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20090138976 - Animal model for hepatitis c virus infection: The current document relates to transgenic rodents that have a nucleic acid molecule encoding a hepatocyte mitogen polypeptide.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090138977 - Pancreatic cancer targets and uses thereof: The present invention provides a method for diagnosing and detecting diseases associated with pancreas. The present invention provides one or more proteins or fragments thereof, peptides or nucleic acid molecules differentially expressed in pancreatic diseases (PCAT) and antibodies binds to PCAT. The present invention provides that PCAT is used as... Agent: Celera Corporation

20090138978 - Use of bridge-1 and activators and inhibitors thereof in the treatment of insulin deficiency and diabetes: The present invention is directed to the use of Bridge-1 polynucleotides and Bridge-1 polypeptides, as well as activators and inhibitors of Bridge-1 activity, in the treatment of Bridge-1 mediated disorders, including diabetes.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090138979 - Manipulating sp1 activity to improve therapeutic cloning: The observed over-expression of Sp1 target genes has inspired inventors to formulate a specific strategy for correcting many gene expression defects, and thus improve clone development. The invention is based on the belief that manipulating Sp1 activity can improve cloning. Inventors believe that cloning is inefficient in large part because... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090138980 - Novel tomato plants: The present invention relates to a new and distinct inbred tomato lines and hybrids. This invention also relates to plants and seeds of such inbred tomato lines and hybrids, and to parts thereof. The invention also relates to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such inbred tomato... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20090138981 - Biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plants: Transcription factor polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs, including expression vectors, have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these constructs have been shown to be more resistant to disease (in some cases, to more than one pathogen), or more tolerant... Agent: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.

20090138982 - Lettuce cultivar 80-0601018-b: A lettuce cultivar, designated 80-0601018-B, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar 80-0601018-B, to the plants of lettuce cultivar 80-0601018-B and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar 80-0601018-B with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20090138984 - Genes involved in tolerance to environmental stress: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining polynucleic acids comprising coding sequences and/or genes involved in environmental stress resistance in plants, comprising the preparation of a cDNA library comprising coding sequences from siliques, introducing said coding sequences in yeast cells in a functional format and screening for polynucleic... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090138985 - Methods for plant transformation using spectinomycin selection: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for transforming soybean, corn, cotton, or canola explants using spectinomycin as a selective agent for transformation of the explants. The method may further comprise treatment of the explants with cytokinin during the transformation and regeneration process.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090138987 - Phosphatase stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a phosphatase stress-related protein (PHSRP) 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 the... Agent: Basf Corporation

20090138986 - Regulatory elements associated with cbf transcription factors of maize: Compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous polynucleotide sequences in a plant are provided. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences comprising an isolated stress-induced promoter natively linked to the maize CBF1 or CBF2 coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous polynucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20090138983 - Use of atbg1 gene for the generation of transgenic plants with increased resistance to various abiotic stress: The present invention relates to a use of AtBG1 {Arabidopsis thaliana β-glucosidase 1) gene and a transgenic plan with the AtBG1 gene insertion, more precisely, a use of AtBG1 gene for the generation of a transgenic plant having resistance to various environmental stresses by increasing the level of abscisic acid... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090138989 - Methods and compositions for selecting corn plants resistant to diplodia ear rot: The present invention relates to the field of plant breeding and disease resistance. More specifically, the invention includes a method for breeding corn plants containing quantitative trait loci that are associated with diplodia ear rot (DER), a fungal disease associated with Stenocarpella spp. The invention further includes germplasm and the... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20090138988 - Modification of plant disease resistance: The invention provides methods of increasing resistance to disease in a plant. Also provided are plant steroid biosynthesis enzyme coding sequences, including sequences for squalene synthase, constructs comprising these sequences, plants transformed therewith and methods of use thereof. Methods for producing a plant with increased disease resistance are also provided.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090138990 - Methods and compositions to increase plant resistance to stress: Methods and compositions to improve plant stress tolerance are disclosed. An Arabidopsis thaliana MYB8 transcription factor (also known as HOS10) is involved in regulating plant stress response to cold, drought, osmatic stress, phytohormones abcisic acid and salinity.... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans, LLP

