J.R. SIMPLOT COMPANY Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160138033 | PROTEIN PRODUCTION IN PLANTS - The present disclosure relates to methods and constructs for producing heterologous peptides and proteins in plants in a safe and controlled manner. One aspect of the present invention provides a method of producing heterologous protein in a transformed potato plant using an expression cassette comprising a gene coding for a protein or peptide of interest and a marker gene, a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing patatin expression, along with a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing CD4B expression, and/or a nucleotide sequence capable of overexpressing P19. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of producing a heterologous protein in a transformed potato plant using an expression cassette comprising a gene coding for a protein or peptide of interest, a marker gene, a transit peptide sequence, and a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase expression. | 05-19-2016 |
20160102371 | EVENT-SPECIFIC DETECTION METHODS - The present disclosure concerns methods for identifying genetic material in recombinant potato plants, including in food products made from such plants. The disclosure relates to the materials, including nucleotide primers and probes, utilized in the methods set forth herein. Furthermore, the disclosure provides for non-naturally occurring nucleotide junction sequences per se that result from genetic recombination events and methods of detecting said junction sequences. | 04-14-2016 |
20160095286 | POTATO CULTIVAR J3 - A potato cultivar designated J3 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar J3, to seeds of potato cultivar J3, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar J3, to food products produced from potato cultivar J3, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar J3 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar J3, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar J3 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar J3 with another potato cultivar. | 04-07-2016 |
20160073602 | POTATO CULTIVAR J55 - A potato cultivar designated J55 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar J55, to seeds of potato cultivar J55, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar J55, to food products produced from potato cultivar J55, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar J55 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar J55, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar J55 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar J55 with another potato cultivar. | 03-17-2016 |
20160073601 | POTATO CULTIVAR F10 - A potato cultivar designated F10 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar F10, to seeds of potato cultivar F10, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar F10, to food products produced from potato cultivar F10, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar F10 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar F10, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar F10 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar F10 with another potato cultivar. | 03-17-2016 |
20160029585 | TURFGRASS VARIETIES HAVING DESIRABLE LOOKING TURF WHEN MOWED INFREQUENTLY - Turfgrass varieties with desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently are provided. Also provided is a method of producing a turfgrass plant having desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently. The turfgrass plants of the present invention display green leaf chlorophyll concentrations above 1.8 mg/g and a field insitu CM-1000 chlorophyll meter reading of 341.7 or higher, as well as high general turfgrass quality ratings. The turfgrass plants of the present invention retain a dark green color even when scalped back by infrequent mowing. | 02-04-2016 |
20150373941 | TURFGRASS VARIETIES HAVING DESIRABLE LOOKING TURF WHEN MOWED INFREQUENTLY - Turfgrass varieties with desirable looking turf when mowed infreqently are provided. Also provided is a method of producing a turfgrass plant having desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently. The turfgrass plants of the present invention display green leaf chlorophyll concentrations above 1.8 mg/g and a field insitu CM-1000 chlorophyll meter reading of 341.7 or higher, as well as high general turfgrass quality ratings. The turfgrass plants of the present invention retain a dark green color even when scalped back by infrequent mowing. | 12-31-2015 |
20140363561 | TAL-MEDIATED TRANSFER DNA INSERTION - The invention relates to methods for stably integrating a desired polynucleotide into a plant genome. | 12-11-2014 |
20140360326 | CUP CUTTER AND METHOD - A cutting head for a food product cutting system includes a generally cylindrical rotatable body, having a radius and configured to rotate about an axis, and a plurality of spatially separated, generally parallel elongate cutting blades, arranged in a circular array centered on the axis and defining a perimeter of the body. Each blade has a long dimension and an outwardly-oriented cutting edge. The generally cylindrical rotatable body is connectable to a driving mechanism configured to rotate the cutting head about the axis, and is positionable adjacent to a food product delivery mechanism, whereby food product that contacts the cutting edges of the array of blades in a direction generally perpendicular to the axis is cut by the blades into slices having a repeatable curvature. | 12-11-2014 |
20140328995 | POTATO CULTIVAR J55 - A potato cultivar designated J55 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar J55, to seeds of potato cultivar J55, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar J55, to food products produced from potato cultivar J55, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar J55 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar J55, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar J55 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar J55 with another potato cultivar. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328994 | POTATO CULTIVAR E12 - A potato cultivar designated E12 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar E12, to the seeds of potato cultivar E12, to the plants of potato E12, to the plant parts of potato cultivar E12, to food products produced from potato cultivar E12, and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar E12 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety E12, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar E12 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar E12 with another potato cultivar. | 11-06-2014 |
20140322396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING A FROZEN PRODUCT - A method for packaging a frozen food product includes placing a fluid food product into a flexible container, sealing the container and pasteurizing the food product in the sealed container. The method further includes applying a form to at least one surface of the flexible container, the form embossing the container and creating a series of compartments separated by thin segments therebetween, and freezing the product in the container with the form in place. | 10-30-2014 |
