SEED SOWER
Pending Patents Published October 17, 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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METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PERONOSPORA RESISTANCE IN SPINACH
SORGHUM PLANTS HAVING A MUTANT POLYNUCLEOTIDE ENCODING THE LARGE SUBUNIT OF MUTATED ACETOHYDROXYACID SYNTHASE PROTEIN AND INCREASED RESISTANCE TO HERBICIDES
VARIN PROFILES
NEW GUINEA IMPATIENS VARIETY SAKIMP072
SPINACH LINE MSA-S021-1336M
HYBRID RICE RT23M402
MAIZE INBRED 1PGJC85
MAIZE INBRED 1PKDS77
MAIZE INBRED 1PKEQ94
MAIZE INBRED 1PKLA61
MAIZE INBRED 1PSKB72
MAIZE INBRED 1PVNL56
VARIETY CORN LINE CCIC5729
SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218
COLOCASIA PLANT NAMED 'COPHANTO'
LOBELIA PLANT NAMED 'WNLOBLCBE23'
X HANSARA PLANT NAMED 'JUMPING JACK FLASH'
This list includes the titles of all U.S. patent applications published on October 17, 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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METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR PERONOSPORA RESISTANCE IN SPINACH
Applicants: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
Abstract: Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) plants exhibiting resistance to downy mildew disease caused by Peronospora effusa are provided, together with methods of producing, identifying, or selecting plants or germplasm with a downy mildew resistance phenotype. Such plants include spinach plants comprising introgressed genomic regions conferring pest resistance. Compositions, including novel polymorphic markers for detecting plants comprising introgressed loci, are further provided.
Independent Claims:
1. A Spinacia oleracea plant comprising a recombinant chromosomal segment from Spinacia tetrandra on chromosome 3, wherein said recombinant chromosomal segment comprises an allele that confers broad-spectrum resistance to Peronospora effusa relative to a plant lacking said recombinant chromosomal segment.
14. A recombinant DNA segment comprising an allele from Spinacia tetrandra conferring broad-spectrum resistance to Peronospora effusa and lacking all or some genetic loci that are genetically linked thereto in Spinacia tetrandra.
21. A method for producing an elite Spinacia oleracea plant with broad-spectrum resistance to Peronospora effusa comprising introgressing into said plant a Peronospora effusa resistance allele within a recombinant chromosomal segment flanked in the genome of said plant by marker M2 (SEQ ID NO:2) and marker M8 (SEQ ID NO:8) on chromosome 3, wherein said resistance allele confers to said plant broad-spectrum resistance to Peronospora effusa relative to a plant lacking said allele, and wherein said introgressing comprises marker-assisted selection.
SORGHUM PLANTS HAVING A MUTANT POLYNUCLEOTIDE ENCODING THE LARGE SUBUNIT OF MUTATED ACETOHYDROXYACID SYNTHASE PROTEIN AND INCREASED RESISTANCE TO HERBICIDES
Applicants: Advanta Holdings BV
Abstract: A sorghum seed comprising in its genome at least one polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having an alanine to tyrosine substitution at position 93 of the sorghum AHAS protein large subunit. The plant has increased resistance to one or more herbicides, for example from the imidazolinone group, as compared to wild-type sorghum plants. The sorghum plant may comprise in its genome, one, two, three or more copies of a polynucleotide encoding a mutated large subunit of sorghum AHAS or a sorghum AHAS polypeptide of the invention. In this context, the sorghum plant may be tolerant to any herbicide capable of inhibiting AHAS enzyme activity. For example, the sorghum plant may be tolerant to herbicides of the imidazolinones type, such as imazethapyr, imazapir, and imazapic or to herbicides of the sulfonylurea group.
Independent Claims:
13. A sorghum polynucleotide, comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: a) the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 1; b) a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID No. 2; and c) a nucleotide sequence fully complementary to one of nucleotide sequences a) or b), wherein the sorghum polynucleotide is present in a sorghum plant and provides said sorghum plant with increased resistance to one or more imidazolinone herbicides as compared to wild-type sorghum plants.
19. A transformation vector having a sorghum polynucleotide which comprises a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: a) the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 1; b) a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID No. 2; and c) a nucleotide sequence fully complementary to one of the nucleotide sequences a) or b), wherein the sorghum polynucleotide is present in a sorghum plant and provides said sorghum plant with increased resistance to one or more imidazolinone herbicides as compared to wild-type sorghum plants, and wherein the vector further comprises a selectable gene and at least one promoter operably linked to the nucleotide sequence capable of driving the expression of said nucleotide sequence.