20090138991 - Plants having improved growth characteristics and method for making the same: The present invention concerns a method for improving the growth characteristics of plants by increasing expression of at least part of a Leucine Rich Repeat Receptor-Like Kinase (RKS11, RKS4 or an orthologue of these). One such method comprises introducing into a plant a nucleic acid encoding at least part of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090138992 - Limnanthes oil genes: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an enzyme involved in lipid biosynthesis. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the enzyme involved in lipid biosynthesis, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20090138993 - Sunflower seeds with high delta-tocopherol content: The present invention relates to sunflower seeds which have been genetically modified through two artificial induction cycles of mutations followed in each case by processes for the identification of mutant individuals which have the desired character. The disclosed seeds are characterised in that they contain between 26% and 80% of... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20090133135 - Diagnostic and therapeutic target slc39a11 proteins for neurodegenerative diseases: The present invention discloses a dysregulation of the SLC39A12 gene and the protein products thereof in Alzheimer's disease patients. Based on this finding, the invention provides methods for diagnosing and prognosticating Alzheimer's disease in a subject, and for determining whether a subject is at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.... Agent: Venable LLP

20090133136 - Inducible sirna expression cassette and method of use: An inducible siRNA expression polynucleotide and methods for its use are provided. The expression polynucleotide comprises a bicistronic expression cassette that encodes a repressor and a detectable marker, wherein the repressor controls expression of siRNA expression in the absence of an inducer.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090133137 - Method of cloning animals: The present invention relates to cloning technologies. The invention relates in part to immortalized and totipotent cells useful for cloning animals, the embryos produced from these cells using nuclear transfer techniques, animals that arise from these cells and embryos, and materials, methods, and processes for establishing such cells, embryos, and... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.c. Intellectual Property Department

20090133138 - New gene fragment, novel transgenic zebrafish and methods for producing transgenic zebrafish: The present invention provides a method for producing systemic red fluorescent zebrafish. The present invention also provides a new gene fragment and a systemic red fluorescent zebrafish.... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090133139 - Nucleotide sequence of shrimp actin promoter and its use in genetic transformation biotechnology: The present invention relates to an isolated β-actin nucleic acid promoter molecule from shrimp; nucleic acid constructs including the β-actin promoter molecule; and expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic animals transduced with the isolated β-actin nucleic acid promoter. Also disclosed are methods for imparting to an animal resistance against a... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20090133140 - Injecting drosophila embryos: The present invention provides systems that allow reliable multiplexed transformation of Drosophila embryos. The present invention provides methods and reagents that allow preparation of injection-quality nucleic acid samples and that allow simultaneous preparation of multiple such samples. The present invention provides systems for simultaneous processing of multiple injected embryos. The... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090133141 - Enhanced pollenizer and method for increasing seedless watermelon yield: An enhanced, diploid pollenizer watermelon plant and method used to maximize the yield of triploid seedless watermelons per area. The enhanced pollenizer watermelon plant of the invention is either a hybrid variety, an open-pollinated variety or a synthetic variety, that exhibits the characteristics of small leaves and fruit with a... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20090133148 - Cotton variety 02z89: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 02Z89. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 02Z89. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 02Z89 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133146 - Cotton variety 04p011: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04P011. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04P011. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04P011 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133147 - Cotton variety 04p024: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04P024. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04P024. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04P024 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133142 - Cotton variety 04t042: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04T042. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04T042. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04T042 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133143 - Cotton variety 04t056: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04T056. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04T056. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04T056 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133144 - Cotton variety 04t067: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04T067. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04T067. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04T067 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133149 - Cotton variety 04z007: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04Z007. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04Z007. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04Z007 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133150 - Cotton variety 04z353: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 04Z353. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 04Z353. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 04Z353 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133145 - Cotton variety 05t103: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 05T103. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 05T103. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the cotton variety 05T103 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090133151 - Flower pigmentation in pelargonium hortorum: The present invention relates to novel Pelargonium hortorum—interspecific plants having dark red to burgundy or darker pigmented flower petal, a trailing growth habit, dark leaf color and tolerance to high temperatures, high light and edema. The present invention also relates to methods for creating novel Pelargonium hortorum—interspecific hybrid plants having... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20090133152 - Methods for altering the genome of a monocot plant cell: Methods and compositions for altering the genome of a monocot plant cell, and a monocot plant are disclosed. The methods and compositions use a double-strand break inducing agent to alter a monocot plant or plant cell genomic sequence comprising a recognition sequence for the double-strand break inducing agent.... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20090133154 - Abiotic stress tolerant transgenic plants: In a transgenic plant, a stress-responsive promoter containing CE3 and ABRE2 from HVA1 ABRC3 and CE1 from HVA22 ABRC1, directs low background expression of a gene under normal growth conditions, but is highly inducible by an abiotic stress, such as abscisic acid, dehydration, salt or cold. Compared with the wild... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090133157 - Method of producing fruit of capsicum plant with vitamin c content increased: The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing a fruit of a Capsicum plant in which a vitamin C content, in particular a vitamin C content alone, is increased according to a common cultivating procedure without requiring special facility and cultivating procedure. The present invention... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090133155 - Modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More... Agent: Larson & Anderson, LLC

