Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes inventions 05/08

20080127358 - Compositions and methods for modulating hedgehog signaling: Provided herein are nucleic acid constructs encoding Hh regulating proteins, which are proteins that activate or inhibit Hh signaling. Exemplary Hh regulating proteins are N- or C-terminally truncated forms of Gli proteins or a dominant negative form of PKA. The Hh regulating proteins may be linked to a heterologous protein,... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080127359 - Method for producing anti-idiotypic antibodies: b) inducing an immune response in said transgenic non-human animal against an antibody of interest, whereby the antibody of interest comprises the same species-specific isotype as the exogenous antibody, and c) generating antibodies directed against the idiotypic part of the antibody of interest.... Agent: Hoffmann-la Roche Inc. Patent Law Department

20080127360 - Swine cell for xenotransplantation, method of selecting the same and swine for xenotransplantation: The invention presents a swine cell not expressing α-1,3-galactosyl transferase and expressing human complement inhibitor and/or human N-acetyl glucosaminyl transferase III; a method of selecting the same; and a swine for xenotransplantation. The swine for xenotransplantation of the invention is very useful in inhibiting the acute rejection characteristic to xenotransplantation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080127361 - Identification of soybeans having resistance to phytophthora sojae: The invention provides soybean plants having a novel determinant, Rps8, for resistance to Phytophthora sojae. The invention also provides methods for identifying germplasms that are either heterozygous or homozygous for Rps8 using marker assisted selection. Genetic markers with known chromosomal location that are associated with the Rps8 gene are used... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080127362 - Brilliant white cauliflower: The present invention includes cauliflowers with enhanced whiteness and methods for obtaining such cauliflowers. The present invention also provides reagents that can be used in methods for obtaining such cauliflowers.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20080127363 - Flowering time-controlling gene cog2 isolated from arabidopsis thaliana: A flowering time-controlling gene, COG2, isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, and a protein expressed therefrom delay the flowering time of a plant and, accordingly, are useful for improving a flowering-associated character of a plant and for the identification of other flowering-associated genes or proteins.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080127367 - Generation of plants with altered protein, fiber, or oil content: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an IMQ nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080127366 - Genes that alter capacity to accumulate heavy metals and salts or resistance to heavy metals, salts or drought, and transformants expressing the genes: The present invention relates to a gene being capable of modifying resistance against a heavy metal or salt, or accumulation properties, a recombination vector including the genes, and a transformant using the recombination vector. A gene having heavy metal resistance and accumulation properties includes a sequence encoding a transmembrane protein... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080127365 - Plants having improved growth characteristics and a method for making the same: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics comprising modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080127364 - Switchable photosystem-ii designer algae for photobiological hydrogen production: A switchable photosystem-II designer algae for photobiological hydrogen production. The designer transgenic algae includes at least two transgenes for enhanced photobiological H2 production wherein a first transgene serves as a genetic switch that can controls photosystem II (PSII) oxygen evolution and a second transgene encodes for creation of free proton... Agent: Knox Patents

20080127368 - Novel regulatory protein: The present invention relates to a polypeptide which belongs to the R3R3-type MYB family and which regulates the shikimate pathway towards the production of benzenoids. The shikimate pathway is a biosynthesis pathway through which the three essential aromatic amino acids tyrosine, phenylalanine and tryptophan are synthesized in plants, bacteria and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080127369 - Arabidopsis and brassica nucleic acid sequences conferring lipid and sugar alterations in plants and methods of use: Described herein are inventions in the field of genetic engineering of plants, including isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding digalactosyl diacylglycerol synthase 1-like (DGD1-like) polypeptides to improve agronomic, horticultural and quality traits. This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are related to the presence of seed storage... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080127370 - Sugarcane plants with an increased storage carbohydrate content: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the storage carbohydrate content of sugarcane plants.... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080127371 - Genes encoding 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (hppd) enzymes for plant metabolic engineering: The present invention is in the field of plant genetics and biochemistry. More specifically, the present invention relates to genes and polypeptides associated with the tocopherol biosynthesis pathway, namely those encoding 4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate Dioxygenase activity, and uses thereof.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080127372 - Grg23 epsp synthases: compositions and methods of use: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include polynucleotides encoding herbicide resistance or tolerance polypeptides, vectors comprising those polynucleotides, and host cells comprising the vectors. The nucleotide sequences of the invention can be used in DNA constructs... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080127373 - Process for producing a decaffeinated coffee plant by genetic recombination: The invention provides a process for producing a decaffeinated coffee plant by genetic recombination comprising a step for preparing an antisense sequence or an RNAi sequence of a gene coding for an enzyme related to the caffeine biosynthetic pathway and constructing an expression vector for transformation, a step for introducing... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer

20080127374 - Generation of plants with altered protein, fiber, or oil content: The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an IMQ nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080127375 - 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.

