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Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes July cataloged USPTO category listing 07/07

20070174922 - Nucleic acid encoding novel type-1 cytokine receptor glm-r: The present invention is directed to novel polypeptides having sequence similarity to Interleukin 6 receptor and to nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides. Also provided herein are vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides of the present invention fused to heterologous polypeptide... Agent: Genentech, Inc.

20070174923 - Targeting of sall4 for the treatment and diagnosis of proliferative disorders associated with myelodysplastic syndrome (mds): The present invention discloses nucleic acids, proteins, and antibodies for SALL4 (including isoforms SALL4A, SALL4B, and SALL4C), a zinc finger transcriptional factor. Further, methods are disclosed which demonstrate that constitutive expression of SALL4 increases leukemogenic potential in cells of model animal systems. Moreover, constitutive expression of select isoforms (e.g., SALL4B)... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070174924 - Transgenic mice containing trp gene disruptions: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods relating to the characterization of gene function. Specifically, the present disclosure provides transgenic mice comprising disruption in a trinucleotide repeat protein (TRP) gene. The present disclosure also provides methods of identifying agents that modulate TRP expression and function, useful models, and potential... Agent: John E. Burke Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070174925 - Treatment models and uses thereof: The generation and use of disease models in fish such as zebrafish are provided, in particular use in a screen to identify a gene or test substance that affects a disease state associated with pain or nociception, or pain or nociception. In particular, fish models are used in a screen... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070174926 - Sperm factor oscillogenin: The specification described a novel compound, oscillogenin, which is an active agent in furthering oocyte fertilization by sperm or in parthenogenetic activation of an oocyte. The specification discloses methods of isolating oscillogenin to modulate fertility and to enhance parthenogenetic activation of oocytes for nuclear transfer or in ICSI procedures, and... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070174931 - Methods for controlling gibberellin levels: Methods and materials are disclosed for the inhibition and control of gibberellic acid levels. In particular, nucleic acid sequences of copalyl diphosphate synthase. 3-β hydroxylase, and 2-oxidase and additional nucleic acid sequences are disclosed. Gibberellic acid levels may be inhibited or controlled by preparation of a chimeric expression construct capable... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070174929 - Soybean cultivar 5726085: A soybean cultivar designated 5726085 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 5726085, to the plants of soybean 5726085, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 5726085 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 5726085 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20070174928 - Soybean cultivar 5830261: A soybean cultivar designated 5830261 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 5830261, to the plants of soybean 5830261, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 5830261 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 5830261 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20070174930 - Soybean cultivar s050238: A soybean cultivar designated S050238 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S050238, to the plants of soybean S050238, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S050238 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S050238 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20070174927 - Transgenic expression constructs for vegetative plant tissue specific expression of nucleic acids: The invention relates to transgenic expression constructs and vectors comprising plant promoters with a non-seed tissue, preferably vegetative plant tissue specific expression profile, and the use of these transgenic expression constructs or vectors for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences in plants. More preferably, the promoters of the invention... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070174932 - Transgenic plants synthesizing high amylose starch: Transgenic plant cells and plants are described which synthesise a starch which is modified in comparison with corresponding wild type plant cells and plants. The plant cells and plants described show a reduced activity of R1, BEI and BEII proteins. Furthermore, modified starches as well as methods for their production... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070174933 - Altering levels of anti-nutrient factors in plants: A method for reducing the level of one or more than one protein in a plant or a tissue within the plant, and plants with reduced levels of target proteins are provided. The method involves introducing a nucleic acid sequence into the plant, where the nucleic acid sequence comprises a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070174934 - Method of selectively producing male or female sterile plants: A method of producing male or female sterile plants comprising the steps of transforming plant material with a polynucleotide which encodes at least one enzyme which reacts with a non-phytotoxic substance to produce a phytotoxic one, and regenerating the thus transformed material into a plant, wherein the said non-phytotoxic substance... Agent: Dana Rewoldt Garst Seed Company

20070174935 - Pericarp-preferred regulatory element: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a pericarp-preferred promoter and terminator isolated from the maize lipid transfer protein 1 coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using... Agent: Patricia A. Sweeney