20. A method for obtaining a herbicide-resistant sorghum plant or a sorghum plant with increased herbicide resistance, wherein said method comprises: i) transforming a sorghum plant cell with an expression cassette or vector comprising a sorghum polynucleotide having a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: a) the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 1; b) a nucleotide sequence encoding the polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID No. 2; c) a nucleotide sequence fully complementary to one of the nucleotide sequences a) or b), wherein the sorghum polynucleotide is present in a sorghum plant and provides said sorghum plant with increased resistance to one or more imidazolinone herbicides as compared to wild-type sorghum plants, and wherein the expression cassette further comprises at least one promoter operably linked to the polynucleotide, and wherein said promoter drives the expression of said sorghum polynucleotide; and ii) regenerating the sorghum plant cell to obtain a herbicide-resistant sorghum plant.
VARIN PROFILES
Applicants: Phylos Bioscience, Inc.
Abstract: The present invention discloses Cannabis plants, seeds and other plant parts, tissue cultures, and products having elevated levels of varin molecules, including tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) and/or cannabidivarin (CBDV). Each of THCV and CBDV have unique pharmacological profiles with distinct molecular targets, and can be used as agents for antiepileptic or anticonvulsant activity, obesity-associated glucose intolerance, appetite suppression, anxiety management for PTSD, diabetic neuropathy, or major neuropathic and pain related pathologies.
Independent Claim:
1. A Cannabis plant wherein the plant comprises: a) a tetrahydrocannabivarin (“THCV”) amount of between 5% and 25%; b) a combined tetrahydrocannabivarin (“THCV”) and cannabidivarin (“CBDV”) amount of between 5% and 25%; or c) a cannabidivarin (“CBDV”) amount of between 5% and 25%.
NEW GUINEA IMPATIENS VARIETY SAKIMP072
Applicants: Sakata Seed Corporation
Abstract: A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP072 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP072, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP072, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP072, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP072 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP072, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP072, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid impatiens seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP072 with another impatiens variety.
Independent Claim:
1. A plant of New Guinea Impatiens variety SAKIMP072, wherein a representative sample of plant tissue of SAKIMP072 was deposited under NCMA No. ______.
SPINACH LINE MSA-S021-1336M
Applicants: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
Abstract: The invention provides seeds and plants of spinach line MSA-S021-1336M. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of spinach line MSA-S021-1336M and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a spinach 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 spinach line MSA-S021-1336M comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
Independent Claims:
1. A spinach plant comprising at least a first set of chromosomes of spinach line MSA-S021-1336M, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202210003.
15. A spinach plant comprising at least a first set of chromosomes of spinach line MSA-S021-1336M, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202210003, further comprising a transgene.
17. A spinach plant comprising at least a first set of chromosomes of spinach line MSA-S021-1336M, a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. 202210003, further comprising a single locus conversion.
HYBRID RICE RT23M402
Applicants: RiceTec, Inc.
Abstract: Plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of the hybrid rice RT23M402, and methods for producing a rice plant by crossing a rice plant of hybrid rice RT23M402 with itself or with another rice plant, such as a plant of another rice variety or rice hybrid, are disclosed.
Independent Claims:
1. Hybrid rice seed RT23M402, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-127536.
14. A method of introducing one or more desired traits into hybrid rice designated RT23M402, wherein the method comprises: (a) crossing a hybrid rice RT23M402 plant, from which a representative sample of seed was deposited in the ATCC under the Budapest Treaty (Accession No. PTA-127536), with a plant of another rice cultivar that comprises a desired trait, to produce progeny plants, wherein the desired trait(s) is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease and viral disease; (b) selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait(s) to produce selected progeny plants; (c) backcrossing the selected progeny plants with the RT23M402 plants; (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait(s); and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait(s).
MAIZE INBRED 1PGJC85
MAIZE INBRED 1PKDS77
MAIZE INBRED 1PKEQ94
MAIZE INBRED 1PKLA61
MAIZE INBRED 1PSKB72
MAIZE INBRED 1PVNL56
Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Abstract: A novel maize variety designated 1P* and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1P* with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1P* through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1P* or a locus conversion of 1P* with another maize variety.
Independent Claims:
1. A seed, plant, plant part, or plant cell of inbred maize variety 1P*, representative seed of the variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-______.
11. A converted seed, plant, plant part or plant cell of inbred maize variety 1P*, representative seed of the maize variety 1P*having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-______, wherein the converted seed, plant, plant part or plant cell comprises a locus conversion, and wherein the plant or a plant grown from the converted seed, plant part or plant cell comprises the locus conversion and otherwise comprises the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize variety 1P* when grown under the same environmental conditions.
18. An F1 hybrid seed produced by crossing a plant or plant part of inbred maize variety 1P*, representative seed of the variety having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-______ with a different maize plant, wherein inbred maize variety 1P* further comprises a transgene that is inherited by the seed, wherein the transgene was introduced into inbred maize variety 1P* by backcrossing or genetic transformation.