20090133156 - Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics and phenotypes: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090133153 - Polypeptide participating in pyridoxine biosynthesis, polynucleotide encoding the polypetide and those uses: The present invention discloses a polypeptide participating in pyridoxine biosynthesis, a polynucleotide coding the polypeptide and those uses. Particularly, this present invention discloses a polypeptide participating in pyridoxine biosynthesis, a polynucleotide coding the polypeptide, a method for inducing plant growth inhibition, a method for screening a compound inducing plant growth... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20090133158 - Bs3 resistance gene and methods of use: Isolated nucleic acid molecules that confer resistance to the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris are provided. These molecules may be introduced into plants that are otherwise susceptible to infection by this bacterium in order to enhance the resistance of the plant to this plant pathogen. Additionally provided are isolated polypeptides and... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090133165 - Seed devitalization method: The present invention relates to a method for devitalizing seeds that provides a non-viable (i.e., non-germinating) seed exhibiting substantially the same protein and/or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) characteristics as a viable seed and also relates to devitalized seeds produced by the method.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (mtc)

20090133166 - Methods for improving flowering characteristics using methyl dihydrojasmonate: e

20090126031 - Mice lacking alpha 1g showing enhanced novelty-seeking and alcohol preference and therapeutic methods for mood disorders by modulating alpha 1g t-type calcium channels: The present invention relates to a novel use of an α1G T-type calcium channel transgenic mouse as a nervous disease model, more particularly, a novel use of a mouse deficient in α1G T-type calcium channel showing novelty-seeking and alcohol preference as a nervous disease model for human nervous related diseases... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090126033 - Method of selective breeding based on ob genotype: A method for improving efficiencies in livestock production comprises grouping livestock animals, such as cattle and pigs, during the period of their retention in a feeding facility according to the genetic predisposition of individual livestock animals to deposit fat, and then feeding the animals in each group substantially uniformly. Such... Agent: Riches, Mckenzie & Herbert, LLP

20090126032 - Method to produce cloned embryos and adults from cultured cells: A nuclear transfer method is provided wherein nuclear DNA in whole or part is injected into enucleated oocytes. The method is suitable for different donor cells, and preferably ES cells.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090126034 - Environmentally stable sensors and methods of using the same: Environmentally stable biosensors are disclosed, which comprise a ligand binding domain from a thermophilic organism conjugated to donor and fluorescent moieties that permit detection and measurement of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer upon ligand binding. Such biosensors demonstrate enhanced acid-, thermal- and chemical stability as compared to sensors constructed using protein... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090126035 - Rice hybrid xl729: A rice hybrid designated XL729 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice hybrid XL729, to the plants of rice hybrid XL729 and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the hybrid XL729 with itself or another rice plant. The invention further relates to hybrid... Agent: Jondle & Associates P.C.

