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Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/10

20100024047 - Prion-free transgenic ungulates: Transgenic and cloned ungulates and particularly cloned cattle are disclosed, wherein such cattle contain a deletion or disruption of the prion gene locus and do not express functional prion protein, and are not susceptible to prion-related diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopy or Mad Cow Disease.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100024048 - Method for mite production: A method for culturing and producing mites, such as house dust mites, comprising culturing the mites in a suitable solid growth medium, under suitable conditions and for a suitable period of time in a suitable production room, characterized in that the mites are cultured in medium comprised within a closed... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100024049 - Digestive system cancer stem cells and tests and uses therefor: The CD133 marker has been found to be diagnostic of tumourigenic digestive system cancer, particularly malignant colorectal cancers. Tests to show such cells and uses for such cells are disclosed.... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20100024050 - Pufa polyketide synthase systems and uses thereof: The invention generally relates to polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) polyketide synthase (PKS) systems isolated from or derived from non-bacterial organisms, to homologues thereof, to isolated nucleic acid molecules and recombinant nucleic acid molecules encoding biologically active domains of such a PUFA PKS system, to genetically modified organisms comprising PUFA PKS... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100024051 - Seedless watermelon having small fruit: The present invention is a novel method which results in the production of small seedless watermelon fruit having an average fruit weight of less than 12.0 pounds. The novel method involves using small tetraploid parental lines to produce small triploid hybrid seed.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP

20100024059 - Soybean variety d5124857: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5124857. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5124857. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5124857 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024057 - Soybean variety d5213471: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5213471. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5213471. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5213471 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024055 - Soybean variety d5219547: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5219547. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5219547. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5219547 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024060 - Soybean variety d5235648: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5235648. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5235648. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5235648 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024061 - Soybean variety d5423851: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5423851. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5423851. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5423851 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024052 - Soybean variety d5523145: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5523145. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5523145. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5523145 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024062 - Soybean variety d5589654: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5589654. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5589654. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5589654 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024054 - Soybean variety d5684792: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5684792. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5684792. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5684792 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024063 - Soybean variety d5726358: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5726358. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5726358. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5726358 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024058 - Soybean variety d5862173: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5862173. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5862173. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5862173 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024053 - Soybean variety d5882437: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5882437. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5882437. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5882437 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024064 - Soybean variety d5886524: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5886524. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5886524. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5886524 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024056 - Soybean variety d5898941: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5898941. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5898941. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5898941 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024065 - Discovery and utilization of sorghum genes (ma5/ma6): Methods and composition for the production of non-flowering or late flowering sorghum hybrid. For example, in certain aspects methods for use of molecular markers that constitute the Ma5/Ma6 pathway to modulate photoperiod sensitivity are described. The invention allows the production of plants having improved productivity and biomass generation.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024066 - Use of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase to modulate plant growth: The present invention relates to the use of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase to modulate plant growth. More specifically, it relates to the use of a class II trehalose-6-phosphate synthase, comprising both a synthase and a phosphatase-like part to modulate plant growth. Preferably, the activity of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase is down-regulated to obtain an... Agent: Traskbritt, P.C.