20080127376 - Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from cotton are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for understanding critical plant developmental and metabolic pathways. The disclosed... Agent: Arnold & Porter, LLP

20080127377 - Genetic constructs having heterologous 3' polyadenylation signal sequence motifs that function in plants: The present invention relates to heterologous genes comprising non-plant 3′ termination sequences and plant expression cassettes incorporating the heterologous genes. The present invention also comprises methods for construction of the plant expression cassettes and introducing the cassettes into plant cells.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080120731 - Transgenic animal models for neurodevelopmental disorders: The current invention relates to the field of neurodevelopmental disorders and more particularly to the field of neuropsychiatric disorders. The invention provides non-human, transgenic animal models for said neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, compulsive disorders and the like. The animals also have applications in the field of Alzheimer's... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080120732 - Method for improved transgene expression: The present invention provides an improved method for achieving efficient transcription and translation of modified transgene constructs in vector systems. The vector may be a lentiviral vector. Such a method facilitates the production of viral vector genomes with intact functional transgene sequences allowing stable integration of a transgene-containing viral vector... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080120733 - Rnai-based method for selecting transfected eukaryotic cells: The invention relates to a method for the production of a eukaryotic cell selectable by inactivation or reduction of an endogenous gene function, comprising the steps of (a) introduction of one or more vectors into the cell and (b) expression of a siRNA and preferably shRNA coded by the one... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080120734 - Compositions and methods for regulated protein expression in gut: The invention provides compositions and methods useful for treating disorders treatable by producing a protein in a regulatable manner in a mucosal cell or tissue of an animal. The treatment methods include in vivo and ex vivo methods, including transplanting in vitro transformed cells that secrete the protein into a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080120735 - Arabidosis atlej1 gene involved in inhibiting biosynthesis of jasmonic acid and ethylene and method for producing male-sterile plant using the same: Disclosed herein are an Arabidopsis gene (AtLEJ1), acting as an inhibitor of the biosynthesis of the phytohormones jasmonic acid and ethylene, and a method for producing a male sterile transgenic plant using the same. The gene guarantees stable male sterile strains which need no maintainers for the maintenance thereof. Also,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080120736 - Process of photomorphogenically enhancing plants: A process for photomorphogenically enhancing plants is presented wherein a natural or artificial light source emits light through a transmittive material. The material is optionally borosilicate glass with a steep edge situation at or near 280 nm so as to selectively filter out light in the UVC or low UVB... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080120737 - Increasing levels of nicotinic alkaloids in plants: Four genes, A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT, can be influenced for increasing nicotinic alkaloid levels in Nicotiana plants, as well as for synthesizing nicotinic alkaloids in non-nicotine producing plants and cells. In particular, overexpressing one or more of A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT may be used to increase nicotine and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080120739 - Method for selection of transformed cells: The invention provides methods for the selection of transgenic cells. The invention relates to the unexpected finding that cells expressing a gene conferring tolerance to auxin-like herbicides such as dicamba may be directly selected from non-transgenic cells using auxin-like herbicides as a selective agent. In this manner, plants exhibiting tolerance... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080120738 - Peptide extension for enhancement of transgene expression in chloroplasts: The invention provides a novel method of controlling gene expression in plastids, using a peptide extension that can be fused to a desired protein, expression cassettes that include the genetic constructs, and plants comprising the novel expression systems. A nucleic acid sequence encoding a peptide extension fused in frame to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080120741 - 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.

20080120742 - 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.

20080120743 - 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.

20080120744 - 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.

20080120745 - 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.

20080120746 - 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.

20080120747 - 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.

