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Multicellular Living Organisms And Unmodified Parts Thereof And Related Processes > Method Of Introducing A Polynucleotide Molecule Into Or Rearrangement Of Genetic Material Within A Plant Or Plant Part > The Polynucleotide Alters Pigment Production In The Plant

The Polynucleotide Alters Pigment Production In The Plant

The Polynucleotide Alters Pigment Production In The Plant patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/01/07 - 20070256196 - Method of modifying plant phenotypes with nonsymbiotic hemoglobin
The present invention provides a method of modifying a plant phenotype by transforming a plant to alter the level of expression of non-symbiotic plant hemoglobin in the plant, whereby the transformed plant exhibits, under normal oxygen conditions, a plant phenotype that is modified as compared to a non-transformed plant. Plants ...

08/23/07 - 20070199104 - Or gene and its use in manipulating carotenoid content and composition in plants and other organisms
The cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis) Or gene is a semi-dominant, single-locus mutation. It induces the accumulation of high levels of beta-carotene in various tissues that are normally devoid of carotenoids, turning them orange. Using a map-based cloning strategy, we identified a single gene representing Or and successfully verified ...

07/05/07 - 20070157339 - Biochemical route to astaxanthin
The sequence of a nucleic acid isolated from a cDNA library of the flowering plant Adonis aestivalis is disclosed (SEQ ID NO: 1). This DNA sequence, referred to as AdKC28, encodes for a protein that acts in conjunction with proteins encoded by either one of two other closely-related Adonis aestivalis ...

06/28/07 - 20070150984 - Genetic sequences having methyltransferase activity and uses therefor
The present invention relates generally to a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having methyltransferase activity and the use of the genetic sequence and/or the polypeptide to modify one or more phenotypic characteristics of a plant. More particularly, the methyltransferase of the present invention acts on flavonoids, preferably wherein the flavonoid ...

04/26/07 - 20070094749 - Method for producing ketocarotinoids in plant fruit
The invention relates to a method for the production of ketocarotenoids by culturing genetically modified plants which show a ketolase activity in fruits. ...

04/05/07 - 20070079398 - Modification of lignin biosynthesis
The invention provides methods for decreasing lignin content and improving lignin profiles. Also provided are the plants prepared by the methods of the invention. Such plants may exhibit improved digestibility relative to prior plants. ...

02/08/07 - 20070033674 - Flavanoid 3',5' hydroxylase gene sequences and uses therefor
The present invention relates generally to a genetic sequence encoding a polypeptide having flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase (F3′5′H) activity and to the use of the genetic sequence and/or its corresponding polypeptide thereof inter alia to manipulate color in flowers or parts thereof or in other plant tissue. More particularly, the F3′5′H has ...

01/11/07 - 20070011776 - Method of crossing flower color genotypes
It is intended to clarify heredity of the biosynthesis of flower pigments and the relationship between flower color heredities and pigment genotypes, thereby providing a method of crossing flower color genotypes which is practically available in creating a novel flower color. There is found out a novel rule that flower ...

12/28/06 - 20060294619 - Method for plant transformation based on thje pollination-fecundation pathway and the products thereof
A genotype-independent method for efficiently carrying out pollen-mediated gene transformation of cereals uses pollen which is pretreated with silicon carbide, and transforming DNA coding for specific traits, whereby the method can produce transformed plants exhibiting useful traits, with high efficiency and reproducibility. ...

12/07/06 - 20060277631 - Genes upregulated in a tomato plant having an increased anthocyanin content phenotype
Tomato anthocyanin vacuolar transporter (“MTP77”) and chalcone isomerase (“MTP96”) are up-regulated in tomato plants that overexpress the ANT1 gene. Plant transformation vectors comprising isolated MTP77 or MTP96 polynucleotides can be made to generate transgenic plants having increased anthocyanin content relative to control plants. ...

11/30/06 - 20060272053 - Transgenic rice line producing high level of flavonoids in the endosperm
The present invention aims to develop transgenic rice that produces high levels of flavonoids in the entire endosperm. A rice variety, Oryza sativa japonica cv. Hwa-Young, is transformed with maize C1 and R-S genes that together activate most structural genes in the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway. Expression of the C1 and ...

11/23/06 - 20060265784 - Tagetes erecta marigolds with altered carotenoid compositions and ratios
A marigold plant, a regenerable portion thereof and seed are disclosed whose flower petals, leaves or flower petals and leaves contain one or more of an enhanced neoxanthin plus violaxanthin ratio, an enhanced β-carotene ratio, an enhanced lycopene ratio, an enhanced α-cryptoxanthin ratio, an enhanced phytoene ratio or an enhanced ...