20100024067 - Plants having enhanced seed yield-related traits and a method for making the same: The present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants, particularly increasing seed yield, by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Class III Trehalose Phosphate Phosphatase (TPP) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100024068 - Antimicrobial peptides and uses thereof: The subject invention pertains to methods and materials for enhancing microbial resistance in plants. Specifically exemplified herein are grapevines transformed with polynucleotides that express a peptide which confers antimicrobial resistance.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20100024069 - Expression and use of novel pesticidal toxins: A novel pesticidal toxin that is highly active against a wide range of lepidopteran insect pests is disclosed. The DNA encoding the pesticidal toxin can be used to transform various prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the pesticidal toxin. These recombinant organisms can be used to control lepidopteran insects in... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20100024071 - Methods for treating or preventing infestation: The present invention provides methods and compositions for controlling a fungal or insect infestation.... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100024072 - Methods to increase crop yield: Provided herein are exemplary methods for increasing crop yield. One exemplary method for increasing a yield of a crop includes controlling plant tissue stress by at least partially coating a plant tissue with a composition comprising an agricultural sunscreen formulation and a second agricultural chemical. The agricultural sunscreen formulation and... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100024070 - Modulation of oil levels in plants: Methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) oil levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding oil-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased oil levels and plant products produced from... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100024074 - Arabidopsis derived 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: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20100024073 - Resistance to soybean aphid in early maturing soybean germplasm: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for providing aphid resistance in plants. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods for using aphid resistant germplasm for breeding soybean aphid resistant soybean plants, including but not limited to cultivars, varieties, lines and methods of breeding the same for... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20100024076 - Enhancement of biomass and productivity in grasses: The invention provides a synthetic combination of a Sebacina vermifera endophyte and a host grass plant, wherein the endophyte reproduces asexually and enhances the agronomic characteristics of the host plant. Methods for inoculating the host plant with the endophyte, for propagating the host-endophyte combination, and for detecting the presence of... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100024075 - Method for controlling plant-parasitic nematode infections in plants: The invention provides compositions having Bacillus thuringiensis Crystal (Cry) proteins including transgenic plants expressing those proteins, and methods of using those proteins to prevent, inhibit or treat parasitic infections in plants and vertebrates.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20100024077 - Ce44-69d insecticidal cotton: The present application relates an insect resistant transgenic cotton plant. In particular, it relates to a specific event, designated CE44-69D. The application also relates to polynucleotides which are characteristic of the CE44-69D event, plants comprising said polynucleotides, and methods of detecting the CE44-69D event.... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20100024078 - Diacylglycerol acyltransferases from flax: The invention relates to isolated diacylglycerol acyltransferases and polynucleotide sequences encoding the DGAT enzymes; polynucleotide constructs, vectors and host cells incorporating the polynucleotide sequences; and methods of producing and using same. Also provided are transformed cells and transgenic plants, with enhanced oil accumulation and quality.... Agent: Dodds & Associates

20100024080 - Molecular markers linked to ppo inhibitor tolerance in soybeans: This invention relates generally to the detection of genetic differences among soybeans. More particularly, the invention relates to soybean quantitative trait loci (QTL) for tolerance to protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitors, to soybean plants possessing these QTLs, which map to a novel chromosomal region, and to genetic markers that are indicative of... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20100024079 - Nucleic acid molecules and other molecules associated with plants: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from maize 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

20100024081 - Somatic embryogenesis and embryo harvesting and method and apparatus for preparing plant embryos for plant production: Described herein are methods and media for facilitating somatic embryogenesis and for collecting, conditioning, and transferring the washed embryos onto a substrate and into an environment suitable for conditioning the embryos for a desired period of time so they become germination-competent for plant production. The described plant embryo cleaning apparatus... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100017896 - Filaggrin: The present invention relates to the identification of loss-of-function mutations in the filaggrin gene and their use in diagnosing ichthyosis vulgaris and/or susceptibility to other diseases including atopic dermatitis (eczema), asthma, psoriasis and allergies (including food allergy).... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100017894 - Mutants of human app and their use for the production of transgenice animals: A modified amyloid precursor protein can be expressed from a DNA construct comprising an APP DNA sequence, or a fragment or artificial substrate thereof, encoding the mutation I45W, I45Y V46W or V46Y (numbering relative to A4CT); the use of the DNA construct in the generation of cell lines or transgenic... Agent: Merck And Co., Inc

20100017897 - Prrg4-associated compositions and methods of use thereof in methods of tumor diagnosis: Compositions and methods for detecting PRRG4- and PRRG2 associated molecules are provided as are methods of use thereof for the detection and treatment of cancer.... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20100017895 - Small animal model for hcv replication: An animal model for HCV replication and/or production of virus or virus like particles is provided. The invention utilizes an HCV replicon present in a cell to deliver HCV nucleic acid and replicate and express HCV proteins in an animal model comprising an animal that has been immunocompromised. The invention... Agent: Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics Inc.

