Patents and Plant Patents
June, 2004-July, 2005
From the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Project: 0346 Physiological and Biochemical Markers of Potato Seed-Tuber Age and Their Relevance to Production.
Knowles; Norman R. (Pullman, WA); Knowles; Lisa O'Rear (Pullman, WA); Use of Alpha Beta Unsaturated Aliphatic Aldehydes and Ketones to Inhibit Potato Tuber Sprouting." US Patent No. 6,855,669, filed February 15, 2005.
Project: 0377 Production Horticultural and Integrated Management Systems of Grapes
Tarara; Julie M. (Prosser, WA); Ferguson; John C. (Grandview, WA); Pierce; Francis J. (Prosser, WA); Pitts; Marvin J. (Genesee, ID); Hyde; Gary M. (Pullman, WA); Wample; Robert L. (Clovis, CA); Baritelle; Andre L. (Napa, CA); "Apparatus and Method for Measuring the Mass of Vegetation or Fruit Supported on a Trellis." US Patent No. 6, 854,337, filed February 15, 2005.
Project: 0326 Enhance Market Quality by Improving Fruit Finish in Apple
Kammereck; Rudolf (Wenatchee, WA); Schrader; Lawrence E. (Wenatchee, WA); "Use of Clay and Lipid Formulations to Protect Horticultural Crops from Sunburn and Insect Damage." US Patent No. 6,857,224, filed February 22, 2005.
From the Institute of Biological Chemistry
Project: 0202 Unraveling the Molecular Interactions at Lignin Initiation Sites and in Heartwood Formation
Xia; Zhi-Qiang (Dedham, MA); Costa; Michael A. (Pullman, WA); Davin; Laurence B. (Pullman, WA); Lewis; Norman G. (Pullman, WA); "Recombinant Secoisolariciciresinol Dehydrogensase, and Methods of Use. US Patent No. 6,911,330, filed on June 28, 2005.
Project: 0253 Lipid Biosynthesis in Leaves and Seeds
Tilton; Gregory B. (Pullman, WA); Shockey; Jay M. (Pullman, WA); Browse; John A. (Pullman, WA); "Acyl coenzyme A thioesterases. " US Patent No. 6,878,861, filed April 12, 2005.
Browse; John A. (Palouse, WA); Spychalla; James P. (Antigo, WI); "?-3 Fatty Acid Desaturase ." US Patent No. 6,884,921, filed on April 26, 2005.
Browse; John A. (Palouse, WA); Wallis; James G. (Moscow, ID); Watts; Jennifer L. (Moscow, ID); "Desaturases and Methods of using Them for Synthesis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids." US Patent No. 6,825,017, filed November 30, 2004.
Project: 0268 Biochemistry of Plant Terpenoids
Croteau; Rodney Bruce (Pullman, WA); Crock; John E. (Moscow, ID); "Isolation and Bacterial Expression of a Sesquiterpene Synthase cDNA Clone from Peppermint (Mentha x piperita,L.) that Produces the Aphid Alarm Pheromone (E) -Beta- Farnesene." US Patent No: 6,846,659, filed January 25, 2005.
Croteau; Rodney B. (Pullman, WA); Walker; Kevin D. (Pullman, WA); Schoendorf; Anne (Pullman, WA); Wildung; Mark R. (Colfax, WA). "Nucleic Acid Molecules Encoding 10-Deacetylbaccatin III-O-Acetyl Transferase and Related Products." US Patent No. 6,818,755, filed November 16, 2004.
Croteau; Rodney B. (Pullman, WA); Schoendorf; Anne (Bossey, FR); Jennewein; Stefan (Pullman, WA); "Cytochrome P 450 Oxygenases and their Uses." US Patent No. 6,787,343, filed on September 7, 2004
Project: 0197 The Flexibility of the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis
Kramer; David M. (Pullman, WA); Sacksteder; Colette A. (St. Paul, MN); "Non-Focusing Optics Spectrophotometer and Methods of Use." US Patent No. 6,813,024, filed November 2, 2004.
2004-2005 Annual Report
- Letter from the Director
- Peer Reviewed Publications
- Patents
- Plant Variety Releases
- Expenditures
- Scientists' Projects