11/16/06 - 20060260010 - Ketocarotenoids from adonis palaestina
Methods for the production of new Adonis palaestina plants and plant populations with improved characteristics such as increased flower size, astaxanthin content, and/or reduced cardenolide content are provided. Also provided are an astaxanthin-containing Adonis oleoresin and methods of extracting astaxanthin and other ketocarotenoids from flowers of Adonis palaestina plants, while ...

11/16/06 - 20060260009 - Nucleic acid molecule encoding bathochromic phytochrome and use thereof
The present invention includes modified phytochrome A (PHYA) nucleic acid molecules in which Pr absorption spectra have been shifted to longer wavelength (i.e. bathochromism or red-shift). The plants with the bathochromic phytochromes are expected to respond to canopy and shade conditions for growth and development with greater efficiency than the ...

11/09/06 - 20060253927 - Method for the production of zeaxanthin and/or biosynthetic intermediates and/or subsequent products thereof
The present invention relates to a process for preparing zeaxanthin and/or biosynthetic intermediates and/or secondary products thereof by culturing genetically modified plants which, compared to the wild type, have a reduced ε-cyclase activity caused by double-stranded ε-cyclase ribonucleic acid sequences, to the genetically modified plants and to the use thereof ...

09/21/06 - 20060212969 - Transgenic plants carrying neoxanthin cleavage enzyme gene
A DNA encoding a neoxanthin cleavage enzyme used for improving stress tolerance in a plant, a method for increasing stress tolerance in a plant by introducing the DNA into the plant, and a transgenic plant into which a neoxanthin cleavage enzyme gene is introduced, are provided. A DNA used for ...

09/21/06 - 20060212968 - High pigment golden beets
A method for the creation of high pigment yellow or golden beets is described. High pigment yellow beets have enhanced levels of betaxanthins while limiting the abundance of betacyanins so that the beets themselves are yellow. The beets are useful as a table food having enhanced nutritional value because of ...

08/17/06 - 20060185034 - Capsicum variety exhibiting a hyper-accumulation of zeaxanthin and products derived therefrom
The present invention is concerned with Capsicum plants producing greater than about 0.4% zeaxanthin, by weight in the dried, ripe fruit pod flesh, which plants have been developed from commercially grown Capsicum cultivars by plant breeding techniques. Zeaxanthin is the dominant carotenoid in the dried ripe fruit pod flesh, when ...

08/17/06 - 20060185033 - Doubled haploid cells, embryos and plants
Methods for producing homozygous plants, seeds, and plant cells are provided. Methods of forming haploid tissue and then doubling the chromosomes to form doubled haploid cells are provided. Also provided are methods of transformation. ...

08/03/06 - 20060174377 - Novel glycosyltransferase gene
Using probes corresponding to conservative regions of the glycosyltransferase, some tens of glycosyltransferase genes having nucleotide sequences corresponding to the conservative regions were cloned from flower petal cDNA libraries of carnation and the like. Furthermore, each of the glycosyltransferase genes was expressed in Escherichia coli, activity to transfer glucose to ...

07/27/06 - 20060168689 - Transgenic pineapple plants with modified carotenoid levels and methods of their production
The present invention provides methods of transforming pineapple cells and plants with carotenoid biosynthetic polypeptide expression regulators that control the accumulation of carotenoids in the transformed cells, and in certain embodiments, the coloration of those cells. The invention also provides for the regeneration of pineapple plants from the transformed cells. ...

07/20/06 - 20060162020 - Promoters for the expression of genes in tagetes
The present invention relates to the use of promoters for the expression, preferably for the flower-specific expression, of genes in plants of the genus Tagetes, to the genetically modified plants of the genus Tagetes, and to a process for the preparation of biosynthetic products by culturing the genetically modified plants. ...

05/25/06 - 20060112451 - Process for preparing ketocarotenoids in genetically modified organisms
The present invention relates to a process for preparing ketocarotenoids by cultivation of genetically modified organisms which, compared with the wild type, have a modified ketolase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, and to the use thereof as human and animal foods and for producing ketocarotenoid extracts. ...

05/18/06 - 20060107351 - Cell visual characteristic-modifying sequences
The present invention relates generally to peptides, polypeptides or proteins having one or more amino acids or one or more amino acid sequences which exhibit color-facilitating properties, either on their own or following interaction with one or more other amino acids and to nucleic acid molecules encoding same. Such peptides, ...

05/04/06 - 20060095989 - Carotenoids rich paprika cultivars
Paprika cultivars being characterized by fruits having total carotenoids content higher than 10 mg/g dry fruit weight and a branching pattern suitable for mechanical harvesting and methods and systems generating same. ...

