1565 results about "Brassica" patented technology

Oil produced from the seed of Brassica napus plant has an oleic acid content of 71.4-77.4% and a linoleic acid content of no more than 3%. The oil is useful in food and industrial applications. The oil has substantially improved oxidative stability relative to normal rapeseed oil, when both are identically treated with antioxidant.

A canola cultivar designated NQC02CNX21 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of canola cultivar NQC02CNX21, to the plants of canola NQC02CNX21, to plant parts of canola cultivar NQC02CNX21 and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing canola cultivar NQC02CNX21 with itself or with another canola line. The invention also relates to methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic canola plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to canola cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from canola cultivar NQC02CNX21, to methods for producing other canola cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from canola cultivar NQC02CNX21 and to the canola plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid canola seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the canola cultivar NQC02CNX21 with another canola cultivar.

Multiple shoot structures are induced from plant tissues (e.g., shoot apices or axillary buds on an artificial medium) to produce multiple shoot cultures. These multi-shoot cultures are then transformed by known transformation methods. Plants are subsequently regenerated from the transformed cells. Crops that may be efficiently transformed by this method include plants normally recalcitrant to transformation such as sugar beet, sunflower, soybean, cotton, tobacco, tomato, peanuts, melons, watermelon, squash, Brassica, and pepper.

This present invention provides a method for increasing fatty acid synthase activity in a plant by expressing a transgenic multifunctional fatty acid synthase (mfFAS) within the plant, wherein the plant is not of the Brassica species. In one embodiment, the present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding mfFAS proteins from various sources for this purpose, and vectors containing same.

The present invention includes nuclear fertility restorer genes, proteins encoded by those genes and transgenic plants and plant cells containing those genes. More particularly, the nuclear fertility restorer genes can be used to restore fertility in cytoplasmic male-sterile plants such as Brassica napus. Preferably, the nuclear fertility restorer genes are used with the Ogura (ogu) CMS system in Brassica napus.

The invention discloses an external plaster for treating hyperplasia of mammary glands, which is prepared from raw materials of bupleurum root, radix paeoniae alba, radix curcumae, rhizoma cyperi, green tangerine orange peel, dried tangerine peel, ginseng, tuckahoe, rhizoma atractylodis alba, semen coicis, raw licorice, Chinese angelica, radix astragali, chicken gizzardskin, brassica alba boiss, scrophulariaceae, sesame oil, camphor powder and the like according to a traditional method for decocting a black plaster. The external plaster mixes the medicaments into a plaster and is applied to niduses or relative acupuncture points to play a role of smoothing the liver, invigorating the spleen, tonifying the kidney and dispersing accumulation of pathogens. The external plaster achieves the aims of promoting qi and blood, regulating yin and yang, warming kidney to invigorate yang, discharging liver and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation by removing blood stasis, softening hard lumps and dispelling nodes, and regulating thoroughfare and conception vessels.

Plants are disclosed that contain a mutation in a delta-12 or delta-15 fatty acid desaturase gene. Preferred plants are rapeseed and sunflower plants. Plants carrying such mutant genes have altered fatty acid composition in seeds. In one embodiment, a plant contains a mutation in a region having the conserved motif His-Xaa-Xaa-His, found in delta-12 and delta-15 fatty acid desaturases. A preferred motif has the sequence His-Glu-Cys-Gly-His. A preferred mutation in this motif has the amino acid sequence His-Lys-Cys-Gly-His. Nucleic acid fragments are disclosed that comprise a sequence of at least 20 nucleotides from a mutant delta-12 or delta-15 fatty acid desaturase gene.

The present invention provides methods of marker assisted selection for high oleic / low linolenic traits in canola and in other oil seed crop species, as well as isolated nucleic acids for use as molecular markers in such methods. In particular, molecular markers and Brassica nucleic acid corresponding to fad2 and fad3 gene mutations are disclosed. The markers of the present invention are highly useful for the direct selection of desirable fad2 and fad3 alleles during marker-assisted trait introgression and breeding. In a one aspect of the embodiment, two single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are provided which correspond to the alleles. Thus, the present invention advantageously permits one of skill in the art to breed for the molecular markers described herein, or derivatives thereof, rather than breeding for a high oleic / low linolenic phenotype.

The present invention provides a method for processing defatted oil seeds, comprising the steps of: (a) solubilizing at least a portion of the protein contained in the oil seeds to produce suspended residual solids and a first solution comprising protein, phenolic-protein complexes, and free phenolic compounds; (b) separating at least a portion of the free phenolic compounds from the first solution and recovering a free phenolic reduced solution; and (c) treating the free phenolic reduced solution to precipitate at least a portion of the protein as a precipitated protein isolate and recovering a treated solution containing a soluble protein isolate. Novel protein products are also disclosed. Food and drink products containing the novel protein products are also disclosed.

This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.

The invention provides a Chinese patent medicine for treating cough, asthma and tuberculosis and pertains to pharmaceuticals. The medicine is prepared by ginseng, lepidium seed, creat, bitter apricot kernel, black plum, fruit of Chinese magnoliavine, ginger-processed pinellia, earthworm, Chinese yam rhizome, walnut meat, cordate houttuynia , ballonflower, astragali, large-headed atractylode , ledeboruiella root, rosewood, arisacma consanguineum, winter blooming, gingko nut, lily, mint, fruit of purple perilla, globe amaranth, Chinese holly leaf, puff-Ball, oyster, pummelo peel, brassica alba boiss, radix stemonae, wartwort, pubescent holly root, rabdosia, zornia gibbosa spanoghe, ginger, Chinese ephedra, dyer woad root, white swallowwort, Japanese ardisia herb, black nightshade, Chinese globeflower and coix seed which are combined according to different weights. The medicine fully utilizes a prescription principle of improving immunity and disease resistance, supporting the healthy energy, reinforcing vital energy, clearing heat-toxin, promoting blood circulation for removing blood stasis, diminishing inflammation and alleviating pain, removing heat from the lung and dissolving phlegm and relieving cough and asthma and has the advantages of quick and significant curative effect, wide application and no side effect.

The present invention relates to a new and distinctive canola cultivar, designated DN040244A. Also included are seeds of canola cultivar DN040244A, to the plants, or plant parts, of canola DN040244A and to methods for producing a canola plant produced by crossing the canola DN040244A with itself or another canola cultivar, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of canola DN040244A.

The invention relates to an eating five-element corn-vegetable-fruit health product comprising more than 40 raw materials, such as naked oat flour, cichory flour, bitter almonds, coixseeds, white lablab seeds, burdocks, white turnips, white fungi, yam, ginkgo, coconuts, highland barley, brassica campestris, green tea powder, cowberries, green apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cacti, spirulina, Chinese goosebeeries, black tartary buckwheats, agaricus blazei murill, blackcurrant, mulberry powder, black kerneled rice, teata glycinis, niger seeds, dried purple seaweed, mushrooms, black fungi, Tibetan red beans, and the like, which is white, green, black, red or yellow corn-vegetable-fruit grains or integrative five-color corn-vegetable-fruit grains prepared by a specific technology. The eating five-element corn-vegetable-fruit health product is produced on the basis of a traditional Chinese medical five-element theory and a modern nutriology theory, has excellent raw materials, edible safety, pure taste and rich nutrition, is especially used for raw foods, provides complete, balanced and reasonably-matched nutrients for a human body, has obvious opsonization for sub-health physiques and various chronic diseases, is easy to industrially popularize and has positive social and economic benefits.

In one aspect, of the invention provides novel tetraploid Brassica plants having no more than two expressible FAD2 coding sequences, capable of producing canola quality oils. Other aspects of the invention provides new variants of the FAD2 enzyme, comprising BjFAD2-b and BjFAD2-a, as well as nucleic acid sequences encoding such peptides. Other aspects of the invention includes nucleic acid sequences upstream from the BjFAD2-b or BjFAD2-a ORFs. Other aspects of the invention include transgenic plants and plant parts. Vectors capable of transforming plant cells are provided, comprising the nucleic acids of the invention, including FAD2 coding sequences. Corresponding methods are provided for obtaining the transgenic plants of the invention. Methods are provided for using the plants of the invention, including selected plants and transgenic plants, to obtain plant products. Amplification primers for identifying the FAD2 coding sequences of the invention are provided, together with methods of obtaining plants using the FAD2 coding sequences of the invention as markers.

