Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Other

University of California

Virginia C Crane

Carl R Simmons

Eric J Schepers

Jeanne Sandahl

James Kevin Presnail

Nasser Yalpani

Steven P Briggs

Jacob T Gilliam

Daniel J Altier

Tamas Torok

Jennie Hunter-Cevera

Natalia Ellanskaya, Legal Representative

Douglas A Rice

Irina Ellanskaya

Donald Adelphi Baldwin

Stephen M Allen

Jennifer Kara Barry

James J English

Jon Duvick

Otto Folkerts

Oswald R Crasta

Ingrid Udranszky

Kevin A Fengler

Yogesh Kumar Sharma

Jeanne M Sandahl

I A Ellanskaya

IA Ellanskaya

Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, Hemipteran, fungi and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.

Plant derived insecticidal proteins and methods for their use

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the tissue-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.

Maize promoter active in silk and pericarp tissues

Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from fungal fermentation broths. Nucleic acids that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention are also disclosed.

Isolated nucleic acids encoding antipathogenic polypeptides and uses thereof

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a tissue-preferred maize promoter. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequence disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.

Maize promoter active in silks, stalk nodes, roots and leaf sheaths

The invention relates to compositions including amino acid sequences isolated from fungal fermentation broths and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen.

Antifungal polypeptides

Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense response are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding a maize proteinase inhibitor-like protein is provided. Nucleotide sequences comprising the proteinase inhibitor-like promoter are also provided. Methods of using the promoter to express nucleic acid sequences of interest are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and the plant defense response. Plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed transformed with the proteinase inhibitor-like gene or its promoter are also provided.

Maize proteinase inhibitor-like polynucleotides and defense-activated promoter, transformed plants, and methods of use

The invention relates to the genetic manipulation of plants, particularly to the expression of genes involved in oxylipin metabolism in plants. Nucleotide sequences encoding homologues of Old Yellow Enzyme, and inducible promoters and proteins thereof, are provided. The sequences find use in modifying oxylipin metabolism in plants, increasing the resistance of plants to stress, regulating gene expression in plants, and in the production of oxylipins in plants.

Polynucleotides encoding monocot 12-oxo-phytodienoate reductases and methods of use

Histone deacetylases and nucleotide sequences encoding said histone deacetylases are provided. The sequences as well as corresponding antisense constructs are useful for modulating gene activity in plants. Additionally, the sequences are useful for enhancing disease resistance in transformed plants.

Maize histone deacetylases and their use

The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for inducible and constitutive promoters isolated from a family of maize genes encoding pathogenesis-related (PR-1) proteins. Methods for regulating expression of a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant in an inducible or constitutive manner are provided. The methods comprise transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one of the inducible or constitutive promoters of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell. Transformed plants and seeds are also provided.

Maize PR-1 gene promoters

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Des Moines, CA, United States of America

Virginia C Crane