SEED SOWER
Pending Patents Published January 11, 2024
Welcome to the weekly edition of Seed Sower, which shares a list of pending patents published the previous week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These patent applications cover seed-bearing plants and non-transgenic plant breeding methods only.
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CUCUMBER HYBRID DRCB6028 AND PARENTS THEREOF
EFFECTS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTATIONS TO IMPROVE HERBICIDE RESISTANCE/TOLERANCE IN RICE
BIOFERTILIZER ENDOPHYTES OF CANNABIS
FLAVONE 4'-O-METHYLTRANSFERASE GENE AND USE FOR SAME
LONG-STAPLE COTTON VARIETY ALLOWING SPINNING OF 150 N TO 340 N COMBED COTTON YARNS, AND BREEDING METHOD THEREOF
SUPERIOR LONG-STAPLE COTTON VARIETY ALLOWING SPINNING 360 N ULTRA-FINE AND HIGH-GRADE COMBED YARNS, AND BREEDING METHOD THEREOF
This list includes the titles of all U.S. patent applications published on January 11, 2024 with the following Cooperative Plant Classification:
A01H: New plants or {non-transgenic} processes for obtaining them; plant reproduction by tissue culture techniques | 6: Angiosperms, i.e. Flowering plants, characterised by their botanic taxonomy
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CUCUMBER HYBRID DRCB6028 AND PARENTS THEREOF
Applicants: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of cucumber hybrid DRCB6028, cucumber inbred line BAP-Y319-5013GY, and cucumber inbred line BAPY314-5002GY. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid DRCB6028, cucumber inbred line BAP-Y319-5013GY, and cucumber inbred line BAPY314-5002GY and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a cucumber plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid DRCB 6028, cucumber inbred line BAP-Y319-5013GY, and cucumber inbred line BAPY314-5002GY comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
Independent Claims:
1. A cucumber plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of cucumber line BAP-Y319-5013GY or cucumber line BAPY314-5002GY, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202206012 and NCMA Accession No. 202206013, respectively.
15. A cucumber plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of cucumber line BAP-Y319-5013GY or cucumber line BAPY314-5002GY, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202206012 and NCMA Accession No. 202206013, respectively, further comprising a transgene.
17. A cucumber plant comprising at least a first set of the chromosomes of cucumber line BAP-Y319-5013GY or cucumber line BAPY314-5002GY, a sample of seed of said lines having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202206012 and NCMA Accession No. 202206013, respectively, further comprising a single locus conversion.
EFFECTS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTATIONS TO IMPROVE HERBICIDE RESISTANCE/TOLERANCE IN RICE
Applicants: RiceTec, Inc.
Abstract: Rice is described that is tolerant/resistant to AHAS/ALS inhibitors because of a plurality of mutations that act synergistically in providing resistance/tolerance to the herbicide. Tolerance/resistance is due to presence of combined mutations in the rice leading to amino acid substitutions (A205V and G654E) in the AHAS/ALS enzyme. Use of the rice for weed control and methods of producing tolerant/resistant rice are also disclosed.
Independent Claims:
1. A monocot plant tolerant/resistant to AHAS/ALS inhibitors at levels significantly higher than those tolerated by plants without mutations in the amino acid sequence of the AHAS enzyme, and wherein the tolerance/resistance is associated with a plurality of nucleic acid sequence mutations leading to combined amino acid substitutions A205V and G654E in the AHAS/ALS enzyme, and wherein there is synergism in tolerance/resistance to the inhibitors associated with the combined substitutions.
4. A rice plant tolerant/resistant to AHAS/ALS inhibitors, wherein the tolerance/resistance is associated with at least two nucleic acid sequences in the plant genome encoding amino acid substitutions in the AHAS/ALS enzyme, the substitutions selected from the group consisting of A205V, G654E, and combinations thereof.
6. A method for controlling weeds in a rice field, the method comprising: a. having rice in the field wherein the rice is resistant to one or more AHAS/ALS inhibitors. b. contacting the rice field with at least one of the herbicides to which the rice is resistant at levels known to kill weeds.
12. A method to produce a rice plant resistant to treatment with AHAS/ALS inhibitors at levels suitable for weed control, the method comprising combining a rice genome including a nucleic acid that effects a substitution of A205(179)V in the amino acid sequence of the AHAS/ALS enzyme, with a rice genome including a nucleic acid that encodes for a substitution of G654(628)E in the amino acid sequence of the AHAS/ALS enzyme.
BIOFERTILIZER ENDOPHYTES OF CANNABIS
Applicants: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel endophytes of plants of the Cannabaceae family, particularly biofertilizer Enterobacter sp. endophytes, and also to plants and parts thereof infected therewith, and related methods, including methods for conferring biofertilization to plants and for selecting a biofertilizer endophyte of a plant of the Cannabaceae family.