The invention discloses a fruit retention agent as well as a preparation method and a use method of Feizixiao litchis. The fruit retention agent is prepared from amino acid, calcium acetate, borax, fulvic acid, p-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, gibberellin, forchlorfenuron and brassinolide. The fruit retention agent for the Feizixiao litchis is applied to the fruit retention of the Feizixiao litchis ten days after blossom falls in the mode of cluster spraying. The relative fertile fruit percentage of the fruit retention agent is 8.37 percent, which is improved by 37.70 percent compared with that of a contrast, and the weight of single fruit is not influenced. The fruit retention agent has low cost, simple preparation and simple and convenient operation and is easy of large-scale popularization. The fruit retention agent for the Feizixiao litchis is also suitable for the fruit retention of other varieties of litchis.

The invention belongs to the field of rape molecular breeding, and relates to preparation of specific molecular markers of related genes MINI3 and TTG2 of the brassica napus grain weight. Double haploid colony (DH) is constructed with brassica napus I A 254 as a female parent and a brassica napus I A 177 as a male parent through hybridization, and the DH colony genotype and the thousand seed weight data are analyzed to obtain a QTLs locus of grain weight character. The MINI3 and the TTG2 genes of the IA254 and the IA177 are cloned by using a homology based candidate gene method, specific molecular markers MINI3a and TTG2a of the MINI3 and the TTG2 genes are designed according to sequence different locuses, and the molecular markers MINI3a and TTG2a are located on two grain weight QTLs locus of an A5 linkage colony for related verification and application, which proves that the molecular marker prepared by the invention is a novel genetic marker. The gene sequence is obtained firstly. The invention provides a novel marker for the molecular breeding of the brassica napus grain weight, and also provides useful information for candidate gene clone and marker auxiliary selection of thethousand seed weight character locuses of the brassica napus.

A harvester for brassicas, the harvester being movable along a plant row and comprising an endless conveyor orientated in the direction of the plant row, the conveyor being of generally tubular form defined by opposed rows of arcuate conveyor fingers movable from an open condition in which free ends of the opposed fingers are spaced so as to define a generally tubular configuration which is open at one side to a closed condition in which the free ends of the opposed fingers are adjacent to define a generally closed tubular configuration, the conveyor having an upper run and a lower run, the conveyor being configured at its forward end portion so that the fingers are in their open condition during transition from the upper run to the lower run and move downwardly onto a plant to be harvested so as to move foliage away from the plant head and to allow the plant head to enter the interior of the conveyor through the open side, with the fingers then moving to a closed condition to thereby capture the plant head with the interior of the conveyor, the harvester further comprising means for cutting the plant stem whereby the plant head severed from the remainder of the plant can be carried by the conveyor for discharge from the conveyor when the fingers by which the head has been retained are returned to their open condition.

The invention belongs to the feed for breading domestic animals, in particular relates to health care feed for a sow in the perinatal period, which comprises main feed prepared by 645 portions of corn, 30 portions of corn protein meal, 100 portions of wheat bran, 180 portions of bean pulp, 20 portions of fish meal, 5 portions of calcium hydrogenphosphate, 10 portions of mountain flour, 10 portions of mineral compositions and vitamins, which sum to 1000 portions; 15 traditional Chinese medicine compositions are added in the main feed as follows: 0.7 portion of radix bupleuri, 0.7 portion of bitter orange, 0.7 portion of motherwort, 0.7 portion of platycodon root, 0.7 portion of atractylodes macrocephaia, 0.7 portion of tuckahoe, 0.7 portion of selfheal, 0.7 portion of radix scutellariae, 0.5 portion of brassica alba boiss, 0.5 portion of radish seed, 0.5 portion of rhizoma cyperi, 0.5 portion of ophiopogon root, 0.8 portion of angelica, 0.8 portion of radix codonopsitis and 0.8 portion of liquorice, which sum to 10 portions, wherein the medicine compositions occupy 1 percent of the total weight of the feed, the sow after being fed by the health care feed can rapidly recover the function, and the feed improves the fertility and the premunition, increases the appetite, and promotes the digestion.

The invention relates to a compound humic acid liquid fertilizer which uses water as a solvent and comprises humic acid, abundant nutrients and a plant growth regulator. The compound humic acid liquid fertilizer is prepared from the following components in percentage by mass: 12-20% of fulvic acid, 10-15% of urea, 16-24% of potassium dihydrogen phosphate, 0.3-0.5% of compound sodium nitrophenolate, 0.3-0.5% of sodium naphthaleneacetate, 0.2-0.3% of sodium alginate, 2-2.5% of sucrose and the balance of water. Every mu of soil needs 250-300mL of stock solution, and the stock solution is dilutedby 80-100 times, and sprayed on the foliage or poured to the root. The field plot experiment on fertilizer efficiency indicates that by using the compound humic acid liquid fertilizer, the yield of Brassica chinensis is increased by 8-9%, the yield of rapes is increased by 7-8%, and the yield of strawberries is increased by 22.9%.

