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Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property: Standard Tables

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Top 100 patent holders, U.S. and non-U.S., universities and nonprofits only
Rank U.S. and non-U.S., universities and nonprofits only Utility patents held
    Title (patent number)  
 Number
1 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 315
     Semi-solid fermentation of straw (3937845)  
     Method of preparing feed grain compositions (3968254)  
     Solubilization of protein with ethanol-acetonitril-water solvent system (3975343)  
     Vaccine production process (4049494)  
     Method of producing soybean milk yoghurt (4066792)  
     Insolubilization of enzymes on modified phenolic polymers (4113567)  
     Cross-protective fowl cholera bacterins (4136169)  
     Vaccine for foot and mouth disease (4140763)  
     Method for insolubilizing enzymes on chitosan (4167447)  
     Process for in vivo transfer of cell-mediated immunity in mammals with alcoholic precipitates of Bovine Transfer factor (4180627)  
     Serum cell growth promoting materials (4189535)  
     Process for increasing oleoresin synthesis in pinus species (4203253)  
     Method of removing pigment from annatto seed (4204043)  
     Method of increasing the yield of hydrocarbons from plants (4204859)  
     Apparatus for fermenting liquids (4205133)  
     Process for improving the palatability of straw for animal feed (4243686)  
     Biological control system (4246258)  
     Foam flotation process for separating Bacillus thuringiensis sporultion products (4247644)  
     Tree rooting using synthetic auxins (4297125)  
     Method of controlling the European corn borer with trewiasine (4315929)  
     Method of increasing the yield of hydrocarbons from plants (4322242)  
     Turkey semen extender (4329337)  
     Erythro-9,10-Dihydroxyoctadecan-1-ol acetate a boll weevil anti-feedant (4337271)  
     Recessive tall--a fourth genetic element to facilitate hybrid cereal production (4351130)  
     Conversion of D-xylose to ethanol by the yeast Pachysolen tannophilus (4359534)  
     Propagation of hemorrhagic enteritis virus in a turkey cell line and vaccine produced (4388298)  
     Control of sicklepod, showy crotalaria, and coffee senna with a fungal pathogen (4390360)  
     Auxin compositions of N-phenyl and N-chloro phenyl indolyl-3-alkylene amides and their use as auxin growth regulators (4411684)  
     Process for conversion of cellulose to amino acids by radiofrequency plasma of nitrogen and hydrogen (4414084)  
     Auxin compositions of phenyl thioesters of indole-3-alkanoic acids and their use as auxin growth regulators (4415350)  
     Control of prickly sida, velvetleaf, and spurred anoda with fungal pathogens (4419120)  
     Strain of Corynebacterium Fascians and use thereof to reduce limonoid bitterness in citrus products (4447456)  
     Method for screening bacteria and application thereof for field control of diseases caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis (4456684)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to porcine immunoglobulins (4468346)  
     Sensitive and rapid diagnosis of viroid diseases and viruses (4480040)  
     Strain of Trichoderma viride to control fusarium wilt (4489161)  
     Preparation of an entomopathogenic fungal insect control agent (4530834)  
     Control of bean rust with Bacillus subtilis (4582704)  
     Irradiation alcohol fermentation process (4631258)  
     Bioherbicide for Florida beggarweed (4643756)  
     Method for screening bacteria and application thereof for field control of Pythium spp. on small grain crops (4647533)  
     Process for enhanced fermentation of xylose to ethanol (4663284)  
     Lactic acid bacteria which do not decarboxylate malic acid and fermentation therewith (4666849)  
     Preparation of pellets containing fungi and nutrient for control of soilborne plant pathogens (4668512)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus antigen (4678746)  
     Novel enzymes which catalyze the degradation and modification of lignin (4687741)  
     Enhancement of nitrogen-fixation with rhizobial tan variants (4711656)  
     Control of eastern black nightshade with a fungal pathogen (4715881)  
     Control of pests with annonaceous acetogenins (4721727)  
     Method for controlling yellow nutsedge using Puccinia canaliculata (4731104)  
     Novel phytotoxic and plant growth regulating oligopeptide (4735651)  
     Postharvest biological control of stone fruit brown rot by bacillus subtilis (4764371)  
     Method for the preparation of mycoherbicide-containing pellets (4767441)  
     Control of parasitic nematode ova with Bacillus sphaericus (4781922)  
     Vaccine for swine trichinosis (4795633)  
     Yeast strains genetically engineered to produce wheat gluten proteins (4826765)  
     Enzyme immobilization with a hydrolyzed polysaccharide graft copolymer (4845035)  
     Control of pests with annonaceous acetogenins (4855319)  
     Starch encapsulation of entomopathogens (4859377)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to bluetongue virus antigen (4873189)  
     Heat-stable, salt-tolerant microbial xanthanase (4886746)  
     Synthetic gene for acyl carrier protein (4888282)  
     Revertant serotype 1 Marek's disease vaccine (4895717)  
     Serotype 2 Marek's disease vaccine (4895718)  
     Multiple embedded nuclear polyhedrosis virus from celery looper with activity against lepidoptera (4911913)  
     Octadienyl acetate synergist for the grape root borer pheromone (4931032)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to crystal protein of Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis (4945057)  
     Acetate selected bacillus thuringiensis and the method of use (4950471)  
     Biocontrol of grey-mold in pome fruits using Acremonium breve (4950472)  
     Simple and rapid method for detection of virulent Yersinia enterocolitica (4952497)  
     Control of insects by Roseotoxin B (4956343)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to soybean kunitz trypsin inhibitor and immunoassay methods (4959310)  
     Microbial production of L-altrose (4966845)  
     Cellulolytic, N.sub.2 -fixing bacteria and use thereof (4973559)  
     Control of insects by fungal tremorgenic mycotoxins (4973601)  
     Novel system for monitoring and controlling the papaya fruit fly (4992268)  
     Method for making a soluble dietary fiber composition from oats (4996063)  
     Avian herpesvirus amplicon as a eucaryotic expression vector (4996152)  
     Heat-stable, salt-tolerant microbial xanthanase (4996153)  
     Vectors for gene insertion into avian germ line (4997763)  
     Novel compositions and process for inhibiting digestion in blood-sucking insects (5011909)  
     Production of taxol or taxol-like compounds in cell culture (5019504)  
     Enhancement of nitrogen fixation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutants (5021076)  
     Novel virus composition to protect agricultural commodities from insects (5023182)  
     Bovine monoclonal antibodies to bovine herpesvirus I from sequential fusion heterohybridomas (5026646)  
     Method for screening bacteria and application thereof for field control of the weed downy brome (5030562)  
     Oligonucleotide probes complementary to and methods for distinguishing Treponema hyodysenteriae RNA sequences (5034315)  
     Control of hemp sesbania with a fungal pathogen Colletotrichum truncatum (5034328)  
     Avian interleukin-2 (5034513)  
     Pichia guilliermondii (Anamorph Candida guilliermondii) useful for the biological control of postharvest rots in fruits (5041384)  
     Control of parasitic nematode ova/larvae with a bacillus laterosporus (5045314)  
     Biological control of fruit rot (5047239)  
     Adherent, autoencapsulating spray formulations of biocontrol agents (5061697)  
     Fungal formulation for biocontrol of soilborne plant pathogens (5068105)  
     Lactose hydrolysis by mutant streptococcus thermophilus (5071763)  
     Method of making soluble dietary fiber compositions from cereals (5082673)  
     Acyl carrier protein-I/protein-A gene fusion, products and methods (5087563)  
     Bovine monoclonal antibodies to bovine herpesvirus I from sequential fusion heterohybrodimas (5087693)  
     Diagnostic and epidemiological nucleic acid probe for bovine leptospirosis (5091301)  
     Enzymatic processing of materials containing chromium and protein (5094946)  
     Monoclonal antibodies which discriminate between strains of citrus tristeza virus (5104789)  
     Cloned genes coding for avian coccidiosis antigens which induce a cell-mediated immune response (5122471)  
     Compositions and methods for biocontrol using fluorescent brighteners (5124149)  
     Xylose-fermenting yeast mutants (5126266)  
     Aromatic aldehydes and alcohols as potato tuber sprout inhibitors (5129951)  
     Monoclonal antibody immunoassay kit for avian reticuloendotheliosis virus (5130232)  
     DNAs Encoding mosquito oostatic hormones (5130253)  
     More virulent biotype isolated from wild-type virus (5132220)  
     Method to preselect the sex of offspring (5135759)  
     Method for producing lilium elegans (5138794)  
     Inhibition of potato spouting using volatile monoterpenes (5139562)  
     Biocontrol of jointed goatgrass (5163991)  
     Method to obtain intact, viable protoplasts from pollen grains (5169776)  
     Control or elimination of undesirable bacteria using parasitic Bdellovibrio bacteria (5171591)  
     Cloning of the Babesia bovis 60 KD antigen (5171685)  
     Brucella abortus antibody detection methods (5188936)  
     Adventitious citrus juice vesicles from pre-existing juice vesicles (5196336)  
     Lactose hydrolysis by mutant Streptococcus thermophilus (5198351)  
     Oligodeoxynucleotide probes for Campylobacter fetus and Campylobacter hyointestinalis (5202425)  
     Introduction of bacteria in ovo (5206015)  
     Salmonella-Selective plating medium (5208150)  
     Antibodies to cytokinins having a glycosylated isoprenoid side chain and immunoassay methods (5210077)  
     Quick assay for detection of salmonella (5212067)  
     Pseudorabies diagnosis probes (5215881)  
     Genetically engineered microorganisms containing a gene segment coding for a lipase from Rhizopus delemar (5219753)  
     Amylodextrin compositions and method therefor (5225219)  
     Approaches useful for the control of root nodulation of leguminous plants (5229114)  
     Method of altering sphingolipid metabolism and detecting fumonisin ingestion and contamination (5232837)  
     Diagnostic assays for genetic mutations associated with bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency (5234810)  
     Hybridomas and monoclonal antibodies therefrom reactive toward antigens from Edwardsiella ictaluri (5238824)  
     Biocontrol of postharvest rots in fruit (5244680)  
     Production of eicosapentaenoic acid from filamentous fungi utilizing lactose as a primary carbon source (5246842)  
     Attached growth biological reactor (5246854)  
     Process for enzymatic ultrafiltration of deamidated protein (5250305)  
     Biological control of weeds using AAL-toxin (5256628)  
     Biological pesticide derived from Nicotiana plants (5260281)  
     Enzymatic production of maltohexaose-rich compositions (5266467)  
     Enzymatic processing of materials containing chromium and protein (5271912)  
     25 KD coccidial antigen of eimeria tenella (5279960)  
     Non-aflatoxigenic aspergillus parasiticus strains and their use in controlling aflatoxin contamination (5292661)  
     Method for the control or prevention of aflatoxin contamination using a non-toxigenic strain of Aspergillus flavus (5294442)  
     New matter of composition and method for using the same as plant bioregulators (5298483)  
     Probiotic for control of Salmonella (5308615)  
     Industrial alkaline protease from shipworm bacterium (5312749)  
     Inhibition of postharvest fruit decay by 2-nonanone (5334619)  
     Probiotic for control of salmonella (5340577)  
     Pheromonostatic peptide used to disrupt mating of the corn earworm, helicoverpa zea (5344821)  
     Anti-pathogenic bacterial strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens (5348742)  
     Pseudorabies virus deletion mutants involving the EPO and LLT genes (5352596)  
     Methods of high frequency tissue regeneration, regeneration of herbicide-tolerant populus plants therewith, and the herbicide-tolerant plants made thereby (5354943)  
     Biological treatment for controlling wood deteriorating fungi (5356624)  
     Starch-thickened acidic foodstuffs and method of preparation (5356655)  
     Oil and absorbent coated granules containing encapsulated living organisms for controlling agricultural pests (5358863)  
     Materials and methods for control of pests (5358934)  
     Xylanase from streptomyces roseiscleroticus NRRL-11019 for removing color from kraft wood pulps (5369024)  
     Recombinant fowlpox vaccine for protection against Marek's disease (5369025)  
     Species-specific DNA-DNA hybridization probe prepared using chromosome size DNA (5401630)  
     Vaccine comprising fowlpox virus recombinants expressing the envelope glycoprotein of an avian reticuloendotheliosis retrovirus (5403582)  
     Heliothis subflexa cell line for the production of baculoviruses (5405770)  
     Strains of Cryptococcus used to biologically control postharvest rots in fruit (5405778)  
     Inhibiting plant pathogens with an antagonistic microorganism(s) (5413783)  
     Olpidium zoospores as vectors of recombinant DNA to plants (5416010)  
     Detection of Xanthomonas campestris pv. citri by hybridization and polymerase chain reaction assays (5420009)  
     Gypsy moth virus with enhanced polyhedra production stability (5420031)  
     DNA encoding the Trichinella spirals 53kD excretory/secretory antigen for use as immunodiagnostic reagents (5422263)  
     Biological control of diseases of harvested agricultural commodities using strains of the yeast Candida oleophola (5425941)  
     Natural suppression of sprouting in stored potatoes using jasmonates (5436226)  
     DNA encoding peptide hormone that inhibits digestion in insects (5439821)  
     Method of administering IGF-1, IGF-2, and analogs thereof to birds (5444045)  
     Diagnostic assay for bacteria based on fragment amplification using insertion sequence location (5447844)  
     Monoclonal antibodies against chicken T-lymphocytes (5449610)  
     Nucosal competitive exclusion flora (5451400)  
     High affinity monoclonal antibodies to Bowman-Birk inhibitor and immunoassay methods (5459044)  
     Use of rumen contents from slaughter cattle for the production of lactic acid (5459053)  
     Method of protecting plants from insects by applying gypsy moth virus with enhanced polyhedra production stability (5462732)  
     Pasteurella haemolytica subunit vaccine containing capsular polysaccharide and muramyl dipeptide (5462735)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to salinomycin and method for detecting the same (5466784)  
     Industrial alkaline protease from shipworm bacterium (5474700)  
     Solid phase bioremediation methods using lignin-degrading fungi (5476788)  
     Probiotic for control of salmonella (5478557)  
     Indole antiinsectan metabolites from the ascostromata of Eupenicillium shearii (5492902)  
     Enhanced insect resistance in plants genetically engineered with a plant hormone gene involved in cytokinin biosynthesis (5496732)  
     Method of removing color from wood pulp using xylanase from streptomyces roseiscleroticus NRRL B-11019 (5498534)  
     Method of altering sphingolipid metabolism and detecting fumonisin ingestion and contamination (5518879)  
     Cloned Babesia DNA (5518916)  
     Herbicidal control of sicklepod and coffee senna with Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (5529773)  
     Hepatocyte cell line derived from the epiblast of pig blastocysts (5532156)  
     Production of fructan (levan) polyfructose polymers using bacillus polymyxa (5547863)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to bovine haptoglobin and methods for detecting serum haptoglobin levels (5552295)  
     Bacteria for the control of fusarium dry rot to potatoes (5552315)  
     Low enhancement serotype 2 vaccine for marek's disease (5565202)  
     Polysaccharide products derived from lesquerella fendleri and methods of their production (5567812)  
     Maize chlorotic dwarf virus and resistance thereto (5569828)  
     Gypsy moth genotype assay (5571672)  
     Plant virus resistance gene and methods (5571706)  
     Pasteurella haemolytica transformants (5587305)  
     Composition containing 2-deoxy-D-glucose and Candida saitoana and a method of use for the biological control of postharvest diseases (5591429)  
     DNA sequence encoding surface protein of cryptosporidium parvum (5591434)  
     Probiotic for control of Salmonella in fowl produced by continuous culture of fecal/cecal material (5604127)  
     Non-infectious foot-and-mouth disease viruses (5612040)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to potato, tomato, and eggplant glycoalkaloids and assays for the same (5614408)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to hygromycin B and the method of making the same (5620890)  
     Plant transformation by gene transfer into pollen (5629183)  
     DNA encoding peptide hormone that inhibits digestion in insects (5629196)  
     Bioactive coating for harvested commodities (5633025)  
