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6232529 Methods of producing high-oil seed by modification of starch levels  
The present invention provides methods of obtaining a greater than normal concentration of oil in the seed of a plant, the method comprising altering the carbon metabolism in the seed leading to an...
6228643 Promoter  
A promoter comprising the DNA sequence of an oil seed rape cysteine protease gene promoter of class 1, 2 or 6 is described. The promoter may be used in an expression system for at least the tissue...
6229067 Leaf-specific gene expression in transgenetic plants  
The present invention relates to promoters which cause, in plants, permanent leaf-specific expression of an encoding nucleotide sequence under the control of said promoters, for example a sequence...
6229068 Method of increasing fruit size in a plant  
The present invention provides a non-naturally occurring seed plant that is characterized by producing seeds of increased size due to ectopic expression of a nucleic acid molecule encoding an...
6228645 Promoter elements conferring root-preferred gene expression  
This invention relates generally to mechanisms of gene expression in plants and more specifically to regulation of expression of genes in plants in a "tissue-preferred" manner. A method for...
6229064 Nucleic acids that control endosperm development in plants  
The invention provides methods of controlling endosperm development in plants.
6225529 Seed-preferred promoters  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for seed-preferred...
6218598 Plant promoter  
The present invention provides a promoter which is characterized in that it has following DNA sequence (a) or (b) and a DNA having the nucleotide sequence shown by SEQ ID:No.1, (a) a DNA sequence...
6215051 Aarobacterium-mediated method for transforming rice  
The present invention is directed to a method for the production of a transgenic plant of rice crop comprising the steps of infecting an immature embryo of rice crop with the genus Agrobacterium...
6211430 FbLate promoter  
A gene construct comprising an FbLate promoter is disclosed. A method of obtaining an FbLate promoter and a plant, cell and seed comprising an FbLate promoter are also disclosed.
6207883 DNA sequences coding for a protein conferring male sterility  
This invention relates to a gene associated with male fertility, labeled Ms41-A, and a recessive mutant form thereof, labelled ms41-A, which confers male sterility. The Ms41-A gene is isolated from...
6204437 DNA constructs and plants incorporating them  
Expression of genes inserted into plants by transformation is controlled by the use of a promoter selected from Aco1, Aco2 and Aco3, the sequences of which are given. The level of expression...
6197588 Plastid inner envelope membrane targeting polypeptides, manufacture and use thereof  
A polypeptide amino acid sequence capable of targeting the plastid inner envelope membrane of a plant, and a nucleotide sequence therefor, are described, as well as a chimaeric gene comprising a...
6184443 Cold-inducible and tuber-specific promoter sequence from potato α-amylase gene  
A cold-inducible promoter region and a tuber-specfic promoter region from an α-amylase gene from Solanum tuberosum are described. The promoter regions can be used to express a gene of interest in...
6184439 Antisense gene systems of pollination control for hybrid seed production  
A process is described for producing hybrid seed using male-sterile plants created by employing molecular techniques to manipulate antisense DNA and other genes that are capable of controlling the...
6184440 Transgenic plants of altered morphology  
The present invention discloses genetically engineered plants which display altered structure or morphology. The transgenic plants express a cell wall modulation transgene or gene construct that...
6177611 Maize promoters  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for constitutive...
6177613 Seed-preferred promoter  
The present invention provides a composition and method for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. The composition is a novel nucleic acid sequence for a...
6171864 Calreticulin genes and promoter regions and uses thereof  
Isolated nucleic acid molecules are provided which encode calreticulin and calnexin. Also provided are vectors which are capable of expressing such nucleic acid molecules, host cells which contain...
6166301 Method for assaying genetic attributes in cotton fiber cells  
The present invention provides methods for testing gene expression in a cotton fiber cells. The methods comprise contacting the cell with Agrobacterium sp., comprising a recombinant T-DNA vector,...
6156954 Receptor-like protein kinase, RKN, and method of use for increasing growth and yield in plants  
The present invention is based on the discovery that increased growth and yield in plants can be achieved by elevating the level of receptor-like protein kinase (RKN), a member of the receptor-like...
6147282 Method of controlling the fertility of a plant  
The present invention is drawn to a method of controlling gene expression in plants. Specifically, the method comprises obtaining a transgenic plant comprising at least two receptor expression...
6140085 Genetic control of flowering  
FCA genes of Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus are provided, enabling flowering characteristics, particularly timing of flowering, to be influenced in transgenic plants. Timing of flowering...
6140554 Specificity of gene expression  
This invention seeks to improve the specificity of gene expression by targeting a specific expression site of a target gene. There is thus provided a chimaeric gene which comprises a promoter which...
6137031 DNA binding proteins that interact with NPR1  
The present invention provides nucleic acids that encode bZIP polypeptides that are capable of interacting with NPR1. The present invention also provides for bZIP polypeptides that are capable of...
6130366 Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous polypeptide  
Chimaeric DNA sequence which encodes: 1) a transmit peptide of a cytoplasmic precursor of a chloroplast protein or polypeptide of a plant and 2) a protein or polypeptide that is heterologous to the...