20090126036 - Brassica oleracea plants with a resistance to mycosphaerella brassicicola: On embodiment of the present invention discloses Brassica oleracea plants with a resistance gene to Mycosphaerella brassicicola. An embodiment of the invention also discloses a method for providing a Brassica oleracea plant with a resistance to Mycosphaerella brassicicola, including providing a first B. oleracea plant, which plant includes a resistance... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090126037 - Tomtato plants having higher levels of resistance to botrytis: The present invention relates to a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with resistance to Botrytis cinerea in tomato, comprising the steps of crossing a Botrytis-resistant donor tomato plant with a non-resistant, or Botrytis-susceptible, recipient tomato plant, contacting one or more offspring plants with an infective amount... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090126040 - Plant vernalization independence (vip) genes, proteins, and methods of use: The present invention relates to plant genes involved in regulating flowering, and especially to genes involved in the induction of flowering in response to cold, or vernalization. In particular, the present invention provides the identification, cloning, and characterization of genes involved in vernalization, and specifically of VIP genes, as well... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20090126039 - 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 growth conditions relative to yield in corresponding wild type plants grown under comparable conditions, the method comprising preferentially increasing activity in the cytosol of a plant cell of a type I DnaJ-like polypeptide or a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090126041 - Regeneration: The invention relates to the field of regeneration of cells and the vegetative propagation of (micro)-organisms or specific parts such as tissues or organs thereof, for example of those cells grown in tissue or organ culture, and more in particular to the seedless propagation of plants. The invention provides a... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090126038 - Rna constructs: The present invention concerns concatemer and/or stabilized RNA constructs capable of forming dsRNA, optionally comprising a sequence capable of protecting the dsRNA against RNA processing in a host cell. The invention also relates to methods of producing these constructs and to methods for using these constructs. The constructs according to... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090126043 - Generation of plants with improved pathogen resistance and drought tolerance: The present invention is directed to plants that display a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype due to altered expression of a PRDT1 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with a pathogen resistance and increased drought tolerance phenotype.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090126042 - Polynucleotides and polypeptides involved in plant fiber development and methods of using same: Isolated polynucleotides are provided. Each of the isolated polynucleotides comprise a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 26, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 115, 118, 119, 122, 123, 124, 126, 95 or 96, wherein the polypeptide... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090126044 - Synthetic genes encoding cry1ac: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions containing a synthetic nucleotide sequence encoding a Cry1Ac protein are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090126045 - Transgenic plant for producing polyglutamic acid: A method for preparing a transgenic plant for producing polyglutamic acid and a transgenic method prepared by this method are provided. The method of the present invention comprises introducing a nucleic acid encoding the polyglutamic acid synthase A (pgsA), a nucleic acid encoding the polyglutamic acid synthase B (pgsB) and... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090126046 - Plants having improved growth characteristics and method for making the same: The present invention concerns a method for improving growth characteristics of plants by increasing expression and/or activity in a plant of an LRR receptor kinase or a homologue thereof. One such method comprises introducing into a plant an RLK827 nucleic acid molecule or functional variant thereof. The invention also relates... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090126047 - Regulator for flowering time, transgenic plant transformed with the same, and method for regulating flowering time: The present invention relates to a flowering-time and/or stem elongation regulator isolated from rice, which is selected from OsMADS50, OsMADSS1, OsMADS56, OsMADS14, OsTRX1, OsVIN1, OsCOL4 and OsCOLS, a DNA construct containing the regulator, a transgenic plant, a part thereof, and plant cell transformed with the DNA construct, and method to... Agent: Jhk Law

20090126048 - Method for growing forskohlin containing coleus in a temperate climate: The present invention is a method of growing and harvesting forskohlin-containing cultivars of the Coleus plant in North America and other geographic areas that results in increased yield of the phytochemical forskohlin per plant, as well as increasing rhizome and root biomass.... Agent: Passe' Intellectual Property, LLC

20090126049 - Seed composition and method for reducing and preventing the release of genetically manipulated pollen: The present invention relates to a seed composition and a method for reducing and, if desired, for preventing the release of pollen or functional pollen from genetically modified crops by cultivating fields stands of plants bearing target GMO traits in a male sterile version, i.e. without the ability to produce... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20090126050 - Polynucleotides, dna constructs and methods for the alteration of plant cellulose content: Polynucleotide, DNA constructs and methods are disclosed for the modification of cellulose content in plant tissues. Plants are transformed with constructs encoding either an active Anabaena sp. sucrose synthase gene or a soybean nodule sucrose synthase gene, which leads to increased cellulose content when over-expressed under the control of a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090119786 - Model animal of schizophrenia: A non-human transgenic animal exhibiting schizophrenic symptoms in which a polynucleotide encoding SREB2 whose overexpression in the brain causes schizophrenia and a polynucleotide comprising a promoter are introduced; and a method of screening for a therapeutic agent for schizophrenia, comprising the steps of administrating a test substance to the animal,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090119787 - Cell nuclear transfer: The present invention discloses methods for cell nuclear transfer that comprise for example modification of zona pellucida of an oocyte, and/or sectioning of oocytes into several parts. The present invention also discloses methods for producing a genetically modified non-human mammal. Genetically modified non-human mammals obtainable by the disclosed methods are... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090119788 - Tobacco cultivar 'aob 171': The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 171, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 171, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 171, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 171, hybrids produced from cultivar... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090119790 - Tobacco cultivar 'aob 174': The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 174, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 174, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 174, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 174, hybrids produced from cultivar... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090119791 - Tobacco cultivar 'aob 175': The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 175, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 175, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 175, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 175, hybrids produced from cultivar... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090119789 - Tobacco cultivar 'aob 176': The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 176, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 176, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 176, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 176, hybrids produced from cultivar... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090119792 - Tomato variety ex01419137: The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato variety designated EX01419137. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato variety EX01419137 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety EX01419137 with itself or with another tomato... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090119793 - Plant defense signal peptides: A 23 amino acid peptide, AtPtpl, plays an important role as a signaling component of the innate immune system of Arabidopsis. The peptide precursor gene is transcribed in response to elicitors generated by pathogens, and AtPep1 is produced to amplify the signaling pathways. Seven paralogs of the AtproPep1 gene have... Agent: Biotechnology Law Group C/o Portfolioip

