A new Penstemon plant, particularly distinguished by its carmine flower color with white throat, early flowering, and good branching habit.

A new Penstemon plant, particularly distinguished by its red colored flower with white throat, early flowering, and good branching habit.

A new and distinct variety of Pennisetum alopecuroides plant named `PAV300` is characterized by its semi-dwarf and compact, dense growth habit with green-white variegated leaves that are finer and more narrow than other varieties of Pennisetum alopecuroides. `PAV300` is further characterized by a medium-sized inflorescence which is green with a purple tinge.

A new cultivar of Ceanothus named `FIT02` that is characterized by chocolate brown and dark purple mature foliage, an upright, vigorous habit, and small clusters of flowers in Summer. In combination these traits set `FIT02` apart from all other existing varieties of Ceanothus known to the inventor.

A new variety of Floribunda rose suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of bright orange coloration.

Method and system for preparing samples for use in electron microscopy. The method and system use a focused ion beam (FIB) instrument and a scanning electron microscope to improve the time efficiency of the FIB instrument. The FIB instrument incorporates machining means for preparing thin-film samples by ion beam irradiation. The scanning electron microscope incorporates a gas supply means and a manipulator equipped with a probe. The gas supply means ejects gas at the sample after it has been sh...

Polynucleotide, DNA constructs and methods are disclosed for the modification of cellulose content in plant tissues. Plants are transformed with constructs encoding either an active Anabaena sp. sucrose synthase gene or a soybean nodule sucrose synthase gene, which leads to increased cellulose content when over-expressed under the control of a cambium/xylem preferred promoter. Plant transformants harboring an Anabaena sp. or a soybean nodule sucrose synthase gene demonstrated increased content o...

The present invention relates to a seed composition and a method for reducing and, if desired, for preventing the release of pollen or functional pollen from genetically modified crops by cultivating fields stands of plants bearing target GMO traits in a male sterile version, i.e. without the ability to produce pollen or functional pollen.

The present invention is a method of growing and harvesting forskohlin-containing cultivars of the Coleus plant in North America and other geographic areas that results in increased yield of the phytochemical forskohlin per plant, as well as increasing rhizome and root biomass.

The present invention relates to a flowering-time and/or stem elongation regulator isolated from rice, which is selected from OsMADS50, OsMADSS1, OsMADS56, OsMADS14, OsTRX1, OsVIN1, OsCOL4 and OsCOLS, a DNA construct containing the regulator, a transgenic plant, a part thereof, and plant cell transformed with the DNA construct, and method to control flowering-time and/or stem elongation using the regulator. In the present invention, the flowering-time and/or stem elongation can be controlled, an...