813 results about "Plant species" patented technology

The invention provides compositions comprising polynucleotide molecules encoding certain pesticidal polypeptides which exhibit plant parasitic nematode and / or insect control properties, and are particularly directed to controlling plant parasitic pest species of nematodes and insects known to infest crop plant species. Methods for controlling pests are disclosed in which the toxic proteins are provided in the diet of the targeted plant pests. The invention also provides compositions such as nucleic acids, proteins, and plant and bacterial cells, plants, and seeds containing the nucleic acid and protein compositions, as well as methods and kits for identifying, detecting, and isolating the compositions of the present invention. The invention further provides a method of producing crops from recombinant seeds which contain the polynucleotide molecules encoding the pesticidal polypeptides of the present invention.

By this invention, modification of the fatty acid composition of a plant seed may be achieved as a result of the activity of a DNA sequence foreign to the plant species to be modified. In particular, it has been found that a plant oil having a modified fatty acid composition can be obtained upon the expression of genes derived from plants of different species than the host plant, upon the expression of genes derived from bacteria, and from the transcription of anti-sense sequences which are complementary to endogenous genes of the plant host cell. In a preferred embodiment, transcription of the fatty acid modifying foreign DNA sequence is restricted to the developing seed tissues.

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having improved tolerance to drought, shade, and low nitrogen conditions, as compared to wild-type or reference plants.

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant, including improved abiotic stress tolerance. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods to identify related sequences and is also disclosed.

By this invention, modification of the fatty acid composition of a plant seed may be achieved as a result of the activity of a DNA sequence foreign to the plant species to be modified. In particular, it has been found that a plant oil having a modified fatty acid composition can be obtained upon the expression of genes derived from plants of different species than the host plant, upon the expression of genes derived from bacteria, and from the transcription of anti-sense sequences which are complementary to endogenous genes of the plant host cell. In a preferred embodiment, transcription of the fatty acid modifying foreign DNA sequence is restricted to the developing seed tissues.

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased biomass or improved cold or other osmotic stress tolerance, as compared to wild-type or reference plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.

The present invention is directed to a method of preparation and the composition of a water soluble extract of the plant species Uncaria. The present invention is also directed to the pharmaceutical use of the composition for the enhancement of the immune, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and DNA repair processes of warm blooded animals. The present preparation of the water soluble extract of the plant species Uncaria results in the depletion of many of the ingredients which lead to various toxic side effects associated with other extracts or compositions derived from Uncaria. Also, the present preparation leads to the depletion of many of the active ingredients commonly associated with other extracts and compositions of the plant species Uncaria. Therefore, the present invention teaches that the hot water extraction of the crude plant parts of Uncaria and the subsequent dialysis of the solubilized products yields a low molecular weight composition which maintains a high degree of the anti-tumor, inflammatory and immune stimulatory activities associated with the crude plant parts.

PCT No. PCT / US93 / 04763 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 18, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 18, 1997 PCT Filed May 19, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93 / 23061 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 25, 1993A new class of general antiinfective agents extracted from pepper, ginger, and other plant species containing vanillyl and piperidine ring structures typical of the pungent principal found in pepper and ginger. The role of these structures, their attached hydrocarbons groups, and other agents found with the plant extract is demonstrated in the topical treatment of dermatophyte infections, tissue injuries, and abnormal proliferations of keratin.

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods is also disclosed.

Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure, among others, include compositions, gels, methods for synthesizing multifunctional silica based nanoparticle gel, method of treating, preventing, or both treating and preventing, a disease in a plant species, method for simultaneously treating citrus plants for citrus canker and preventing the invasion of an Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) vector that carries the pathogen and spreads the citrus greening disease in citrus plants, and the like.

The invention relates to a degraded wetland vegetation in-situ recovery method, which is characterized in that according to the method, a seed bank resource remained in selected degraded wetland soil is utilized for carrying out vegetation in-situ recovery. The method comprises the following steps that 1) a soil seed bank is surveyed, and whether the degraded wetland has the vegetation in-situ recovery conditions or not and the plant types with the advantages in the soil seed bank are determined; 2) the water supplementation is carried out on regions meeting the vegetation in-situ recovery conditions in the first step, and in addition, the ground surface water level and the soil moisture content are controlled; 3) the ground surface vegetation after the degraded wetland vegetation in-situ recovery in the second step is surveyed; and 4) the successfully recovered soil seed bank is surveyed to confirm the recovery completion. The method has the advantages that the self remained soil seed bank resource is sufficiently utilized, the operation is easy, the maintenance cost is low, the vegetation recovery is fast, the species diversity is high, and the popularization and the application are easy.