20070174936 - 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

20070174937 - Plant having tolerance to environmental stress: This invention provides a stress tolerant transgenic plant with the utilization of a signal transduction factor located upstream of the gene group associated with environmental responses. This invention provides a gene encoding the following protein (a) or (b) and a stress tolerant transgenic plant to which such gene has been... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174938 - Corn root preferential promoters and uses thereof: The invention relates to the isolation of promoters from corn capable of directing transcription of an operably linked foreign DNA sequence preferentially, selectively or exclusively in the roots of plants, such as corn plants. The invention also relates to the use of chimeric genes for the preferential or selective expression... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070169207 - Test and model for alzheimer's disease: The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid characteristic of human amyloid precursor protein 770 including the nucleotides encoding codon 670 and 671, wherein the nucleic acid encodes an amino acid other than lysine at codon 670 and/or an amino acid other than methionine at codon 671. Also provided is a... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070169209 - Apparatuses and methods for the production of haematophagous organisms and parasites suitable for vaccine production: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for the production of attenuated aseptic parasites in haematophagous insects generally, and production of Plasmodium species sporozoites in Anopheles species mosquitoes specifically; apparatuses and methods for the production of strains of haematophagous insects with desired properties such as hypoallergenicity or hyperinfectivity; methods of producing a... Agent: David S. Dolberg

20070169208 - Silkworm strains for enabling production of proteins using various baculovirus: The present invention provides a method for producing a recombinant protein, characterized by using an AcNPV-susceptible silkworm and a baculovirus. The silkworm used in the present invention is preferably a silkworm of any one of the following strains i) to iv): i) a silkworm of AcNPV-susceptible strain c11 or a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070169210 - Methods and compositions for modulating gamete adhesion: Methods and compositions for modulating mammalian gamete adhesion are provided. Representative modulators of gamete adhesion include, but are not limited to polypeptides comprising at least one discoidin/C domain, and optionally at least one EGF domain. A representative polypeptide includes, but is not limited to SED1 polypeptides (SEQ ID NO. 2-7),... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070169211 - Non-glycosylated human alpha-fetoprotein, methods of production, and uses thereof: The invention features non-glycosylated human alpha-fetoprotein, methods of production, and uses thereof.... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20070169218 - Epsp synthase domains conferring glyphosate resistance: Compositions and methods for conferring tolerance to glyphosate in bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include novel EPSP synthase enzymes and nucleic acid molecules encoding such enzymes, vectors comprising those nucleic acid molecules, and host cells comprising the vectors. The novel proteins comprise at least one... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070169217 - Geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthases: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070169212 - Manipulation of organic acid biosynthesis and secretion: The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for organic acid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, organic acid biosynthesis and secretion in plants. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of citrate synthase... Agent: Marina Larson & Associates, LLC

