| DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
| 20110010802 | Antifungal Plant Proteins and Methods of their Use - DNA constructions that provide for production of potent antifungal proteins in transgenic plants and transformed yeast cells are described. Methods of using the DNA constructs to produce transgenic plants that inhibit growth of plant pathogenic fungi are also disclosed. The use of transformed yeast cells containing the DNA constructs to produce the antifungal proteins and methods of isolating the antifungal proteins are also described. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20100313307 | PROTEIN PRODUCTION AND STORAGE IN PLANTS - A transgenic dicotyledonous plant having a deficiency of one or more plant seed storage proteins, further having a transgenic polynucleotide construct comprising an open reading frame operably linked to a storage protein promoter and an ER signal sequence. The polynucleotide construct encodes a protein product that can accumulate at high levels in the seed. Also provided are methods of producing a heterologous protein in a plant seed. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100075385 | O-Methyltransferases of Tetrahydrobenzylisoquinoline Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Papaver Somniferum - The present invention relates to methyl transfer enzymes involved in alkaloid biosynthesis in opium poppy. More particularly, the invention relates to proteins having (R,S)-reticuline 7-O-methyltransferase activity, to proteins having (R,S)-norcoclaurine 6-O-methyltransferase activity and to derivatives and analogues of these proteins. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding the proteins, and their derivatives and analogues, and to their use in the production of methylated catechols and tetrahydrobenzylisoquinolines. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100037351 | Alteration of Phospholipase De (PLDe) or Phospholipase Da3 (PLD a3) Expression in Plants - Transgenic plants and seeds with altered expression of phospholipase Dε (PLDε) are described, i.e., plants and seeds either overexpressing or underexpressing PLDε. Methods for producing such transgenic plants and for increasing a plant's ability to capture and utilize nitrogen, increasing a plant's biomass production, increasing the yield of a plant or increasing a plant's ability to grow under hyperosmotic stress by overexpressing PLDε are also disclosed. Further disclosed are transgenic plants and seeds which overexpress phospholipase D alpha3 (PLDα3), methods for producing such transgenic plants and seeds, and methods for increasing a plant's ability to grow under hyperosmotic stress by overexpressing phospholipase D alpha3. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20090053764 | Salutaridinol 7-0-Acetyltransferase and Derivatives Thereof - This invention provides a protein comprising consecutive amino acids, the amino acid sequence of which is illustrated in FIG. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20080201800 | Antifungal Plant Proteins and Methods of Their Use - DNA constructions that provide for production of potent antifungal proteins in transgenic plants and transformed yeast cells are described. Methods of using the DNA constructs to produce transgenic plants that inhibit growth of plant pathogenic fungi are also disclosed. The use of transformed yeast cells containing the DNA constructs to produce the antifungal proteins and methods of isolating the antifungal proteins are also described. | 08-21-2008 |