20100017898 - Therapeutic applications of noncovalent dimerizing antibodies: Compositions and methods for providing antibodies having noncovalent, self-binding properties are disclosed. Such autophilic antibodies can bind cellular receptors to promote apoptosis of target cells and enhance therapeutic efficacies in the treatment of patients with debilitating or life-threatening diseases. Representative diseases targeted by the autophilic antibodies are lymphomas, breast cancers,... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20100017899 - Method for the isolation of pluripotent cells from a pre-implantation embryo in a culture medium free from animal serum: The present invention provides a method of isolating a pluripotent cell from a pre-implantation embryo without isolation of the pluripotent cells from other cells, the method including propagating a whole pre-implantation embryo including one or more pluripotent cells, embedded in a feeder cell layer and cultivated in a medium substantially... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20100017900 - Prostate epithelial androgen receptor suppresses prostate growth and tumor invasion: Described herein is the generation of the first conditional knockout AR (pes-ARKO) mice that lack AR only in prostate epithelia. Additionally demonstrated herein, through AR gain- and loss-of-function experiments, are the novel growth and differentiation roles of epithelial AR within the normal and cancerous prostate cells.... Agent: Patent Correspondence Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

20100017901 - Compositions comprising mg29 nucleic acids, polypeptides, and associated methods of use: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treatment of muscle dysfunction (including sarcopenia) and other diseases involving skeletal muscle, including age-related muscle dysfunction. In addition, the invention relates to therapeutic compositions comprising nucleotides and/or polypeptides of the invention in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the composition facilitates the... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Hartford Cityplace I

20100017902 - Corn event pv-zmgt32(nk603) and compositions and methods for detection thereof: The present invention provides a DNA construct that confers tolerance to transgenic corn plant. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the PV-ZMGT32(nk603) corn event based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct inserted into the corn genome and of genomic sequences flanking the insertion site.... Agent: Howrey LLP

20100017903 - Slow-maturing, determinate peas: A determinate pea plant, where peas of the pea plant have a wrinkled-seed phenotype, and where the pea plant is slow-maturing.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20100017904 - Genes and uses for plant improvement: Transgenic seed for crops with improved traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA in the nucleus of cells of the seed where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more improved traits as compared to a control plant. Of particular interest are transgenic plants that have increased yield.... Agent: Monsanto Company

20100017905 - Nucleotide sequences mediating plant male fertility and method of using same: Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences are useful in mediating male fertility in plants. In one such method, the homozygous recessive condition of male sterility causing... Agent: Pat Sweeney Attn: Phi

20100017906 - Nucleotide sequences mediating plant male fertility and method of using same: Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences are useful in mediating male fertility in plants. In one such method, the homozygous recessive condition of male sterility causing... Agent: Pat Sweeney Attn: Phi

20100017907 - Nucleotide sequences mediating plant male fertility and method of using same: Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences are useful in mediating male fertility in plants. In one such method, the homozygous recessive condition of male sterility causing... Agent: Pat Sweeney Attn: Phi

20100017908 - Highly transformable elite doubled haploid line ph17aw: A novel double haploid maize line designated PH17AW and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing double haploid maize line PH17AW with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100017910 - Compositions and methods using rna interference of cdpk-like for control of nematodes: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of genes essential to establishing or maintaining nematode infestation in a plant, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target plant gene, which... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100017909 - Nitrate transport components: This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding high affinity nitrate transport components. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of nitrate transport components, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct may alter levels of... Agent: Beardell Lori Y E I Du Pont De3 Nemours And Company