     Enzymatic process for the isolation of erucic acid from vegetable oils (5633151)  
     Merozoite proteins for use in detection of Babesia equi in horses using immunological techniques (5643737)  
     Citrus proteins for use in field detection of citrus blight using immunological techniques (5650151)  
     Glutenin genes and their uses (5650558)  
     Assay for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli 0157:H7 by the polymerase chain reaction (5652102)  
     Volatiles of Japanese honeysuckle flowers as attractants for adult Lepidopteran insects (5665344)  
     Avirulent geotrichum candidum for biological control of postharvest rots on fruit (5668008)  
     Inhibiting plant pathogens with an antagonistic microorganism(s) (5670368)  
     Steinernema sp. nematode for suppression of Helicoverpa zea and Spodoptera frugiperda (5674516)  
     Pasteurella haemolytica PhaI restriction endonuclcape and methyltranstesase (5683900)  
     Nuclear restorer genes for hybrid seed production (5684242)  
     Low phytic acid mutants and selection thereof (5689054)  
     Method to produce granulocyte colony stimulating factor from immortalized avian T lymphocytes and method to produce immortalized cells (5691200)  
     Use of N-methyl-aspartic acid for enhancing growth and altering body composition (5691377)  
     DNA encoding pasteurella haemolytica PhaI restriction endonuclease and methyltransterase (5693777)  
     Method of treating birds (5698193)  
     Microorganism strains that produce a high proportion of alternan to dextran (5702942)  
     Isolated protein from Eimeria useful as a cross species vaccine (5709862)  
     Bioactive compounds (5710099)  
     Apomictic maize (5710367)  
     Control of plant gene expression (5723765)  
     Control of fruit ripening through genetic control of ACC synthase synthesis (5723766)  
     Polypeptides useful in prevention of chlamydia infection (5725863)  
     Construction of Pasteurella haemolytica vaccines (5733780)  
     Biological control of diseases of harvested agricultural commodities using strains of the yeast candida oleophila (5741699)  
     Glucose and cellobiose tolerant .beta.-glucosidase from Candida peltata (5747320)  
     Development of a PCR-based method for identification of Tilletia indica, causal agent of Karnal bunt of wheat (5776686)  
     Inhibiting plant pathogens with an antagonistic microorganism(s) (5780023)  
     Bacterial control of Fusarium dry rot of potatoes (5783411)  
     Fungal inoculum preparation (5786188)  
     Bacteria and enzymes for production of alternan fragments (5786196)  
     Rapid screening method to select microorganism strains that produce a high proportion of alternan to dextran (5789209)  
     Enhanced insect resistance in plants genetically engineered with a plant hormone gene involved in cytokinin biosynthesis (5792934)  
     Culture medium for parasitic and predaceous insects (5799607)  
     Livestock mucosal competitive exclusion culture to reduce enteropathogenic bacteria (5807546)  
     Species-specific mitochondrial sequences for identification of Tilletia indica, the karnal bunt wheat fungus and methods of using said sequences (5811240)  
     Apomixis for producing true-breeding plant progenies (5811636)  
     Leader-proteinase deleted foot-and-mouth disease viruses and their use as vaccines (5824316)  
     Construction of Pasteurella haemolytica vaccines (5824525)  
     Method of removing color from kraft wood pulps (5834301)  
     Methods and compositions of adherent starch granules for encapsulating pest control agents (5837273)  
     Campylobacter jejuni flagellin/Escherichia coli LT-B fusion protein (5837825)  
     Molecular genetic construction of vaccine strains of pasteurellaceae (5840556)  
     Gonad-specific virus which causes sterility in the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea (5843429)  
     Attenuated revertant serotype 1 marek's disease vaccine (5849299)  
     Method of isolating strains of the Lymantria dispar nuclear polyhedrosis virus (5853982)  
     Bioactive compounds (5854178)  
     Bifunctional protein from carrots (Daucus carota) with aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase activities (5858749)  
     Cell line for propagating receptor binding site-deleted FMDV (5866416)  
     Species specific method for the PCR detection of phythophthora (5874221)  
     DNA encoding the Taenia crassiceps ten kilodalton antigen (5874251)  
     Vaccines and methods for preventing and treating fescue toxicosis in herbivores (5876726)  
     Thermostable .alpha.-L-arabinofuranosidase from Aureobasidium pullulans (5882905)  
     Strain of gypsy moth virus with enhanced polyhedra and budded virus production (5882913)  
     Viridiol deficient mutant strains of the biocontrol agent trichoderma virens, process of making and using as biocontrol agent (5882915)  
     Vaccines and methods for preventing and treating fescue toxicosis in herbivores (5885576)  
     Bacteria and enzymes for production of alternant fragments (5888776)  
     Campylobacteri jejuni flagellin-escherichia coli LT-B fusion protein (5888810)  
     Method to produce granulocyte colony stimulating factor from immortalized avian T lymphocytes to produce immortalized cells (5891443)  
     Campy-Cefex selective and differential medium for campylobacter (5891709)  
     Synthetic diet for rearing the hymenopterous ectoparasitoid, catolaccus grandis (5899168)  
     Complex growth supplement for maintenance of bacterial cell viability and induction of bacterial cell differentiation (5902742)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to ceftiofur (5908781)  
     Method and system for detecting fecal and ingesta contamination on the carcasses of meat animals (5914247)  
     Glutenin genes and their uses (5914450)  
     Control of fire blight on pome fruit trees with Erwinia herbicola (5919446)  
     Control of plant gene expression (5925808)  
     Pollen-based transformation system using solid media (5929300)  
     Steinernema Sp. nematode for suppression of Helicoverpa zea and Spodoptera frugiperda (5932237)  
     Artificial media for rearing entomophages comprising sticky, cooked whole egg (5945271)  
     Control of replant disease of tree fruits with Pseudomonas putida (5948671)  
     Competitive exclusion culture for swine (5951977)  
     Fungal species for the biological control of the sugarbeet root maggot (5955071)  
     Sequences for production of 2,4-Diacetylphloroglucinol and methods (5955298)  
     DNA sequences from potato encoding solanidine UDP-glucose glucosyltransferase and use to reduce glycoalkaloids in solanaceous plants (5959180)  
     Methods and compositions for the simultaneous control of the root diseases caused by gaeumannomyces graminis, rhizoctonia, and pythium (5972689)  
     Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome vaccine (5976537)  
     Control of plant gene expression (5977441)  
     Nuclear restorer genes for hybrid seed production (5981833)  
     Glutenin genes and their uses (5985351)  
     Species-specific genetic identification of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (5985576)  
     Methods for conferring insect resistance to a monocot using a perioxidase coding sequence (6002068)  
     Saccharomyces boulardii treatment to diminish campylobacter and salmonella in poultry (6010695)  
     Restriction enzyme screen for differentiating porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus strains (6015663)  
     Biological control of postharvest diseases of pome fruit with Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans (6017752)  
     Ubiquitin-lytic peptide fusion gene constructs, protein products deriving therefrom, and methods of making and using same (6018102)  
     Modified live Edwardsiella ictaluri against enteric septicemia in channel catfish (6019981)  
     Non-toxigenic strain of Aspergillus oryzae and Aspergillus sojae for biocontrol of toxigenic fungi (6027724)  
     Nucleic acid markers for apospory-specific genomic region (6028185)  
     Baculovirus for the control of insect pests (6042843)  
     Sequences for production of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol and methods (6051383)  
     Single-site amplification (SSA): method for accelerated development of nucleic acid markers (6054300)  
     Plant volatile elicitor from insects (6054483)  
     Production of antisera specific to major histocompatibility complex molecules in chickens (6075125)  
     Fungal gene encoding resistance to the phytotoxin cercosporin (6077995)  
     Recombinant baculovirus and its use as a biocontrol agent for crop pests (6087165)  
     Biological control of sprouting in potatoes (6107247)  
     Low phytic acid mutants and selection thereof (6111168)  
     Resolution of complex integration patterns to obtain single copy transgenes (6114600)  
     Vaccines and methods for preventing and treating fescue toxicosis in herbivores (6117427)  
     Biological control of plant disease on roots of conifer seedlings (6133196)  
     Enhanced yield of podophyllotoxin from natural products through in situ conversion methods (6143304)  
     Fungal inoculum preparation (6143549)  
     Stable insect virus-cell expression system (6143565)  
     Avian leukosis virus subgroup J envelope gene product for diagnosis and immunogenic composition (6146641)  
     PCR primers for detection of plant pathogenic species and subspecies of acidovorax (6146834)  
     Method and kit for extracting prion protein (6150172)  
     In ovo methods for utilizing live Edwardsiella ictaluri against enteric septicemia in channel catfish (6153202)  
     Control of fruit ripening through genetic control of ACC synthase synthesis (6156956)  
     Antibodies for the detection of prion protein as an indication of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (6165784)  
     `Tift 94` Bermudagrass (PP10079)  
     Bermudagrass named `TifEagle` (PP11163)  
     Douglas-fir tree "Torquis" variety (PP7553)  
     Apricot cv. Robada (PP9890)  
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     Amylase inhibitor from wheat gluten using alcohol (3950319)  
     Plant growth regulant compositions comprising 2-cyano-bicyclo[2,2,1]heptane (3979204)  
     Plant-growth-regulating compositions containing phospholanium salts (4021221)  
     Production of attenuated viruses (4039656)  
     Heterocyclic sulfonium salt containing plant-growth regulant compositions (4047923)  
     Method of regulating plant growth (4049418)  
     Treatment of infections in animals (4049794)  
     Methods and compositions for regulating plant growth using piperazine compounds (4057413)  
     Amino sugar derivatives (4062950)  
     Amino sugars and their use in improving the meat:fat ratio in animals (4065557)  
     Imidazolidinedione compounds and plant growth influencing compositions (4067721)  
     Method of inhibiting the growth of plants with phospholenium salts (4076517)  
     Novel phenoxycarboxylic acid aryloxy(thio)carbonylaminomethyl esters and their use for regulating plant growth (4090862)  
     Chlorine-substituted vinylaminobenzoic acid compounds and plant growth regulant compositions (4104049)  
     Deamino derivatives of the kallikrein-trypsin inhibitor (4118481)  
     Combating fungi and controlling plant growth with 1-amido-1-azolyl-2-hydroxy- or -keto-alkanes (4124369)  
     Aminomethanephosphonic acid compounds containing plant-growth regulant compositions (4127401)  
     Agents for regulating plant growth (4140518)  
     Agents for regulating plant growth (4150967)  
     Novel halogenoethyl sulphones and their use as plant growth regulators (4227918)  
     Plant growth regulating compositions and methods using alpha-isocyanocarboxylic acid compounds (4239528)  
     Method of regulating the growth of plants (4240820)  
     Alpha-isocyano-carboxylic acid amide compounds and plant growth regulant compositions (4261731)  
     Antibiotic, its production and its medicinal use (4264591)  
     Agents for regulating plant growth using 2-thiazolone-5-carboxylic acid compounds (4273573)  
     Novel .alpha.-isocyanocarboxylic acid compounds and plant growth regulant compositions (4292072)  
     Novel acyloxamides and plant growth regulant compositions (4293331)  
     Plant growth regulant compositions (4350520)  
     Preparations of micro-organisms (4391887)  
     Process for the preparation of the highly pure enzyme kallikrein from swine pancreas extracts (4393140)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating 1-azolyl-2-oximinobutane and use (4451281)  
     1-Vinyltriazole compounds and plant growth and fungicidal compositions (4486218)  
     Oil-in-water emulsions, and their use (4500348)  
     Combating pests with novel substituted carbamoyloximino-tetrahydrothiophenes and intermediates therefor (4501753)  
     Triazolylalkyl-thioether plant growth regulators and fungicides (4507141)  
     Benzyl-pyrimidinylalkyl-ethers as plant growth regulators and fungicides, and corresponding pyrimidinylcarbinols (4515617)  
     Method and compositions for regulating plant growth using pyrimidine-butanol compounds (4525204)  
     Synergistic mixtures of penicillins (4529591)  
     Cycloalkyl (.alpha.-triazolyl-.beta.-hydroxy)-ketones as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4530715)  
     Method and compositions for regulating plant growth using cycloalkane-carboxylic acid compounds (4554017)  
     Azolyl-thioether derivatives as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4559077)  
     Plant growth-regulating agents (4572734)  
     Triazolyl-alkanones or triazolyl-alkanols (4582843)  
     1-(substituted-phenoxy)-3-methyl-2-(pyrimidin-5-yl)-butan-2-ol useful as plant growth regulating agents (4584373)  
     Phenoxymethane derivatives for regulating plant growth (4588433)  
     (-)-Antipode of (E)-1-cyclohexyl-4,4-dimethyl-3-hydroxy-2-(1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-pent-1-ene (4592772)  
     N'-(substituted-pyrimidin-2-yl)-N"-substituted-N",N"'-bis-(substituted-benzenesulphonyl)-guanidines as herbicides (4602938)  
     5-amino-4-heterocyclyl-1-phenylpyrazoles (4614534)  
     Tetrahydrofuran-2-ylmethylamines and fungicidal and plant growth regulating use (4615725)  
     Substituted phenylsulphonylureas (4638004)  
     1-Vinyltriazole compounds and plant growth and fungicidal compositions (4647302)  
     Illuminating device for the optical, particularly image-analytical evaluation of microbiological objects (4665036)  
     Antibiotic for animal feeds (4670260)  
     Pure annonin and a process for the preparation thereof (4689232)  
     Use of substituted malonic acid derivatives as agents for combating pests (4698333)  
     Azolyl-thioether derivatives as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4699645)  
     5-perfluoroacylamino-4-nitro-1-arylpyrazole salts, plant growth regulating and herbicidal composition containing them, and plant growth regulating and herbicidal method of using them (4711658)  
     Novel substituted azolylvinyl ketones and carbinols as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4728356)  
     Halogenated triazolylvinyl keto and carbinol compounds and plant growth regulant and fungicidal compositions (4729783)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating novel substituted 1-hydroxyalkyl-azolyl derivatives (4734126)  
     1-aryl-5-alkoximinoalkylamino-pyrazoles, composition containing them, herbicidal and plant-growth regulating method of using them, and intermediates in the preparation of them (4740231)  
     1-vinyltraiazole compounds and plant growth and fungicidal composition (4743293)  
     Triazole derivatives (4744817)  
     1-vinyltriazole compounds and plant growth and fungicidal compositions (4749405)  
     Pure annonin and a process for the preparation thereof (4762716)  
     5-dichloroacetamido-4-nitro-1-aryl-pyrazoles, composition containing them, and herbicidal and plant growth regulating method of using them (4764202)  
     Agent for regulating plant growth (4765823)  
     5-azido- or 5-phosphoroimido-1-arylpyrazoles, composition containing them, and herbicidal and plant growth regulating methods of using them (4770688)  
     4-cyano(nitro)-5-oxy(thio)-pyrazole derivatives, composition containing them, and herbicidal and plant growth regulating methods of using them (4770692)  
     Microbiological production of livestock growth-promoting agent (4770876)  
     5-acylamino-pyrazole derivatives, composition containing them, and their use as herbicides and plant growth (4772310)  
     Triazolyl-alkanones or triazolyl-alkanols (4772623)  
     Triazolyl-alkanones or triazolyl-alkanols (4776877)  
     Imidazo-pyrrolo-pyridines useful as fungicidal and growth-regulating agents (4785002)  
     5-amino-1-phenyl-pyrazole herbicides and plant growth regulators (4787930)  
     1-hydroxyethyl-azole compounds and agricultural compositions (4789672)  
     5-Fluoroacylamino-4-nitro-1-aryl-pyrazoles (4808209)  
     Novel 1-aryl-4-nitro-pyrazole herbicides and plant growth regulators, compositions and use (4810283)  
     Substituted 1-arylpyrazoles, compositions and use (4812165)  
     Pyri(mi)dyl-oxy-and -thio-benzoic acid derivatives useful as herbicides and plant growth regulants (4871387)  
     1-hydroxyethyl-azole compounds and agricultural compositions (4871390)  
     Substituted azolylcyclopropyl-azolylmethyl-carbinol derivatives (4875928)  
     Fungicidal and plant-growth regulating azolyl ether ketones and alcohols (4878939)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating azolyl-tetrahydropyran derivatives (4888048)  