03/23/06 - 20060064778 - Method for the production of plant seed with modified fiber content and modified seed coat
The present invention relates to nucleotide sequences commonly designated CJAS1 comprising a novel gene from plants. The novel gene encodes a protein that is involved in seed formation and is associated with plant defense. The invention further relates to the use of the nucleotide sequence in the sense or antisense ...

03/16/06 - 20060059584 - Method for the production of $g(b)-carotinoids
The present invention relates to a process for the production of β-carotenoids by culturing genetically modified plants, the genetically modified plants, and their use as foodstuffs and feedstuffs and for the production of β-carotenoid extracts. ...

03/09/06 - 20060053513 - Method for producing ketocarotenoids by cultivating genetically modified organisms
The present invention relates to a process for preparing ketocarotenoids by cultivation of genetically modified organisms which, compared with the wild type, have a modified ketolase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, and to the use thereof as human and animal foods and for producing ketocarotenoid extracts. ...

02/23/06 - 20060041956 - Vectors for plant transformation and methods of use
The present invention is directed to a vector for identifying read-through of non-T-DNA in a T-DNA vector. In one embodiment, the vector provides a visually detectable change in the normal appearance of transformants wherein read-through has occurred. In another embodiment, the vector also provides for expression of a readily detectable ...

02/09/06 - 20060031964 - Plastid genetic engineering via somatic embryogenesis
A method of transforming plant plastids and regenerating fertile transplastomic plants by somatic embryogenesis is disclosed. The method involves transforming a plant plastid in a plant cell capable of being regenerated through somatic embryogenesis with a plastid expression cassette comprising one or more selectable marker genes that express in both ...

02/09/06 - 20060031963 - Method for the production of ketocarotinoids in flower petals on plants
The present invention relates to a method for the production of ketocarotenoids by culturing plants which show a modified ketolase activity in petals in comparison with the wild type, to the genetically modified plants, to their use as foodstuffs and feedstuffs, and for the production of ketocarotenoid extracts. ...

12/29/05 - 20050289669 - Ttg3 deficient plants, nucleic acids, polypeptides and methods of use thereof
The present invention provides novel isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by the TTG3 polynucleotides. The invention additionally provides methods of constructing transgenic plants that have altered levels of TTG3 polynucleotides and polypeptides. ...

12/22/05 - 20050283851 - Novel genes encoding proteins involved in proanthocyanidin synthesis
This inventions provides an isolated protein or polypeptide having activity in the synthesis of proanthocyanidin (PA) polymer from epicatechin or catechin in plants, and which is not naturally regulated by the TT2 or TT8 regulators, or a fragment comprising at least about 10 contiguous amino acids derived from said protein ...

11/24/05 - 20050262592 - Expression of plasminogen and microplasminogen in duck weed
The present invention provides methods and compositions for the production of recombinant plasminogen, microplasminogen, and fragments thereof in a duckweed expression system. It is the novel finding of the present invention that a duckweed expression system may be used to produce high levels of plasminogen and microplasminogen. The duckweed-produced plasminogen ...

11/10/05 - 20050251881 - Carotenoid ketolase gene
A ketolase gene has been isolated from Rhodococcus erythropolis AN12 strain encoding a carotenoid modification enzyme of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway. The gene and gene product are the first isolated from a Rhodococcus strain. Six conserved amino acid motifs have been identified as the characteristic of this type of ketolase ...

09/15/05 - 20050204424 - Genes regulating circadian clock functional and photoperiodism
Nucleic acid molecules that encode plant proteins involved in photoperiodism and circadian rhythms are disclosed. These molecules may be introduced into plants in order to alter the photoperiodic and/or circadian clock-based gene expression of the plants. ...

07/28/05 - 20050166288 - Methods and vectors for site-specific recombination in plant cell plastids
Novel compositions and methods useful for genetic engineering of plant cells are provided. In particular, plastid constructs comprising recombining sites are provided. Such constructs find use in methods for site specific recombination in plant cell plastids. Plant cells and plants comprising the constructs described herein, as well as plant cells ...

07/21/05 - 20050160495 - Flavonol expressing domesticated tomato and method of production
The present invention includes non-transgenic domesticated tomato plants that express flavonols in the flesh and peel of the tomato unit, and includes the seeds and fruits of such plants. The method of the invention includes assaying tomato plants for expression of one or more of the flavonol biosynthesis genes in ...

06/02/05 - 20050120412 - Long day plants transformed with phytochrome characterized by altered flowering response to day length
A long day plant cultivated for commercial production of flowering-shoots, flowering pots, flowers, seeds or fruits is provided. The long day plant overexpresses a phytochrome protein such that the flowering-shoots, flowering pots, flowers, seeds or fruits thereof develop under substantially shorter natural days and lower sun irradiance than those required ...



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