20100017912 - Compositions and methods using rna interference of cad-like genes for control of nematodes: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of genes essential to establishing or maintaining nematode infestation in a plant, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target CAD-like plant gene,... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100017913 - Disease resistant plants: The invention provides transgenic plants with resistance to infection by a root-infecting fungal plant pathogen such as Phymatotrichopsis omnivora. Also provided are methods of making such plants. Further provided are nucleic acid vectors for producing such a plant. Additionally, methods are provided for growing a dicotyledonous plant that is resistant... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100017914 - Insecticidal proteins: Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, novel engineered hybrid insecticidal proteins (eHIPs) having toxicity to at least corn rootworm are provided. By fusing unique combinations of complete or partial variable regions and conserved blocks of at least two different Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Cry proteins or... Agent: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20100017911 - Viral-based transient-expression vector system for trees: Disclosed herein are viral vectors suitable for transfection into woody trees for purposes of delivering and expressing beneficial genes with increased stability. Specifically exemplified herein are vectors for transfecting citrus trees. The vectors allow for the expression of useful proteins, such as those that can protect the tree from disease.... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire

20100017915 - Manipulation of plant polysaccharide synthases: The present invention provides compositions and methods for manipulation of plant polysaccharides and plant polysaccharide syntheses. Compositions include novel nucleotide sequences encoding polysaccharide synthases polypeptides, and biologically active variants thereof. Further provided are methods for polysaccharide manipulation using the sequences disclosed herein. One method comprises stably incorporating into the genome... Agent: Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

20100017916 - Systems for reducing biomass recalcitrance: Improved systems and methods for reducing costs and increasing yields of cellulosic ethanol including compositions of matter comprising plant biomass and cell wall-modifying enzyme polypeptides and transgenic plants expression cell wall-modifying enzyme polypeptides.... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20100017917 - Transgenic plants with tocopherol methyltransferase: Disclosed is are gene sequences encoding γ-tocopherol methyltransferases from photosynthetic organisms. The enzyme γ-tocopherol methyltransferase catalyzes the methylation of γ-tocopherol to yield α-tocopherol, the most bioactive species of tocopherol. γ-tocopherol methyltransferase is believed to be involved in regulating the relative amounts of the various tocopherols present in photosynthetic organisms. By... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100017918 - Arabidopsis derived 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: Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. Patent Department

20100017919 - Rice gene, gs3, exerting primary control over grain length and grain weight: The present invention relates to an isolated major gene GS3 which regulates grain weight and grain length in the rice and the cloning of said gene. The DNA sequence of GS3 gene is as shown in SEQ ID NO. 1 and is 7883 bp in length. GS3 gene comprises 5... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100011452 - Chimeric non-human animal: P

20100011450 - Immunodeficient mice transgenic for hla class i and hla class ii molecules and their uses: The invention relates to mice which are genetically deprived of T, B lymphocytes and NK cells, deficient for murine MHC class I and/or MHC class II molecules, and transgenic for the expression of the HLA class I and/or HLA class II molecules, and to their use as recipient hosts for... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100011453 - Model for muscular dystrophy and cardiomyopathy: An isolated zebrafish genetic strain having a dystrophin mutant phenotype and fish models useful for screening or assaying agents having potential activity on muscular dystrophy or cardiomyopathy.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100011451 - Phenotypic and genotypic differences of mva strains: The present invention provides kits and methods to screen viral nucleic acids for a profile of genetic deletions and mutations, optionally in combination with one or more assays for viral replication and/or attenuation capacity.... Agent: Law Office Of Salvatore Arrigo

20100011454 - Human artificial chromosome (hac) vector and human cell medicine comprising same: This invention relates to a human artificial chromosome (HAC) vector carrying a human chromosome-derived centromere, a subtelomere sequence, and a telomere sequence, to a human cell medicine or human cells comprising the HAC vector, to methods for preparing the HAC vector and human cells, and to methods for producing a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100011455 - Stem cell gene targeting: The invention provides a method for generating a transgenic eukaryotic cell population having a modified human Rosa26 locus, which method includes introducing a functional DNA sequence into the human Rosa26 locus of starting eukaryotic cells. Also provided are targeting vectors useful in the method, as well as a cell population... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100011456 - Nucleic acids and proteins and methods for making and using them: The invention provides polypeptides, including enzymes, structural proteins and binding proteins, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Polypeptides, including enzymes and antibodies, and nucleic acids of the invention can be used in industrial, experimental, food and feed processing, nutritional and pharmaceutical applications,... Agent: Verenium Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100011457 - Sweet pepper line sbr28-1244: The invention provides seed and plants of the pepper line designated SBR28-1244. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper line SBR28-1244, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing a plant of pepper line with itself or with another pepper plant,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100011458 - Sweet pepper line sbr28-1220: The invention provides seed and plants of the pepper line designated SBR28-1220. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper line SBR28-1220, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing a plant of pepper line with itself or with another pepper plant,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100011459 - Hybrid corn plant and seed ppvo1864: This invention provides hybrid maize plant designated PPVO1864. This invention further provides hybrid seed of PPVO1864, hybrid plants produced from such seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications to hybrid PPVO1864, as well as methods of using the hybrid and products produced from the hybrid.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP Attn: Patent Group

