| 22nd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights (05-28-09/05-28-09_59) part 59 |
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| 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 to an abiotic stress (in some cases, to more than one abiotic stress). The abiotic stress may include, for example, salt, hyperosmotic stress, water deficit, heat, cold, drought, or low nutrient conditions. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar 80-0601018-B, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar 80-0601018-B and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 80-0601018-B with another lettuce cultivar. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 { | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 acids leading to an enhanced tolerance or resistance to environmental stress conditions in said transformed yeast cells. The present invention further relates to an isolated polynucleic acid obtainable by such a method as listed in Table 1 as well as recombinant polynucleic acid comprising the same. The present invention further relates to an isolated polypeptide encoded by a polynucleic acid of the invention. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a plant with enhanced tolerance or resistance to environmental stress, said method comprising introducing into a plant cell a recombinant DNA comprising a polynucleic acid as defined which when expressed in a plant cell enhances the tolerances or induces resistance to environmental stress conditions of said plant. The present invention particularly relates to plant cells, plants or harvestable parts or propagation material thereof transformed with a recombinant polynucleic acid as defined above. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous polynucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated PHSRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding PHSRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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. In certain aspects of the invention, methods for producing plants transformed with the nucleic acids are provided, the transformed plants exhibiting improved disease resistance. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138990 | Methods and compositions to increase plant resistance to stress - Methods and compositions to improve plant stress tolerance are disclosed. An | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 a Leucine Rich Repeat Receptor-Like Kinase (RKS11 or RKS4 or an orthologue thereof). The invention also relates to transgenic plants having introduced therein a nucleic acid or variant thereof encoding at least part of a Leucine Rich Repeat Receptor-Like Kinase (RKS11 or RKS4 or an orthologue thereof), which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants. The present invention also concerns constructs useful in the methods of the invention. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 results in production of altered levels of the enzyme involved in lipid biosynthesis in a transformed host cell. | 05-28-2009 |
| 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 the tocopherols as delta-tocopherol. This high delta-tocopherol production is determined by the genotype of the seeds which have been modified to this effect, and is always obtained independently of the culture conditions, thereby obtaining an inheritable character. Today, sunflower seeds producing such high levels of delta-tocopherol do not exist. Genetically modified sunflower plants which produce through self-fertilisation seeds with high delta-tocopherol levels and the oil with high natural delta-tocopherol concentration, extracted from the seeds, are also objectives of the present invention. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138994 | MEASURING DEVICE WITH DAISY TYPE CANTILEVER WHEEL - A measuring device with a daisy type cantilever wheel enabling easier setting of a measuring head and modification head by rotating the daisy type cantilever wheel, enabling modification, adhesion of a sample, and application of a force to a sample specimen by using centrifugal force, and also enabling an easier measurement of a variation of characteristic vibration frequency and vibration amplitude of a cantilever array is provided. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138995 | ATOM PROBE COMPONENT TREATMENTS - The present invention relates to treatments for atom probe components. For example, certain aspects are directed toward processes for treating an atom probe component that includes removing material from a surface of the atom probe component (e.g., using an ion beam, a plasma, a chemical etching process, and/or photonic energy). Another aspect of the invention is directed toward a method for treating an atom probe specimen that includes using a computing device to automatically control a voltage used in an ion sputtering process. Still other aspects of the invention are directed toward methods for treating an atom probe component that includes introducing photonic energy proximate to a surface of the atom probe component, annealing at least a portion of a surface of the atom probe component, coating at least a portion of a surface of the atom probe component, and/or cooling at least a portion of the atom probe component. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138996 | MICROTIPS AND NANOTIPS, AND METHOD FOR THEIR PRODUCTION - The present invention relates to a method for the production of tips, the order of magnitude of which lies in the micro- and/or nanometer range, comprising contacting a precursor material with a matrix and then energetically activating over a large area, wherein the precursor material contains an element other than carbon from the second to fifth main groups, the sixth main group with an atomic number Z≧16 or a sub-group of the periodic table of the elements and organic groups which are chemically bonded to the respective element directly and/or via an element of the sixth main group. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138997 | Kiwi plant named tsechelidis - A new and distinctive variety of the kiwi plant, | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138998 | INTERSPECIFIC TREE NAMED 'PLUMSWEET XII' - The present invention relates to an interspecific tree and more particularly to a new and distinct variety broadly characterized by a medium size, moderately vigorous, hardy, and medium productive tree. Being self-unfruitful, the present variety requires cross pollination from an apricot, interspecific, or plum that blooms during the mid season. The fruit matures under the ecological conditions described during early July, with first picking on Jul. 7, 2007. The fruit is uniformly medium in size, mostly red with greenish yellow freckling in skin color, clingstone in type, oblate in shape, red in flesh color, very firm and crisp in texture, and outstanding in flavor. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090138999 | Mandarin named 'African Sunset' - A new variety of mandarin ( | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090139000 | Strawberry plant named 'DrisStrawFive' - This invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of strawberry plant named ‘DrisStrawFive’. A new cultivar primarily characterized by its small, sweet tasting fruit, moderate resistance to high pH and high soil salt levels, is disclosed. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090139001 | Dianthus plant named 'FLORIAMETRINE' - A new cultivar of | 05-28-2009 |