20070169213 - Method rubisco large subunit n-methyltransferase useful for targeting molecules to the active-site vicinity of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphatet: The present invention generally relates to a modified Rubisco large subunit εN-Methyltransferase (Rubisco LSMT, or RLSMT). The present invention also relates to a modified RLSMT-carbonic anhydrase (RLSMT-CA). This modified RLSMT-CA improves the efficiency of the reduction of CO2 during photosynthesis, which may increase plant growth rates. The present invention also... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070169216 - Novel cucurbita plants: The present invention relates to novel Cucurbita plants comprising a new gene conferring resistance to viruses upon said plant, in particular resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). The new gene is designated as Cmv-2. The present invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example fruits. The... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20070169219 - Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring improved nitrogen use efficiency characteristics in plants: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able to confer the traits of improved nitrogen use efficiency in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070169215 - Rice cultivar 'spring': A rice cultivar designated ‘Spring’ is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar ‘Spring’, to the plants of rice ‘Spring’ and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar ‘Spring’ with itself or another rice variety. The invention further relates to hybrid rice... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20070169220 - Soybean variety 98y11: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated 98Y11. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety 98Y11, to the plants of soybean 98Y11 to plant parts of soybean variety 98Y11 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070169214 - Thiol methyltransferase-based selection: TMT-based methods for the selection of transgenic cells and the production of transgenic organisms are described herein. The toxin used in the selection methods is a TMT substrate. Also described herein are the recombinant cells, plants and progeny and seeds thereof having the TMT gene, a selectable marker system based... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070169221 - Novel bt toxin receptors from lepidopteran insects and methods of use: The invention relates to Bt toxin resistance management. The invention particularly relates to the isolation and characterization of nucleic acid and polypeptides for a novel Bt toxin receptor. The nucleic acid and polypeptides are useful in identifying and designing novel Bt toxin receptor ligands including novel insecticidal toxins.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070169222 - Nucleic acids encoding anthelmintic agents and plants made therefrom: The present invention provides DNA constructs, transgenic plants containing such constructs, and methods of making the plants. The DNA constructs encode a polypeptide that when expressed results in the production of fatty acid compounds having anthelmintic activity. Transgenic plants expressing such a polypeptide can exhibit enhanced resistance to plant parasitic... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070169223 - Non-denaturing process to purify recombinant proteins from plants: The present invention relates to improved methods for protein purification of high-value heterologous proteins produced in plants, plant derived tissue or plant cells. The invention aims to reduce the cost and improve the quality of downstream processing of heterologous proteins produced in plants.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070169227 - Dominant gene suppression transgenes and methods of using same: Pairs of plants are provided in which complementing constructs result in suppression of a parental phenotype in the progeny. Methods to generate and maintain such plants, and methods of use of said plants, are provided, including use of parental plants to produce sterile plants for hybrid seed production. Also provided... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070169226 - Early endosperm promoter eep1: This invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology. More specifically, this invention relates to methods and reagents for the temporally- and/or spatially-regulated expression of genes, particularly in plant seeds and related female reproductive tissue. The present invention also provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070169225 - Methods and compositions for modifying flower development: The present invention provided methods and compositions for modifying flower development and reproductive development in plants. The methods involve transforming a plant with a polynucleotide construct comprising a promoter operably lined to polynucleotide molecule encoding a short vegetative phase-like transcription factor. The compositions include transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070169224 - Novel vector and method of constructing transformant plant using the vector: Gene introduction to a plant is carried out by using a vector which comprises the following constitutional units A and B: A: a DNA sequence comprising P1, an expression inhibitory sequence and a desired gene which is controlled by P1 and the expression inhibitory sequence; B: a DNA sequence comprising... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070169228 - Nucleic acid molecules associated with plant cell proliferation and growth and uses thereof: The present invention provides a gene encoding ANT-like polypeptide comprising in the N-terminal to C-terminal direction two AP2 DNA binding domains followed in the C-terminal by an amino acid subsequence selected from the group consisting of Xaa-Ser-Ser-Ser-Arg-Glu, Xaa-Ser-Asn-Ser-Arg-Glu, and Asn-Ser-Ser-Ser-Arg-Asn, wherein Xaa is an amino acid residue selected from the... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070169229 - Method for increasing an abiotic-resistance in monocot plant: The present invention relates to a method for increasing resistance of monocot plants against abiotic stress which comprises a step of transforming monocot plants with a recombinant plasmid containing a fused gene (TPSP) of trehalose-6-phosphate synthetase (TPS) gene and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase (TPP) gene to express the TPSP gene while maintaining... Agent: Harold L. Novick Nath & Associates PLLC

