian SNORF33 receptors, antisense oligonucleotides complementary to unique sequences... Agent: Lundbeck Research Usa, Inc. Attention: Stephen G. Kalinchak, Legal

20070028316 - Transgenic non-human act1-deficient mammals and uses thereof: The present invention provides a transgenic non-human mammal which lacks a functional Act1 gene referred to herein as a “transgenic non-human Act1 knockout mammal” or a “Act1 knockout mammal”. In a particular embodiment, the genome of the Act1 knockout mammal comprises at least one non-functional allele for the endogenous Act1... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070028323 - Artificial bidirectional promoter for activation of gene expression: A bidirectional module for activation of gene expression and regulation of transcription in both directions is disclosed. The bidirectional module comprises multiple cis regulatory DNA sequence elements, strategically arranged to give a ‘Transcription Activating Module’ that achieves high level expression from a ‘Transcription Initiation Module’. The latter functions like a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070028322 - High lysine maize compositions and methods for detection thereof: Disclosed herein are assays for detecting the presence of a lysine-increasing transgenic event based on the DNA sequence of the exogenous DNA construct inserted into the maize genome and of genomic sequences flanking the insertion site. Also provided are transgenic plants having a novel exogenous DNA construct that expresses a... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070028321 - High tryptophan maize: The present invention provides a method for altering the tryptophan content of a plant by introducing and expressing an artificial polynucleotide sequence encoding an anthranilate synthase in the cells of the plant. Transgenic plants transformed with an artificial polynucleotide sequence encoding an anthranilate synthase, as well as human or animal... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070028320 - Plant artificial chromosome (plac) compositions and methods: The present invention provides for the identification and cloning of functional plant centromeres in Arabidopsis. This will permit construction of stably inherited plant artificial chromosomes (PLACs) which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. In addition, information on the structure and function of these... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070028317 - Plants and seeds of corn variety i015011: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I015011. This invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I015011, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety I015011 with itself... Agent: Robert E. Hanson Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070028318 - Rice plants having increased tolerance to imidazolinone herbicides: The present invention is directed to plants having increased tolerance to an imidazolinone herbicide. More particularly, the present invention includes rice plants containing at least one variant AHAS nucleic acid such as an imidazolinone tolerant IMINTA 1, 4 or 5 lines comprising an alanine to threonine substitution as compared to... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Basf Corporation

20070028319 - Soybean cultivar s050051: A soybean cultivar designated S050051 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S050051, to the plants of soybean S050051, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S050051 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S050051 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20070028325 - A multiple-eared inbred line of corn for production of baby corn: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated W701BC. This inbred variety yields multiple ears, and is ideal for production of baby corn. The invention further relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety W701BC, and to methods for producing... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070028324 - Methods for transforming plants to express delta-endotoxins: Disclosed is a means of controlling plant pests by a novel method of expressing Cry2A B. thuringiensis δ-endotoxins in plants. The invention comprises novel nucleic acid segments encoding proteins comprising Cry2A B. thuringiensis δ-endotoxins. The nucleic acid segments are disclosed, as are transformation vectors containing the nucleic acid segments, plants... Agent: Monsanto Company

20070028329 - Diacylglycerol acyltransferase genes, proteins, and uses thereof: The present invention relates to diacylglycerol acyltransferase genes and proteins, and methods of their use. In particular, the invention describes genes and proteins that exhibit both long-chain acyltransferase and acetyltransferase activity. The present invention encompasses both native and recombinant wild-type forms of the transferase, as well as mutants and variant... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20070028327 - Meg1 endosperm-specific promoters and genes: The present invention relates to promoters that enable gene expression which is both specific to the endosperm and early during the development of the endosperm, as well as nucleic acid molecules encoding basal endosperm transfer cell layer (BETL) proteins.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070028326 - Method for producing multiple unsaturated fatty acids in plants: The present invention relates to a method for the production of fatty acid esters which comprise unsaturated fatty acids with at least three double bonds, and to free unsaturated fatty acids with a content of at least 1% by weight based on the total fatty acids present in the plants,... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070028328 - Methods for increasing oleic acid content in seeds from transgenic plants containing a mutant delta 12 desaturase: The preparation and use of nucleic acid fragments encoding fatty acid desaturase enzymes are described. The invention permits alteration of plant lipid composition. Chimeric genes incorporating such nucleic acid fragments with suitable regulatory sequences may be used to create transgenic plants with altered levels of unsaturated fatty acids.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070028330 - Method of enhancing quality factors in cotton: Preferred embodiments of this invention relate to a method for increasing fiber yield in a cotton plant by regenerating a whole cotton plant from a plant cell that has been transformed with a dominant negative allele for an endoplasmic reticulum located gene. The expression of this gene results in suppression... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070028331 - Plants and seeds of corn comprising brown midrib and gt1 genes: According to the invention, there is provided seed and corn plants comprising brown midrib and gt1 genes conferring increased digestibility of plants and regrowth following cutting. The invention thus relates to corn plants, seeds and tissue cultures comprising brown midrib and gt1 genes, and to methods for producing a corn... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070028332 - Gene capable of imparting salt stress resistance: This invention provides a novel gene that can impart salt stress tolerance to plants for a long period of time and salt stress tolerant transgenic plants to which such gene has been introduced. Such novel gene encodes the following protein (a), (b), or (c), and such salt stress tolerant transgenic... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070028333 - Protein phosphatase stress-related polypeptides and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Phosphatase Stress-Related polypeptide (PPSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein modifying expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased growth/yield under normal or stress conditions and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant... Agent: Basf Corporation

20070028334 - Thlaspi caerulescens subspecies for cadmium and zinc recovery: A cadmium- and zinc-hyperaccumulating subspecies from Thlaspi caerulescens and methods for removing and optionally recovering cadmium and zinc from soil using phytoextracting techniques wherein the subspecies is cultivated on soil containing cadmium and zinc.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC