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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Classification Scheme

Note: Individual columns represent subtechnologies within a broader technological classification. Cell contents represent examples, where applicable.

Plant Technologies
Nutrition, etc. Agronomic applications Physical structure and plant function Plant organisms, cultivars, germplasm Male sterility/ self- incompatability Other plant technologies
Nutritional Characteristics Disease Resistance Flowering Organisms    
Pigmentation Insect Resistance Flowering Timing Cultivars    
Vitamin Control Yield Seed Shattering Germplasm    
Amino Acid Content Drought Tolerance Fruit/ Seed Set Inbred Lines    
Starch Content Herbicide Tolerance/ Resistance Parthenocarpy Gene Sequences    
Fat/Lipid Modification Cold Tolerance Embryogenesis      
Lignin Heat Tolerance Vernalization      
Cellulose Other        
Other          

Patented Organisms, non-plant
Transformed agricultural animals Cloned agricultural animals Other transgenic animals Microorganisms Fungi
    Nematodes insects Rhizobium Agrobacterium Yeast
        Other fungi

Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Plants
Plant growth regulators Enzymes Timing and control of gene expression
Auxins   Targeted gene knockout
Gibberelins   Gene targeting
Cytokinins   Gene silencing
Abscisic Acid   Antisense
Ethylene   Co-suppression
    Gene expression systems
    Promoters
    Chimeric promoters
    Enhancer of gene expression
    Suppresssor of gene expression
 
Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes in Animals
Animal growth regulators Enzymes Timing and control of gene expression Animal reproduction
Bst, etc   Targeted gene knockout  
Lymphokines   Gene targeting  
Cytokines   Gene silencing  
    Antisense  
    Co-suppression  
    Gene expression systems  
    Promoters  
    Chimeric promoters  
    Enhancer of gene expression  
    Suppresssor of gene expression  

Protection, Nutrition and Biological Control of Plants and Animals
Biotechnology pest regulation Microorganisms used for biological control Microorganisms used for other plant protection purposes Fertilizer Food and food additives from biotechnology
        Single cell proteins
        Vitamins
        Food additives
        Feed additives
        Feedstuffs
        Flavors and thickeners
        Strain improvement for bioindustrial fermentation, etc.

Pharmaceuticals
Veterinary pharmaceuticals Human pharmaceuticals Antibodies

Genetic Transformation
Transform- ation platforms Muta-genesis Genetic markers Selectable marker techniques Culture growth, cell different-iation, etc. Transform- ation stability/ heritability Diagnostic techniques
Agrobacterium mediated Mutant screen/assay Reporter gene (e.g. nidA/GUS, GFP) RFLP Micro-propagation   ELISA
Micro-projectile bombardment Insertion mutant Selectable marker genes RAPD Anther culture   Monoclonal antibodies
Electroporation Site-specific mutagenesis Marker excision Microsatellite markers Embryo rescue   Nucleic acid probes
Microinjection     AFLP Protoplast fusion   PCR
      SNPs In vitro germplasm conservation and exchange   DNA amplification
      SLPs In vitro insemination   Rolling circle amplification
        In vitro insemination   Reporter genes
            Biosensors
             DNA microarrays

Metabolic Pathways and Biological Processes, DNA-scale
Recombination systems (CRELOX, FLP recombinase) Protein stability Protein localization Trans-cription factor Trans-criptional regulator Post-transcriptional regulation Post-translational modification
Receptor (plant only) T-DNA (plant only) Ds element, Ac element (plant only) Spm element Activation tagging Gene tagging RNA stability

Genomics
DNA micro-array Genome or EST sequencing High throughput DNA sequencing Functional genomics Proteomics (including gene expression systems) Protein sequencing RDA (represent-ational difference analysis)
SAGE (serial analysis of gene expression) Subtractive hybridization Chromosome walking Chromosome landing Bulked segregant analysis Bioinformatics: DNA and protein sequence analysis Bioinformatics: data storage and manipulation

 

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Updated date: February 19, 2004