20070162992 - Metabolomic determination in assisted reproductive technology: The present invention relates to a method for determining the ideal time for and outcome of reproductive health procedures including in vitro fertilization by establishing a correlation between the successful outcome of said procedure and the spectra of a body fluid obtained using a chosen analytical modality for a population... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070162983 - Diagnostic and therapeutic use of the human sgpl1 gene and protein for neurodegenerative diseases: The present invention discloses the differential expression of a gene coding for SGPL1 in specific brain regions of Alzheimer's disease patients. Based on this finding, the invention provides a method for diagnosing or prognosticating a neurodegenerative disease, in particular Alzheimer's disease, in a subject, or for determining whether a subject... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070162986 - Anf analogue: A fusion protein comprising an arterial natriuretic factor (ANF) amino acid sequence linked to an albumin amino acid sequence by one or more peptide bonds is provided. The ANF amino acid sequence may be linked to the N-terminal, the C-terminal, or both the N-terminal and the C-terminal of the albumin... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070162985 - Diabetes-mediating proteins and therapeutic uses thereof: Provided are protective and deleterious diabetes-mediating proteins and polynucleotides encoding same, transgenic animals expressing a diabetes-mediating protein, drug screening methods for identifying a test compound capable of altering the expression of a diabetes-mediating proteins, and methods of preventing or ameliorating diabetes by administering a compound capable of altering the expression... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070162987 - Leptin-related peptides: The present invention relates to methods and compositions containing novel leptin peptides, preferably for the modulation of body mass (i.e., weight), more specifically for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in homeostasis of body weight and adipose tissue mass.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070162984 - Stars-a muscle-specific actin-binding protein: The present invention relates to a new polypeptide and the gene coding therefore, gene being an evolutionarily conserved actin-binding protein, called STARS (striated muscle activator of Rho signalin), that is expressed specifically in cardiac and skeletal muscle cells and is upregulated in response to calcineurin signaling during cardiac hypertrophy. STARS... Agent: Steven L. Highlander Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070162988 - Milk and milk products for preventing or treating heart disease: A milk which is free of β-casein A1 protein in the prevention or treatment of coronary heart disease is disclosed. In addition, a process for the testing of DNA from cells obtained from lactating bovines for the presence of DNA encoding certain β-casein proteins, selecting the bovines on the basis... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070162989 - Methods and compositions for treating motor neuron associated disorders: The present invention provides a non-human animal (e.g., a mouse) that contains a plurality of genetically modified somatic cells (e.g., a motor neuron) having an exon 8 related loss-of-function modification in all WFS1 alleles. The present invention also provides a non-human animal that contains a plurality of genetically modified somatic... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20070162990 - Neurodegenerative non-human transgenic mammal expressing trka fusion protein: The present invention provides a neurodegenerative, non-human transgenic mammal whose cells contain a TrkA-hFc transgene for encoding at least a TrkA fusion protein and the use thereof.... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc

20070162991 - Transgenic mice containing lrp5 gene disruptions: The present disclosure relates to transgenic animals, as well as compositions and methods relating to the characterization of gene function. Specifically, the present disclosure provides transgenic mice comprising mutations in a low density lipoprotein-related protein 5 (Lrp5) gene. Such transgenic mice are useful as models for disease and for identifying... Agent: John E. Burke Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070162993 - Geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthases: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate synthase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070162996 - Inbred corn line ph8jv: A novel inbred maize line designated PH8JV and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize line PH8JV with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH8JV through... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070162995 - Nitrogen-efficient monocot plants: Methods of increasing nitrogen utilization efficiency in monocot plants through genetic modification to increase the levels of alanine aminotransferase expression and plants produced there from are described. In particular, methods for increasing the biomass and yield of transgenic monocot plants grown under nitrogen limiting conditions compared to non-transgenic plants are... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070162994 - Pseudomonas avr and hop proteins, their encoding nucleic acids, and use thereof: One aspect of the present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding avirulence proteins or polypeptides of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae DC 3000, or nucleic acid molecules which are complementary thereto. Expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants which include the DNA molecules of the present invention are also... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20070163000 - Bacillus thuringiensis cryet29 compositions toxic to coleopteran insects and ctenocephalides spp.: Disclosed is a novel δ-endotoxin, designated CryET29, that exhibits insecticidal activity against siphonapteran insects, including larvae of the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis), as well as against coleopteran insects, including the southern corn rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata), western corn rootworm (D. virgifera), Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), and... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070162998 - Cecpi: taro cysteine protease inhibitor: An isolated polypeptide, comprising an amino acid sequence that is either the amino acid Sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, or the amino acid sequence of amino acid residues 49 to 53 of SEQ ID NO: 2.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070162999 - Crop plant cystatin proteinase inhibitors and methods of use: Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding maize, soybean, wheat and rice cystatin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070162997 - Genetic markers linked to fusarium head blight-resistance factor and utilization thereof: QTL analysis on the resistance to Fusarium head blight is performed by using an RI line (RHI population) grown by crossing Russia 6 (two-row, resistant) with H.E.S.4 (six-row, susceptible), an RI line (RI2 population) grown by crossing Harbin 2-row (resistant) with Turkey 6 (susceptible), and a DH line (DHHS population)... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070163002 - Fatty acid desaturases and mutant sequences thereof: Seeds, plants and oils are provided having high oleic acid; low linoleic acid; and low linoleic acid plus linolenic acid; and advantageous functional or nutritional properties. Plants are disclosed that contain a mutation in a delta-12 or delta-15 fatty acid desaturase gene. Preferred plants are rapeseed and sunflower plants. Plants... Agent: Ronald C. Lundquist, Ph.d. Fish & Richardson, P.C. P.A.

