Syngenta Participations Ag

Syngenta Corporation

Basf Enzymes LLC

Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc.

Verenium Corporation

Yan Zhang

Peter Luginbuhl

Ellen Burke

Malgorzata Slupska

Geoff Hazlewood

Michelle H Cayouette

Aron Silverstone

Cathy Chang

Majid Ghassemian

Timothy Robert Hawkes

Russell Colin Viner

Glynn Mitchell

Uvini Gunawardena

Paul Anthony Thompson

Stephen Thomas Hadfield

Robert Ernest Troxler

Matthew Marchese

William Sanders

Shengsheng Zhang

Xuejun Sean Zhong

Uvini Gunavardena

Aron Silverston

Andrew DeBrecht

Michelle Cayouette

An apparatus for testing paving samples includes a base that includes a paving sample tray about the cabinet and configured for translation relative to the cabinet. A roller is configured for imparting compressive forces to a sample carried by the sample tray. An arm is configured for moving the roller from a stowed position to an in-use position where the roller contacts the sample. A cylinder assembly having a piston therein supplies pressure forces to the arm to move the arm from the stowed position to the in-use position, wherein a depth of travel of the arm is limited by the sample. As the sample is compressed, the depth of travel increases. A measurement device is in communication with the cylinder for determining an amount of travel of the arm to thus determine an amount of compression of the sample.

Apparatus, method, and associated system for testing a pavement material sample

In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides having an amylase and/or glucoamylase activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods for making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the polypeptides of the invention can be used as amylases, for example, alpha amylases, to catalyze the hydrolysis of polysaccharide, oligosaccharide or starch into sugars. In one aspect, the invention provides delayed release compositions comprising an desired ingredient coated by a latex polymer coating. In alternative embodiments, enzymes are used to make biofuels, e.g., ethanol, butanol, propanol, or a gasoline-ethanol mix, including a bioethanol, biopropanol, biobutanol, or a biodiesel, or for any form of fuel or biomass processing.

Amylases and glucoamylases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them

A method of producing male or female sterile plants comprising the steps of transforming plant material with a polynucleotide which encodes at least one enzyme which reacts with a non-phytotoxic substance to produce a phytotoxic one, and regenerating the thus transformed material into a plant, wherein the said non-phytotoxic substance is applied to the plant up to the time of male or female gamete formation and/or maturation, so that the non-phytotoxic substance provides for the production of a phytotoxic one which selectively prevents the formation of or otherwise renders the said gametes non-functional, wherein the enzyme is expressed preferentially in either male or female reproductive structures, characterised in that (i) the non-phytotoxic substance is D-phosphinothricin and (ii) the enzyme is a D-amino acid oxidase.

Method of selectively producing male or female sterile plants

A method of producing male or female sterile plants comprising the steps of transforming plant material with a polynucleotide which encodes at least one enzyme which reacts with a non-phytotoxic substance to produce a phytotoxic one, and regenerating the thus transformed material into a plant, wherein the said non-phytotoxic substance is applied to the plant up to the time of male or female gamete formation and/or maturation, so that the non-phytotoxic substance provides for the production of a phytotoxic one which selectively prevents the formation of or otherwise renders the said gametes non-functional, wherein the enzyme is expressed preferentially in either male or female reproductive structures, characterized in that (i) the non-phytotoxic substance is a D-alpha amino acid, and (ii) the enzyme is a D-amino acid oxidase.

The present invention is directed to C-terminal truncated &#x3b1;-amylase polypeptides, nucleic acid sequences encoding the truncated &#x3b1;-amylase polypeptides, and methods of using the same. Further provided are expression cassettes, plants and plant parts expressing the nucleic acid sequence encoding the truncated &#x3b1;-amylase. Expression of the truncated &#x3b1;-amylase in a plant cell results in enhanced accumulation of biologically-active &#x3b1;-amylase, or enhanced secretion of the &#x3b1;-amylase from the plant cell, compared to the accumulation or secretion of a full length &#x3b1;-amylase.

Truncation of the C-terminal end of alpha-amylase

A method of producing male or female sterile plants comprising the steps of transforming plant material with a polynucleotide which encodes at least one enzyme which reacts with a non-phytotoxic substance to produce a phytotoxic one, and regenerating the thus transformed material into a plant, wherein the said non-phytotoxic substance is applied to the plant up to the time of male or female gamete formation and/or maturation, so that the non-phytotoxic substance provides for the production of a phytotoxic one which selectively prevents the formation of or otherwise renders the said gametes non-functional, wherein the enzyme is expressed preferentially in either male or female reproductive structures, characterised in that (i) the non-phytotoxic substance is a D-alpha amino acid, and (ii) the enzyme is a D-amino acid oxidase.

Method for selectively producing male or female sterile plants

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