     1-hydroxyethyl-azole compounds and agricultural compositions (4897107)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating novel substituted 1-hydroxyalkyl-azolyl derivatives (4904296)  
     1-Hydroxyethyl-azole compounds and agricultural compositions (4904298)  
     1-hydroxyethyl-azole compounds and agricultural compositions (4911746)  
     Triazolyl alkanones or triazolyl-alkanols (4912122)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating azolylmethyl-cyclopropyl derivatives (4913727)  
     Fungicidal and plant-growth regulating azolyl ether ketones and alcohols (4917720)  
     2-Hydroxyethyl-azole derivatives (4921529)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating hydroxyalkyl-azolyl derivatives (4925482)  
     Efomycin G and it's use as yield promoter in animals (4927810)  
     Substituted azolylmethylcarbinols (4935049)  
     1-arylpyrazoles, compositions and use (4936892)  
     Plant growth-regulating azolyl spiro compounds (4936907)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating hydroxyethyl-azolyl derivatives (4938791)  
     Hydroxyalkyl-azolyl derivatives as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4960453)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating novel substituted 1-hydroxyalkyl-azolyl derivatives (4960456)  
     Herbicidal and plant growth-regulating substituted phenoxyphenylsulphonylazoles, compositions and use (4969948)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating hydroxyalkylazolyl derivatives (4983208)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating cyclopropyl-hydroxyethyl-azolyl-derivatives (4988383)  
     N-aryl-substituted nitrogen-containing heterocycles, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5006148)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth-regulating azolylmethyl-cyclopropyl derivatives (5034052)  
     Herbicidal and plant growth-regulating substituted N-aryl nitrogen heterocycles (5039334)  
     Herbicidal and plant growth-regulating N-aryl-pyrrol-L-one and isoindol-2-one compounds (5045108)  
     Substituted triazolinone herbicides and plant growth regulators (5061311)  
     Efomycins as performance promoters in animals (5073369)  
     Herbicidal and plant growth-regulating 6-(pent-3-yl)-1,2,4-triazin-5(4H)-ones (5076833)  
     Substituted triazolinone herbicides and plant growth regulators (5262389)  
     Substituted 4,5-diamino-1,2,4-triazol-3-(thi)ones (5276008)  
     Process for the production of stiffening materials containing hydraulic binders, in particular plaster bandages (5308642)  
     Use of lysozyme gene structures in plants to increase resistance (5349122)  
     Pinosylvine synthase genes (5391724)  
     Triazolyl-alkanones or triazolyl-alkanols (5405860)  
     Self-supporting carrier-free cell granulates for combating pests and treating plants (5418164)  
     Method for the detection and quantitative determination of nitrosomonas strains in wastewaters or soils (5462855)  
     Stilbene synthase genes from grapevine (5500367)  
     Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus antigen and processes for the preparation and use of said antigen in vaccines and diagnostics (5510258)  
     N-aryl-substituted nitrogen-containing heterocycles intermediates and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5554580)  
     Natural substance cyclamenol and chemical derivatives (5565561)  
     DNA comprising plum pox virus and tomato spotted wilt virus cDNAS for disease resistance (5569823)  
     Preparation and use of enzyme-detergent extracted Streptococcus zoopidemicus vaccine (5583014)  
     Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus antigen and processes for the preparation and use of said antigen in vaccines and diagnostics (5587164)  
     Bibenzyl synthase genes (5589620)  
     Pinosylvine synthase genes (5589621)  
     Use of lysozyme gene structures in plants to increase resistance (5589626)  
     Stilbene synthase gene (5689046)  
     Stilbene synthase genes from grapevine (5689047)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous peptide (5717084)  
     Caffeoyl-CoA 3-O-methyltransferase genes (5728570)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous polypeptide (5728925)  
     Pseudorabies virus (PRV) polynucleotides and their use for preparing virus-resistant eukaryotic cells (5798265)  
     Granulates containing micro-organisms (5804208)  
     Stilbene synthase genes for grapevine (5834268)  
     Enzyme determination with protease inactivation (5846754)  
     Cross-protective equine herpesvirus preparations and method of making and using the same (5853715)  
     Luminescent nitrifying microorganisms (5900362)  
     Porcine parainfluenza virus type 2 (5910310)  
     Deoxyribonucleic acid coding for glutathione-S-transferase and its use (5968796)  
     DNA comprising plum pox virus and tomato spotted wilt virus cDNAS for disease resistance (5973135)  
     Pinosylvine synthase genes (5973230)  
     Stilbene synthase gene (5985647)  
     Pancreatic islet cell antigens obtained by molecular cloning (6001804)  
     Stilbene synthase gene (6020129)  
     Methods and constructs for protein expression (6051401)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous peptide (6063601)  
     DNA sequences encoding stilbene synthases and their use (6063988)  
     Sensitive immunoassays utilizing antibody conjugates with replicable DNA templates (6083689)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous polypeptide (6130366)  
     Bacterin for the treatment of necrophorum diseases and a method for the production thereof (6132709)  
     Caffeoyl-coa 3-O-Methyltransferase genes from parsley (6160205)  
     Biological material embedded in hydrogels, a process for the embedding thereof, and its use as artificial seed (6164012)  
3 NOVARTIS AG 142
     Soraphen A resistant fungi and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (5641666)  
     Chemically regulatable and anti-pathogenic DNA sequences and uses thereof (5650505)  
     Chemically inducible promoter of a cucumber chitinase/lysozyme gene (5654414)  
     Transgenic male sterile plants for the production of hybrid seeds (5659124)  
     Genomic DNA encoding a pseudomonas global transcriptional activation element and its use in activating gene expression (5670350)  
     Aspergillus niger vacuolar aspartyl protease (5674728)  
     Genes for the synthesis of antipathogenic substances (5679560)  
     DNA encoding the pseudomonas fluorescens sensor/kinase element, lemA, and its use in activating gene expression (5686282)  
     Genomic DNA encoding the pseudomonas fluorescens alternative sigma factor, RpoS, capable of activating gene expression (5686283)  
     Process for the genetic manipulation of myxobacteria (5686295)  
     Antibodies which bind to insect gut proteins and their use (5686600)  
     Plant adenylosuccinate synthetase and DNA coding therefor (5688939)  
     Chemically inducible promoter of a plant PR-1 gene (5689044)  
     Method of protecting plants by transformation with genes for the synthesis of antipathogenic substances (5698425)  
     Carbocyclic nucleosides containing bicyclic rings, oligonucleotides therefrom, process for their preparation, their use and intermediates (5700920)  
     Synergistic antifungal protein and compositions containing same (5703044)  
     Genomic DNA encoding a Pseudomonas global transcriptional activation element and its use in activating gene expression (5710031)  
     Plant adenylosuccinate lyase and DNA coding therefor (5712382)  
     Genes for the biosynthesis of soraphen (5716849)  
     Inbred corn line CG00685 use thereof (5723721)  
     Pyrrolnitrin biosynthesis genes (5723759)  
     Process for the production of protease inhibitors (5726043)  
     Inbred maize line CG5NA01 (5728922)  
     Inbred maize line CG5NF22 (5731500)  
     Inbred maize line CG4NU15 (5731501)  
     Inbred maize lines CG5NA58 and CG5NA58A (5731502)  
     Inbred corn line NP 948 (5731503)  
     Inbred corn line CG00766 (5731506)  
     Plant geraniol/nerol 10-hydroxylase and DNA coding therefor (5753507)  
     Genetically modified Pseudomonas strains with enhanced biocontrol activity (5756087)  
     Aspergillus niger vacuolar aspartyl protease (5756338)  
     Immunological detection method (5756683)  
     Method of regenerating fertile transgenic Zea mays plants from protoplasts (5766900)  
     DNA sequences encoding SAR8.2 proteins and uses thereof (5767369)  
     Manipulation of protoporphyrinogen oxidase enzyme activity in eukaryotic organisms (5767373)  
     Mannose or xylose based positive selection (5767378)  
     Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells (5770450)  
     Chemically regulatable and anti-pathogenic DNA sequences and uses thereof (5777200)  
     Method of inducing gene transcription in a plant (5789214)  
     Method for breeding disease resisteance into plants (5792904)  
     Inbred corn line NP 982 (5792905)  
     Inbred corn line NP 2034 (5792906)  
     Tissue-preferential promoters (5792925)  
     Detection of maize fungal pathogens using the polymerase chain reaction (5800997)  
     Recombinant production of proteins using 7B2 protein (5804417)  
     Chemically regulatable and anti-pathogenic DNA sequences and uses thereof (5804693)  
     Inbred corn line NP 2045 (5811645)  
     Detection of fungal pathogens using the polymerase chain reaction (5814453)  
     Genes for the synthesis of pyrrolnitrin (5817502)  
     Inbred corn line NP 993 (5817914)  
     Method of controlling insect larvae comprising feeding an insecticidal amount of a transgenic maize plant expressing a polypeptide having Bt-crystal protein toxic properties (5824302)  
     Methods for the production of hybrid seed (5824542)  
     Inbred corn line NP 2013 (5824852)  
     Detection of wheat fungal pathogens using the polymerase chain reaction (5827695)  
     Safened sulfonamide herbicidal compositions (5846902)  
     DNA encoding .beta.-1,3-glucanases (5847258)  
     Pesticidal proteins and strains (5849870)  
     Process for isolating chemically regulatable DNA sequences (5851766)  
     Method of protecting plants from oomycete pathogens (5856154)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis transformation method (5858745)  
     Enhanced biotin biosynthesis in plant tissue (5859335)  
     Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced activity in maize (5859336)  
     Method for isolating vegetative insecticidal protein genes (5866326)  
     Maize chlorotic dwarf virus genome and uses therefor (5866780)  
     Transgenic plants having increased biotin content (5869719)  
     Pesticidal proteins and strains (5872212)  
     Class of proteins for the control of plant pests (5877012)  
     Process and apparatus for the genetic transformation of cells (5877023)  
     DNA encoding plant chitinases (5880328)  
     Control of gene expression in plants by receptor mediated transactivation in the presence of a chemical ligand (5880333)  
     Cytochrome P-450 monooxygenases (5882851)  
     Insecticidal matrix and process for preparation thereof (5885603)  
     Pesticidal strains of bacillus (5888801)  
     Nucleotide sequences encoding pesticidal proteins (5889174)  
     DNA encoding lemA-independent GacA and its use in activating gene expression (5891688)  
     Virus resistant or tolerant cells (5907084)  
     DNA encoding GM-CSF and a method of producing GM-CSF protein (5908763)  
     Plant virus DNA constructs and virus resistant plants comprising said constructs (5919705)  
     Soybean cultivar S39-D9 (5925810)  
     Soybean cultivar S28-V8 (5925811)  
     Soybean cultivar S73-Z5 (5925812)  
     DNA molecules encoding plant protoporphyrinogen oxidase and inhibitor-resistant mutants thereof (5939602)  
     Soybean cultivar S14-M7 (5939604)  
     Inducible herbicide resistance (5942662)  
     Soybean cultivar S59-V6 (5945584)  
     Detection of fungal pathogens using the polymerase chain reaction (5955274)  
     Genetically modified pseudomonas strains with enhanced biocontrol activity (5955348)  
     Methods for stable transformation of wheat (5955362)  
     Process and apparatus for the genetic transformation of cells (5976880)  
     Process for the production of proteins (5981227)  
     Synergistic antifungal protein and compositions containing same (5981844)  
     Altered forms of the NIM1 gene conferring disease resistance in plants (5986082)  
     Stably transformed plants comprising novel insecticidal proteins (5990383)  
     Inbred sweet corn line W1498A (5990395)  
     Positive selection (5994629)  
     Methods for conferring insect resistance to a monocot using a perioxidase coding sequence (6002068)  
     Nematicidal proteins (6006470)  
     Tissue-preferential promoters (6018099)  
     Chimeric plant genes possessing independent regulatory sequences (6018103)  
     Nucleic acid promoter fragment isolated from a plant tryptophan synthase alpha subunit (trpA) gene (6018104)  
     Promoters from plant protoporphyrinogen oxidase genes (6018105)  
     DNA molecules encoding plant protoporphyrinogen oxidase (6023012)  
     Inbred sweet corn line R398D (6034306)  
     Soybean cultivar C910928 (6037528)  
     Genetic stabilizing elements (6040185)  
     Use of translationally altered RNA to confer resistance to maize dwarf mosaic virus and other monocotyledonous plant viruses (6040496)  
     Soybean cultivar B630518RR (6040501)  
     Soybean cultivar C405323 (6040502)  
     Cotton promoter (6040504)  
     Selectable marker for development of vectors and transformation systems in plants (6048730)  
     Method for achieving integration of exogenous DNA delivered by non-biological means to plant cells (6051409)  
     Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced insecticidal activity in maize (6051760)  
     Signal sequences for vacuolar sorting (6054637)  
     Method for selecting disease resistant mutant plants (6057490)  
     Plants resistant to tospoviruses (6057492)  
     Soybean cultivar S80-J2 (6063991)  
     Modified oligonucleotides (6066447)  
     Genes encoding insecticidal proteins (6066783)  
     Soybean cultivar J335752 (6066784)  
     Antibodies which bind to insect gut proteins and their use (6069301)  
     DNA extraction buffer and method of use thereof (6071698)  
     Inbred maize line NP2029 (6072110)  
     Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced insecticidal activity in maize (6075185)  
     Herbicide-tolerant protoporphyrinogen oxidase ("protox") genes (6084155)  
     Soybean cultivar M003360 (6084158)  
     Gene encoding a protein involved in the signal transduction cascade leading to systemic acquired resistance in plants (6091004)  
     Production of polypeptides by use of novel protease deficient yeast strains (6103515)  
     Class of proteins for the control of plant pests (6107279)  
     Method for breeding disease resistance into plants (6107544)  
     Nucleic acid construct comprising bacillus thuringiensis cry1Ab gene (6114608)  
     Method for producing a plant-optimized nucleic acid coding sequence (6121014)  
     Chimeric insecticidal protein and DNA coding therefor (6121521)  
     Cytochrome P-450 monooxygenases (6133417)  
     Class of proteins for the control of plant pests (6137033)  
     Inbred maize line NP2151 (6140563)  
     Method of controlling the fertility of a plant (6147282)  
     Nucleic acids encoding tospovirus genome and expression thereof (6150585)  
     Method for identifying inhibitors of soraphen A resistant acetyl-coenzyme a carboxylase (6153374)  
     Auxin transport inhibitor compounds (6156704)  
     Inbred corn line NP 991 (6156957)  
     Plant transformation methods (6162965)  
     Inbred maize line NP2208 (6166304)  
     Verbena plant named `Mylena` (PP11192)  
     Verbena plant named `Silvena` (PP11197)  
     Verbena plant named `Morena` (PP11231)  
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     Process for reducing the contents of lipids and nucleic acid in microbial cell masses (4206243)  
     Process for the enzymatic preparation of L-2-amino-4-methylphosphinobutyric acid (4389488)  
     Method for isolating solid matter from a salinomycin culture broth (4395491)  
     Method for cultivating insect cells (4454227)  
     Process for the production of D-lactic acid with the use of Lactobacillus bulgaricus DSM 2129 (4467034)  
     Hybrid vector and process for improving the amplification and expression of hybrid vectors by the use of mitochondrial DNA (4492758)  
     Plasmid pAC 1, a process for obtaining it and its use (4506014)  
     N-alkoxyaminosulfonylureas and N-alkylsulfonylaminosulfonylureas and pyrimidino thiadiazine oxides as herbicides and plant growth-regulators (4601747)  
     Functional protein hydrolyzates, a process for their preparation, use of these protein hydrolyzates as a food additive, and foods containing these protein hydrolyzated (4627983)  
     Plant growth regulators (4637828)  
     Process for the preparation of 5'-ribonucleotides (4649111)  
     Plasmid P SVH 1 and its use (4673642)  
     Process for treating anestrus in ewes or beef cattle (4673665)  
     N-alkoxyaminosulfonylureas and N-alkylsulfonylaminosulfonylureas (4718937)  
     Growth-regulating, fungicidal, and herbicidal cyclohexylimidazole and cyclohexenylimidazole derivatives, compositions, and methods of use therefor (4747868)  
     1-phenylimidazolecarboxylic acid amides and their use as growth regulators (4755213)  
     1,2,5-Substituted imidazole compounds and their use as growth regulators (4764624)  
     Salts of 1-phenylimidazole-5-carboxylic acids, composition containing them, and their use as growth regulators (4775406)  
     1-phenylimidazole compounds as growth regulators (4786312)  
     Process for growing granulosis viruses (4789632)  
     2,3,6-substituted phenylimidazole derivatives and the use thereof as growth regulators (4808213)  
     Bacteriolytic enzyme product from streptomyces, a process for its preparation, and a strain suitable for this purpose (4828998)  
     Streptomycetes plasmid PSG5, a process for obtaining it, and its use (4880746)  
     Pigments of the quinacridonequinone series, processes for their preparation and their use (4881980)  
     Phenylpyrazolecarboxylic acid derivatives, their preparation, and their use as plant-growth regulators and safeners (4891057)  
     Promoter arrangement for streptomycetes vectors (4918007)  
     Gentamicin-resistance genes and their use as markers (4918015)  
     Heterocyclically substituted N-sultamsulfonamides, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (4925480)  
     Heterocyclic-substituted phenylsulfamates, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (4963180)  
     Color marker in streptomycetes plasmids (4963496)  
     Color marker for clonings in Streptomyces lividans (4965207)  
     Hybrid plasmids having a streptomycetes replicon and an escherichia coli replicon (4992371)  
     Alkyl- and alkenylsulfonylureas which are substituted in the heterocycle, and their use as herbicides or plant growth regulators (5015284)  
     Substituted sulfonyldiamides, processes for their preparation, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5022916)  
     Sulfonylureas with heterocyclic substituents, and the use thereof as herbicides or plant-growth regulators (5030270)  
     Heterocyclic N-acylsulfonamides, and their use as herbicides or growth regulators (5053072)  
     Heterocyclically substituted n-sultamsulfonamides (5073185)  
     Phosphinothricin-resistance gene (5077399)  
     Heterocyclically substituted phenoxysulfonylureas, and the use thereof as herbicides or plant growth regulators (5102443)  
     Heterocyclic 2-alkoxyphenoxysulfonylureas and the use thereof as herbicides or plant growth regulators (5104443)  
     Heterocyclically substituted sulfonylureas, and their use as herbicides or plant growth regulators (5129941)  
     Process for producing transaminase from E. coli ATCC 33849 (5130246)  
     Transaminase from E. coli DH-1 (ATCC 33849) (5162212)  
     Heterocyclic N-acylsulfonamides and their use as herbicides or growth regulators (5186736)  
     Preparation for the controlled release of active substances which are suitable as a therapeutics or for improving growth and feed utilization in ruminants (5252561)  
     Enzymes for breaking down moenomycins (5260206)  
     Phosphinothricin-resistance gene, and its use (5273894)  
     Phosphinothricin-resistance gene, and its use (5276268)  
     Haloalkoxy-substituted benzoylcyclohexanediones as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5306695)  
     Process for the preparation of MA (5316929)  
     Sulfonated heterocyclic carboxamides and their use as herbicides, and growth regulators (5324710)  
     Promoter screening vector, streptomyces promoters found therewith, and the isolation and use thereof (5328998)  
     2-alkyl-or-aryl-substituted-2-(pyrimidinyl-or-traizinyl-oxy(or-thio))-acotic acid derivatives, process for preparation, and use as herbicides or plant-growth regulators (5446013)  
     .alpha.-L-Rhamnosidase for obtaining rhamnose, a process for its preparation and its use (5468625)  
     Fusion protein comprising an interleukin-2 fragment ballast portion (5496924)  
     Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its use in a process for the biotechnological preparation of L-rhamnose (5501966)  
     Maize resistant to aryloxyphenoxyalkanecarboxylic acid herbicides (5502271)  
     Bacillus strain for breaking down moenomycins (5506140)  
     Expression of a multigene RNA having self-splicing activity (5519164)  
     Pyridyl sulphonyl ureas as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5529976)  
     Transgenic plants expressing a prokaryotic ammonium dependent asparagine synthetase (5545819)  
     Antifungal polypeptide and process for its production (5589624)  
     Methods of introducing foreign DNA into cells (5595899)  
     Maize resistant to aryloxyphenoxyalkanecarboxylic acid herbicides (5623782)  
     Synergistic compositions for controlling insects and acarina (5631276)  
     Transgenic plants displaying virus and phosphinothricin resistance (5633434)  
     Pyridylsulfonylureas as herbicides and plant growth regulators, processes for their preparation and their use (5635451)  
     Phosphinothricin-resistance gene, and its use (5637489)  
     .alpha.-l-rhamnosidase for obtaining rhamnose, a process for its preparation and its use (5641659)  
     Phenylsulfonylureas, Processes for their-preparation, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5648315)  
     Deacetylase genes for the production of phosphinothricin or phosphinothricyl-alanyl-alanine processes for their isolation and their use (5650310)  
     Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its use in a process for the biotechnological preparation of L-rhamnose (5658793)  
     Acylated aminophenylsulfonylureas; preparation and use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5658854)  
     Recombinant mersacidin and a method for production (5667991)  
     Deacetylase genes for the production of phosphinothricin or phosphinothricyl-alanyl-alanine, process for their isolation, and their use (5668297)  
     Process for the biotechnological preparation of L-thienylalanines in enantiomerically pure form from 2-hydroxy-3-thienylacrylic acids (5688672)  
     Arylsulfonylureas and their use as herbicides and growth regulators (5688745)  
     Nitrogen-substituted phenylsulfonylureas; processes for their preparation, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5696053)  
     3'-modified oligonucleotide derivatives (5696248)  
     Multifunctional RNA having self-processing activity, the preparation thereof and the use thereof (5707840)  
     N-heteroaryl-N'-(pyrid-2-ylsulfonyl)ureas, processes for their preparation, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5714436)  
     DNA sequences for an amino acid transporter, plasmids, bacteria, yeasts and plants containing a transporter and their use (5719043)  
     Use of balhimycin as production promoter in animals, and production promoter compositions (5719121)  
     Intermediates for the preparation of phenylsulfonylurea herbicides and plant growth regulators (5723409)  
     Plant promoters specific for sink organ expression of genes (5723757)  
     Transgenic plants expressing a prokaryotic ammonium dependent asparagine synthetase (5723762)  
     Water-dispersible granules of spores or live Beauveria bassiana (5730973)  
     Method of improving the yield of herbicide-resistant crop plants (5739082)  
     Process for preparing L-tertiary-Leucine and L-phosphinothricine by transamination (5753470)  
     Zea mays (L.) with capability of long term, highly efficient plant regeneration including fertile transgenic maize plants having a heterologous gene, and their preparation (5767367)  
     Deacetylase genes for the production of phosphinothricin or phosphinothricyl-alanyl-alanine, processes for their isolation, and their use (5767370)  
     Deacetylase genes for the production of phosphinothricin or phosphin-othricyl-alanyl-alanine, process for their isolation, and their use (5767371)  
     Nucleotide monomers containing 8-azapurin bases or a derivative thereof, their preparation and their use in making modified olignonucleotides (5789562)  
     DNA sequences which lead to the formation of levans plasmids containing these sequences as well as a process for preparing transgenic plants (5792923)  
     Virus/herbicide resistance genes, processes for producing same and their use (5792926)  
     Zea mays (L.) with capability of long term, highly efficient plant regeneration including fertile transgenic maize plants having a heterologous gene, and their preparation (5792936)  
     Maize resistant to aryloxyphenoxyalkanecarboxylic acid herbicides (5808174)  
     Antifungal polypeptide and process for its production (5824874)  
     Multifunctional RNA having self-processing activity, the preparation thereof and the use thereof (5834265)  
     Process for the isolation and characterization of a gene enzyme system for inactivation of the herbicide phenmedipham and transfer of the gene into plants to produce herbicide-tolerant plants (5846803)  
     N-substituted hydrazinophenylsulfonylureas, processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulations (5849666)  
     Sulfur-substituted phenylsulfonylureas, processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5854179)  
     DNA sequences and plasmids for the preparation of sugar beet with changed sucrose concentration (5866790)  
     Phosphinothricin-resistance gene, and its use (5879903)  
     Gene and gene structure coding for an aminotransferase, and microorganisms which express this gene (5888782)  
     Synergistic compositions for controlling insects and acarina (5888989)  
     Method of improving the growth of crop plants which are resistant to glutamine synthetase inhibitors (5908810)  
     Plasmids useful for and methods of preparing transgenic plants with modifications of habit and yield (5917127)  
     Process for preparing L-tertiary-leucine and L-phosphinothricine by transamination (5919669)  
     Alkylidenehydrazinophenylsulfonylureas, processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5922645)  
     Acylated aminophenylsulfonylureas, processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5922646)  
     2-amino-1,3,5-triazines, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5922648)  
     Substituted aminomethylphenylsulfonylureas their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5925596)  
     Phenylsulfonylureas, processes for their preparation, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5925597)  
     Process for the isolation and characterization of a gene enzyme system for inactivation of the herbicide phenmedipham and transfer of the gene into plants to produce herbicide-tolerant plants (5948670)  
     Method for the enzymatic galactosylation of monosaccharides and oligosaccharides (5962275)  
     Process for preparing L-tertiary-leucine and L-phosphinothricine by transamination (5962281)  
     DNA sequences and plasmids for the preparation of plants with changed sucrose concentration (5976869)  
     DNA sequences with oligosaccharide transporter, plasmids bacteria and plants containing a transporter as well as a process for the preparation and transformation of yeast strains for identification of the transporter (5981181)  
     DNA molecules which code for a plastid 2-oxoglutarate/malate translocator (5981219)  
     Nucleic acid molecules encoding delta-5,7-sterol, delta-7 reductase from arabidopsis thaliana (5989881)  
     Debranching enzymes and DNA sequences coding them, suitable for changing the degree of branching of amylopectin starch in plants (6001628)  
     Processes for modifying plant flowering behavior (6025544)  
     DNA sequences which lead to the formation of levans, plasmids containing these sequences as well as a process for preparing transgenic plants (6028249)  
     Gene and gene structure coding for an aminotransferase, and microorganisms which express this gene (6051408)  
     Plasmids, plants and plant cells expressing anti-sense patatin and anti-sense ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase sequences (6057493)  
     Process for the isolation and the characterization of a gene enzyme system for inactivation of the herbicide phenmedipham and transfer of the gene into plants to produce herbicide-tolerant plants (6060645)  
     Transport protein which effects the transport of cationic xenobiotics and/or pharmaceuticals, DNA sequences encoding it and their use (6063623)  
     Modified oligonucleotides, their preparation and their use (6066720)  
     Combination of DNA sequences which enable the formation of modified starch in plant cells and plants, processes for the production of these plants and the modified starch obtainable therefrom (6066782)  
     2-amino-4-bicycloamino-1,3,5-Triazines, their preparation, and their use as herbicide and plant growth regulators (6069114)  
     2,4-Diamino-1, 3,5-triazines, their preparation, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (6071860)  
     Microorganisms and plasmids for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)monooxygenase formation and process for the production of these plasmids and strains (6100446)  
     Microorganisms and plasmids for 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) monooxygenase formation and process for the production of these plasmids and strains (6153401)  
5 AJINOMOTO CO. INC. 127
     Method for producing L-lysine by fermentation (4346170)  
     E.Coli bacteria carrying recombinant plasmids and their use in the fermentative production of L-tryptophan (4371614)  
     Method for producing L-histidine by fermentation (4388405)  
     Method for producing L-valine by fermentation (4391907)  
     Method for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation (4393135)  
     Method for producing L-phenylalanine by fermentation (4403033)  
     Method for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation (4427773)  
     Method for producing L-arginine by fermentation (4430430)  
     Method for producing L-isoleucine by fermentation (4442208)  
     Method of producing L-threonine by fermentation (4452890)  
     Method for producing L-histidine by fermentation (4504581)  
     Composite plasmid (4514502)  
     Process for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation (4529697)  
     Process for the production of a fermentation starting material (4543330)  
     Process for producing L-tryptophan by fermentation (4560652)  
     Method for producing L-lysine by fermentation (4560654)  
     Method for producing L-tryptophan by fermentation (4588687)  
     Method for producing L-phenylalanine by fermentation (4591562)  
     Coryneform bacteria carrying recombinant plasmids and their use in the fermentative production of L-threonine and L-isoleucine (4601983)  
     Process for producing L-isoleucine by fermentation (4656135)  
     Process for the production of L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine esters (4666838)  
     Method of producing a seasoning from cheese whey (4699793)  
     Gene coded for interleukin-2 polypeptide, recombinant DNA carrying the said gene, a living cell line possessing the recombinant DNA, and method for producing interleukin-2 using the said cell (4738927)  
     Process for producing L-phenylalanine (4755466)  
     Plasmid (4778762)  
     Transducible composite plasmid (4822738)  
     Coryneform bacteria carrying recombinant plasmids and their use in the fermentative production of L-lysine (4861722)  
     Process for producing L-tryptophan (4885245)  
     Recombinant DNA, bacteria carrying said recombinant DNA and a process for producing L-threonine or L-isoleucine using said bacteria (4946781)  
     Feed additive for ruminants (4996067)  
     Process for recovering L-amino acids from fermentation liquors containing them (4997754)  
     Coryneform bacteria carrying recombinant DNA and process for producing an aromatic amino acid by using the same (5017481)  
     Method for producing L-tryptophan by fermentation (5034318)  
     Method for regulating the flowering of plants and flowering regulators of plants (5069707)  
     Process for the production of L-threonine by fermentation (5077207)  
     Process for producing 5'-inosinic acid by fermentation (5164306)  
     Process for producing L-amino acids by fermentation (5164307)  
     Bacterial strain of Escherichia coli BKIIM B-3996 as the producer of L-threonine (5175107)  
     Preparation of an immobilized lipase having a low water content without drying (5177013)  
     Process for producing L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine and its diketopiperazine (5179009)  
     Fermentation process for producing L-lysine (5179010)  
     Process for producing L-valine by fermentation (5188948)  
     Method for producing L-threonine by fermentation (5188949)  
     Flower-inducing substances and a method for production thereof (5189145)  
     Process for modifying fats and oils (5219744)  
     Feed additive for ruminants (5227166)  
     Method for the production of L-lysine employing thermophilic corynebacterium thermoaminogenes (5250423)  
     Microorganisms for production of glutamic acid (5250434)  
     Process for producing L-glutamic acid (5272067)  
     Feed additive for ruminants (5300297)  
     Process for producing l-lysine by fermentation employing a microorganism resistant to acyl-lysine or methylated acyl-lysine (5304476)  
     Process for producing riboflavin by fermentation (5334510)  
     Process for producing L-lysine by fermentation with a bacteria having selenalysine resistance (5362636)  
     Hybrid plants of onion and garlic or Chinese chive and method for breeding and propagating the same (5367111)  
     Mutant Escherichia coli capable of enhanced L-glutamic acid production by fermentation (5378616)  