20080120740 - Novel nucleic acid sequences and their use in methods for achieving a pathogenic resistance in plants: A process for increasing the resistance against mesophyllic cell-penetrating pathogens in a plant, or an organ, tissue or a cell thereof, wherein the callose synthase activity in the plant or an organ, tissue or a cell thereof is reduced in comparison to control plants.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080120748 - Nucleic acid molecules encoding kcs-like polypeptides and methods of use: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are related to the presence of seed storage compounds in plants. More specifically, the present invention relates to KCS-like nucleic acid sequences encoding lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and the use of these sequences in transgenic plants. In particular, the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080120749 - Suppression of tla1 gene expression for improved solar conversion efficiency and photosynthetic productivity in plants and algae: The invention provides method and compositions to minimize the chlorophyll antenna size of photosynthesis by decreasing TLA1 gene expression, thereby improving solar conversion efficiencies and photosynthetic productivity in plants, e.g., green microalgae, under bright sunlight conditions.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080120750 - Promoters for regulation of plant expression: The invention provides a method to identify a plurality of plant promoters having specified characteristics and promoters identified by the method. Also provided are transgenic plants comprising the genes identified by the methods of the invention.... Agent: Larry W. Stults, Ph.d. Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc.

20080120751 - Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from wheat are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for understanding critical plant developmental and metabolic pathways. The disclosed... Agent: Arnold & Porter, LLP

20080115231 - Novel biological substance nesfatin and its related substances and uses thereof: The present invention relates to a novel method of obtaining a factor involved in appetite control and/or body weight control, as well as genes obtained by said method, polypeptides encoded by said genes, or novel polypeptides obtained from the information on polypeptides encoded by said genes as a means for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080115232 - Amphidiploid aquatic animal and method of breeding the same: An amphidiploid aquatic animal according to the present invention has genomes AB of different species and carries fertile XXXY sex chromosomes. Among a large number of aquatic animals of the first filial generation kept in a closed system, a nonreductive sperm of a male and a nonreductive egg of a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080115236 - Cbg gene as a genetic marker of hypercortisolism and associated pathologies: A method for identifying polymorphic markers associated with a hypercortisolism phenotype including comparing nucleic acid sequences, from multiple individuals, including all or part of a Cbg gene; and identifying mutations in the Cbg gene or sequences adjacent to it.... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper Us LLP

20080115235 - Drugs for diseases accompanying changes in total bile acid pool or lipid metabolism disorders and method of screening these drugs: A Gpbar1-deficient mouse is constructed and it is examined whether or not Gpbar1 participates in the regulation of bile acid homeostasis and lipid metabolism. As a result, the total bile acid pool is decreased in the Gpbar1-deficient mouse without showing any change in the fecal bile acid level. A female... Agent: Merck And Co., Inc

20080115234 - Method for utilization of domestic ruminants with mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis disease to assess possible therapeutic modalities: The invention describes a concrete schema which allow domesticated ruminant with disease due to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis to serve as an animal model system in order to assess potential systemic and mucosal effects achieved by attempted therapeutic interventions. A key component of this schema is the recognition of the... Agent: Gilles R.g. Monif

20080115238 - Hedgehog inhibitor assay: The present invention relates to the field of Hedgehog signalling, and more specifically to a cell-based assay system and methods for identifying inhibitors and/or antagonists of specific cellular events in said signalling pathway. The present invention hereby proposes a novel approach for identifying inhibitors and/or antagonists downstream of the signalling... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080115233 - Biological control: The invention relates to a non-human multicellular organism carrying a dominant lethal genetic system, the lethal effect of which is conditional, wherein the lethal effect of the lethal system occurs in the natural environment of the organism.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080115237 - Novel ecdysone receptor-based inducible gene expression system: This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to a novel inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating gene expression in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080115239 - Plants having increased yield and method for making the same: The present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield in plants grown under non-stress conditions, by preferentially increasing activity in a plastid of an EFTu polypeptide or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant an EFTu nucleic acid or variant thereof. The invention also relates... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080115241 - Cloning and sequencing of the ferulate esterase gene from lactobacillus buchneri ln4017: Embodiments of the present invention include polypeptides having ferulate esterase activity and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them. Methods of the embodiments utilize these ferulate esterase polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences to enhance the digestibility of plant cell walls and the accessibility of carbohydrates in plants. The invention provides... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080115240 - Maize microrna sequences: Methods and compositions useful in target sequence suppression and target sequence validation are described. Polynucleotide constructs useful for gene silencing, as well as cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides and a method for using microRNAs to silence a target sequence are also described.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080115242 - Genetically modified plant producing lactosyl ceramide and utilization of the same: Plant expression vectors comprising an ORF of an isoform gene (β1,4GT5) of human β1,4-galactosyltransferase were constructed. Then, the vectors were introduced into tobacco using plant gene-recombination techniques, and transformed tobacco was made. Analysis of the obtained transformed tobacco showed that more than 200 μg of lactosylceramide was produced from 1... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080115244 - Method for producing immunoglobulins containing protection proteins and their use: a