20100011460 - Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots: The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as JAS promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. Particularly, the invention provides transgenic plants of rice and sugarcane that have been modified such that expression of a heterologous... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100011463 - Compositions and methods using rna interference for control of nematodes: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of genes essential to establishing or maintaining nematode infestation in a plant, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target plant gene, which... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100011462 - Flavin monooxygenases and transcription factors involved in glucosinolate biosynthesis: The invention provides methods and materials relating generally to plant derived flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs) capable of catalysing oxidation of a thio- to a sulphinyl-group during glucosinolate biosynthesis. It further relates to plant derived MYB factors capable of transcriptional regulation of biosynthetic genes. These have utility in the modification of glucosinolate... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100011461 - Nucleic acid molecules encoding enzymes having fructosyltransferase activity, and their use: Nucleic acid molecules are described which encode polypeptides having the enzymatic activity of a fructosyltransferase. Also, vectors, host cells and transgenic plants are described which contain such nucleic acid molecules. Furthermore, processes for producing polyfructose, particularly that of the inulin type, using the hosts described and/or the fructosyltransferase produced by... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100011464 - Plants having enhanced yield-related traits and a method for making the same: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for increasing seed yield in plants by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100011465 - Protein kinase stress-related polypeptides and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a Protein Kinase Stress-Related Polypeptide (PKSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100011466 - Signal transduction stress-related proteins and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed by a Signal Transduction Stress-Related Protein (STSRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100011468 - Fungus resistant plants and their uses: The present invention relates to a novel method for increasing the resitance of a plant, in particular of a Solanaceae, preferably of potato and tomato, to plant pathogens of the phylum Oomyceta comprising increasing the activity of the polypeptide of the present invention. The invention further relates to polynucleotides and... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100011467 - Method for increasing resistance to pathogens in transgenic plants: The present invention relates to a method of increasing the pathogen resistance in transgenic plants and/or plant cells, where a DNA sequence which codes for a protein with a leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) domain and/or a kinase activity is introduced into the plant or plant cell and expressed therein. The present invention... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100011469 - Anther-specific expression promoter in plant and application thereof: The invention provides an anther-specific expression promoter in plant, wherein said promoter is a promoter of Oncidium aureusidin synthase gene OgAS1, and has a sequence as SEQ ID No: 3. The invention provides further a gene expression cassette that comprised a promoter having a DNA sequence as SEQ ID No:... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20100011470 - Methods and means of increasing the water use efficiency of plants: The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means which inhibit the level of PK220 gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased water use efficiency relative to a wild... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20100005534 - Saspase knockout animal: Knockout animals in which a gene encoding a SASPase has been deleted (hereinafter, referred to as SASPase KO animals) are provided. The SASPase KO animals deficient in expression of functional SASPase were produced by deleting a gene encoding a stratified epithelium-specific protease, SASPase, through targeted disruption. The SASPase KO animals... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100005535 - Compositions and methods for generating transgenic animals: The present invention provides methods of altering gene expression of embryos to provide compositions and methods for efficient generation of transgenic animals. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods for generating germ-line transgenic animals by direct injection of nucleic acid molecules into animals.... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20100005536 - Promoter for introducing a gene into a lymphocyte or blood cell and application thereof: It is intended to provide a promoter for inducing expression selectively and strongly in an immunocompetent cell and/or a blood cell such as a lymphocyte. In the invention, the object was achieved by finding that HHV6 MIE promoter, HHV7 MIE promoter and HHV7 U95 promoter unexpectedly induce a specific expression... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100005537 - Maize with good digestibility and disease resistant: The present invention relates to the field of the improvement of the digestibility and the tolerance of maize to fungal pathogens and especially to fusariosis by modification of the C4H gene.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100005538 - Lettuce line p2231-3013596: The invention provides seed and plants of the lettuce line designated P2231-3013596. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of lettuce line P2231-3013596, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant produced by crossing a plant of lettuce line P2231-3013596 with itself or with another lettuce... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100005539 - Compositions and methods for modifying gene expression using the promoter of ubiquitin conjugating protein coding gene of soybean plants: A polynucleotide isolated from soybean plants capable of initiating transcription and with sequence identity to SEQ ID No.1 is provided. In some aspects, the polynucleotide has sequence identity to SEQ ID No. 1 of at least 40%, is the reverse complement or the reverse of such sequences. In some aspects,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100005540 - Constitutive promoter lip3: The present invention relates to a novel constitutive promoter of plant, particularly to a putative lipase promoter Lip3 derived from Arabidopsis, a method for isolating the same, a recombinant expression vector containing the same and a use of the same for improving traits of a farm product. The constitutive promoter... Agent: Jhk Law