Independent Claims:
40. A substantially purified or isolated Enterobacter endophyte of a plant of the Cannabaceae family; wherein the endophyte is capable of conferring a biofertilizer phenotype to the plant or part thereof from which it is substantially purified or isolated and/or is capable of conferring a biofertilizer phenotype to a plant or part thereof to which the bacteria is inoculated.
53. A method for selecting a biofertilizer endophyte of a plant of the Cannabaceae family, said method comprising a) substantially purifying or isolating one or more endophytes; b) subjecting said one or more endophytes to microbiome profiling; c) analysing the transcriptome of said one or more endophytes, preferably via sequencing, to identify expression of one or more genes associated with nitrogen fixation; and d) selecting an endophyte which is capable of conferring a biofertilizer phenotype to the plant from which it is substantially purified or isolated and/or is capable of conferring a biofertilizer phenotype to a plant or part thereof to which it is inoculated.
FLAVONE 4'-O-METHYLTRANSFERASE GENE AND USE FOR SAME
Applicants: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
Abstract: Transgenic plants with modified flower color, or their inbred or outbred progeny, or their propagates, partial plant bodies, tissues or cells, are provided. A delphinidin-type anthocyanin and a flavone C-glycoside in which the 7-position and T-position hydroxyl groups are methylated, are caused to coexist in plant cells.
Independent Claims:
1. A polynucleotide selected from the group consisting of the following (A) to (E): (A) a polynucleotide comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 19 or SEQ ID NO: 21; (B) a polynucleotide that hybridizes with a polynucleotide comprising the nucleotide sequence complementary to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 19 or SEQ ID NO: 21 under stringent conditions, and that encodes a protein having activity of transferring a methyl group to the 4′-position hydroxyl group of flavone C-glycoside; (C) a polynucleotide encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 20; (D) a polynucleotide encoding a protein comprising an amino acid sequence that is the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 20 having a deletion, substitution, insertion and/or addition of one or more amino acids, and having activity of transferring a methyl group to the 4′-position hydroxyl group of flavone C-glycoside; and (E) a polynucleotide encoding a protein comprising an amino acid sequence with at least 90% identity with respect to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 20 and having activity of transferring a methyl group to the 4′-position hydroxyl group of flavone C-glycoside.
22. A method for creating a transgenic plant with modified flower color, wherein the method comprises a step of causing a delphinidin-type anthocyanin and a flavone C-glycoside to coexist in plant cells, where the 7-position and 4′-position hydroxyl groups of flavone C-glycoside are methylated.
LONG-STAPLE COTTON VARIETY ALLOWING SPINNING OF 150 N TO 340 N COMBED COTTON YARNS, AND BREEDING METHOD THEREOF
Applicants: HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract: A long-staple cotton variety allowing spinning 150 N to 340 N combed cotton yarns, and a breeding method thereof are provided. In the present disclosure, through a “radiation mutagenesis of Gossypium barbadense (G. barbadense) L.+distant crossing of Chinese G. barbadense L. and Egyptian G. barbadense L. with upland cotton+backcrossing+G. barbadense L. and upland cotton introgression+stepped composite crossing” technology, four excellent parents are subjected to convergent crossing to obtain a long-staple cotton variety. During the selective breeding, through “radiation mutagenesis-screening-distant crossing-backcrossing-selfing-screening-crossing-screening” and “southern breeding+northern breeding”, a large number of excellent genes are combined and aggregated; and through distant crossing of G. barbadense L. and upland cotton, backcrossing, and G. barbadense L. and upland cotton introgression, cell nuclei of G. barbadense L. effectively interact with cytoplasm of upland cotton.
Independent Claims:
1. A breeding method of a long-staple cotton variety allowing spinning 150 N to 340 N combed cotton yarns, comprising the following steps: (1) crossing a high-quality and high-verticillium wilt-resistance Gossypium barbadense (barbadense) L. radiation-mutant BMC0318 as a female parent with a first F.sub.1 hybrid obtained by crossing between a high-yield and high-blight-resistance upland cotton Xinluzhong 14 mutant BMLK052 and Giza 45 as a male parent to obtain a second F.sub.1 hybrid; conducting modified backcrossing with the second F.sub.1 hybrid as a female parent and the high-quality and high-verticillium wilt-resistance G. barbadense L. radiation-mutant BMC0318 as a male parent for three generations; harvesting hybrid seeds of a first-generation modified backcrossing together; harvesting hybrid seeds of a second-generation modified backcrossing separately, and conducting a fiber detection and a screening; harvesting hybrid seeds of a third-generation modified backcrossing, and conducting the fiber detection and a target trait screening to obtain an individual BC.sub.3F.sub.1; and selfing the individual BC.sub.3F.sub.1 for 5 generations to obtain BMC049; and (2) crossing a G. barbadense L. Xinhai 40 as a female parent with the BMC049 as a male parent, harvesting hybrid seeds of the crossing separately for planting to obtain an individual, and conducting the fiber detection and the screening on the individual to obtain a first-generation hybrid; and subjecting the first-generation hybrid to a sealing-flower selfing for 6 generations to obtain a F.sub.7 population, isolating the F.sub.7 population to obtain an isolated population, and screening out a long-staple cotton variety BMC69 allowing spinning 150 N to 340 N combed cotton yarns from the isolated population.
SUPERIOR LONG-STAPLE COTTON VARIETY ALLOWING SPINNING 360 N ULTRA-FINE AND HIGH-GRADE COMBED YARNS, AND BREEDING METHOD THEREOF
*FINAL REJECTION MAILED PRIOR TO EARLIEST PUBLICATION DATE*
Applicants: HENAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract: A superior long-staple cotton variety allowing spinning 360 N ultra-fine and high-grade combed yarns, and a breeding method thereof are provided. The breeding method includes: conducting distant crossing with Gossypium barbadense (G. barbadense) L. BMC 1563 as a female parent and Xinluzhong 14 as a male parent; conducting backcrossing with an F.sub.1 hybrid as a female parent and BMC1563 as a male parent for three generations; harvesting hybrid seeds of first-generation backcrossing together; harvesting hybrid seeds of second-generation backcrossing separately, and screening; harvesting hybrid seeds of third-generation backcrossing, and screening to obtain an individual BC.sub.3F.sub.1; selling the individual BC.sub.3F.sub.1 for 5 generations to obtain BMC18394; and crossing Xinhai 40 as a female parent with the BMC 18394 as a male parent to obtain a first-generation hybrid, and conducting sealing-flower setting for 6 generations to finally obtain a long-staple cotton variety BMC79.
Independent Claims:
1. A breeding method of a superior long-staple cotton variety allowing spinning 360 N ultra-fine and high-grade combed yarns, comprising the following steps: (1) conducting distant crossing with high-quality and high-verticillium wilt-resistance Gossypium barbadense ( barbadense) L. BMC1563 as a female parent and a high-yield and high-blight-resistance upland cotton variety Xinluzhong 14 as a male parent to obtain F.sub.1 hybrid; wherein the high-verticillium wilt-resistance G. barbadense L. BMC1563 is an individual bred as follows: treating G. barbadense Xinhai 21 for 154 h under a negative vacuum pressure of −0.32 MPa, sowing treated G. barbadense Xinhai 21 in a field, and subjecting M1 and M2. populations to a sealing-flower selfing; the high-yield and high-blight-resistance upland cotton variety Xinluzhong 14 is bred as follows: sowing upland cotton Xinluzhong 14 in an artificial blight and verticillium wilt mixed severe disease nursery, screening out a disease-resistant individual, cultivating a stem apex of the disease-resistant individual on a Fusarium oxysporum (F. oxysporum)-containing modified MS medium in a greenhouse, and after a seedling establishment, transplanting a seedling in a field; conducting modified backcrossing with the F.sub.1 hybrid as a female parent and the BMC1563 as a male parent for three generations; harvesting hybrid seeds of first-generation modified backcrossing together; harvesting hybrid seeds of second-generation modified backcrossing separately, and conducting fiber detection and screening; harvesting hybrid seeds of third-generation modified backcrossing, and conducting the fiber detection and a target trait screening to obtain an individual BC.sub.3F.sub.1; and subjecting the individual BC.sub.3F.sub.1 to for 5 generations, collecting seeds of fifth-generation selling separately, and subjecting the seeds of the fifth-generation selling to the fiber detection; and eliminating individuals with an upper-half fiber length of less than or equal to 37.00 mm, a specific strength at break of less than or equal to 50.00 cN/tex, a micronaire value of less than 3.00, and a micronaire value of more than 3.60, and screening out an individual with a blight and verticillium wilt resistance and a high fiber quality and naming as BMC18394; and (2) crossing G. barbadense Xinhai 40 as a female parent with the BMC18394 as a male parent, harvesting hybrid seeds of the crossing separately, and conducting fiber detection and screening to obtain a first-generation hybrid; and conducting sealing-flower selfing for 6 generations to obtain a F7 population, and isolating the F7 population, wherein from first-generation selfing to sixth-generation selfing, fiber detection and identification and screening of mixed onset of blight and verticillium wilt in Xinjiang cotton areas are synchronously conducted, genetically-stable excellent lines with high fiber quality and blight and verticillium wilt resistance are screened out from an isolated population and subjected to a multi-repeat test to determine a fiber quality, and screened lines are subjected to a multi-repeat test, a line-comparison test, and a quality test to finally obtain a long-staple cotton variety with high blight and verticillium wilt resistance and long, fine, and strong fibers allowing spinning 360 N combed yarns.
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