20070163001 - Generation of plants with altered oil content: The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of a HIO32.3 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070163003 - Plants with increased activity of multiple starch phosphorylating enzymes: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, wherein the genetic modification leads to the increase of the activity of a starch phosphorylating OK1 protein and a starch phosphorylating R1 protein in comparison with corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070163004 - Plants with reduced activity of a starch phosphorylating enzyme: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, wherein the genetic modification leads to the reduction of the activity of a starch phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison with corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have not been genetically modified. Furthermore, the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070163005 - Pm29 and lea3 promoters and use in expression of transgenic genes in plants: The promoters of a soybean seed maturation protein PM29 and a soybean late-embryogenesis abundant protein LEA3 and fragments 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

20070163006 - Cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase: After-cooking darkening is a gray-black discoloration of the potato tuber, formed after cooking by the oxidation of an iron-chlorogenic acid complex. Cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase (C4H) is a key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of chlorogenic acid. The full-length c4h gene was cloned and sequenced from both genomic DNA and cDNA... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070163007 - Method for improving plant transformation efficiency by adding copper ion: 2) infecting the plant material with an Agrobacterium, characterized in that a medium enriched in a metal salt containing copper ion is used in step 1) and/or 2). The present invention also provides a process for preparing a transformed plant characterized in that the gene introduction method of the present... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070163008 - Alfalfa plants with detectable tannin levels and methods for producing same: The invention provides alfalfa plants with detectable levels of tannins, especially condensed tannins, and methods of making alfalfa plants with detectable levels of tannins. Plants and plant parts of the invention are useful as forage for ruminants as they reduce the risk of bloat and reduce or eliminate the need... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070163009 - Polynucleotides encoding phytase polypeptides: The present invention relates to barley isolated polypeptides having phytase activity, recombinant DNA sequences encoding such polypeptides, methods of producing such polypeptides and the use of said polypeptides in transgenic plants. The invention disclose polypeptides having affinity for the substrate phytate (1,2,3,4,5,6 myo-inositol-hexakisphosphate, phytic acid), comprising an amino acid sequences... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070157323 - In vivo odorant receptor systems and their uses: The present invention provides in vivo materials, systems and methods for the reliable and efficient screening of odorant receptors (ORs), particularly ORs isolated from insects.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070157324 - Human disease modeling using somatic gene transfer: This invention provides a system for modeling neurodegenerative and other diseases through somatic gene transfer. In addition, methods of multiple gene transfer, disease analysis and drug testing are provided for.... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire

20070157325 - Process for identification of novel disease biomarkers in mouse models of alzheimer's disease including triple transgenic mice and products thereby: The present disclosure includes methods for the identification of novel biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease. The methods involve genomic, proteomic, bioinformatic, immunochemical, and behavioral assays of 3xTg-AD mice.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070157326 - Ee3-protein family and corresponding dna sequence: The present invention relates to (i) DNA sequences, (ii) expression vectors comprising DNA sequences of the invention, (iv) host cells having the expression vectors of the invention, (v) gene products encoded by sequences of the invention, (vi) transgenic animals altered with respect to sequences of the invention, (vii) antibodies directed... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070157327 - Parkin interacting polypeptides and methods of use: The invention provides parkin binding polypeptides and encoding nucleic acids. The invention also provides antibodies specific for the parkin binding polypeptides. The invention additionally provides methods of detecting a parkin binding polypeptide and detecting a nucleic acid encoding a parkin binding polypeptide. The invention further provides methods of using a... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20070157328 - Suppression of xenotransplant rejection: This invention relates to the suppression of graft rejection, particularly to the suppression of xenograft rejection. In particular, the invention relates to biological tissues that contain endothelial cells that may be induced to generate a compound which down-regulates the expression of a cell adhesion molecule in these cells.... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070157329 - Amylases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them: In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides having an amylase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods for malting and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the polypeptides of the invention can be used as amylases, for example, alpha amylases, to catalyze the hydrolysis of starch... Agent: Diversa C/o Mofo S.d.