20080115243 - Transgenic plants expressing intein modified proteins and associated processes for bio-pharmaceutical production: Transgenic plants that express CIVPS or intein modified therapeutic proteins, compositions of matter comprising them, therapeutic proteins made from the transgenic plants, methods to construct the transgenic plants containing CIVPS or intein modified therapeutic genes, methods to express CIVPS or intein modified therapeutic proteins in plants, and methods of using... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080115245 - Low nitrate vegetable and its cultivation system and method: The present invention uses specific cultivation system and method to produce vegetables with a nitrate nitrogen (NO3—N) concentration below 450 ppm (NO3—N (mg/kg)≦450 ppm). An advanced water cultivation system and a scheduled nutrient injection and removal method are used to achieve the specification of a nitrate nitrogen concentration less than... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080115246 - Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from soybean are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for understanding critical plant developmental and metabolic pathways. The disclosed... Agent: Monsanto Company (a&p)

20080109914 - Differential labeling of cells: The invention relates to the generation of an animal model that exhibits neural cell-specific expression of a marker gene that correlates to remyelination or myelin repair. The compositions and methods embodied in the present invention are particularly useful for drug screening and/or treatment of demyelination disorders, particularly in identifying compounds... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080109915 - Hair follicle-reconstitution system and animal carrying the same: This invention provides an experimental animal which carries hair follicles which have been reconstituted with use of hair papilla cells, epidermal cells and melanocytes which are extraneous to these cells. Such an experimental animal is usable for evaluating factors which influence hair restoration and the depth of hair color.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080109916 - Neostatins: The invention provides fragments of type XVIII collagen termed neostatins, and methods for their use in the treatment of opthalmological disorders associated with angiogenesis.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080109917 - Card-domain containing polypeptides, encoding nucleic acids, and methods of use: The invention provides caspase recruitment domain (CARD)-containing polypeptides and functional fragments thereof, encoding nucleic acid molecules, and specific antibodies. Also provided are screening methods for identifying CARD-associated polypeptides (CAPs), and for identifying agents that alter the association of a CARD-containing polypeptide with itself or with a CAP. Further provided are... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20080109918 - Materials and methods for tissue-specific targeting of ethylene insensitivity in transgenic plants: The subject invention concerns materials and methods for controlling agricultural traits in plants that are mediated by the plant hormone ethylene. One aspect of the invention concerns a polynucleotide that comprises a sequence encoding a mutant ethylene receptor that is operably linked to a regulatory sequence that drives expression of... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080109919 - Enhanced accumulation of carotenoids in plants: The present invention relates to polynucleotides and their use in methods of increasing the carotenoid content of seeds. In particular the invention provides a polynucleotide comprising: (a) a region which comprises as operably linked components (i) a promoter which provides for seed preferred expression; and (ii) a nucleotide sequence derived... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20080109920 - Abiotic stress tolerance conferred by j-domain containing proteins: Enhancing the expression of nucleotide sequences encoding proteins that comprise at least a DnaJ-type J-domain provides tolerance to plants or plant cells against abiotic stress, especially dehydration and salinity stress.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080109921 - Heat stable mutants of starch biosynthesis enzymes: The subject invention pertains to novel mutant polynucleotide molecules that encode enzymes that have increased heat stability. These polynucleotides, when expressed in plants, result in increased yield in plants grown under conditions of heat stress. The polynucleotide molecules of the subject invention encode maize endosperm ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) and... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080109922 - Coated seeds and materials for seed coating: The present invention relates to a warm melt polymer and a plant seed coated with the warm melt polymer. The warm melt polymers are fabricated from a reaction of a carboxylic or epoxy-containing water insoluble polymer and a hydroxyl containing water soluble polymer. The warm melt polymer is highly resistant... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080109923 - Expression of spider silk proteins in higher plants: The present invention relates to the fields of molecular biology and plant biology. Specifically, the invention is directed to the methods for expressing spider silk proteins in plants and the synthesis and purification of spider silk proteins therefrom.... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20080109924 - 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.

