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7378572 Constitutive expression cassettes for regulation of plant expression  
The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with constitutive expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes...
7378571 Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof  
The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the...
7371925 Cytokinin oxidase promoter from maize  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions may comprise a novel nucleic acid sequence for a promoter with...
7371928 Plant seed-specific expression promoter derived from sesame and seed-specific expression vector comprising the promoter  
Provided are a seed-specific expression promoter derived from sesame microsomal oleic acid desaturase (Si-FAD2) gene, an intron for expression enhancement, a seed-specific expression vector...
7371927 Methods for modulating plant growth and biomass  
This application discloses methods for modulating plant growth and biomass comprising stably incorporating into the genome of the plant a genetic construct comprising a gene promoter that is active...
7368632 Plant stress tolerance genes, and uses therefor  
Plant stresses such as pest infestations, disease, drought, flood, and excessive temperatures can lead to significant losses of crops each year. There is a continuing need to develop novel plant...
7365241 Seed specific USP promoters for expressing genes in plants  
The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to seed specific gene expression. The present invention provides promoters...
7358419 Enhanced silk exsertion under stress  
The invention provides methods for enhancing maize silk exsertion under stress conditions and compositions relating to such methods, including nucleic acids and proteins. The invention further...
7354390 Seed coat specific nucleotide sequence encoding peroxidase  
A novel seed coat specific peroxidase genomic sequence is characterized and presented. The seed coat peroxidase is translated as a 352 amino acid precursor protein of 38 kDa comprising a 26 amino...
7355096 Ryegrass pollen-specific promoters and expression constructs  
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule capable of modifying pollen-specific expression, constructs including the molecule and methods of using the molecule.
7351877 Lambda integrase mediated recombination in plants  
The present disclosure provides methods for obtaining the targeted integration of a DNA molecule into the genome of a host cell using a recombinase. The methods disclosed herein can be used with a...
7351879 Compositions and methods for modulating plant development  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for modulating plant development by modulating the expression or activity of plant polycomb genes including FIE and MEA.
7348468 Wuschel (wus) gene homologs  
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a WUS protein. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the WUS protein,...
7348475 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...
7348471 Rice glutelin gene promoters  
A nucleic acid containing a glutelin gene promoter. Disclosed are transformed plant cells and transgenic plants containing a nucleic acid that includes the promoter operably linked to a sequence...
7345216 Expression cassettes for meristem-preferential expression in plants  
The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with meristem-preferential or meristem-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from ...
7345222 Use of DNA sequences for male sterility in transgenic plants  
The use of DNA sequences comprising a glucanase coding region operably linked to a promoter, or other regulatory sequence, which provides for expression of the DNA sequence with appropriate tissue...
7345217 Polynucleotides and polypeptides in plants  
The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and...
7342147 Expression cassettes for root-preferential expression in plants  
The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with root-preferential or root-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from ...
7335813 Expression cassettes for guard cell-preferential expression in plants  
The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with guard cell-preferential or guard cell-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from...
7335812 Method of increasing plant organ and seed size in a plant  
The present invention provides methods and DNA molecules useful for producing transgenic plants with agronomically desired traits based on altered sizes of plant organs and tissues.
7329798 Harvest-inducible regulatory elements and methods of using same  
The present invention relates to a method for the production of a heterologous protein or peptide in a plant or a plant cell. The method involves providing a plant or a plant cell comprising...
7323624 Method for influencing the content of sinapine in transgenic plant cells and in plants  
The invention relates to a method for influencing the sinapine content in transgenic plant cells and plants. In particular, the invention relates to the inhibition of the enzymatic activity of a...
7323621 Method of decreasing liquiritigenin-derived isoflavones relative to total isoflavones in plants and plants producing reduced ratio of liquiritigenin-derived isoflavones relative to total isoflavones  
This invention pertains to methods for decreasing the ratio of liquiritigenin-derived isoflavones relative to total isoflavone levels in isoflavonoid-producing plants and plant parts by...
7323622 Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots  
The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as OMT promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the...
7317136 Methods for modifying plant cell walls and modified plants produced thereby  
The present invention provides methods for modulating cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin composition and deposition in secondary cell wall layers of plants to improve plant traits that are...
7317146 Production of cereal grain with reduced starch granule size and uses thereof  
The invention alters the physical characteristics of starch granules in a plant. Methods are provided for reducing starch granule size by stably introducing into the genome of the plant or plant...
7309813 Methods of using viral replicase polynucleotides and polypeptides  
The invention provides novel methods of using viral replicase polypeptides and polynucleotides. Included are methods for increasing transformation frequencies, increasing crop yield, providing a...
7304205 DWF12 and mutants thereof  
DWARF12(DWF12) sequences, mutants and methods of using the same are disclosed. The dwf12 polynucleotides can be used in the production of transgenic plants which display at least one dwf12 mutant...
7304208 Expression of human serum albumin (HSA) in monocot seeds  
A method of producing human serum albumin (HSA) in monocot plant seeds, by transforming a monocot plant cell with a chimeric gene containing a promoter from the gene of a maturation-specific...
7301069 Methods of protecting plants from pathogenic fungi and nematodes  
Methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a pathogenic fungus or nematode, are provided. A method for enhancing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences...
7297847 Amino acid-enriched plant protein reserves, particularly lysine-enriched maize γ-zein, and plants expressing such proteins  
An oligonucleotide including at least one concatenation coding for a polypeptide of formula (P—K) n , wherein n is an integer of at least 2, P is a proline amino acid residue, K is a lysine amino...
7291765 PM29 and LEA3 promoters and use in expression of transgenic genes in plants  
The promoters of a soybean seed maturation protein PM29 and a soybean late-embryogenesis abundant protein LEA3 and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more...
7288408 Amino acid transporters  
The present invention includes certain nucleic acid molecules that encode amino acid transporters in a plant, and complements and fragments thereof. Also set forth herein are methods for using such...
7288696 Genetic engineering of syringyl-enriched lignin in plants  
The present invention relates to a novel DNA sequence, which encodes a previously unidentified lignin biosynthetic pathway enzyme, sinapyl alcohol dehydrogenase (SAD) that regulates the...
7282624 Plant cell death system  
This invention seeks to provide means by which transgenic plants harbour within their genome a chimaeric gene which when expressed produces a protein having a cytotoxic effect. Cytotoxicity is...
7279619 Methods and compositions for modifying levels of secondary metabolic compounds in plants  
In a method for altering a nutritional profile of a plant, a nucleic acid sequence is selected for its ability to encode a protein capable of modifying the utilization of a substrate in the sugar...
7279616 Method for improving corn starch extractability  
The present invention relates to the transformation of maize with a grain softness-enhancing gene for improving starch extractability. The invention more precisely concerns the reduction of wet...
7276596 Promoter from maize invertase inhibitor gene  
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a...
7273968 Combinations of genes for producing seed plants exhibiting modulated reproductive development  
The present invention provides plants that exhibit modulated reproductive development and methods of modulating the timing of reproductive development in plants.
7273967 Sweet potato MADS-box promoter directing high level expression in plant storage root  
The present invention relates to a promoter directing high levels of expression of a gene in plant storage roots, derived from the sweet potato MADS-box gene, a vector directing high levels of...
7271003 Rice-derived high expression polypeptide chain elongation factor promoter and method of using the same  
DNA having promoter activity for strongly expressing an exogenous gene specifically in plant tissue (particularly, tissue having active cell prolifaration) is provided. The DNA is a rice OsEF1β1...
7265266 Transgenic evaluation of activated mutant alleles of SOS2 reveals a critical requirement for its kinase activity and C-terminal regulatory domain for salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana  
The present invention provides a method of increasing salt tolerance in a plant by overexpressing a gene encoding a mutant SOS2 protein in at least one cell type in the plant. The present invention...
7265264 Gene for a Dof transcription factor capable of altering the size and stature of a plant  
A transgenic plant transformed by a Dof transcription factor, OBP3, coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in an alteration in the size of the...
7265263 Potato transcription factors, methods of use thereof, and a method for enhancing tuber development  
The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode a BEL transcription factor from potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) and the amino acid sequences encoded by such nucleic...
7265280 Polynucleotides encoding carnation senescence-induced DHS  
Regulation of expression of programmed cell death, including senescence, in plants is achieved by integration of a gene or gene fragment encoding senescence-induced deoxyhypusine synthase,...
7265265 Genes for galactomannan production in plants and methods of use  
The invention relates to the genetic manipulation of plants, particularly to the expression of galactomannan biosynthetic genes in transformed plants. Isolated nucleotide molecules comprising...
7262337 Method for modifying a plant phenotype  
The present invention relates generally to methods for generating plants having altered phenotypes, and to plants so generated and parts of these plants. More particularly, the present invention...
7262338 Stress tolerance and delayed senescence in plants  
The novel constructs and methods of this invention improve tolerance in plants to environmental stresses and senescence. Nucleic acids encoding a plant farnesyl transferase are described, as are...
7256324 Plant regulatory sequences for selective control of gene expression  
Promoters from male reproductive tissues were isolated from corn ( Zea mays ). These promoters can be used in plants to regulate transcription of target genes including genes for control of...