     Mutant Escherichia coli capable of enhanced L-glutamic acid production (5393671)  
     Recombinant transglutaminase (5420025)  
     Plasmid vectors for expression of genes in coryneform bacteria (5426050)  
     Feed additive composition for ruminants (5429832)  
     Method of producing trehalose by microorganisms which can produce tremalose with sucrose or maltose as main carbon source (5484714)  
     Method of producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation (5492818)  
     Gene encoding transglutaminase derived from fish (5514573)  
     Production of isoleucine by escherichia coli having isoleucine auxotrophy and no negative feedback inhibition of isoleucine production (5534421)  
     Bacterial strain of escherichia coli BKIIM B-3996 as the producer of l-threonine (5538873)  
     Coryneform bacteria deficient in a cell surface protein (5547864)  
     Feed composition and a method for decreasing piglet mortality in piglets (5552145)  
     Sucrase gene derived from coryneform bacteria (5556776)  
     Mutant and method for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation (5573945)  
     Mobile genetic element originated from brevibacterium strain (5591577)  
     Gene encoding transglutaminase derived from fish (5607849)  
     Temperature sensitive plasmid (5616480)  
     Gene coded for interleukin-2 polypeptide, recombinant DNA carrying the said gene, a living cell line possessing the recombinant DNA, and method for producing interleukin-2 using the said cell (5620868)  
     Plasmid vector and a method for regulation of gene expression using the same (5643790)  
     Process for producing L-lysine by fermentation (5650304)  
     Strains of Escherichia coli which produce isoleucine or valine and a method for their production (5658766)  
     Method for the production of L-threonine by fermentation, using mutated DNA encoding aspartokinase III (5661012)  
     Feed additive composition for ruminants (5676966)  
     Process for producing cheese using transglutaminase (5681598)  
     DNA encoding novel cell surface protein (5681717)  
     Mutant aspartokinase gene (5688671)  
     Method for supplementing amino acid levels in ruminant animals (5720970)  
     Feed additive for sows (5728398)  
     Bacillus-derived transglutaminase (5731183)  
     Transglutaminase originating from Crassostrea gigas (5736356)  
     Granular feed additives for ruminants containing lipase, bile powder and pancreatin (5753223)  
     Process for producing L-leucine (5763231)  
     Method of producing L-lysine (5766925)  
     Gene encoding interleukin-2 polypeptide, recombinant DNA carrying the gene, a living cell line possessing the recombinant DNA and method for producing interleukin-2 using the cell (5795769)  
     Gene coded for interleukin-2 polypeptide, recombinant DNA carrying the said gene, a living cell line possessing the recombinant DNA, and method for producing interleukin-2 using the said cell (5795777)  
     Method of amplifying genes using artificial transposons in coryneform bacteria (5804414)  
     Dipeptidyl peptidase IV from Xanthomonas maltophilia and process for producing the same (5811278)  
     Feed additive for sows (5814333)  
     Aminopeptidase GX, and a method of hydrolyzing a protein with the same (5824534)  
     Lysine decarboxylase gene and method of producing l-lysine (5827698)  
     Process for efficiently producing transglutaminase through DNA recombination (5827712)  
     Increased amounts of substances by modifying a microorganism to increase production of NADPH from NADH (5830716)  
     Methods of producing L-lysine and L-glutamic acid by fermentation (5846790)  
     Method for producing L-glutamic acid by continuous fermentation (5869300)  
     Method for supplementing amino acid levels in ruminant animals (5871773)  
     Mutant phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, its gene, and production method of amino acid (5876983)  
     Diet for stabilizing high milk yield of dairy cow and feeding method for obtaining stable high milk yield (5906842)  
     Milk whey protein-containing powder and process food obtained by using the same (5907031)  
     Process for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation with E. coli resistant to aspartic acid antimetabolite (5908768)  
     Method and apparatus for controlling carbon source concentration in aerobic cultivation of a microorganism (5912113)  
     Mutant phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, its gene, and production method of amino acid (5919694)  
     Gene derived from coryneform bacteria and use thereof (5929221)  
     Process for producing L-amino acid through fermentation (5932453)  
     Bacillus-derived transglutaminase (5948662)  
     Process for producing a condiment (5955124)  
     Enzyme preparation for use in the binding of food materials and process for producing bound food (5968568)  
     Bacterial strain of Escherichia coli BKIIM B-3996 as the producer of L-threonine (5976843)  
     .alpha.-Ketoglutarate dehydrogenase gene (5977331)  
     Method of process for producing L-lysine by fermentation (5989875)  
     Method for producing L-lysine (6004773)  
     Process for producing microbial transglutaminase (6013498)  
     Method for producing nucleoside-5'-phosphate ester (6015697)  
     Process for production of lysine by fermentation (6025169)  
     Method of producing L-lysine by fermentation (6040160)  
     Modified bacterial cellulose (6060289)  
     Method of producing L-lysine (6090597)  
     Process for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation (6110714)  
     Method for producing L-leucine (6124121)  
     L-threonine-producing microbacteria and a method for the production of L-threonine (6132999)  
     Plant-root growth promoting agent (6143695)  
     Stress-resistant microorganism and method of producing fermentative product (6156532)  
     Bacterial strain of Escherichia coli BKIIM B-3996 as the producer of L-threonine (6165756)  
     Raffinose synthetase gene, method of producing raffinose and transgenic plant (6166292)  
6 NOVO-NORDISK A/S 90
     Preparation of a maltogenic amylase enzyme (4598048)  
     Alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase enzyme and preparation thereof (4617273)  
     Starch liquefaction with alpha amylase mixtures (4933279)  
     Expression system with trans-acting DNA segments (5036002)  
     Rhizobia transformants which symbiotically fixes nitrogen in non-legumes, a material for treating seeds of a non-legume plant, non-legume seeds, a non-legume plant and a method for producing rhizobia transconjungants (5229291)  
     Chimeric enzymes (5234823)  
     Promoters for use in aspergillus (5252726)  
     Protease (5312748)  
     Thermostable protease from Thermobacteroides (5346820)  
     Thermostable protease from Staphylothermus (5346821)  
     Enzyme capable of degrading cellullose or hemicellulose (5457046)  
     Alkaline protease Bacillus sp. JP 395, method of making and detergent compositions (5466594)  
     .beta.-1,4-galactanase and a DNA sequence (5474922)  
     Thermostable Fervidobacterium pullulanases (5486469)  
     Fungicidal and insecticidal compounds and compositions derived from fungal strains of Prenophora teres (5491122)  
     Process for the production of protein products in aspergillus (5536661)  
     Rhamnogalacturonase, corresponding DNA sequence, rhamnogalacturonase containing enzyme preparation and use of the enzyme preparation (5538884)  
     Aspergillus aculeatus rhamnogalacturon acetyl esterases, DNA sequences encoding the enzymes and methods of use thereof (5585256)  
     Xylanase, DNA sequences, coding for the xylanases and methods of use thereof (5610048)  
     Process for preparing a desired protein (5618697)  
     Endo-.beta.-1,4-glucanase and a DNA sequence (5624835)  
     Synthetic leader peptide sequences (5639642)  
     Thermostable protease from thermococcus (5643777)  
     Alkaline proteases obtainable from Bacillus sp. JA16-38A (5650315)  
     Xylanase process for producing the same method for the treatment of pulp and production of xylo-oligosaccharides (5658765)  
     Enzyme capable of degrading cellulose or hemicellulose (5686593)  
     Fungal cellulase composition containing alkaline CMC-endoglucanase and essentially no cellobiohydrolase (5691178)  
     Enzymes with xylanase activity from Aspergillus aculeatus (5693518)  
     Bacillus promoter derived from a variant of a bacillus licheniformis X-amylase promoter (5698415)  
     Processes for producing an enzyme (5702934)  
     Enzyme exhibiting pectin methylesterase activity (5707847)  
     Enzyme with endoglucanase activity (5723328)  
     Amplification of genomic DNA by site specific integration of a selectable marker construct (5733753)  
     Useful mutations of bacterial alkaline protease (5741694)  
     Alkaline lipases (5763383)  
     Humicola lipase produced in aspergillus (5766912)  
     DNA constructs and methods of producing xylanolytic enzymes (5770424)  
     Fungal cellulase composition containing alkaline CMC-endoglucanase and essentially no cellobiohydrolase and method of making thereof (5776757)  
     Synthetic leader peptide sequences (5795746)  
     Enzyme exhibiting mannanase activity (5795764)  
     Amylase variants (5801043)  
     Enzyme with rhamnogalacturonase activity (5811291)  
     DNA encoding an enzyme with endoglucanase activity from Trichoderma harzianum (5817499)  
     Animal feed additives (5817500)  
     Protease variants and compositions (5837517)  
     Gene expression system (5843702)  
     Enzyme with protease activity (5854050)  
     Alkaline bacillus amylase (5856164)  
     Enzyme with pectin lyase activity (5858760)  
     Process for the production of protein products in aspergillus (5863759)  
     Enzyme with endo-1,3(4)-.beta.- Glucanase activity (5871966)  
     DNA integration by transposition (5882888)  
     Enzyme with rhamnogalacturonase activity (5882911)  
     Enzyme with xylanase activity (5885819)  
     Methods for producing polypeptides in respiratory-deficient cells (5891669)  
     Alkaline cellulases (5912157)  
     Enzyme with B-1, 3-glucanase activity (5919688)  
     .alpha.-galactosidase enzyme (5919690)  
     Alkaline lipolytic enzyme (5919746)  
     DNA constructs and methods of producing cellulytic enzymes (5922586)  
     Method of homologous recombination followed by in vivo selection of DNA amplification (5925544)  
     DNA constructs and methods of producing cellulytic enzymes (5945327)  
     Method of detecting biologically active substances by using green fluorescent protein (5958713)  
     Methods for producing Humicola lipases in aspergillus (5965384)  
     Enzyme preparation with cellulytic activity (5972872)  
     Enzyme with protease activity (5998190)  
     Rhamnogalacturonase, corresponding DNA sequence, rhamnogalacturonase containing enzyme preparation and use of the enzyme preparation (6001627)  
     Cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase variants (6004790)  
     Enzyme with .beta.-(1-6)- endoglucanase activity (6022723)  
     Phytase polypeptides (6039942)  
     Endoglucanase (6043075)  
     Peniophora phytase (6054306)  
     Extracellular expression of cellulose binding domains (CBD) using Bacillus (6060274)  
     Peniophora phytase (6060298)  
     Introduction of DNA into bacillus strains by conjugation (6066473)  
     Enzyme with pectin esterase activity (6069000)  
     Enzymes with xylanase activity from Aspergillus aculeatus (6080567)  
     Starch conversion process (6087149)  
     Method for reducing phosphorus content of edible oils (6103505)  
     Protease variants (6110884)  
     Pectate lyase (6124127)  
     Oligosaccharide amino alditols and assay method (6132982)  
     Storage-stable liquid formulation comprising a laccase (6136578)  
     Enzyme with endo-1,3(4)-.beta.-glucanase activity (6140096)  
     .alpha.-amylase mutants (6143708)  
     Methods for generating recombined polynucleotides (6159687)  
     Methods of producing polynucleotide variants (6159688)  
     Enzyme with polygalacturonase activity (6159718)  
     Method for in vivo production of a mutant library in cells (6165718)  
     Carbohydrate oxidase and use thereof in baking (6165761)  
7 BASF AG 89
     Plant growth regulators (4153445)  
     Plant growth regulators (4192671)  
     Triazolyl derivatives, their manufacture, and agents containing them for influencing plant growth (4319911)  
     Plant growth regulators (4328028)  
     Agents for regulating plant growth containing triazolyl glycol ethers, and the use thereof (4336055)  
     Plant growth regulating substituted alkylammonium salts (4350518)  
     1,3-Dioxan-5-yl-alkenyltriazoles, their preparation, their uses in regulating plant growth, and regulators containing these compounds (4368066)  
     1,3-Dioxan-5-yl-alkyltriazoles, their preparation, their use for regulating plant growth, and regulators containing these compounds (4385925)  
     .alpha.-Azolyl-glycol derivatives, as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4411687)  
     Plant growth regulating .alpha.-azolylglycols (4436548)  
     Plant growth regulators (4447255)  
     Herbicides containing thiazolo[2,3-b]quinazolones as active ingredients, and their use for regulating plant growth (4473391)  
     Thiazolo[2,3-b]quinazolones and their use for influencing plant growth (4486221)  
     Norbornane compounds, plant growth regulators containing these compounds, and their intermediates (4512795)  
     Triazolyl ketone-oximes and triazolyl dioximes, their preparation and their use as plant growth regulators (4515616)  
     Control of unwanted plant growth with 2-aryloxy-2-azolylalkanecarboxamides (4515623)  
     Phenylpropylammonium salts, their manufacture and agents containing these compounds (4554006)  
     Phenylpropylammonium salts, as growth regulants (4602930)  
     Influencing plant growth (4604129)  
     Increasing the sugar content of plants (4618362)  
     Acetylene compounds, their preparation and their use for regulating plant growth (4671816)  
     Beta-triazolyl oximes agents containing them for influencing the growth of plants and their use (4684392)  
     Method of reducing plant growth height using phenylalkylmorpholines (4705553)  
     6-(3-thienylmethylamino)-purine, its preparation and its use (4718936)  
     Substituted oxime-ethers and their use as bioregulators to lower the endogenous ethylene level in plants (4744811)  
     Cyclohexenone derivatives, their manufacture, and their use as agents for regulating plant growth (4744820)  
     Cyclohexenone derivatives useful for regulating plant growth (4820331)  
     1,3-dioxan-5-ylalkyltriazoles, their use for regulating plant growth, and agents for this purpose (4822400)  
     Herbicidal tetrahydro(thio)pyran-2,4-dione derivatives (4842638)  
     Influencing the development of crops with 7-chloroquinoline-8-carboxylic acids (4857103)  
     Cyclohexenone derivatives, preparation thereof and use thereof as herbicidal and plant growth regulator agents (4867784)  
     Preparation of coniferylaldehyde by a microorganism (4874701)  
     Preparation of mesophilic microorganisms which contain a D-hydantoinase which is active at elevated temperature (4912044)  
     Agents for influencing plant growth (4923503)  
     Agents for regulating plant growth (4936906)  
     Agents for reducing transpiration of plants (4943315)  
     Azetidine derivative and their use for regulating plant growth (4944789)  
     Agents for regulating plant growth (4948415)  
     Triazole compounds and methods for regulating plant growth (4969950)  
     Microorganism for preparation of coniferylaldehyde (4981795)  
     Use of diphenyl ether derivatives for the desiccation and abscission of plant organs (4999041)  
     Method for reducing stress in piglets pigs and poultry (5006558)  
     Cyclohexenone compounds and use as herbicides or as plant growth regulators (5009702)  
     Use of derivatives of n-phenyl-3,4,5,6-tetrahydrophthalimide for the desiccation and abscission of plant organs (5045105)  
     Derivatives of 1-hydroxy-1,2,4-triazole and fungicides and growth regulators containing them (5081142)  
     Trichoderma fungus and fungicide containing it (5084272)  
     1-halovinylazoles and fungicides and growth regulators containing these (5084471)  
     Carboxylic acid derivatives (5085685)  
     Cyclohexenone compounds and their use as herbicides or plant growth regulators (5085689)  
     Salicyclic acid derivatives and their use as herbicides and bioregulators (5100458)  
     Oxalic acid derivatives and plant growth regulators containing them (5163992)  
     Oxalic acid derivatives, their preparation and plant growth regulators containing them (5192358)  
     Plant growth regulators containing oxalic acid derivatives (5199968)  
     Azolylethane derivatives and fungicides and growth regulators containing them (5199969)  
     Piperazine-2,3-diones as plant growth regulators (5326743)  
     Use of oxime ether derivatives for bioregulation in plants (5364834)  
     High concentrated, solid mepiquat chloride products and processes for making dry form solid mepiquat chloride powder and tablets (5468720)  
     Fungicidal mixtures (5510348)  
     Water-soluble PVA bag containing free-flowing and non-caking highly concentrated plant growth regulator composition (5523275)  
     Cyclohexenone derivatives (5523462)  
     2-aroylcyclohexanediones and their use as herbicides or plant growth-regulating agents (5559218)  
     Tetracycline regulated transcriptional modulators with altered DNA binding specificities (5589362)  
     Dry flowable powders of hygroscopic plant growth regulators and tablets formed of the same (5589438)  
     Substituted isoindolones useful as plant growth regulators (5602074)  
     Plant growth regulating compositions and methods (5627134)  
     5-substituted 4-methyl-5H-indeno[3,2-b]pyridines and 9-substituted 1-methyl-9H-indeno[2,3-c]pyridines, their preparation and use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (5637554)  
     Isolated promoter and terminator of elongation factor 1-.alpha. (5650294)  
     Tight control of gene expression in eucaryotic cells by tetracycline-responsive promoters (5650298)  
     Plant growth regulating compositions and methods (5654255)  
     Herbicides of the auxin type for treating transgenic crop plants (5670454)  
     Substituted N-phenylglutarimides and N-phenylglutaramides, their preparation and use (5698494)  
     3-halo-3-hetarylcarboxylic acid derivatives, and processes and intermediates for their preparation (5753594)  
     Azido-caprolactam as inhibitor for selecting microorganisms with high lysine productivity (5770412)  
     Tetracycline-regulated transcriptional inhibitors (5789156)  
     Methods for regulating gene expression (5814618)  
     Riboflavin-biosynthesis in fungi (5821090)  
     Low rate application of inhibitors of ethylene biosynthesis or action (5834403)  
     Encapsulated plant growth regulator formulations (5837653)  
     Mice transgenic for a tetracycline-controlled transcriptional activator (5859310)  
     Encapsulated plant growth regulator formulations and applications (5861360)  
     Plant growth retardants in combination with inhibitors of ethylene biosynthesis or action (5869424)  
     Methods for regulating gene expression (5888981)  
     Methods for producing tetracycline-regulated transgenic mice (5922927)  
     Riboflavin-production process by means of micro-organisms with modified isocitratlyase activity (5976844)  
     Acylcyclohexanedione plant growth regulator for control of overall nutritive value of alfalfa (6083882)  
     Transcriptional activators with graded transactivation potential (6087166)  
     Regulator gene from Ustilago maydis (6103229)  
     Method of producing a composite preparation for making silage from green fodder (6132778)  
     Use of a semicarbazone plant growth regulator for crop yield enhancements (6150302)  
8 ZENECA LTD. 89
     Transformation of plant cells (5302523)  
     Tomatoes with reduced expression of polygalacturonase (5387757)  
     DNA constructs containing segments from tomato polygalacturonase and pectin esterase genes (5413937)  
     Pre-activated proteins for labelling oligonucleotide probes (5441867)  
     Expression of genes in transgenic plants (5442052)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis toxin with activity against Diabrotica species (5446019)  
     Isolated DNA derived from peach which codes for an ethylene-forming enzyme (5449764)  
     Modification of lignin synthesis in plants (5451514)  
     Dicot plants containing an antisense polygalacturonase gene segment (5457281)  
     Transformation of plant cells (5464765)  
     Oil producing sunflowers and production thereof (5476524)  
     DNA clone encoding an ethylene-forming enzyme, constructs, plant cells and plants based thereon (5484906)  
     Production of polyhydroxy alkanoate in plants (5502273)  
     Biocidal proteins from plants (5514779)  
     Amplification processes (5525494)  
     High pH tolerant corn and the production thereof (5536901)  
     Biocidal proteins (5538525)  
     Oxalate decarboxylate (5547870)  
     Controlling growth of filamentous microorganisms (5563065)  
     Maize chlorotic dwarf virus resistant maize and the production thereof (5563316)  
     Corn lethal necrosis resistant maize and the production thereof (5563318)  
     Inbred corn line disignated ZS0510 (5563327)  
     Inbred corn line designated ZS0223 (5569813)  
     Inbred corn line ZS1284 (5569820)  
     Inbred corn line designated ZS0114 (5569826)  
     Male flower specific gene sequences (5571904)  
     Gray leaf spot resistant corn and the production thereof (5574210)  
     Inbred corn line designated ZS0560 (5585533)  
     Inbred corn line designated ZS0853 (5585534)  
     Inbred corn line ZS1791 (5585539)  
     Inbred corn line designated ZS1513 (5585541)  
     Plant-derived glutathione-S-transferase isoform II promoter (5589614)  
     Biocidal proteins (5597801)  
     Expression of genes in transgenic plants using a cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase gene promoter (5633439)  
     DNA, DNA constructs, cells and plants derived therefrom (5659121)  
     Biological control agent (5681734)  
     Biocidal proteins (5689043)  
     Biocidal proteins (5689048)  
     DNA encoding biocidal proteins (5691199)  
     PTOM36 constructs and tomato cells transformed therewith (5744364)  
     Process for modifying the production of carotenoids in plants, and DNA, constructs and cells therefor (5750865)  
     Method of controlling plants by inhibition of farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase (5756423)  
     Insecticidal toxins derived from funnel web (atrax or hadronyche) spiders (5763568)  
     Antimicrobial proteins from Allium (5773694)  
     Oligonucleotide signalling conjugate (5800985)  
     Catalytic antibodies for carbamate activation by a non-spontaneous reaction mechanism (5807688)  
     Plant gene construct comprising male flower specific promoters (5808034)  
     Modification of starch synthesis in plants (5824790)  
     Biocidal proteins (5824869)  
     Tomato ripening TOM41 compositions and methods of use (5824873)  
     Nucleic acid detection with energy transfer (5827653)  
     Root-specific promoter (5837848)  
     Expression of self processing polyproteins in transgenic plants (5846767)  
     Maize acetyl CoA carboxylase encoding DNA clones (5854420)  
     Plants and processes for obtaining them (5859333)  
     Modified fruit containing galactanase transgene (5859344)  
     Antimicrobial proteins from aralia and impatiens (5861480)  
     Newly characterized oxalate and uses therefor (5866778)  
     Modification of lignin synthesis in plants (5866791)  
     Plant-derived enzyme and DNA sequences and uses thereof (5866792)  
     Biological insect control agent (5885569)  
     DNA encoding enzymes related to ethylene biosynthesis and ripening from banana (5886164)  
     Herbicide resistant plants (5888818)  
     DNA encoding fruit-ripening-related proteins, DNA constructs, cells and plants derived therefrom (5908973)  
     DNA encoding a pectin esterase, cells and plants derived therefrom (5910632)  
     Transformed plants expressing antimicrobial proteins (5919918)  
     Co-ordinated inhibition of plant gene expression (5942657)  
     Biocidal proteins (5942663)  
     Insecticidal toxins derived from funnel web (atrax or hadronyche) spiders (5959182)  
     Promoter (5965387)  
     Method of plant tissue culture and regeneration (5969215)  
     Fungal food (5980958)  
     Assay for detecting inhibitors of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (5985630)  
     Transgenic plants expressing biocidal proteins (5986176)  
     Detection of DNA/RNA by fluorescence polarization (6007984)  
     .beta.-Ketoacyl ACP reductase genes from Brassica napus (6011201)  
     Plants and processes for obtaining them (6013861)  
     Assay method (6022686)  
     S-adenosyl-L-homocystein hydrolase promoter (6037524)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin genes and methods of use (6063605)  
     Plant-derived enzyme and DNA sequences and uses thereof (6066456)  
     Process for obtaining fungal resistant plants with recombinant polynucleotides encoding .beta.-1,3-glucanase modified for apoplast targeting (6066491)  
     Modification of lignin synthesis in plants (6066780)  
     Polynucleotide encoding osmotin modified for apoplast targeting (6087161)  
     DNA sequences from muskmelon (Cucumis melo) related to fruit ripening (6107548)  
     Method of genetically transforming banana plants (6133035)  
     Production of proteins, plasmids coding therefor and organisms containing such plasmids (6136567)  
     Plant gene encoding acetyl coenzyme a carboxylase biotin carboxyl carrier protein (6150586)  
     DNA encoding antimicrobial proteins from impatiens (6150588)  
9 CIBA-GEIGY AG 85
     Agents for regulating plant metabolism (3937626)  
     Composition for the regulation of plant growth (3971647)  
     Arylisothiocyanate for the regulation of plant growth (4004907)  
     Phenylaminoacetamides for regulating plant growth (4008066)  
     1-(Bis-trifluoromethylphenyl)-2-oxo-pyrrolidine-4-carboxylic acid derivatives, their production and their use as plant-growth regulators and herbicides (4013445)  
     Plant growth regulating agent (4019894)  
     Plant growth regulating agent (4022611)  
     Silicon compounds containing nucleofugal phosphate group and method of regulating plant growth therewith (4084951)  
     Beta-halogenoethyl-silanes as plant growth regulators (4098601)  
     .beta.-Halogenoethyl-silanes as plant growth regulators (4102668)  
     Beta-halogenoethyl-silanes as plant growth regulators (4102670)  
     Pyridinium-s-triazines for regulating plant growth (4116675)  
     Hydroxamic acid derivatives for regulating plant growth (4126440)  
     Pyridyloxy-phenoxy-alkanecarboxylic acid derivatives which are effective as herbicides and as agents regulating plant growth (4133675)  
     Pyridine-4-carboxylic acid hydrazides for combatting phytopathogenic microorganisms and for regulating plant growth (4137067)  
     Composition for the regulation of plant metabolism (4149873)  
     Acetanilide plant growth regulating agent (4160660)  
     Plant growth regulating agent (4200451)  
     N-Phenyl-substituted N-heterocyclic compounds, their preparation and use in agents for regulating plant growth (4208202)  
     Phenylglyoxylonitrile-2-oxime-cyanomethyl ether as plant growth regulator (4220464)  
     2-Oxo- and 2-thioxo-1,3-dithiol compounds as active substances for regulating plant metabolism and their use (4265655)  
     Plant growth regulating agent (4283221)  
     Novel N-phenyl-substituted N-heterocyclic compounds, their preparation and use in agents for regulating plant growth (4294606)  
     Sulfur-containing alkanecarboxylic acid derivatives with herbicidal and plant growth-regulating action, production thereof and method of use (4311514)  
     Herbicidal and plant growth regulating pyridyloxy-phenoxy-propionic acid derivatives (4325729)  
     Haloethylthienylsulphonates for the regulation of plant metabolism (4357159)  
     Novel N-phenyl-substituted N-heterocyclic compounds, their preparation and use in agents for regulating plant growth (4394156)  
     Derivatives of 2-nitro-4- or -5-pyridyloxyphenylphosphonic acid, the preparation thereof, the use thereof as herbicides and/or plant growth regulators (4451284)  
     Nitroarylalkylsulfone derivatives as plant growth stimulants (4459152)  
     Route to hybrid cotton production (4570380)  
     Cyclohexanedionecarboxylic acid derivatives with herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4584013)  
     Herbicidal and plant-growth-regulating (2-nitro-5-aryloxy-phenylamino)-alkylphosphine oxide derivatives and compositions (4605434)  
     Cyclohexanedionecarboxylic acid derivatives with herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4618360)  
     Cyclohexanedionecarboxylic acid derivatives with herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4623382)  
     Cyclohexenonecarboxylic acid derivatives with herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4640706)  
     Cyclohexanedionecarboxylic acid derivatives with herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4693745)  
     Pyrimidine derivatives having a herbicidal action and an action regulating plant growth (4741760)  
     Cyclohexenonecarboxylic acid derivatives with herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4797152)  
     N-phenyl-maleimides and herbicidal and plant growth regulating methods of use thereof (4804400)  
     2-arylmethyliminopyrazines pyrazines, compositions and method of combating undesirable plant growth and of regulating plant growth (4849009)  
     Method of combating undesirable plant growth and of regulating plant growth (4851028)  
     Acylcyclohexanediones and the oxime ethers thereof with herbicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4909835)  
     N-phenyl-maleimides and N-phenyl-succinimides and their use in a herbicidal and/or plant growth regulating action (4929272)  
     5-(pyrazol-1-yl)-benzoic acid thiol esters, plant growth regulating compositions and use (4946492)  
     Deoxyribonucleic acid segment from a virus (4968615)  
     Cloning of complementary DNA encoding maize nitrite reductase (4997930)  
     Propagation process employing agarose medium (4999299)  
     Method of protecting useful plants from diseases caused by soil-borne and seed-borne pathogens by treating seeds with cultures of microorganisms (5041290)  
     Herbicidal tolerant plants containing rat glutathione S-transferase gene (5073677)  
     Baciullus thuringiensis strains active against coleopteran insects (5204100)  
     Process for the maintenance and proliferation of defective non-infectious virus genomes in proliferating plant materials (5215903)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to Leptosphaeria nodorum (5217871)  
     Transformation of hereditary material of plants (5231019)  
     Monoclonal antibodies and hybridomas specific for green-oat phytochrome (5248607)  
     Gamma-iterferon-leukotoxin gene fusions and uses thereof (5273889)  
     Insecticidal composition of bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis, DSM 3435 and DSM 3440 (5277906)  
     Isolated DNA Encoding plant histidinol dehydrogenase (5290926)  
     Anti-pathogenic bacterial strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens (5348742)  
     Zea mays plants and transgenic Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells (5350689)  
     Identification of plant-responsive genes of bacteria (5397697)  
     Methods for the production of hybrid seed (5409823)  
     Pectin lyase genes of aspergillus niger (5447862)  
     Transformation of hereditary material of plants (5453367)  
     Inbred corn line CG00637 (5457276)  
     Tissue-preferential promoters (5466785)  
     Anther-specific CDNA sequences, genomic DNA sequences and recumbinant DNA sequences (5477002)  
     Pseudomonas biocontrol strains (5496547)  
     Method for characterizing insecticidal properties of unknown bacillus strains (5506099)  
     Process for transforming plant protoplast (5508184)  
     Plant adenylosuccinate synthetase and DNA coding therefor (5519125)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis gene encoding a toxin active against insects (5530195)  
     Inbred corn line (5536900)  
     Herbicide resistant plants (5541310)  
     Monoclonal antibodies to mycosphaerella species (5558997)  
     Synergistic antifungal protein and compositions containing same (5559034)  
     Methods of inserting viral DNA into plant material (5569597)  
     Chimeric protein comprising an RTX-family cytotoxin and interferon-2 or interferon (5594107)  
     Methods for protecting ZEA mays plants against pest damage (5595733)  
     Regeneration of graminaceous plants of the subfamily pooideae from protoplasts (5596131)  
     Methods for stable transformation of wheat (5610042)  
     Chemically regulatable and anti-pathogenic DNA sequences and uses thereof (5614395)  
     Synthetic DNA sequence having enhanced insecticidal activity in maize (5625136)  
     Genes for the synthesis of antipathogenic substances (5639949)  
     Method of inserting viral DNA into plant material (6037526)  
     Vaccines with chimeric protein comprising gamma-interferon and leukotoxin derived from pasteurella haemolytica (6096320)  
10 KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO., LTD 84
     Method for promoting secretion of milk of livestock (4144354)  
     Agents for and method of modifying citrus fruit (4217130)  
     Antibiotic composition (4226879)  
     Enzymatic improvement of protein flavor (4232044)  
     Citric acid producing mutant yeast strains (4322498)  
     Process for mass propagation of plantlets (4338745)  
     Processes for producing thermophilic aspartase (4391910)  
     Process for producing L-glutamic acid (4440856)  
     Process for manufacturing alcohol by fermentation (4472501)  
     Plasmid pCG2 (4489160)  
     Process for producing L-histidine by fermentation (4495283)  
     Plasmids (4500640)  
     Bread or other cereal-based food improver composition involving the addition of phospholipase A to the flour (4567046)  
     Pharmaceutical composition for treating protozoan disease containing at least one tetrocarcin (4567164)  
     Regulatory substance of DNA synthesis (4613458)  
     Plasmid pCG1 from Corynebacterium glutamicum (4617267)  
     Process for producing L-lysine by fermentation (4623623)  
     Preparation of improved bread with gamma-glutamyl transferase (4645672)  
     Fish growth hormone (4645755)  
     Fish growth hormone polypeptide (4689402)  
     Novel vector plasmids (4710471)  
     Process for producing L-histidine by fermentation (4725541)  
     Process for producing L-glutamic acid by fermentation (4729952)  