The present invention provides materials and methods relating to mildly polar fluid extracts of plant materials, such as Artemisia plant species, useful in methods for treating diabetes and methods for modulating the activity of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and in methods for modulating phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) activity in a diabetes-specific manner. The extracts are generally non-toxic and non-mutagenic and may be administered to diabetics with beneficial effect on blood glucose levels. The extracts may also be administered to non-diabetics without deleterious effect. The plants are easily grown with a minimum of time, labor, and cost. Extracts are inexpensively and quickly prepared without the need for fractionation to remove potentially deleterious compounds, and the extracts may be administered to mammals such as humans through various routes, in a variety of forms, and at convenient concentrations.

Novel methods for the expression of non-native genes in flax seeds and the seeds of other plant species are provided. The methods involve the use of seed-specific promoters obtained from flax. Additionally provided are novel flax seed-specific promoters, chimeric nucleic acid constructs comprising novel flax seed-specific promoters, transgenic plant cells, transgenic plants and transgenic plant seeds containing novel flax seed-specific promoters. The promoters and methods are useful, for example, for altering the seed oil and protein composition in flax seed or other plant seeds.

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, tolerance low nitrogen, cold and water deficit conditions, and resistance to disease, as compared to wild-type or other control plants.

The invention discloses a reconstruction method of submerged plant communities in shallow lakes. The method comprises the steps of field investigation, plant community construction, plant community regulation and control and maintenance and management. According to site conditions comprising water quality, topography and community composition investigated in field, firstly lakes to be restored are partitioned according to topographic conditions, such as water depth and the like; then suitable submerged plant species, planting methods and planting time are selected according to environment conditions of all zones; community construction is performed; manual regulation and control and management on the plants through modes of adding, replanting and submerged plant replacing, so that the plants can maintain certain biomass and biodiversity; finally a stable submerged plant community is formed. The method is simple and easy to operate, and has good application value.

A closed recirculating aquaponics system combined with a biofloc tank for symbiotic breeding of aquatic species and plant species, wherein the culture water for growing aquatic species is transferred to a plant growing apparatus, organic material in the culture water is used as nutrients for plant species and the water is purified in the plant growing apparatus, and purified water is reused as culture water for aquatic species to facilitate symbiotic breeding of aquatic species and plant species without any need of culture water exchange, reducing cost for production and enhancing production efficiency.

Methods of compiling a database of images of plant species and the use of the database to identify unknown plant species are described. Images of the apical complexes of the plant are obtained and stored in a database to allow a comparison of the apical complexes with unknown plant species. The invention provides a facile method for the identification of unknown or unidentified plant species.

The present invention is directed to a method of preparation and the composition of a water soluble extract of the plant species Uncaria. The present invention is also directed to the pharmaceutical use of the composition for the enhancement of the immune, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and DNA repair processes of warm blooded animals. The present preparation of the water soluble extract of the plant species Uncaria results in the depletion of many of the ingredients which lead to various toxic side effects associated with other extracts or compositions derived from Uncaria. Also, the present preparation leads to the depletion of many of the active ingredients commonly associated with other extracts and compositions of the plant species Uncaria. Therefore, the present invention teaches that the hot water extraction of the crude plant parts of Uncaria and the subsequent dialysis of the solubilized products yields a low molecular weight composition which maintains a high degree of the anti-tumor, inflammatory and immune stimulatory activities associated with the crude plant parts.

The invention relates to a device and a method for improving a saline land, wherein, the device comprises an isolation layer arranged on the partial periphery of an afforestation-waiting area, and a main blind drain and an auxiliary blind drain used for draining salt and alkali and arranged above the critical water level in the afforestation-waiting area, and the water outlets of the main blind drain and the auxiliary blind drain lead to a water-collecting well, the level surface of which is lower than the blind drains. The method comprises the flowing steps: arranging the isolation layer, laying the blind drains, constructing the water-collecting well, and improving physical and chemical soil properties. The invention has the advantages that the invention can fully use various solid wastes as main materials available to improve the saline land and conduct the improvement on the saline land through the combination of physical, chemical, biological methods; the various solid wastes can be used for constructing the main blind drain, the auxiliary blind drain and the water collecting well, and controlling the water table; a tree microarea is planted, physical and chemical soil properties on a surface layer are improved, and the salt content of the soil is reduced; and indigenous plants and new plant species with the saline-alkali resistance are selected for being planted, and the forestry afforestation and the landscaping are achieved through the post-stage nursing, long-term salinity control and alkaline control measures.

