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Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes January USPTO class listing 01/08

20080028478 - Method for genetic improvement of terminal boars: The methods provided herein relate to swine production. Specifically the instant invention provides methods for the production of terminal parent animals (i.e. terminal sires and terminal dams) for use in swine production herds. Also provided are methods for quickly and efficiently introducing and/or fixing one or more desirable traits or... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080028479 - Method for making genetic modifications: 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 contribution to all tissues from the donor cells and is capable of transmitting the donor cell DNA.... Agent: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc

20080028481 - Chimeric gene containing several herbicide tolerance genes, plant cell and plant resistant to several herbicides: 1. Chimeric gene containing several herbicide tolerance genes, plant cell and plant which are tolerant to several herbicides. 2. The plant is tolerant to several herbicides at the same time, in particular to the inhibitors of HPPD and to those of EPSPS and/or to the dihalohydroxybenzonitriles. 3. Use for removing... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080028480 - Markers for salinity tolerance in wheat plants and the use thereof in breeding programs: The present invention relates to markers of a Nax locus of wheat plants, particularly durum wheat, linked to reduced sodium accumulation, as well as enhanced tolerance to saline and/or sodic soils. The present invention also relates to the use of these markers in breeding programs to produce plants with reduced... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080028482 - Corn plant mon88017 and compositions and methods for detection thereof: The present invention provides a corn plant designated MON880 7 and DNA compositions contained therein. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the corn plant MON88017 based on a DNA sequence and the use of this DNA sequence as a molecular marker in a DNA detection method.... Agent: Timothy K. Ball, Ph.d. Monsanto Company C/o Gail Wuellner

20080028484 - Inbred corn line mm6: An inbred corn line, designated MM6, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line MM6, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line MM6 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line MM6 with itself... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080028483 - Inbred corn line mn5: An inbred corn line, designated MN5, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line MN5, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line MN5 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line MN5 with itself... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080028485 - Inbred corn line unw1: An inbred corn line, designated UNW1, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line UNW1, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line UNW1 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line UNW1 with itself... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080028486 - Aluminium tolerant barley: The present invention relates to barley plants comprising an exogenous nucleic acid molecule which confers upon the plants enhanced tolerance to aluminium relative to isogenic plants which do not contain the exogenous nucleic acid. Also provided are methods of producing barley plants with enhanced tolerance to aluminium.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080028489 - Guard cell-specific tool for molecular manipulation of drought avoidance/water loss in plants: The inventors herein disclose a new transporter that participates in guard cell movement. The inventors have now found that AtCHX20 is preferentially expressed in guard cells using microarray and promoter TGUS analyses. The inventors have also found a guard cell specific promoter which serves as a powerful tool to manipulate... Agent: Law Offices Of Jacobson Holman Professional Limited Liability Company

20080028488 - Use of tryptophan indole and anthranilate analogs as plant transformation selection agents: Methods and compositions are described using tryptophan analogs, indole analogs, and mixtures thereof as agents for selecting plant cells that have been transformed with an anthranilate synthase (ASA2) gene or a fragment thereof, where the ASA2 gene encodes a feedback-insensitive form of anthranilate synthase (AS).... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080028487 - Uses of the pseudomonas syringae effector protein hopu1 related to its ability to adp-ribosylate eukaryotic rna binding proteins: The bacterial plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae injects effector proteins into host cells via a type III protein secretion system to cause disease. The invention relates to the discovery that the type III effector HopU1 is a mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase (ADP-RT) and suppresses plant innate immunity. The HopU1 substrates in Arabidopsis thaliana extracts... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080028490 - Promoter molecules for use in plants: The present invention relates to polynucleotide molecules for regulating gene expression in plants. In particular, the invention relates to promoters isolated from Zea mays and Oryza sativa that are useful for regulating gene expression of heterologous polynucleotide molecules in plants. The invention also relates to expression constructs and transgenic plants... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080028491 - Hybrids of exacum: An Exacum hybrid, method to produce the hybrid plant, and progeny derived from the Exacum hybrid are disclosed. The Exacum hybrid is derived from an interspecific cross with Exacum taxa E. pedunculatum, E. macranthum, E. pallidum, E. trinervium and E. trinervium ssp. ritigalensis native to Sri Lanka. Also disclosed is... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080028492 - Maize cellulose synthases and uses thereof: The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080022419 - Chromophores/fluorophores and methods for using the same: Nucleic acid compositions encoding novel chromo/fluoroproteins and mutants thereof, as well as the proteins encoded by the same, are provided. The subject proteins of interest are proteins that are colored and/or fluorescent, where this feature arises from the interaction of two or more residues of the protein. The subject proteins... Agent: Bozicevic, Field & Francis LLP

20080022420 - Be9301a tall fescue with endophytes: A tall fescue variety known as BE9301A which is inoculated with endophyte E34 is provided. Also provided is the endophyte E34. Methods of using the grass plant, seed, and endophyte are also provided. In particular examples, BE9301A is suitable for use in forage pastures due to the low amounts of... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080022422 - Chimeric pufa polyketide synthase systems and uses thereof: Disclosed are chimeric polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) polyketide synthase (PKS) proteins and chimeric PUFA PKS systems, including chimeric PUFA PKS proteins and systems derived from Schizochytrium and Thraustochytrium. Disclosed are nucleic acids and proteins encoding such chimeric PUFA PKS proteins and systems, genetically modified organisms comprising such chimeric PUFA PKS... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080022421 - Plants with increased activity of a starch phosphorylating enzyme: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants, which are genetically modified, whereby the genetic modification leads to an increase in the activity of a starch-phosphorylating OK1 protein in comparison to the corresponding wild type plant cells or wild type plants that have not been genetically modified. In addition,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080022423 - In planta rnai control of fungi: The present invention relates to control of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pathogen, a reduction in disease may... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.

20080022424 - Maize cr1bio gene promoter and its use to direct root-preferred transgene expression in plants: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a root-preferred promoter for the gene encoding Cr1Bio. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080022425 - Transgenic plants expressing a cellulase: The instant disclosure describes the application of genetic engineering techniques to produce cellulase in plants. Cellulase coding sequences operably linked to promoters active in plants may be transformed into the nuclear genome and/or the plastid genome of a plant. As cellulases may be toxic to plants, chemically-inducible or wound-inducible promoters... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20080022426 - Polynucleotides and methods for making plants resistant to fungal pathogens: This invention relates to polynucleotide sequences encoding a gene that can confer resistance to the plant pathogen Colletotrichum, which causes anthracnose stalk rot, leaf blight and top dieback in corn and other cereals. It further relates to plants and seeds of plants carrying chimeric genes comprising said polynucleotide sequences, which... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080022427 - Transcription factor stress-related polypeptides 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: Basf Corporation

20080016584 - Polypeptides having phytase activity and polynucleotides encoding same: The invention relates to a phytase derived from Citrobacter gillenii and related phytases. The phytases belong to the acid histidine phosphatase family, are acid-stable, and expectedly of a high specific activity. The invention also relates to the corresponding DNA, the recombinant and wild-type production of the phytases, as well as... Agent: Novozymes North America, Inc.

20080016585 - Celery product: A hollow, individual celery cylinder cut to a length of about one to twelve inches, and having an outside diameter of about 0.1 to 2 inch and an inside diameter of 0.075 to 1.85 inches. The celery cylinder is mild in taste and resistant to rupture upon application of internal... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080016590 - Soybean cultivar 26170838: A soybean cultivar designated 26170838 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 26170838, to the plants of soybean 26170838, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 26170838 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 26170838 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080016587 - Soybean cultivar 26660135: A soybean cultivar designated 26660135 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 26660135, to the plants of soybean 26660135, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 26660135 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 26660135 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080016588 - Soybean cultivar 306612412: A soybean cultivar designated 306612412 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 306612412, to the plants of soybean 306612412, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 306612412 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 306612412 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080016586 - Soybean cultivar 306734323: A soybean cultivar designated 306734323 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 306734323, to the plants of soybean 306734323, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 306734323 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 306734323 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080016591 - Methyltransferase genes and uses thereof: The present invention relates to genes associated with the tocopherol biosynthesis pathway. More particularly, the present invention provides and includes nucleic acid molecules, proteins, and antibodies associated with genes that encode polypeptides that have methyltransferase activity. The present invention also provides methods for utilizing such agents, for example in gene... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080016592 - Methyltransferase genes and uses thereof: The present invention relates to genes associated with the tocopherol biosynthesis pathway. More particularly, the present invention provides and includes nucleic acid molecules, proteins, and antibodies associated with genes that encode polypeptides that have methyltransferase activity. The present invention also provides methods for utilizing such agents, for example in gene... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080016589 - Soybean cultivar 5900450: A soybean cultivar designated 5900450 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 5900450, to the plants of soybean 5900450, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 5900450 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 5900450 with itself or with another soybean... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20080016593 - Engrafted plants resistant to viral diseases and methods of producing same: The present invention relates to engrafted plants comprising a transgenic rootstock resistant to a viral disease and a susceptible scion, wherein the resistance to the disease is conferred to the scion from the transgenic viral-resistant rootstock, such that the entire engrafted plant is resistant to the viral disease. The invention... Agent: Fennemore Craig