20070157330 - Reconstituted human breast tumor model: Reconstituted human breast tumor models are disclosed. The models, which are incorporated into mice, provide actual tumors that arise spontaneously, thereby mimicking naturally occurring breast cancer. The tumors are genetically human, because they arise from human mammary tissues that develop from human mammary epithelial cells implanted into host mice. Prior... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070157331 - Protection of female reproductive system from natural and artifical insults: Described are methods for protecting the female reproductive system against natural and artificial insults by administering to women a composition comprising an agent that antagonizes one or more acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase) gene products. Specifically, methods disclosed herein serve to protect women's germline from damage resulting from cancer therapy regimens including... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070157335 - Altering protein functional properties through terminal fusions: The invention provides isolated terminal fusion glycinin and proglycinin polypeptides that when expressed alter the functional properties of the protein in comparison with wild type. Also provided are nucleic acid sequences that encode the terminal fusion polypeptides, and methods of modifying the functional properties of glycinin proteins.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070157333 - Celery cultivar ads-11: A celery cultivar, designated ADS-11, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar ADS-11, to the plants of celery cultivar ADS-11 and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar ADS-11 with itself or another celery cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20070157336 - Plants and seeds of high oil corn variety hoi001: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated HOI001. This invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety HOI001, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety HOI001 with itself... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070157332 - Potato cultivar fl 2095: A new potato cultivar designated FL 2095 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato variety FL 2095, to the plants and plant parts of potato variety FL 2095, to the seeds of potato variety and to methods for producing a hybrid potato variety. The invention further relates... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20070157337 - Promoter sequence obtained from rice and methods of use: Methods are provided by which Oryza sativa plants and seeds thereof may be modified to express a coding region of interest using a promoter sequence operatively linked to the coding region. The promoter sequence is an isolated Oryza sativa antiquitin (OsAnt1) promoter sequence including SEQ ID NO: 1. The coding... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070157334 - Protein kinase stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070157338 - Insecticidal plant cyclotide with activity against homopteran insects: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acids encoding plant cyclotides. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the plant cyclotides, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in the production of altered levels of... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070157339 - Biochemical route to astaxanthin: The sequence of a nucleic acid isolated from a cDNA library of the flowering plant Adonis aestivalis is disclosed (SEQ ID NO: 1). This DNA sequence, referred to as AdKC28, encodes for a protein that acts in conjunction with proteins encoded by either one of two other closely-related Adonis aestivalis... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070157340 - Enhanced floral sink strength and increased stability of seed set in plants: The invention discloses a transgenic method for enhancing sink strength in female reproductive organs. It involves the temporal and spatial expression of genes affecting the starch and sucrose metabolic pathways in a plant organ or plant tissue. The invention also includes expression constructs, and methods for the production of crop... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20070157341 - Floral development genews: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding floral development proteins, more specifically FT, TFL or Ap3 homologs. The invention also relates to the construction of a recombinant DNA construct encoding all or a portion of the floral development proteins, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070157342 - Methods and compositions for increasing the nitrogen storage capacity of a plant: The present invention provides methods and compositions for making and using transgenic plants that exhibit increased nitrogen storage capacity compared to wild-type plants. Methods of the invention comprise inducing overexpression of monocot-derived vegetative storage proteins (VSPs) in plants, particularly in monocots. In some embodiments, at least one nucleotide construct comprising... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20070157345 - Protein kinase stress-related polypeptides and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Polypeptide (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by... Agent: Basf Corporation

20070157344 - Signal transduction stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a Signal Transduction Stress-Related Protein (STSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070157343 - Transcription factor stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a transcription factor stress-related protein (TFSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Attn: William L. Warren, Esq.

20070157346 - Method for excision of plant embryos for transformation: This invention describes a simple method useful for the excision and isolation of maize immature embryos. The embryos are useful for plant tissue culture and transformation methods.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP