Abstract:
The present invention is directed to guayule molecular markers and primers and use of those markers and primers for guayule identity, characterization and breeding. The invention is further directed to a method for breeding guayule that involves determining the rate of apomixis of one or more guayule plants, determining the genetic pedigree of one or more guayule plants, and using that information to identify one or more select guayule plants for use in guayule plant breeding to produce an advanced guayule plant.
Abstract:
A potato cultivar designated W8 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar W8, to seeds of potato cultivar W8, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar W8, to food products produced from potato cultivar W8, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar W8 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar W8, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar W8 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar W8 with another potato cultivar.
Abstract:
A potato cultivar designated E12 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar E12, to the seeds of potato cultivar E12, to the plants of potato E12, to the plant parts of potato cultivar E12, to food products produced from potato cultivar E12, and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar E12 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety E12, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar E12 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar E12 with another potato cultivar.
Abstract:
A potato cultivar designated E12 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar E12, to the seeds of potato cultivar E12, to the plants of potato E12, to the plant parts of potato cultivar E12, to food products produced from potato cultivar E12, and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar E12 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety E12, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar E12 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar E12 with another potato cultivar.
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods for obtaining plants that exhibit useful traits by perturbation of plastid function in plant rootstocks and grafting the rootstocks to scions. Methods for identifying genetic loci that provide for useful traits in plants and plants produced with those loci are also provided. In addition, plants that exhibit the useful traits, parts of the plants including seeds, and products of the plants are provided as well as methods of using the plants. Recombinant DNA vectors and transgenic plants comprising those vectors that provide for plastid perturbation are also provided.
Abstract:
The present invention includes long day onion plants comprising bulbs having low pungency and methods for obtaining such onions. The present invention also provides reagents and materials that can be used in the methods for obtaining such onions.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to plants of the genus Raphanus containing increased levels of anthocyanins. In particular the edible sprouts and turnips of the Raphanus plants contain high levels of anthocyanins and thereby provide health-promoting effects. The anthocyanins in the Raphanus plants are present at a level of at least 100 nmol per gram of fresh weight and have an absorbance maximum at a wavelength in the range of 515 to 550 nm. The invention also provides methods for growing the Raphanus plants as purple sprouts, both in the form of alfalfa-type sprouts as well as in the form of two-leafed plantlets, referred to as cress or micro-vegetables. The invention further provides methods for producing anthocyanins based on growing the Raphanus plants and isolating anthocyanins therefrom.
Abstract:
The present invention provides recombinant DNA containing a plant expressible gene which comprises in sequence: a promoter that drives expression of a downstream gene specifically in an initital feeding cell and/or a nematode feeding structure, a gene encoding a product that is inhibitory to an endogenous gene encoding a protein or polypeptide selected from the group consisting of ATP synthase, adenine nucleotide translocator, tricarboxylate translocator, dicarboxylate translocator, 2-oxo-glutarate translocator, cytochrome C, pyruvate kinase, glyceraldehyde-3P-dehydrogenase, NADPH-cytochrome p450 reductase, fatty acid synthase complex, glycerol-3P-acyltransferase, hydroxymethyl-glutaryl CoA reductase, aminocyl transferase, a transcription initiation factor, and a transcription elongation factor, a transcription terminator and a polyadenylation signal sequence, and wherein the said gene is expressed in said initial feeding cell or nematode feeding structure upon infection by the said nematode. The invention further provides plasmids, bacterial cells, recombinant plant genomes, as well as plant cells, plants and parts thereof, still harbouring recombinant genomes. The invention further provides plants with reduced susceptibilitiy against plant parasitic nematodes, as well as methods for obtaining same. Growing plants according to the invention in the field reduces yield losses due to nematode attack and/or reduces nematode populations in the soil.
Abstract:
The present application relates generally to the field of plant propagation. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for the propagation of vegetatively reproducing plants and plants and plant parts produced by such methods. The invention also provides encapsulated propagules. The invention also provides various end uses for the encapsulated propagules and for plants grown from the same. The invention also provides a method for the modification of the architecture of rhizomes and rhizomes having modified architecture and a method for the modification of the architecture of stem cuttings and stem cuttings having modified architecture. The invention also provides a coating for a propagule and a propagule coated therewith.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an ALS inhibitor herbicide tolerant Beta vulgaris plant and parts thereof comprising a mutation of an endogenous acetolactate synthase (ALS) gene, wherein the ALS gene encodes an ALS polypeptide containing an amino acid different from tryptophan at a position 569 of the ALS polypeptide.