VARIETY CORN LINE CCIC5729
Applicants: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated CCICS729, methods for producing a com plant by crossing plants of the inbred line CCICS729 with plants of another com plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred con line CCIC5729, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred com line CCICS729, and plants produced according to these methods.
Independent Claims:
1. A seed of maize variety CCIC5729, wherein representative seed of said maize variety CCIC5729 has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-______.
2. A plant of maize variety CCIC5729, wherein representative seed of said maize variety CCIC5729 has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-______.
8. A converted seed, plant, plant part or plant cell of maize variety CCIC5729, representative seed of the maize variety CCIC5729 having been deposited under ATCC accession number PTA-______, wherein the converted seed, plant, plant part or plant cell comprises a locus conversion, and wherein the plant or a plant grown from the converted seed, plant part or plant cell comprises the locus conversion and otherwise comprises the phenotypic characteristics of maize variety CCIC5729 listed in Table 1 when grown under the same environmental conditions.
15. A process of introducing an additional trait into maize plant CCIC5729 comprising: (a) crossing CCIC5729 plants grown from CCIC5729 seeds, representative seeds deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-______, with plants of another maize variety that comprise an additional trait to produce hybrid progeny plants, (b) selecting hybrid progeny plants that have the additional trait to produce selected hybrid progeny plants; (c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the CCIC5729 plants to produce backcross progeny plants; (d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the additional trait to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) at least three or more times to produce backcross progeny plants that comprise the additional trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of maize inbred plant CCIC5729 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
SOYBEAN CULTIVAR 91080218
*Non Final Action Mailed*
Applicants: Monsanto Technology LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc.
Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 91080218 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 91080218, to the plants of soybean cultivar 91080218, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 91080218, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 91080218. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 91080218. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 91080218, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 91080218 with another soybean cultivar.
Independent Claims:
1. A plant of soybean cultivar 91080218, representative seed of said soybean cultivar having been deposited under NCMA Accession No.
11. A method of introducing a single locus conversion into a soybean plant, said method comprising: (a) crossing a plant of soybean cultivar 91080218 with a second plant comprising a desired single locus to produce F.sub.1 progeny plants, representative seed of said soybean cultivar 91080218 having been deposited under NCMA Accession No. ; (b) selecting at least a first progeny plant from step (a) that comprises the single locus to produce a selected progeny plant; (c) crossing the selected progeny plant from step (b) with a plant of soybean cultivar 91080218 to produce at least a first backcross progeny plant that comprises the single locus; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) with the first backcross progeny plant produced from step (c) used in place of the first progeny plant of step (b) during said repeating, wherein steps (b) and (c) are repeated until at least a backcross progeny plant is produced comprising the single locus conversion.
13. A soybean plant of soybean cultivar 91080218, further comprising a single locus conversion, wherein the plant comprises the single locus conversion and otherwise comprises all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of soybean cultivar 91080218, representative seed of soybean cultivar 91080218 having been deposited under NCMA Accession No.
COLOCASIA PLANT NAMED 'COPHANTO'
*Notice of Allowance Mailed*
Applicants: Brian's Botanicals
Abstract: ‘COPHANTO’ is a new and distinctive Colocasia plant which is characterized by near-black, strongly rugose, and velvety laminas borne on near-black petioles, heavily glaucous foliage which has an iridescent quality when viewed in direct sunlight, and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation.
Independent Claim:
1. A new and distinct variety of Colocasia plant named ‘COPHANTO’, substantially as described and illustrated herein.
LOBELIA PLANT NAMED 'WNLOBLCBE23'
*Abandoned*
Applicants: BENJAMIN K. WINSLOW
Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Lobelia plant named ‘WNLOBLCBE23’, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly spreading and mounding to trailing plant habit; vigorous and sturdy growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy plant form; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; large purplish blue-colored flowers with white-colored centers; long flowering period; relative high temperature tolerance; and good container and garden performance.
Independent Claim:
1. A new and distinct Lobelia plant named ‘WNLOBLCBE23’ as illustrated and described.
X HANSARA PLANT NAMED 'JUMPING JACK FLASH'
*Notice of Allowance Mailed*
Applicants: Hans A. Hansen
Abstract: A new and unique x Hansara plant named ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ characterized by compact mounded habit and upright curving, lanceolate foliage with grayish-green color and in high ultraviolet light exposure developing margins of burgundy speckling on top and bottom. The leaf tips are narrowly acute without mucros. The marginal teeth are small and flexible. The plant is suitable as a potted plant patio, for the garden, or for use as a houseplant.
Independent Claim:
1. A new and distinct cultivar of ornamental x Hansara plant named ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ as herein described and illustrated.
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