20080016596 - Bacillus thuringiensis cry gene and protein: Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from an insect pest are provided. In particular, novel polynucleotides and the pesticidal polypeptides they encode are provided. Methods of using the novel polynucleotides and pesticidal polypeptides of the invention to protect a plant from an insect pest are further provided. Particular embodiments... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080016594 - Methods of protecting plants from pathogenic fungi: Methods for protecting a plant from a plant pathogenic fungus are provided. A method for enhancing fungal pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080016595 - Polynucleotides and methods for making plants resistant to fungal pathogens: This invention relates to polynucleotide sequences encoding a gene that can confer resistance to the plant pathogen Colletotrichum, which causes anthracnose stalk rot, leaf blight and top dieback in corn and other cereals. It further relates to plants and seeds of plants carrying chimeric genes comprising said polynucleotide sequences, which... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080016597 - Peptide transporting to chromoplasts in petals and method of constructing plant having yellowish petals by using the same: It is an object of the present invention to provide a means of imparting a yellowish flower color to a plant having no or little yellowish flower color or enhancing the yellowish flower color in a plant. In accordance with the present invention, a method of producing a plant having... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080016598 - Maize starch containing elevated amounts of actual amylose: The present invention is directed to a starch comprising a novel percentage of actual amylose. A grain comprising the starch is also embodied by the present invention. The present invention is also directed to a plant comprising the novel starch.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080010692 - Mammals carrying functional single nucleotide polymorphisms in brain-specific tryptophan hydroxylase: Recombinant or transgenic non-human mammals are described having a mutant tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (Tph2) gene resulting in altered synthesis of 5-hydroxytryptophan and serotonin in the brain. In some embodiments the mutant tryptophan hydroxylase 2 gene contains mouse R439H and/or P447R functional mutations, or their corresponding mutations in other species. Congenic... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080010691 - Method of screening therapeutic agent for irritable bowel syndrome: A method of screening a therapeutic agent for irritable bowel syndrome, characterized in that a test substance is administered to a conditioned fear stressed animal model and the condition of defecation and/or bowel movement thereof is measured.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080010693 - Human coagulation factor vii polypeptides: The present invention relates to novel human coagulation Factor VIIa variants having coagulant activity as well as polynucleotide constructs encoding such variants, vectors and host cells comprising and expressing the polynucleotide, pharmaceutical compositions, uses and methods of treatment.... Agent: Novo Nordisk, Inc. Patent Department

20080010694 - Method of acquiring immunological tolerance: The aim of the present invention is to provide a method of acquiring immunological tolerance to a foreign DNA or its expression product whereby the foreign DNA such as a vector carrying a foreign gene incorporated thereinto or its expression product can be recognized not as non-self but as self,... Agent: Venable LLP

20080010695 - Human photoaged skin model: The present invention provides a human photoaged skin model and an animal model, and a method of making the same, for evaluating cosmetics and similar products in terms of their anti-aging or rejuvenating effect... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080010696 - Method of determining gene relating to favorable beef taste and texture: By focusing attention on SREBP-1 gene, the relationship between this gene and the degree of unsaturation in beef body fat is examined. As a result, it is found out that this gene occurs as an “L-type” gene having a longer fifth intron and an “S-type” gene having a fifth intron... Agent: Kirk Hahn

20080010697 - Methods of expressing heterologous protein in plant seeds using monocot non seed-storage protein promoters: The invention is directed to expression of non-plant proteins in rice plants. Expression is optimized by use of a non-rice promoter of a monocot protein gene and its corresponding signal peptide for expression of the non-plant protein in rice plant at high yields. The invention is useful for making human... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080010698 - Expansin polypeptides: Transgenic plant cells and plants which have been genetically modified with nucleic acid molecules which encode expansin polypeptides: the disclosed are methods to alter the composition of plant cell walls, and products comprising plant tissue derived from said transgenic plants.... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Attn: Patent Docketing 32nd Floor

20080010699 - Lysophosphatidic acid acetyltransferases: An isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an LPAAT isozyme is disclosed. Construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the LPAAT isozyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the LPAAT isozyme in a transformed host... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080010700 - Nucleic acids encoding deallergenized proteins and permuteins: Modified proteins are disclosed that maintain enzymatic and insecticidal activity while displaying reduced or eliminated allergenicity. Epitopes which bind to anti-patatin antibodies were identified, and removed via site directed mutagenesis. Tyrosines were observed to generally contribute to the allergenic properties of patatin proteins. Removal of glycosylation sites was observed to... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080010701 - Compositions isolated from forage grasses and methods for their use: Isolated polynucleotides encoding polypeptides active in the fructan, cellulose, starch and/or tannin biosynthetic pathways are provided, together with expression vectors and host cells comprising such isolated polynucleotides. Methods for the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides are also provided.... Agent: Speckman Law Group PLLC

20080010702 - Plants having improved tolerance to various types of environmental stress, their production, and polyamine metabolism-related enzyme gene: The present invention relates to isolated plant-derived polyamine metabolism-related enzyme genes characterized in that their level of expression changes when exposed to environmental stress; antisense DNA or antisense RNA to such genes; plants and their progeny having improved environmental stress tolerance, in which such genes are retained in a stable... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080010703 - Yield and stress tolerance in transgenic plants: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season... Agent: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.

20080010704 - Polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded therefrom and methods of using same for increasing biomass in plants and plants generated thereby: A method of increasing biomass, vigor and/or yield of a plant is disclosed. The method comprises expressing within the plant an exogenous polypeptide comprising a UGGPase activity. The polypeptide may comprise an amino acid sequence at least 90% homologous, and/or at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 33 as... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.