Methods of compiling a database of images of plant species and the use of the database to identify unknown plant species are described. Images of the apical complexes of the plant are obtained and stored in a database to allow a comparison of the apical complexes with unknown plant species. The invention provides a facile method for the identification of unknown or unidentified plant species.

The present invention relates to a dynamically adjustable LED plant light supplementing system and a dynamic dimming method. The system comprises an RGBW light supplementing lamp, a light supplementing lamp drive unit, an illumination intensity acquisition unit, a plant growth monitoring unit, a centralized control unit and a planting intelligence library. By utilizing the plant growth monitoringunit, the planting intelligence library and the illumination intensity acquisition unit, the illumination intensity, the light quality ratio, the light period and the illumination time distribution ofa plant lamp can be adjusted dynamically and automatically according to the plant type and the growth period, illumination parameters including a light quality combination, the light intensity of each single light quality, the running period of each single light quality and the alternating period of different light qualities can be set according to a light recipe, the growth stage of a plant is automatically judged without manual intervention, the light recipe is dynamically switched, any controllable illumination condition is provided in each growth stage, the plant growth of different plants is promoted, the plant quality is regulated and controlled, and efficient culture is realized.

The present invention provides materials and methods relating to mildly polar fluid extracts of plant materials, such as Artemisia plant species, useful in methods for treating diabetes and methods for modulating the activity of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and in methods for modulating phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) activity in a diabetes-specific manner. The extracts are generally non-toxic and non-mutagenic and may be administered to diabetics with beneficial effect on blood glucose levels. The extracts may also be administered to non-diabetics without deleterious effect. The plants are easily grown with a minimum of time, labor, and cost. Extracts are inexpensively and quickly prepared without the need for fractionation to remove potentially deleterious compounds, and the extracts may be administered to mammals such as humans through various routes, in a variety of forms, and at convenient concentrations.

Antioxidant cosmetic skin care compositions formulated to combat conditions associated with free radical damage and oxidative stress are provided. The compositions contain effective amounts of one of several active agents, including an agent derived from one or more of the plant species: Lycium barbarum, Punica granatum, Vitis vinifera, Aspalathus linearis, and Camellia Sinensis as well as cosmetically acceptable carriers. These cosmetic compositions find use in improving the appearance of aged or damaged skin.

A novel treatment for wart and related disorders such as papillomas derived from extracts of pepper, ginger, and related plant species containing vanillyl (FIG. 3), and piperidine (FIG. 7) ring structures typical of the pungent principals found in pepper, and ginger. The pepper extracts, which also possess antifungal properties are demonstrated in the topical treatment of warts.

The invention discloses a method for afforesting wall surfaces and side slopes with climbing-vine curtain wall, which comprises the following steps: (1) seed selection of plants: the plants having the climbing and hanging growth properties are selected; (2) planting containers are set: the planting containers are established according to the real situation and construction requirement of the slope surface; (3) filling of planting soil: the cured and finely-broken farming soil is filled; (4) supporting net racks are established and woven; (5) planting of plants: the plants having the climbing and hanging growth properties are planted with the traditional method; (6) later-period management: watering and fertilizer application are immediately carried out; (7) prevention of injurious insects: pesticide and germicide are sprayed. The method has the following advantages that the curtain wall supporting net racks are added, so the growth of the plant vines which climb upwards can be ensured to stay at a mighty state; the nutrition supply is required to be coordinated with the plant growth; the nature of the plants is satisfied through the order coordination and scientific guidance; the later-period management of the plant is fine; and the perennation permanent-green woody Leguminosae is used, so the afforesting coverage rate is improved, the source of the plants is vast, the choice is multiple, and the construction technical method is simple and convenient.

Herbal cosmetic skin care compositions formulated to combat conditions associated with oxidative stress are provided. The compositions contain effective amounts of one of several active agents, including an herbal agent derived from one or more of the plant species, as well as cosmetically acceptable carriers. Other agents that may be included are proteins, peptides, anti-inflammatory agents, and / or vasodilators. These cosmetic compositions find use in improving the appearance of aged or damaged skin.

A pest and disease identification method and device provided by the invention are applied to the data processing equipment, wherein the data processing equipment is pre-configured with a trained neural network model, and the neural network model is obtained by training leaf images and plant images of a plurality of diseased plants. The data processing equipment obtains a leaf image and a plant image of a to-be-identified plant, identifies the characteristics of the to-be-identified plant through the neural network model, and further obtains the type of the to-be-identified plant and the pest and disease damage type. Therefore, by combining the leaf image of the plant with the plant image of the plant, the identification rate of the plant species and the identification rate of the disease types of different plants are improved.