20090119795 - Delta-9-elongases and their use in making polyunsaturated fatty acids: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding delta-9 elongases along with a method of making long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) using these delta-9 elongases in plants.... Agent: Christenbury Lynne E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company

20090119797 - Gro-1 herbicide resistance gene and methods for its use: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a polypeptide that confers resistance or tolerance to glyphosate herbicides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090119794 - Methods and means for determining and conferring stress tolerance in plants: The current invention provides a method for rapid testing of stress tolerance in a plant and a method of producing plants with enhanced stress tolerance, in particular cold and/or drought tolerance. Such a method may be applied in breeding and selection programs for this trait, or for determining the timing... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20090119796 - Modification of plant lignin content: DNA constructs comprising a first DNA segment that corresponds to at least a portion of a gene in the monolignol biosynthetic pathway, a spacer DNA segment, and a second DNA segment that is complementary to the first DNA segment can be used to reduce or modulate the lignin content in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090119798 - Barley row type gene and use thereof: The present invention provides the chromosomal location and structure of a gene involved in the determination of row type and panicle morphology of barley. The present inventors have found that the row type and panicle morphology of barley can be altered by introducing the Vrs1 gene provided by the present... Agent: Traskbritt, P.C.

20090119799 - Maize antimicrobial protein useful for enhancing plant resistance to pathogens: Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include novel amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from maize. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the embodiments are... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20090119800 - Methods for increasing starch content in plants: Methods and compositions for increasing the starch content in green tissues of a plant are provided. The method comprises down-regulating me activity of starch degradation enzymes in a plant. The resulting transgenic plants of the invention have increased starch content in green tissues and exhibit a starch excess phenotype. In... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20090119801 - Method for preserving cut flowers, cut flower preservation kit, method for manufacturing processed cut flowers, and processed cut flowers: A method for preserving a cut flower involving only an easy and simple procedure, whereby the cut flower can maintain qualities similar to those of the natural state for a long period of time, and a method for manufacturing a processed cut flower that can maintain qualities similar to those... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090119802 - Type of lettuce and methods of production: The present invention relates to an iceberg lettuce having one or more romaine lettuce characteristics. The invention further relates to methods for producing iceberg lettuce varieties containing one or more romaine lettuce characteristics.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP

20090119803 - Type of lettuce and methods of production: The present invention relates to an iceberg lettuce having one or more romaine lettuce characteristics. The invention further relates to methods for producing iceberg lettuce varieties containing one or more romaine lettuce characteristics.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP

20090119805 - Nuleic acid constructs and methods for producing altered seed oil compositions: The present invention is in the field of plant genetics and provides recombinant nucleic acid molecules, constructs, and other agents associated with the coordinate manipulation of multiple genes in the fatty acid synthesis pathway. In particular, the agents of the present invention are associated with the simultaneous enhanced expression of... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP

20090119804 - Plants having altered agronomic characteristics under nitrogen limiting conditions and related constructs and methods involving genes encoding lnt2 polypeptides and homologs thereof: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs particularly useful for altering agronomic characteristics of plants under nitrogen limiting conditions, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20090119806 - Tobacco cultivar aob 175 and products therefrom: The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 175, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 175, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 175, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 175, hybrids produced from cultivar... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec