Glenn Charles Collins

US Patent:

6476293, Nov 5, 2002

Filed:

Oct 1, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/410023

Inventors:

Arthur G. Hunt - Lexington KY
Glenn B. Collins - Lexington KY
Christopher Lawrence - Lexington KY
Qingshun Li - Lexington KY
Santanu Dasgupta - Bangalore, IN

Assignee:

University of Kentucky Research Foundation - Lexington KY

International Classification:

A01H 300

US Classification:

800279, 800301, 435 691, 435 701, 435194, 435414, 435183, 435419, 435418, 4353201, 536 232, 536 237, 536 241

Abstract:

An isolated gene fragment that encodes for acetate kinase, which confers disease resistance in plants is disclosed. The gene can be cloned into an expression vector to produce a recombinant DNA expression system suitable for insertion into cells to form a transgenic plant transformed with the gene fragment. A method for conferring disease resistance in plants that consists of growing plant host cells transformed with the expression system and expressing the gene conferring disease resistance to impart such resistance to host cells is also disclosed.

US Patent:

20020144309, Oct 3, 2002

Filed:

Feb 8, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/067989

Inventors:

Randy Dinkins - Lexington KY, US
Glenn Collins - Lexington KY, US

International Classification:

A01H001/00
C12N009/02
C12P021/02
C12N005/04

US Classification:

800/282000, 435/189000, 435/320100, 435/419000, 435/069100

Abstract:

The present invention concerns transgenic plant which contain large chloroplasts. The transgenic plant of the present invention comprises within its genome a foreign MinD or MinE gene or a foreign gene which expresses a protein which has the same functional activity as the MinD or MinE protein. The present invention further concerns a method of producing the transgenic plants of the present invention which contain large chloroplasts. Finally, the present invention concerns a method of transforming the chloroplasts genome of the transgenic plants of the present invention which contain large chloroplasts.

US Patent:

50249444, Jun 18, 1991

Filed:

Jun 15, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/063342

Inventors:

Glenn B. Collins - Lexington KY
David F. Hildebrand - Lexington KY
Paul A. Lazzeri - Lexington KY
Thomas R. Adams - North Stonington CT
Wayne A. Parrott - Versailles KY
Lynn M. Hartweck - Lexington KY

Assignee:

Lubrizol Genetics, Inc. - Wickliffe OH
The University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Inc. - Lexington KY

International Classification:

C12N 1500
C12N 500

US Classification:

4351723

Abstract:

A method for somatic embryogenesis of soybean, (Glycine max), Glycine soja and other Glycine species is provided using immature cotyledon tissue, preferably with the embryonic axis removed, comprising culturing said tissue on a medium containing auxin, preferably NAA at a concentration of at least about 15 mg/l. A further method for such somatic embryogenesis is provided wherein the culture medium contains a synergistically acting lowered carbohydrate and auxin concentration. Particularly embryogenic cells of such tissue are identified and improved maceration methods for contacting such cells with regeneration and transformation media are disclosed. Methods for transforming somatic tissue from soybean and other Glycine species are also provided. Whole, fertile, transformed plants are obtained.

US Patent:

59293063, Jul 27, 1999

Filed:

Nov 15, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/749262

Inventors:

Rebecca S. Torisky - Raleigh NC
Glenn B. Collins - Lexington KY

Assignee:

University of Kentucky Research Foundation - Lexington KY

International Classification:

A01H 500
C12N 121
C12N 514
C12N 1586

US Classification:

800298

Abstract:

Disarmed A. tumefaciencs strain KYRT1, derived from a highly tumorigenic strain identified as A. tumefaciens strain Chry5. Disarming is accomplished by inactivation of plasmid pTiChry5 T-DNA sequences by, for example, deletion of sequences comprising the T-DNA right border. Methods of making transgenic plants using the novel A. tumefaciens strains are also provided.