E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Richard W Pearlstein

James Francis Ulrich

Rebecca E Cahoon

William Dean Hitz

John W Pierce

Karen E Broglie

Phillip Scott Kerr

Thomas J Carlson

Mary F Becker-Manley

Christopher F Hines

Bruce J Schweiger

J Antoni Rafalski

Anthony John Kinney

Omolayo O Famodu

Theodore Mitchell Klein

Scott V Tingey

Jian-Ming Lee

Catherine J Thorpe

Jennie Bih-Jien Shen

The present invention is directed to a starch comprising a novel percentage of actual amylose. A grain comprising the starch is also embodied by the present invention. The present invention is also directed to a plant comprising the novel starch.

Maize starch containing elevated amounts of actual amylose

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a phytic acid biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the phytic acid biosynthetic enzyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the phytic acid biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.

Phytic acid biosynthetic enzymes

This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding lipoxygenases. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of the lipoxygenase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct results in production of altered levels of the lipoxygenase in a transformed host cell.

Plant lipoxygenases

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase in a transformed host cell.

UDP-glucose modifiers

There is provided isolated nucleic acid fragments that encode soybean seed and zucchini leaf galactinol synthase. Chimeric genes including those fragments and suitable regulatory genes are also provided that are capable of transforming plants to produce galactinol synthase at levels higher or lower than that found in the target plant. Transformed plants and seeds are also provided for. Methods for varying the content of D-galactose-containing oligosaccharides of sucrose in plants are also provided.

Nucleotide sequences of galactinol synthase from zucchini and soybean

Grain, produced by a starch bearing plant, which is homozygous recessive for the waxy gene and heterozygous for the amylose extender gene and also one of the dull, sugary, or shrunken genes yields a starch with novel functional properties which can be utilized for foodstuffs and other applications without chemical modifications.

Starch and grain with a novel genotype

Grain starch, produced by a starch bearing plant, which is heterozygous for the dull gene and homozygous recessive for the waxy and the amylose extender genes. The starch also has functional properties which can be utilized for foodstuffs and other applications without chemical modifications.

Grain, produced by a starch bearing plant, which is heterozygous for the dull gene and homozygous recessive for the waxy and the amylose extender genes. The invention also relates to starch with novel functional properties obtained from such grain which can be utilized for foodstuffs and other applications without chemical modifications.

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Newark, DE, United States of America

Richard W Pearlstein