A new and distinct Coreopsis plant named `Gold Nugget` characterized by prolific, large, bright yellow and maroon daisy-type flowers, grass green foliage, very free branching and flowering, long bloom time, and a mounding habit.
A new cultivar of Dianthus plant named `STARBURST` that is characterized by compact habit, grey-green foliage, and semi-double flowers that are cherry red with white markings. In combination these traits set `STARBURST` apart from all other existing varieties of Dianthus known to the inventor.
A new cultivar of Dianthus plant named `WATERLOO SUNSET` that is characterized by compact habit, grey-green foliage, and double flowers that are deep magenta red with a deep port wine colored center. In combination these traits set `WATERLOO SUNSET` apart from all other existing varieties of Dianthus known to the inventor.
A method of operating a scanning probe microscope (SPM) includes scanning a sample as a probe of the SPM interacts with a sample, and collecting sample surface data in response to the scanning step. The method identifies a feature of the sample from the sample surface data and automatically performs a zoom-in scan of the feature based on the identifying step. The method operates to quickly identify and confirm the location of features of interest, such as nano-asperities, so as to facilitate per...
A pattern is inspected by acquiring a scanning electron microscope picture of an inspection pattern, and acquiring a scanning electron microscope secondary electron signal profile of the inspection pattern. A determination is made as to whether the inspection pattern is defective by comparing the scanning electron microscope picture of the inspection pattern to a scanning electron microscope picture of a sample pattern, and by comparing the scanning electron microscope secondary electron signal ...
Disclosed herein is an expression cassette containing a polynucleotide encoding an IFN.alpha.2b polypeptide and having two overlapping primers at a 5' end encoding a polyhistidine tag and a thrombin cleavage site fused to the polypeptide, the expression cassette carried by a vector competent for integrating the expression cassette in a plastid genome. Also disclosed is a transgenic plastid, preferably a chloroplast, containing a genome transformed by integration of an expression cassette having ...
A method is disclosed for the Agrobacterium-mediated germline genetic transformation of soybean. The method is based on Agrobacterium-mediated gene delivery to individual cells in a freshly germinated soybean meristem, which cells can be induced directly to form shoots that give rise to transgenic plants. This method does not involve callus-phase tissue culture and is rapid and efficient.
The present invention describes an alternative approach to increase GABA production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes, namely by the insertion of the putrescine catabolic pathway in organisms where the pathway does not exist or has not clearly been identified. The invention describes methods for the use of polynucleotides that encode functional putrescine aminotransferase (PAT) and gamma-aminobutyricaldehyde dehydrogenase (GABAlde DeHase) polypeptides in plants to increase GABA production. The prefer...
Linoleic acid is converted into .gamma.-linolenic acid by the enzyme .DELTA.6-desaturase. The present invention is directed to isolated nucleic acids comprising the .DELTA.6-desaturase gene. More particularly, the isolated nucleic acid comprises the promoter, coding region and termination regions of the .DELTA.6-desaturase gene. The present invention provides recombinant constructions comprising the .DELTA.6-desaturase coding region in functional combination with heterologous regulatory sequence...
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a root-preferred promoter and terminator isolated from the maize MSY coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably lin...
