A new cultivar of Carex morrowii, `Ice Ballet`, characterized by its variegated foliage with creamy white margins and green centers with wider margins than is typical for other variegated cultivars of Carex morrowii, a clumping forming but slowly spreading habit with suitable use as a groundcover, a vigorous growth rate, and hardiness in at least U.S.D.A. Zones 4 to 9.

A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which abundantly forms attractive double bicolored blossoms that are yellow bordered with red in coloration. The plant exhibits a vigorous growth habit, semi-glossy dark green foliage, and very good disease resistance. The dark green foliage contrasts nicely with the lighter colored blossoms. The new variety is particularly well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape such as in parks and gardens.

The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a scanning probe microscope (SPM) nanoneedle probe using ion beam which is preferably focused ion beam and a nanoneedle probe thereby. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for fabricating a SPM nanoneedle probe capable of being easily adjusted with an intended pointing direction of a nanoneedle attached on a tip of the SPM nanoneedle probe and of being easily straightened with the nanoneedle attached on the tip of ...

The invention relates to an atomic force microscope tip characterization tool. An atomic force microscope uses a very fine exploration tip placed at the end of an elastic cantilever beam and an optical system for exploring movements of the beam in contact with a relief to be explored. The shape of the exploration tip must be known, and to this end a tool is used, placed in an atomic force microscope, the known shapes whereof are used to derive the shape of the tip. The tool of the invention incl...

The present invention relates to a head-forming lettuce plant of the species Lactuca sativa having red leaves throughout the head, including the heart. The red leaves in the heart are red even in the absence of radiation with wavelengths shorter than 400 nm, wherein the absence of radiation with wavelengths shorter than 400 nm is in the growing environment during the complete period from sowing until observation. The ratio between anthocyanin and chlorophyll is between 4 and 50, preferably betwe...

The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.

Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependant for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intracellularly in living plant cells.

The subject invention provides novel amino acid sequences (including a consensus sequence) of the Avian Influenza A virus hemagglutinin protein. These newly constructed genes are designed to provide a broader spectrum of activity across the serotype family thus providing a basis for a vaccine that has broad heterologous disease protection. The novel genes have been further improved by the addition of strategic glycosylation sites into the amino acids sequences that they encode. These genes can a...

The present invention relates to a process for increasing the phosphate content of starches of genetically modified plant cells in comparison with starches from corresponding wild-type plant cells by introducing a foreign nucleic acid molecule which codes for a soluble starch synthase II. The present invention furthermore relates to the overexpression of this soluble starch synthase II in the genetically modified plant cells. Furthermore, the present invention relates to rice starch and rice flo...

The present invention relates to a method for producing syringyl lignin in gymnosperms. The production of syringyl lignin in gymnosperms is accomplished by genetically transforming a gymnosperm genome, which does not normally contain genes which code for enzymes necessary for production of syringyl lignin, with DNA which codes for enzymes found in angiosperms associated with production of syringyl lignin. The expression of the inserted DNA is mediated using host promoter regions in the gymnosper...