     Process for the preparation of L-tryptophan (4742007)  
     Process for producing L-arginine (4775623)  
     Process for producing l-phenylalanine (4783403)  
     Process for producing menaquinone-4 (4849354)  
     Fish growth hormone polypeptide (4849359)  
     Promoter (4868125)  
     Process for producing tryptophan (4874698)  
     Eel growth hormone (4894362)  
     Process for producing phenylananine (4908312)  
     Process for producing L(-)-tetrahydrofolic acid (4929551)  
     Method of proliferating vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (4945059)  
     Process for producing L-lysine (4954441)  
     Process for renaturing fish growth hormone (4985544)  
     Process for producing L-threonine by fermentation (4996147)  
     Process for producing L-arginine (5017482)  
     Process for producing L-threonine (5017483)  
     Process for producing L-arginine (5034319)  
     Method for propagation of potatoes (5034327)  
     Process for producing D-alpha-alanine and/or L-alpha-alanineamide by Arthrobacter sp (5130240)  
     Process for the production of .gamma.-glutamyl transpeptidase (5153120)  
     Process for the preparation of ascorbic acid-2-phosphate (5212079)  
     Process for producing amino acid (5217883)  
     Yeast with high content of arginine (5217888)  
     Process for producing ascorbic acid-2-phosphate (5250425)  
     D-amidase and process for producing D-.alpha.-alanine and/or L-.alpha.-alanineamide (5252470)  
     Process for producing L-tryptophan by culturing a Corynebacterium glutamicum mutant (5275940)  
     Process for producing L-lysine by iodothyronine resistant strains of Mucorynebacterium glutamicum (5302521)  
     Process for producing 4-hydroxy-L-proline (5374542)  
     Process for producing L-threonine with strains of E coli resistant to phenylalanine and leucine (5376538)  
     Recombinant coryneform bacterium for producing L-tryptophan (5407824)  
     Gene expression regulatory DNA (5439822)  
     Process for producing L-tryptophan (5447857)  
     Process for producing L-isoleucine by S-2-aminoethyl-L-cysteine or D-Serine resistant strains of E coli (5460958)  
     Process for producing L-alanine by fermentation with arthrobacter (5478733)  
     Process for producing L-tryptophan by a Corynebacterium strain having decreased phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity (5484716)  
     Process for producing amino acids (5498532)  
     Method of producing flavine nucleotides (5514574)  
     Method for the production of foods and beverages (5520933)  
     Process for producing L-valine (5521074)  
     Process for producing alanine (5559016)  
     Process for producing L-tryptophan (5563052)  
     Process for the preparation of ascorbic acid-2-phosphate (5578471)  
     Process for producing riboflavin (5589355)  
     Corynebacterium strain for producing L-tryptophan decreased in phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity (5595906)  
     Process for producing L-tryptophan, L-tyrosine or L-phenylalanine (5605818)  
     Process for producing L-amino acid (5629180)  
     Gene expression regulatory DNA (5700661)  
     Process of feeding juvenile fish with astaxanthin-containing zooplankton (5739006)  
     Inosine-guanosine kinase (5756315)  
     Process for producing disaccharides and novel disaccharides (5776739)  
     Inosine-guanosine kinase (5874272)  
     Process for producing aspartase and process for producing L-aspartic acid (5916782)  
     Process for producing L-amino acids by fermentation (5919670)  
     Plant growth factor (6004906)  
     Process for producing Cis-3-hydroxy-L-proline (6010891)  
     Plant growth factor (6057296)  
     Compositions containing novel protein complexes (6066352)  
     Process for making bread (6077550)  
     Plant genes encoding flavonoid-3', 5'-hydroxylase (6114601)  
     Phytase and gene encoding said phytase (6139902)  
     Process for producing L-amino acids by fermentation (6143552)  
11 AKZO NOBEL BV 82
     Vaccines for immunizing egg-laying birds against Egg Drop disease, preparation of said vaccines, and method of use of said vaccines (4302444)  
     Infectious Bursal Disease vaccine (4530831)  
     Infectious bronchitis vaccines (4751079)  
     Combined vaccine for viral and bacterial infections (4788056)  
     Bacteriophage cloning system for the construction of directional DNA libraries (4987073)  
     Live combination vaccine (5037650)  
     Mycoplasma vaccine (5064647)  
     Recominbant Herpesvirus of Turkeys and live vector vaccines derived thereof (5187087)  
     Pseudorabies virus vaccine (5196516)  
     Vaccine against E. coli septicaemia in poultry (5208024)  
     Recombinant Marek's disease virus (5231023)  
     Haemophilus paragallinarum vaccine (5240705)  
     Mareks' disease virus vaccine (5283191)  
     Cell-free Marek's disease virus vaccine (5378467)  
     DNA encoding amino acids 590-710 of glycoprotein gII of pseudorabies virus (5449765)  
     Method for the synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA) (5466586)  
     Recombinant herpesvirus of turkeys and live vector vaccines derived thereof (5470734)  
     Reovirus strain 2177 and vaccine containing same (5525342)  
     Nucleic acid amplification process (5554517)  
     Chicken anemia virus vaccine and diagnostic (5554525)  
     Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale vaccine and method of immunization (5576003)  
     Poultry vaccine against E. coli air sac inflammation and septicaemia (5593679)  
     Coccidiosis vaccine (5602033)  
     Vaccine against streptococcus suis infection (5612042)  
     Coccidiosis poultry vaccine (5614195)  
     Non-shedding live herpesvirus vaccine (5626850)  
     Eimeria tenella vaccine (5637487)  
     Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae subunit vaccine (5648081)  
     Method for nucleic acid amplification using inosine triphosphates to partially replace guanosine triphosphates in the synthesis of multiple RNA copies (5654142)  
     Terminal repeat amplification method (5665545)  
     DNA encoding an Eimeria 100kD antigen (5670362)  
     Vaccines against Aujeszky's disease and other animal diseases containing pseudorabies virus mutants (5674500)  
     Coccidiosis vaccine (5677438)  
     Process for rendering a nucleic acid amplication reaction product incapable of being a target for further amplification, a diagnostic assay employing said process (5679553)  
     gD-negative bovine herpesvirus mutant, capable of direct cell-to-cell transmission (5686076)  
     Methods of immunization of poultry with vaccines against chicken anemia agent (CAA) (5686077)  
     Marek's disease virus vaccine (5686287)  
     Recombinant vaccine against marek's disease (5690939)  
     European vaccine strains of the Porcine Reproductive Respiratory Syndrome virus (PRRSV) (5698203)  
     Chicken anaemia agent vaccine (5728569)  
     Newcastle disease virus combination vaccine (5733556)  
     Pseudorabies virus vaccine (5738854)  
     Mild newcastle disease virus vaccine (5750111)  
     Poultry vaccine (5750113)  
     Escherichia coli vaccine (5750115)  
     High-flux semipermeable membrane containing immobilized affinity ligands (5766908)  
     Elimination of false negatives in nucleic acid detection (5770360)  
     Coccidiosis poultry vaccine DNA encoding an elmeria 20K antigen (5780289)  
     Eimeria polypeptide antigen and vaccines containing the same (5783197)  
     DNA encoding an Eimekia 50 KD antigen (5789233)  
     Vaccine against viruses associated with antibody-dependent-enhancement of viral infectivity (5789388)  
     DNA encoding an Eimeria 200 kd antigen (5792644)  
     Coccidiosis poultry vaccine (5795741)  
     Hog cholera virus vaccine and diagnostic (5811103)  
     Eimeria tenella polypeptide and vaccine containing same (5814320)  
     Nucleic acid quantitation by co-amplification of target with multiple internal controls (5837501)  
     Coccidiosis poultry vaccine (5843722)  
     Expression of porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome virus polypeptides in the same cell (5858729)  
     Vector vaccines of bovine herpesvirus I (5874280)  
     Coccidiosis poultry vaccine (5885568)  
     Inactivated vaccines (5914113)  
     Fish pancreatic disease virus (5914260)  
     Viral vector vaccines comprising nucleic acids encoding eimeria proteins for poultry vaccination against coccidiosis (5925347)  
     European vaccine strains of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (5925359)  
     Hog cholera virus vaccine and diagnostic (5925360)  
     Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale vaccines (5925361)  
     Nucleic acid primers for amplification of a mycobacteria RNA template (5925518)  
     Hog cholera virus vaccine and diagnostic (5935582)  
     Fish pancreatic disease virus (5939073)  
     Non-virulent Mycoplasma synoviae and vaccine thereof (6001348)  
     Coccidiosis poultry vaccine (6001363)  
     Live attenuated bacteria of the species Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (6013266)  
     Use of RNA polymerase to improve nucleic acid amplification process (6025134)  
     Serine protease inhibitors (6034067)  
     Babesia vaccine (6045806)  
     Nucleic acid amplification process (6063603)  
     Poultry vaccine (6086892)  
     Coccidiosis poultry vaccine (6100241)  
     Pasteurella multocida toxin derivatives (6110470)  
     Streptococcus equi vaccine (6120775)  
     Inactivated infectious bursal disease vaccine (6129920)  
     Intradermal Avian immunization with inactivated vaccines (6159472)  
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     Composition containing double stranded RNA from basidiomycetes and method of use (3980776)  
     N-(2-Substituted-4-pyridyl)ureas and thioureas as well as plant growth regulators containing same, and method for using compounds as plant growth regulators (4279639)  
     Pyridazine urea plant growth regulators (4331807)  
     Pollinating machine (4383389)  
     Plant growth regulators (4397678)  
     Plant growth regulator (4449997)  
     Method of the preparation of improved mutant strain of Bordetella bronchiseptica useful as live attenuated vaccine for prophlaxis of B. bronchiseptica infection (4456588)  
     Full dwarf hybrid sunflower seed and plant and method of producing hybrid seed (4527352)  
     DNA coding for a signal amino acid sequence and DNA containing the same (4663294)  
     Process for the in-vitro transformation of plant protoplasts with plasmid DNA (4684611)  
     DNA coding for a signal peptide and DNA containing the same (4690898)  
     Probe for electrofusion, electroporation, or like procedure (4695547)  
     Potato variety named LC-1 (4723052)  
     Novel expression plasmids containing the full cDNA sequence of calf prochymosin (4757020)  
     Bioregulator based on plant raw materials and method for producing same (4872900)  
     Probe for electrofusion, electroporation, or like procedure (4882281)  
     Use of an organ culture of Catharanthus roseus to produce vincristine and vinblastine (4910138)  
     Process for preparing oligopeptide (4935351)  
     Vectors and methods for the construction of cDNA libraries (4985359)  
     Composition and method for in vitro cell culture (4987079)  
     Process for the activation of promoters of bacteria (5019501)  
     Bovine embryo medium (5096822)  
     Process for introducing foreign DNA into the genome of plants (5149645)  
     Fermentation processes using amylolytic enzyme producing microorganisms (5151354)  
     KEX2 endoprotease without a C-terminal hydrophobic region (5162220)  
     Flower-inducing substances and a method for production thereof (5189145)  
     Method of plant tissue culture (5217892)  
     Recombinant baculovirus (5229293)  
     DNA encoding a KEX2 endoprotease without a C-terminal hydrophobic region (5234830)  
     Genes encoding porcine zona pellucida protein PZP-4, expression thereof and contraceptive vaccines comprising expressed (poly) peptides (5348866)  
     Expression of proteins on bacterial surface (5348867)  
     Method of preparing branched cyclodextrin (5366879)  
     Xylose isomerase gene of Thermus aquaticus (5411886)  
     Industrial yeast comprising an integrated glucoamylase gene (5422267)  
     Improvements to apparatus and method for electroporation (5422272)  
     DNA probe signal amplification (5437977)  
     Cell culture system (5459058)  
     Process for the incorporation of foreign DNA into the genome of dicotyledonous plants (5464763)  
     Cultivated melon with a sour taste and a process for the production thereof (5476998)  
     Curculin B and DNA encoding same, and process for production thereof (5480795)  
     Process for constructing cDNA library, and novel polypeptide and DNA coding for the same (5525486)  
     Parasite-derived resistance (5580716)  
     Cloning vector for use in lactic acid bacteria (5580787)  
     Fingerprinting using single specific primers in low stringency polymerase chain reaction conditions (5599674)  
     Process for the production of antibodies (5639457)  
     Cleaving double-stranded DNA with peptide nucleic acids (5641625)  
     Peptide purification method using novel linker and solid-phase ligand (5648462)  
     Newbold's diamond, a densely foliolate, complanate leatherleaf fern (5650551)  
     Large scale production of human or animal proteins using plant bioreactors (5723755)  
     Bacterial Preparation for agricultural use (5733355)  
     Method to improve the biological and antiviral activity of protease inhibitors (5750493)  
     Cell culture system (5759856)  
     Commercial production of avidin in plants (5767379)  
     Process for the production of expression vectors comprising at least one stochastic sequence of polynucleotides (5824514)  
     Parasite-derived resistance (5840481)  
     Methods for using mutant RNA polymerases with reduced discrimination between non-canonical and canonical nucleoside triphosphates (5849546)  
     Real time homogeneous nucleotide assay (5853990)  
     Ribonucleoproteins and RNA-binding proteins useful for the specific recognition and binding to RNA, and for control of cellular genetic processing and expression (5866680)  
     Mammalian flap-specific endonuclease (5874283)  
     Plug mixture for raising seedlings and method for producing it, and method for raising disease tolerant seedlings (5935571)  
     Ligands to enhance cellular uptake of biomolecules (5994517)  
     Repair-mediated process for amplifying and detecting nucleic acid sequences (6004826)  
     Processes for modifying plant flowering behavior (6025544)  
     Cellulose synthase gene (6051407)  
     Microinjection process for introducing an injection substance particularly foreign, genetic material, into procaryotic and eucaryotic cells, as well as cell compartments of the latter (plastids, cell nuclei), as well as nanopipette for the same (6063629)  
     Optimized primer library for gene sequencing and method of using same (6083695)  
     Transcriptional activators with graded transactivation potential (6087166)  
     Breeding lines of color-sexable day-old chicks and methods for producing the same (6130365)  
     Newbold's Diamond Leatherleaf Fern (PP9113)  
13 NESTEC, S.A. 64
     Process for the manufacture of a dairy product (4716045)  
     Soft, unripened cheese (4732769)  
     Preparation of a casein-based puffed product (4744993)  
     Preparation of a blue cheese flavour (4832964)  
     Preparation of compositions including acid-resistant bifidobacteria (4870020)  
     Acidified milk product of creamy consistency and process for making (4965079)  
     Process for cultivating plant cells in vitro (5030573)  
     Preparation of a hypoallergenic whey protein hydrolyzate and food (5039532)  
     Process for the preservation of plant embryos (5138793)  
     Flavoring composition (5139810)  
     Process for producing soya sauce (5141756)  
     Flavouring agent (5141757)  
     Preservation of vegetables and fruits (5192565)  
     Process for the manufacture of composite cheese and product thereof (5194283)  
     Process for preparing emulsifying agents (5213968)  
     Diacetyl production (5236833)  
     Process for the production of substances of vegetable origin (5279959)  
     DNA probe for lactobacillus delbrueckii (5359049)  
     Preparation of yogurt with lac(-) L. bulgaricus (5382438)  
     Pectin-modified lipase from Mucor javanicus with lowered saturated/unsaturated fatty acid ratio (5384256)  
     Preparation of crumb-flavored milk chocolate (5393538)  
     Polyploid baker's yeasts having a low temperature inactivation property (5399492)  
     DNA probe for lactobacillus helveticus (5412086)  
     Trickle process for vinegar production (5427803)  
     DNA probe for lactobacillus delbrueckii (5429924)  
     Process for preparing a blue cheese flavorant (5455051)  
     Composition and process used for stabilizing egg proteins subjected to subsequent heat treatment (5464639)  
     Flavorant composition prepared by fermentation (5476773)  
     Baker's yeast having a low temperature inactivation property (5480798)  
     Production of a seasoning (5523100)  
     Lactobacillus bulgaricus having decreased acid production and/or improved aroma and flavor production (5545554)  
     Pilocarpin production process (5569593)  
     Lactobacillus johnsonii CNCM I-1225 (5603930)  
     Enhanced procedures for preparing food hydrolysates (5618689)  
     Plasmid derived from Lactobacillus elbrueckii Sp. (5639644)  