20100005541 - Ketolases for the production of ketocarotenoids in tagetes: New ketolases for the production of ketocarotenoids in Tagetes Abstract A ketolase having a polypeptide sequence SEQ ID NO:6, a sequence derived from SEQ ID NO:6 by substitution, insertion or deletion of aminoacids, which has an identity of at least 60% with the respective sequence SEQ. ID. NO: 6 or... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20100005542 - Scarecrow-like stress-related polypeptides and methods of use in plants: A transgenic plant transformed with an SLSRP coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in increased growth under water-limited conditions and/or increased tolerance to an environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100005545 - Compositions and methods of using rna interference of sca1-like genes for control of nematodes: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential nematode gene, which is a nematode sca1-like gene,... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100005544 - Nematode inducible plant mtn3-like gene promotors and regulatory elements: The invention provides promoter polynucleotides that are root-preferred and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoter polynucleotides of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots.... Agent: Basf Corporation

20100005543 - Toxin genes and methods for their use: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20100005546 - Compositions and methods for the improvement of plants: The invention provides compositions and methods useful for producing plant cells or plants with altered tolerance to at least one environmental stress selected from drought, cold, freezing, heat and salinity.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100005547 - Backbone-free low transgene copy transgenic plants: Methods and compositions reduce copy number of transgenes and minimizing vector backbone sequences in plant transformation. Bacterial strains including Agrobacterium strains with T-DNA integrated into the chromosomal DNA reduce the copy number and vector backbone sequences. Chromosomal integration vectors to integrate T-DNA into a specific locus of Agrobacterium chromosome are... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100005549 - Increasing uv-b tolerance in plants: Methods and materials related to UV-B tolerance in plants are disclosed, e.g., plants and seeds having a cell containing an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having UV-B tolerance activity.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100005548 - Nucleic acid sequences and methods of use for the production of plants with modified polyunsaturated fatty acids: By this invention, novel nucleic acid sequences are provided, wherein said nucleic acid sequence is a genomic sequence of a plant desaturase encoding sequence. Also provided in the present invention are the promoter and intron sequences of the desaturase genomic sequences. Furthermore, recombinant DNA constructs employing the polynucleotide sequences are... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20100005550 - Nucleic acid sequences from chlorella sarokiniana and uses thereof: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from the unicellular green algae, Chlorella sarokiniana, are disclosed. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules that encode Chlorella protein homologs and fragments thereof. In addition, antibodies capable of binding the proteins are encompassed by the present invention. The disclosed ESTs have particular utility in isolating... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP

20100005551 - Plant protection: The invention provides seed treatment compositions as well as their use, methods for treating seeds, methods of protecting plants against pests and also treated seeds and plants. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating a seed with a seed treatment composition to induce a plant resistance mechanism... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP