Monsanto Technology LLC

Calgene Corporation

Monsanto Company

Beth Savidge

Daniel J Ovadya

Karen Gabbert

Balasulojini Karunanandaa

Vijay K Sharma

Alexander Goldshmidt

Miya Howell

Shunhong Dai

Dale Val

Brent Brower-Toland

Sivalinganna Manjunath

Wei Zheng

Kyle B Smith

Elena A Rice

Sasha Preuss

Rico A Caldo

Bradley W McDill

Michael W Lassner

Timothy A Mitsky

James D Weiss

Martha Ann Post-Beittenmiller

Maureen Daley

Jason Fenner

Barry S Goldman

Thomas Gene Ruff

Virginia Ursin

Robert J Meister

Deborah J Hawkins

Mark Scott Abad

Jingrui Wu

Jeffrey E Ahrens

Paolo Castiglioni

Todd DeZwaan

Paul J Loida

Richard Eric Cerny

Michael D Edgerton

Donald E Nelson

Jill Deikman

Stephen M Duff

Molian Deng

Richard Johnson

Steven H Schwartz

Steve Sichuan He

Marie E Petracek

Zhidong Xie

Erin Bell

Jaishree M Chittoor-Vijayanath

Jindong Sun

Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra

Savitha Madappa

Bradon James Fabbri

Monica P Ravanello

Xianfeng Chen

Obed Patty

Robert J Bensen

Srikanth Babu Venkatachalayya

Garrett J Lee

Ming Peng

Kammaradi R Vidya

Todd C Weber

Brad McDill

Dan Ovadya

Alice Clara Augustine

Shobha Char

Anand Pandravada

Rajani Monnanda Somaiah

Rick A Sanders

Padmini Sudarshana

Rebecca L Thompson-Mize

Dale L Vai

Tymagondlu V Venkatesh

K Vijayalakshmi

Dusty Post-Beittenmiller

Miya D Howell

Bradley W Mcdill

The present invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, vectors and molecules comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a florigenic FT protein operably linked to a vegetative stage promoter, which may also be a meristem-preferred or meristem-specific promoter. Transgenic plants, plant cells and tissues, and plant parts are further provided comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a florigenic FT protein. Transgenic plants comprising a florigenic FT transgene may produce more bolls, siliques, fruits, nuts, or pods per node on the transgenic plant, particularly on the main stem of the plant, relative to a control or wild type plant. Methods are further provided for introducing a florigenic FT transgene into a plant, and planting transgenic FT plants in the field including at higher densities. Transgenic plants of the present invention may thus provide greater yield potential than wild type plants and may be planted at a higher density due to their altered plant architecture.

Compositions and methods for altering flowering and plant architecture to improve yield potential

Provided are methods for increasing the yield of a monocot plant through treatment of the plant with a plant growth regulator. In certain embodiments, maize plants produce multiple ears and an increased number of kernels. In certain embodiments, reduced height of the plant allows for more efficient self-pollination.

Multi-ear system to enhance monocot plant yield

The present invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, vectors and molecules useful for attenuating and/or refining the expression of a florigenic FT gene or transgene using targeting sequences of small RNA molecules. Transgenic plants, plant cells and tissues, and plant parts comprising the recombinant constructs, vectors, and molecules are also provided. Transgenic plants comprising a florigenic FT transgene may produce more bolls, siliques, fruits, nuts, or pods per node on the transgenic plant via suppression, relative to a control or wild type plant. Methods are further provided for introducing the recombinant DNA constructs, vectors, and molecules into a plant, and planting transgenic plants in the field including at higher densities. Transgenic plants of the present invention may provide greater yield potential than wild type or control plants.

This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits

This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein, enhanced seed oil and modified oil composition. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Isolated or purified nucleic acid molecules encoding polypeptides having cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitor-like activity; vectors; host cells; polypeptides having CDK inhibitor-like activity; nucleic acid constructs for suppression of CDK inhibitor-like activity; methods of suppressing and up-regulating the expression of one or more CDK inhibitor-like genes in a maize cell, tissue, organ, or plant; a maize cell, tissue, organ, or plant in which the expression of a CDK inhibitor-like gene has been suppressed or up-regulated in accordance with such methods; and a seed (and the oil and meal thereof) obtained from a plant in which the expression of one or more CDK inhibitor-like genes has been suppressed or up-regulated.

Materials and methods for the modulation of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor-like polypeptides in maize

Nucleic acid sequences and methods are provided for producing plants and seeds having altered tocopherol content and compositions. The methods find particular use in increasing the tocopherol levels in plants, and in providing desirable tocopherol compositions in a host plant cell.

Nucleic acid sequences to proteins involved in tocopherol synthesis

Nucleic acid sequences to proteins involved in isoprenoid synthesis

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Davis, CA, United States of America

Beth Savidge