6130368 Transgenic plants producing trehalose  
6127603 Plant cells and plants transformed with streptococcus mutans gene encoding glucosyltransferase C enzyme  
The present invention provides methods of making paper utilizing glucans, produced by the glucosyltransferase C enzyme of the species Streptococcus mutans, instead of modified starches. The present...
6124528 Modification of soluble solids in fruit using sucrose phosphate synthase encoding sequence  
6114605 Mi nucleic acids and uses thereof for conferring pest resistance in plants  
The present invention provide Mi nucleic acids encoding Mi polypeptides which confer resistance to nematodes and other pests. The Mi nucleic acids can be used to produce transgenic plants resistant...
6114602 Method for the induction of genetic parthenocarpy in plants  
The present invention provides an improved method for the production of genetic parthenocarpy in plants, which includes the steps of: providing a cassette including a DNA coding for modulation of...
6100450 Seed specific promoters based on arabidopsis genes  
The present invention is directed to 5' regulatory regions of two Arabidopsis seed-specific genes, AtS1 and AtS3. The 5' regulatory regions, or parts thereof, when operably linked to either the...
6096946 Control of pod dehiscence  
The invention relates to the use of nucleic acid sequences coding for polygalacturonase in the control of dehiscence in plants. Plants transformed with such nucleic acid sequences are also disclosed.
6087558 Commercial production of proteases in plants  
Production of proteases in plants is set forth, whereby heterologous DNA encoding the protease is introduced into the plant and expression of the protein achieved. By such methods, expression is...
6084152 Method for producing transgenic cucumber that produces high levels of superoxide dismutase  
The invention relates to a transgenic plant that produces high levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and to a method for producing the transgenic plant. The hypocotyl section of seedlings is...
6080913 Binary methods of increasing accumulation of essential amino acids in seeds  
The present invention provides methods for genetically modifying plants to increase the levels of essential amino acids in seed. The present methods involve a combination of: a) providing an...
6074876 Genetic transformation using a PARP inhibitor  
The invention concerns a process for producing transgenic plant cells, which comprises: contacting a culture of plant cells with an inhibitor of poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase, prior to...
6072103 Pathogen and stress-responsive promoter for gene expression  
Nucleic acid sequences and methods for their use are provided for obtaining plants with inducible phenotypes, including novel or enhanced resistance to infection and stress. Novel nucleic acid...
6066782 Combination of DNA sequences which enable the formation of modified starch in plant cells and plants, processes for the production of these plants and the modified starch obtainable therefrom  
A combination of DNA sequences is described which, in transgenic plant cells and plants, results in the formation of a modified starch which differs from starch synthesized naturally in the cells,...
6063988 DNA sequences encoding stilbene synthases and their use  
6063985 Chemical inducible promotor used to obtain transgenic plants with a silent marker  
A chemically inducible promoter is described which may be used to transform plants with genes which are easily regulatable by adding plants or plant cells to a medium containing an inducer of the...
6057491 Protein having insecticidal activities and method of use  
Compositions and methods for controlling pests, particularly insect pests, are provided. The compositions comprise proteins isolated from plants of the genus Pentaclethra. Nucleotide sequences...
6057493 Plasmids, plants and plant cells expressing anti-sense patatin and anti-sense ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase sequences  
Plasmids containing DNA sequences which when inserted into the genome of a plant modify the carbohydrate or protein concentration and the carbohydrate or protein composition, and plant cells and...
6054635 Raspberry promoter and methods for expression of transgenes in plants  
The present invention is directed to the identification and isolation of a promoter region from a raspberry genome. The promoter is operably linked, in a native raspberry genome, to the coding...
6054638 Soybean ADP ribosylation factor  
This invention relates to the isolation of nucleic acid fragments from soybean that encode ADP ribosylation factor (ARF) protein. This invention also relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding...
6054318 Expression of the glucose oxidase gene in transgenic organisms  
A genetic construct for use in production of transgenic plants with reduced susceptibility or increased resistance to pests or diseases comprises an isolated nucleotide sequence encoding the...
6046382 Plants with modified flowers  
A plant, the nuclear genome of which is transformed with a foreign DNA sequence encoding a product which neutralizes the activity of another product which disrupts the metabolism, functioning...
6043410 Strawberry fruit promoters for gene expression  
Promoters isolated from genomic DNA of strawberry plants are disclosed. The promoters are capable of tissue-specific expression in transgenic plants. A plant promoter that is a nucleic acid region...
6037523 Male tissue-preferred regulatory region and method of using same  
The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence encoding the Ms45 male tissue-preferred regulatory region. In one aspect this invention relates the use of this male...
6037524 S-adenosyl-L-homocystein hydrolase promoter  
A promoter derived from an SHH gene, especially the SHH gene of Arabidopsis thaliana which is capable of directing expression on a variety of operator genes in both monocotyledonous and...