The invention belongs to the field of regulation and control of plant growth, and particularly relates to a plant growth regulator composition for regulating and controlling the treetop growth of a fruit tree. The plant growth regulator composition comprises the following effective components used for regulating and controlling the plant growth: prohexadione calcium, compound sodium nitrophenolate / diethyl aminoethyl hexanoate / sodium naphthalene acetate / triacontanol / brassinolide / 6-benzyladenine; the plant growth regulator composition is diluted to the concentration of 150-800 mg / kg by being blended with water in terms of effective components to be used for regulating and controlling the growth of the fruit tree. Compared with the prior art, the plant growth regulator composition disclosed by the invention solves the problem that treetop control, flower promotion and safety yield increase are difficult to synchronize in a fruit tree treetop control process, induces the nutrient elements to be transmitted and concentrated to fruits by regulating the ratio of the growth hormone, cytokinin and gibberellin of the fruit tree during a growth period, enhances the flowering rate, enhances the fruiting rate, achieves the effects of inhibiting vegetative growth and promoting reproductive growth, is obvious in yield increase effect and outstandingly improves the quality of the fruits.

The invention discloses a method for preparing vegetation concrete greening additive AB bacteria, belonging to the field of ecological restoration of high and steep rocky side slope and aiming at solving the problem in vegetation concrete ecological slope protection technology that the substrate has a bad structure and is easy to harden so as to inhibit seeds of plants from sprouting and growing due to the addition of cement. The vegetation concrete greening additive AB bacteria comprises peanut shell, powdery coal cinder, peat soil, calcium superphosphate, compound fertilizer, urea, carboxymethyl cellulose, agar powder, polyacrylamide, brassinolide, naphthylacetic acid, indoleacetic acid, compound sodium nitrophenolate, gibberellin, and triacontanol, and is prepared in multiple steps. The additive is added while the vegetation concrete substrate is sprayed, so that beneficial microbial communities are increased, the transparent commutativity of the substrate is improved, the buffer capacity of rhizospheric environment is improved, and the growing activity of the plant is improved.

The present application provides Brassica INDEHISCENT1 (BIND) sequences.

The present invention includes nuclear fertility restorer genes, proteins encoded by those genes and transgenic plants and plant cells containing those genes. More particularly, the nuclear fertility restorer genes can be used to restore fertility in cytoplasmic male-sterile plants such as Brassica napus. Preferably, the nuclear fertility restorer genes are used with the Ogura (ogu) CMS system in Brassica napus.

A construction method for antagonistic Trichoderma-Brassica napus joint adsorption of heavy metals cadmium and zinc in farmland soil in the field of metal adsorption technology, by inoculating bacterial agents prepared by adsorbing heavy genus antagonistic Trichoderma strains to bacteria containing Cd or Zn and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum The soil of the wheat grain culture is further used to cultivate Brassica napus and obtain the Trichoderma-rape symbiont with high efficient adsorption of heavy metals. The invention realizes the dual purposes of bioremediation of heavy metal pollution in farmland soil and treatment of soil-borne diseases, has good repair effect, low cost, is easy to manage and operate, and does not produce secondary pollution, so it has high universal use value in the field.

The invention provides a natural brassica campestris L. seed health-care pillow and a manufacturing method thereof. The health-care pillow comprises a pillow core and a pillowslip. The filling material in the pillow core is brassica campestris L. seed which is fumigated by the following Chinese medicaments: cloves, pricklyash peel, perilla, cassiabark, pomelo skin, rhizoma kaempferiae, bitter orange, michelia hedyosperma, camphor, peppermint, tangerine peel, orange fibers, sandalwood, costustoot, climbing groundsel herb, szechuan lovage rhizome, white peony, sessile stemona root, XXX, star anise, perfoliote knotweed herb, xanthium sibiricum patr, drug sweetflag rhizome, Chinese atractylodes rhizome, dahurian angelica root, ageratum, fortune eupatorium herb, elecampane inula root, desmodium leaf, , fineleaf schizonepeta herb and the like. The pillowslip is filled with cubeb, clove mother and narringin. The health-care pillow can have effects of promoting the blood circulation of the human body, protecting the skin of the head and the neck, subdhing swelling and detoxicating and strengthening the memory.