20140154397 | TAL-MEDIATED TRANSFER DNA INSERTION - The invention relates to methods for stably integrating a desired polynucleotide into a plant genome, comprising transforming plant material with a first vector comprising nucleotide sequences encoding TAL proteins designed to recognize a target sequence; transforming the plant material with a second vector comprising (i) a marker gene that is not operably linked to a promoter (“promoter-free marker cassette”) and which comprises a sequence homologous to the target sequence; and (ii) a desired polynucleotide; and identifying transformed plant material in which the desired polynucleotide is stably integrated. | 06-05-2014 |
20140137295 | USE OF INVERTASE SILENCING IN POTATO TO MINIMIZE CHIP AND FRENCH FRY LOSSES FROM ZEBRA CHIP AND SUGAR ENDS - The present invention provides a convenient method for producing potato products such as chips and French fries that have lower incidence of sugar ends and less off-color development due to infection from the zebra chip pathogen. | 05-15-2014 |
20130338348 | STEVIOL AND STEVIOL GLYCOSIDE FORMATION IN PLANTS - Steviol glycosides are sweeter than sugar and have a much lower calorimetric value. The compounds are purified from leaves of | 12-19-2013 |
20130260012 | INCREASED TUBER SET IN POTATO - The present invention provides potato plant varieties with high tuber yield and tuber products with superior flavor and texture, and methods for increasing tuber yield and improving heat-processed product quality. | 10-03-2013 |
20130254938 | PRECISE BREEDING-SIMULTANEOUS SILENCING - The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided. | 09-26-2013 |
20130087032 | ROTARY KNIFE FIXTURE FOR CUTTING SPIRAL, TEXTURED POTATO PIECES - A rotary knife fixture for cutting vegetable products such as raw potatoes into spiral shapes. The knife fixture includes a ring-shaped blade holder driven rotatably within a hydraulic product flow path. The blade holder includes at least one cutting blade, wherein the blade is twisted from a generally longitudinally aligned center axis outwardly in opposite circumferential directions with a sharpened leading edge set at a desired pitch angle. By controlling the pitch angle of the blade in relation to the blade rotational speed and velocity at which the potato travels along the hydraulic flow path, the resultant spiral cut shape is selected. By using multiple cutting blades at known axially spaced positions and selecting the angular position of each cutting blade in succession, the number of spiral shapes cut from each potato is selected. The blades can have a nontextured straight-cut edge, or a textured crinkle-cut edge, or a combination. | 04-11-2013 |
20130074222 | PRECISE BREEDING - The present invention relates to a method for identifying and isolating native plant nucleic acid sequences that may function as T-DNAs or T-DNA border-like sequences, effecting the transfer of one polynucleotide into another polynucleotide. The present invention also provides a modified tuber, such as a genetically modified mature tuber, that comprises at least one trait that is not exhibited by a non-modified tuber of the same species. | 03-21-2013 |
20130006047 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A MAMMAL RECEPTIVE TO EMBRYO TRANSFER - The present invention is drawn to novel methods of selecting mammals receptive to embryo transfers in order to improve reproductive efficiency and milk production of the mammals. The present invention encompasses three methods: (1) selecting from any group of mammals; (2) selecting from estrus-negative mammals; and (3) selecting from estrus-negative mammals and pooling the selected mammals with estrus-positive mammals. Also encompassed is a kit for selecting mammals receptive to embryo transfers. | 01-03-2013 |
20120269940 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AGGLOMERATED POTATO PRODUCT - A system and process for producing an agglomerated potato product from dried flakes and/or granules, and pre-blended dry and wet ingredients. The system and process include pre-blending of dry and wet ingredients such as salt, powdered milk, butter flavors, with warm water and/or oil, followed by mixing with dry potato flakes or the like to produce an agglomerated potato product having a crumbly consistency. This product is delivered by an auger to a conveyor for passage beneath a rotary driven roller for converting the product into a thin layer of small agglomerate type particles which are then delivered to a fluidized bed dryer for reducing the moisture content of the agglomerated potato product to about 6-8%. The resultant dried, agglomerated potato product has a generally granular consistency and is suitable for long-term storage preparatory to finish preparation by water addition to provide a flavorful potato product. | 10-25-2012 |
20120167737 | LATTICE CUTTING MACHINE - A lattice cutting or slicing machine includes a multi-knife lattice cutting plate mounted in-line along an hydraulic flow path through which vegetable products such as potatoes are propelled in single file by a hydraulic fluid such as water. The lattice cutting plate is orbitally driven for engaging in succession each of the multiple knives thereon with the vegetable product to form lattice cut slices wherein successive generally corrugated cuts are angularly oriented typically perpendicular to each other, and further wherein the depths or troughs of the corrugated cuts on opposite sides of each slice intersect in the preferred form to define a pattern of corrugations interrupted by small openings. | 07-05-2012 |
20120024125 | LOOP CUTTER KNIFE FIXTURE WITH REPLACEABLE BLADES - A loop cutter knife fixture for cutting vegetable products such as raw potatoes into spiral or helical loops. The knife fixture includes a circular blade holder adapted to be rotatably driven within a vegetable product flow path. The blade holder includes a central core cutter in combination with a spiral base plate defining a radial slot between axially spaced upstream and downstream ends thereof. Small slits are formed in this base plate for seated reception of preferably multiple U-shaped strip blades, which are in turn overlaid and clamped in place beneath a generally pie-shaped slab blade having a sharpened knife edge exposed at the base plate radial slot and held in place by preferably multiple clamp screws. The strip blades and/or the slab blade are formed from an inexpensive material, such as sheet metal or the like, whereby blade changeover is quick and economical. | 02-02-2012 |
20100062136 | FRENCH FRY PARFRY OIL FOR REDUCED FREEZER CLUMPING - An improved parfry oil blend and related production process for parfrying vegetable pieces particularly such as French fry potato strips followed by freezing for packaging, storage and/or shipment before finish preparation, wherein the parfry oil blend reduces post-parfry freeze clumping. The improved oil blend comprises a substantially fully hydrogenated hard stock component selected from the group consisting essentially of cottonseed and palm oils at a proportion of less than 11% and preferably about 8-10% by weight. This hard stock component is blended with a liquid stock component such as a zero grams trans fat (ZGTF) liquid oil such as soy, canola, safflower, and the like. When potato strips are parfried in this improved oil blend, and then frozen, freezer clumps are substantially eliminated. | 03-11-2010 |