20080109925 - Transcriptional regulatory nucleic acids, polypeptides and methods of use thereof: The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded proteins that act as cell transcription inhibitors and methods of use thereof. The invention further provides expression cassettes, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and plant parts, and antibody compositions.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20080104718 - Transgenic non-human animal models of ischemia-reperfusion injury and uses thereof: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding a K94A/K447A mutant of wild type p90 ribosomal S6 kinase (p90RSK) and DNA constructs, expression vectors, and hosts including the mutant p90RSK-encoding molecule. The present invention also relates to two transgenic non-human animal models of ischemic reperfusion (I/R) damage, the... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080104721 - Fluorescent proteins from copepoda species and methods for using same: The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules encoding a fluorescent and proteins and mutants, homologues and derivatives thereof, as well as proteins and peptides encoded by these nucleic acids. The nucleic acid molecules and proteins of interest are isolated from Copepoda species. Also of interest are proteins that are substantially... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080104722 - Disease model animals of metabolic syndrome and a method of screening preventive and therapeutic agents for metabolic syndrome using the same: The above object is achieved by the non-human mammal model of disorders, whose TBP-2 gene is functionally deficient on chromosome, wherein the disorders are caused by impaired fatty acid utilization, and a method of screening an agent for preventing or treating Metabolic syndrome comprising; administering a test article to the... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20080104723 - Development of mammalian genome modification technique using retrotransposon: To comprehensively modify genome, it is intended to develop a transposition system of the copy and paste type which has an improved efficiency. This object has been achieved by the finding that an LTR retrotransposon is partly usable in a transposition system. Namely, a technique of efficiently transferring a foreign... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080104720 - Animal models for cell therapy and cell based gene therapy: The present invention describes the use of marker tolerant animals as a cell-tracking model system for the study of cell based therapies.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20080104719 - Cisd2-knockout mice and uses thereof: An aging animal model and a method for screening an agent for treating or preventing aging associated phenotypes or delaying onset of aging.... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080104724 - Transgenic plants containing ligninase and cellulase which degrade lignin and cellulose to fermentable sugars: The present invention provides transgenic plants which after harvest degrade the lignin and cellulose therein to fermentable sugars which can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. In particular, the transgenic plants comprise ligninase and cellulase genes from microbes operably linked to a DNA encoding a signal peptide which... Agent: Mcleod & Moyne, P.C.

20080104725 - Methods for the modulation of oleosin expression in plants: Methods to modulate oleosin expression levels in plants are provided. Specifically, methods for preparing seed derived products from seed, in which the composition of seed storage reserves, notably the seed lipid and protein contents, have been altered. In particular the present invention provides methods for preparing seed derived products from... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080104726 - Fruit regulatory regions: Regulatory regions suitable for directing expression of a heterologous polynucleotide in fruit tissues, e.g., flesh and peel tissues, of plants are described, as well as nucleic acid constructs that include these regulatory regions. Also disclosed are transgenic plants that contain such constructs and methods of producing such transgenic plants.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080104727 - Naming hybridization business: The invention is a business method of producing genetically unique plants such as Gladiolus, with each unique variety including bulbs for propagation, and offering a customer the opportunity to name the new variety of plant in memory of or in honor of a person of his choice.... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20080104729 - Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for understanding critical plant developmental and metabolic pathways. The... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20080104728 - Polynucleotides encoding proteins involved in plant metabolism: The invention provides isolated pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080104730 - Yield-improved transgenic plants: Disclosed herein are transgenic plants having a recombinant DNA construct which expresses a Hap3 transcription factor which provides enhanced resistance and/or tolerance to water deficit. More specifically the DNA constructs comprise a polynucleotide which encodes at least a functional part of a transcription factor that is a CCAAT-box DNA binding... Agent: Monsanto Company

20080104731 - Second tc complex from xenorhabdus: The subject invention relates to novel Xenorhabdus toxin complex (TC) proteins and genes that encode these proteins. More specifically, the subject invention relates to TC genes and proteins obtainable from Xenorhabdus strain Xwi.... Agent: Dow Agrosciences LLC

20080104732 - Methods and means for obtaining modified phenotypes: Methods and means are provided for reducing the phenotypic expression of a nucleic acid of interest in eucaryotic cells, particularly in plant cells, by introducing chimeric genes encoding sense and antisense RNA molecules directed towards the target nucleic acid, which are capable of forming a double stranded RNA region by... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080104733 - Vacuolar pyrophosphatases and uses in plants: The present invention relates to a transgenic plant which is tolerant to a salt, comprising one or more plant cells transformed with exogenous nucleic acid which alters expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant. The present invention also relates to a transgenic plant with increased Pi uptake, comprising one or... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080104734 - Recombinant antibodies to sclerotinia antigens: The invention is directed to recombinant antibodies which bind to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum antigens and comprise a single chain variable fragment (scFv). The antigen may be selected from SSPG1d or a portion thereof, aspartyl protease or a portion thereof, or whole Sclerotinia sclerotiorum mycelium. The invention also provides an antibody linked... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones