Dow Agrosciences LLC

Weiting W Ni

Donald J Merlo

Scott Bevan

Timothy Denver Hey

Thomas Meade

Baolong Zhu

Scott B Bintrim

Patricia C Apel-Birkhold

Amanda D Schleper

Ze Sheng Li

Ignacio Mario Larrinua

Joel Jay Sheets

Joseph F Petolino

Dayakar Reddy Pareddy

Avutu Sambi Reddy

Jon Christopher Mitchell

Qihua C Cai

Gregory Alan Bradfisch

Zhifang Gao

Sun Yuejin

Jon C Michell

This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of RING proteins in plants.

Plants having stress related traits and methods for making the same

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the expression of protein. Embodiments of methods may comprise the cleavage and repair of a nucleotide sequence encoding a highly expressed protein leading to a reduction in the expression of the highly expressed protein.

Protein production in plant cells and associated methods and compositions

The subject invention relates to the surprising discovery that toxin complex (TC) proteins, obtainable from, and, can be used interchangeably with each other. In particularly preferred embodiments of the subject invention, the toxicity of a 'stand-alone' TC protein (from, or, for example) is enhanced by one or more TC protein 'potentiators' derived from a source organism of a different genus from which the toxin was derived. As one skilled in the art will recognize with the benefit of this disclosure, this has broad implications and expands the range of utility that individual types of TC proteins will now be recognized to have. Among the most important advantages is that one skilled in the art will now be able to use a single set of potentiators to enhance the activity of a stand-aloneprotein toxin as well as a stand-aloneprotein toxin. (As one skilled in the art knows,toxin proteins tend to be more desirable for controlling lepidopterans whiletoxin proteins tend to be more desirable for controlling coleopterans.) This reduces the number of genes, and transformation events, needed to be expressed by a transgenic plant to achieve effective control of a wider spectrum of target pests. Certain preferred combinations of heterologous TC proteins are also disclosed herein. Other objects, advantages, and features of the subject invention will be apparent to one skilled in the art having the benefit of the subject disclosure.

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The subject invention relates to noveltoxin complex (TC) proteins and genes that encode these proteins. More specifically, the subject invention relates to TC genes and proteins obtainable fromstrain Xwi.

Second TC complex from xenorhabdus

The subject invention relates to the surprising discovery that toxin complex (TC) proteins, obtainable fromandcan be used interchangeably with each other. In particularly preferred embodiments of the subject invention, the toxicity of a 'stand-alone' TC protein (fromorfor example) is enhanced by one or more TC protein 'potentiators' derived from a source organism of a different genus from which the toxin was derived. As one skilled in the art will recognize with the benefit of this disclosure, this has broad implications and expands the range of utility that individual types of TC proteins will now be recognized to have. Among the most important advantages is that one skilled in the art will now be able to use a single set of potentiators to enhance the activity of a stand-aloneprotein toxin as well as a stand-aloneprotein toxin. (As one skilled in the art knows,toxin proteins tend to be more desirable for controlling lepidopterans whiletoxin proteins tend to be more desirable for controlling coleopterans.) This reduces the number of genes, and transformation events, needed to be expressed by a transgenic plant to achieve effective control of a wider spectrum of target pests. Certain preferred combinations of heterologous TC proteins are also disclosed herein. Other objects, advantages, and features of the subject invention will be apparent to one skilled in the art having the benefit of the subject disclosure.

Mixing and matching TC proteins for pest control

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