Colorado State University Research Foundation

Duke University

The Penn State Research Foundation

June I Medford

Kevin J Morey

Mauricio S Antunes

James Jefferson Smith

Richard Craig

Homme W Hellinga

Richard C Haskell

Ralph O Mumma

Barbara M Hoeling

Mary E Williams

Tessema Kassaw

Ruye Wang

Diana L Cox-Foster

Daniel C Petersen

David Schultz

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for sensing a target substance of interest in the environment and inducing gene expression in response thereto, useful for detection of biological and chemical agents and environmental pollutants.

Receptor/histidine kinase fusion constructs and uses thereof

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for generating plants that can grow in saline conditions, or remove a salt or other impurity from water, for example plants that can remove sodium chloride from salt or sea water, and plants that can produce purified water from salt or sea water.

Synthetic desalination genetic circuit in plants

A eukaryotic input circuit: computationally designed receptors, synthetic eukaryotic signal transduction pathways, and a synthetic signal sensitive promoter that allow highly specific transcriptional induction in response to an externally provided ligand is disclosed. The input circuit is able to specifically bind a targeted substance and transmit a signal to the nucleus where transcription of a gene is activated. An output circuit serves as a simple readout system of the substance detected by the input circuit. The readout circuit exemplified here is a degreening circuit which causes plants to turn white. Activation of the degreening circuit can be detected by eye, or remotely with a variety of machines (hand-held, aircraft or satellite based) and is also resettable. When linked the input circuit if operably linked to the output circuit, produces a functional plant detector.

Biological systems input-output response system and plant sentinels

A high resolution optical coherence microscope system for visualizing structures below a surface of a biological sample is provided. The system includes a light source emitting light in a wavelength of between 700 and 1500 nm, the light being directed along a sample path and a reference path. The length of at least one of the paths is a modulated path having a selected amplitude of modulation that is equal to or less than about 3 fringes of the wavelength.

Optical coherence microscope and methods of use for rapid in vivo three-dimensional visualization of biological function

Isolation and characterization of a novel plant fatty acid desaturase cDNA that encodes a .DELTA..sup.9 14:0-ACP desaturase. Expression of the .DELTA..sup.9 14:0-ACP desaturase is a critical factor for pest resistance in plants of the genus Pelargonium and other plants generally; the desaturase gene is also useful in other contexts and for other purposes such as increasing the percentage of unsaturated fatty acids in oil-producing crops such as soybeans, rapeseed, maize, sunflower, safflower, cotton, cuphea, peanut, coconut and oil-palm, as well as increasing the percentage of unsaturated fatty acids in other plants generally.

.DELTA..sup.9 14:0-ACP fatty acid desaturase and gene therefor

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Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

June I Medford