DeltaShade is an attractive perennial, vegetatively propagated Stenotaphrum secundatum (St. Augustine grass) having a bright green color, shade tolerance, cold tolerance and a semi-dwarf leaf blade.

A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which abundantly forms attractive double yellow suffused with red blossoms having a very strong fragrance. The plant exhibits a semi-erect growth habit, very dense dark green foliage with a glossy aspect, and good resistance to Black Spot and Powdery Mildew. The attractive dark green foliage contrasts nicely with the blossom coloration. The new variety is particularly well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in parks and ...

The present invention discloses methods and compositions comprising a group of novel expression cassettes which provide significantly improved levels of accumulation of Coleopteran inhibitory Cry3B and Cry3B variant amino acid sequences when these are expressed in plants. The preferred embodiments of the invention provide at least up to ten fold higher levels of insect controlling protein relative to the highest levels obtained using prior compositions. In particular, transgenic maize expressing...

The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.

We describe a transgenic plant with altered expression of a gene that encodes a sequence variant of a transcription factor and which has altered seed dormancy.

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing plant yield relative to control plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield comprising increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a MYB (DNA-binding) domain transcription factor (MYB-TF) polypeptide. In a particular embodiment, the present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield comprising prefere...

By inhibiting the function of a transcription factor that promotes transcription of a gene associated with the amounts of lignin and cellulose, a plant in which the amounts of lignin and cellulose are reduced without reducing the amount of glucan is produced. In this plant, glucan in the obtained cell wall components is in the state of highly easily undergoing saccharification. In this plant, moreover, natural dehiscence of pods is suppressed. A method of inhibiting the transcription factor incl...

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D4203144. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D4203144. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D4203144 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D4203144 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.

The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D4696658. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D4696658. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D4696658 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D4696658 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.

Disclosed is a complete plant MAP kinase cascade (e.g., MEKK1, MKK4/MKK5, and MPK3/MPK6) and WRKY22/WRKY29 transcription factors that function downstream of the flagellin receptor FLS2, a leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) receptor kinase. Activation of such a MAPK cascade confers resistance to both bacterial and fungal pathogens. Also disclosed are disease-resistant plants expressing one or more members of this MAP kinase signaling cascade. Such members include constitutively active MEKK1 (.DELTA.MEKK1)...