     Fermented food product and preparation thereof (5645877)  
     Hydrolysis of the galactomannans of coffee extract with immobilized beta-mannanase (5714183)  
     Lactic bacteria producing exopolysaccharides (5733765)  
     Preparation of thiols with food-acceptable micro-organisms (5747302)  
     Peptide isolated from micrococcus varians and use thereof (5756665)  
     Fermented food product for animals (5759598)  
     Phage-resistant streptococcus (5766904)  
     Low-temperature inactive industrial baker's yeast and process for preparing same (5776526)  
     Lactic bacteria producing exopolysaccharides (5786184)  
     Method for preparing a flavoring base (5789003)  
     Process for reducing spoilage of sterilized liquid products (5800850)  
     Fermented meat trim and its incorporation in meat (5827550)  
     Baker's yeasts having a low temperature inactivation property (5827724)  
     Composition and process useful for reducing the fat caloric content of foodstuffs containing fats and oils (5879729)  
     Seasoning production (5888561)  
     Enzymatic treatment of cocoa (5888562)  
     Process for packaging plant tissues cultured in vitro for transport (5943821)  
     Branched lactose containing polysacharides and compositions containing them (5955602)  
     Continuous fermentation process (5962046)  
     Micrococcus varians strains for producing bactericide compositions (5981261)  
     Meat product preparation by incorporating fermented meat trimmings and extra fat in a meat piece (5989601)  
     Leuconostoc strains for biosynthesis of dextran (6004800)  
     Flavorant prepared from Trigonela foenum-graecum seeds (6013289)  
     Ice cream with coating containing lactic acid bacteria (6022568)  
     Cheese flavor (6054151)  
     Enhanced expression of proteolytic enzymes in koji mold (6090607)  
     Recombinant sequence-modified L. johnsonii bacteria which produce only + L()-lactate (6110725)  
     Flavoring agent (6129937)  
     Bacterocide compositions and their preparation from micrococcus varians (6150139)  
14 IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES PLC 62
     Regulating plant growth (4047924)  
     Plant growth regulation (4155743)  
     Method of regulating plant growth using triazole and imidazole compounds (4181518)  
     Imidazole and triazole compounds, fungicidal and plant growth regulating compositions, method of combating fungal infections in plants and method of regulating plant growth (4246020)  
     Triazole and imidazole compounds and their use as fungicides and plant growth regulating agents (4269845)  
     1,3-Bis(azolyl)propanols as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4416682)  
     Thiazolidinones (4443454)  
     Derivatives of M.139,603 useful as growth promoters (4443471)  
     Method for inducing tillering utilizing certain pyridine-1-oxides (4473395)  
     Triazolylalkanetriol derivatives (4496388)  
     Triazole and imidazole compounds useful as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4507140)  
     1-(Tetrahydrofurylmethyl)azoles (4518415)  
     Azolyl-hydroxy alkanols having fungicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4586947)  
     Transposable cloning vector (4590162)  
     Plant growth regulation using triazole ethanols (4595406)  
     .alpha.-Benzyl-.alpha.-triazolyl pinacolone compounds (4605747)  
     Heterocyclic compounds (4636247)  
     Triazole alkanols having fungicidal and plant growth regulating properties (4655820)  
     Triazole and imidazole compounds useful as plant growth regulators and fungicides (4684396)  
     Benzoylaminomethylpyrazoles and -furans, composition containing them, and fungicidal and plant growth regulating method of using them (4752321)  
     Vector (4784956)  
     Heterocyclic compounds (4871389)  
     Pyrimidine derivatives (4875922)  
     Chemical compounds (4877811)  
     Ethers on esters of 1-triazole-2-substituted ethanols (4880457)  
     Production of cyanide hydratase (4894341)  
     Heterocyclic compounds (4895589)  
     Amide derivatives and their use as fungicides and plant growth regulators (4900349)  
     Pyrimidine derivatives (4902332)  
     Triazolyl ethanol derivatives as plant growth regulators (4923502)  
     Process for the production of microbial cellulose (4929550)  
     Triazole derivatives useful as plant growth regulating agents (4931082)  
     Triazole and imidazole compounds (4946493)  
     Pyrazine compound useful as plant growth regulators (4975112)  
     Triazolylmethyl tert-butyl carbinol derivatives which have plant growth regulating properties (4999043)  
     Pyrimidine derivatives (5026418)  
     Triazole alkanols including an alkenyl substituent having fungicidal and plant growth regulating properties (5026718)  
     Thiophene derivatives useful as fungicidal, insecticidal or plant growth regulating agents (5053073)  
     Insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis strains with activity against lepidoptera (5061489)  
     Pyramidine derivatives (5073187)  
     Tomato anti-sense pectin esterase (5073676)  
     Derivatives of alphaphenylacrylic acid and their use in agriculture (5145954)  
     Micropropagation process (5168059)  
     Tomato plants and cells containing pTOM36 antisense constructs (5254800)  
     Antifungal microorganism (5260302)  
     Bacterial strain (5262323)  
     Fungicidal and plant growth regulating triazole alkynyl ethers (5272130)  
     DNA, constructs, cells and plants derived therefrom (5296376)  
     Modification of carotenoid production in tomatoes using pTOM5 (5304478)  
     DNA constructs containing fruit-ripening genes (5304490)  
     Antisense constructs derived from pTOM13 plants and plant cells with reduced ethylene evolution (5365015)  
     DNA constructs encoding Bacillus thuringiensis toxins from strain A20 (5424409)  
     Recombinant DNA containing pectin esterase gene segements (5447867)  
     Biocidal proteins (5482928)  
     DNA constructs containing the gene for ACC Oxidase, cells and plants derived therefrom (5530190)  
     Regulation of gene expression (5554510)  
     Transformed tomato plants (5569829)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains producing insecticidally active toxins (5573766)  
     Plants with altered ability to synthesize starch and process for obtaining them (5792920)  
     Fermentation process (5840543)  
     Modification of lignin synthesis in plants (5959178)  
     Regulation of gene expression (6010887)  
15 PLANT GENETIC SYSTEMS 62
     Agents and procedures for the transfer of proteins and/or nucleic acids onto a supported receptor surface (4839231)  
     Transformation vectors allowing expression of Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxins in plants (5254799)  
     Methods and means for controlling the stability of proteins (5290690)  
     Bactericidal and/or bacteriostatic peptides isolated from hemolymph of honeybees (5300629)  
     Modified prokaryotic glucose isomerase enzymes with altered pH activity profiles (5340738)  
     Mutant microbial .alpha.-amylases with increased thermal, acid and/or alkaline stability (5364782)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains toxic to diabrotica species (5369027)  
     Glucose isomerase enzymes and their use (5376536)  
     Glucose isomerases with an altered pH optimum (5384257)  
     Method of controlling coleotera using Bacillus thuringiensis strains MG P-14025 and LMG P-14026 (5422106)  
     Plants transformed with a DNA sequence from Bacillus thuringiensis lethal to Lepidoptera (5460963)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their genes encoding insecticidal toxins (5466597)  
     Process for the production of biologically active peptide via the expression of modified storage seed protein genes in transgenic plants (5487991)  
     Control of ostrinia (5530197)  
     Transformation vectors allowing expression of foreign polypeptide endoxins from Bacillus thuringiensis in plants (5545565)  
     Genetically engineered plant cells and plants exhibiting resistance to glutamine synthetase inhibitors, DNA fragments and recombinants for use in the production of said cells and plants (5561236)  
     Stamen-specific promoters from corn (5589610)  
     Process for the production of transgenic plants with increased nutritional value via the expression of modified 2S storage albumins (5589615)  
     Seed-specific promoter region (5623067)  
     Control of Ostrinia (5628995)  
     Plants with genetic female sterility (5633441)  
     Modified Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal-crystal protein genes and their expression in plant cells (5633446)  
     Stamen-specific promoters from rice (5639948)  
     Process for transforming monocotyledonous plants (5641664)  
     Genetically engineered plant cells and plants exhibiting resistance to glutamine synthetase inhibitors, DNA fragments and recombinants for use in the production of said cells and plants (5646024)  
     Genetically engineered plant cells and plants exhibiting resistance to glutamine synthetase inhibitors, DNA fragments and recombinants for use in the production of said cells and plants (5648477)  
     Stamen-selective promoters (5652354)  
     Diabrotica toxins (5659123)  
     Transformation of monocot cells (5679558)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal toxins (5683691)  
     Plants modified with barstar for fertility restoration (5689041)  
     Process for transforming monocotyledonous plants (5712135)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous peptide (5717084)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their genes encoding insecticidal toxins (5723756)  
     Plants with modified flowers (5723763)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous polypeptide (5728925)  
     Maintenance of male-sterile plants (5750867)  
     Endotoxins (5760181)  
     Transformation vectors allowing expression of foreign polypeptide endotoxins from Bacillus thuringiensis in plants (5767372)  
     Plants with modified flowers seeds or embryos (5767374)  
     Plants with modified flowers (5792929)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their genes encoding insecticidal toxins (5837237)  
     Transformation vectors allowing expression of foreign polypeptide endotoxins in plants (5843898)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their insecticidal proteins (5861543)  
     Recombinant plant expressing non-competitively binding insecticidal crystal proteins (5866784)  
     Modified Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal-crystal protein genes and their expression in plant cells (5877306)  
     Use of anthocyanin genes to maintain male sterile plants (5880331)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their insecticidal proteins (5885571)  
     Recombinant plant expressing non-competitively binding Bt insecticidal crystal proteins (5908970)  
     Modified Bacillus thuringiensis genes with improved expression in plant cells, methods of production on and use (5952547)  
     Maintenance of male-sterile plants (5977433)  
     Gene expression in plants (5994526)  
     Process for transforming monocotyledonous plants (6002070)  
     Use of anthocyanin genes to maintain male sterile plants (6008437)  
     Method to obtain male sterile plants (6025546)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis strains and their insecticidal proteins (6028246)  
     Plants with modified flowers (6046382)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous peptide (6063601)  
     Genetic transformation using a PARP inhibitor (6074876)  
     Process for transforming monocotyledonous plants (6074877)  
     Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous polypeptide (6130366)  
     Transformation method for plants (6140553)  
16 INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE (INRA) 53
     Protein obtained from cakes of vegetable origin (3969338)  
     Product for prevention against ophiobolus take-all in cereals and the like (3987165)  
     Process for the treatment of cakes and seeds of vegetable origin (4085229)  
     Continuous manufacture of cheese (4131688)  
     Process and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of cheese (4224865)  
     Process for producing food proteins from Trichoderma Album (4238567)  
     Process for producing food proteins of fungal origin or from multicellular organisms fementation apparatus and proteins so-produced (4330560)  
     Animal vaccine, against colibacillosis, preparation and use (4343792)  
     Preparation of Salmonella abortus ovis strains and vaccine compositions containing them (4350684)  
     Method for conditioning and preserving eggs of insect oophage parasites or process for conditioning and preservation of eggs of oophagous parasites of insects (4370946)  
     Total enzymatic hydrolysate from whey proteins and process of obtaining the same (4427658)  
     Animal vaccine against colibacillosis, preparation and use (4443547)  
     Process for recovering the whey proteins, the application thereof to cheese-making and the resulting cheeses (4518616)  
     Microorganisms of the Phanerochaete chrysosporium strain and their use (4889807)  
     Process of grafted cuttings of stock and scion from in vitro (4937971)  
     Cloning or expression vectors containing the avian erythroblastosis virus genome and cells transfected by these vectors (4957865)  
     Process for combatting "varroatosis" by biological means and devices for implementing this process (5135758)  
     Microbial method for producing lignin peroxidase (5153121)  
     Sphingophospholipids containing inositol, and their application as inducers of resistance to various cryptogamic diseases in plants (5154748)  
     ARS sequence which is efficacious in yarrowia lipolytica (5212087)  
     Avian erythroblastosis virus vectors for integration and expression of heterologous genes in avian cells (5252465)  
     Specific DNA molecular probes for Bos-type male genome (5328827)  
     Toxic metabolic product of Hirsutella sp. (5338675)  
     Substance with lipo-oligosaccharide structure capable of acting as plant-specific symbiotic signals, processes for producing them and their applications (5549718)  
     Plasmid replication origin increasing the copy number of the plasmid containing the said origin (5565333)  
     Method for enhancing the earliness of a plant and/or lowering the content of nitrates stored in the plant (5569833)  
     Modified baculovirus and baculovirus expression vectors (5571709)  
     Modified baculovirus, its preparation process and its application as a gene expression vector (5583023)  
     Cloning and expression of the gene of the malolactic enzyme of Lactococcus lactis (5587304)  
     Nucleotide sequences permitting the replication and maintenance of a genetic information in animal cells (5597689)  
     DNA fragments coding for a bacteriophage-resistant mechanism (5629182)  
     Broad host spectrum rhizobiaceae nodulation signals (5646018)  
     Ornamental character of scented geraniums by genetic transformation (5648598)  
     Process for modulating the behavior of worker bees by means of brood pheromones (5695383)  
     Yeast strains expressing the lactic lacticodeshydrogenase gene and vectors useful in producing said strains (5712152)  
     Filamentous fungus proteins for binding and transporting lipids, method for preparing them and their applications (5717070)  
     Gram-positive bacteria replicon (5766586)  
     DNA sequence imparting cytoplasmic male sterility, mitochondrial genome, nuclear genome, mitochondria and plant containing said sequence and process for the preparation of hybrids (5789566)  
     Nucleotide sequences coding for polypeptides endowed with a larvicidal activity towards lepidoptera (5792928)  
     Methods for using a temperature-sensitive plasmid (5919678)  
     Expression of a gram-positive bacteria replicon (5928897)  
     Method for regulating the expression of a gene in a baculovirus using a retinoic acid receptor binding site and vector therefor (5939285)  
     Promoters for enhancing plant productivity (5962670)  
     Phanerochaete chrysospoirium strains CNCM I-1511, I-1512 and I-1513 for producing lignin peroxidase and manganese peroxidase (5972672)  
     Temperature-sensitive plasmid (6025190)  
     .beta.-glucosidase from filamentous fungi, and uses thereof (6087131)  
     Strains of Bacillus thuringiensis and pesticide composition containing them (6096306)  
     ClpG subunit of CS31A protein capsule containing heterologous peptides (6096321)  
     Enzyme and microorganism degrading rhamnogalacturonane II (6103506)  
     Process for obtaining aroma components and aromas from their precursors of a glycosidic nature, and aroma components and aromas thereby obtained (6106872)  
     Active retinoic acid-free culture medium for chicken embryonic stem cells (6114168)  
     Nucleotide sequences for the control of the expression of DNA sequences in a cell host (6140104)  
     Aspergillus niger which produces vanillic acid from ferulic acid (6162637)  
17 GIST-BROCADES N.V. 50
     Infectious bronchitis vaccine for poultry (4357320)  
     Plasmid and its use (4460688)  
     Vaccines (4481188)  
     Infectious bronchitis vaccine for poultry (4505892)  
     Vaccines (4515777)  
     Live infectious bronchitis vaccine for poultry (4645665)  
     Inactivated infectious bronchitis vaccine for poultry (4761282)  
     Cloning system for Kluyveromyces species (4859596)  
     DNA constructs containing a Kluyveromyces alpha factor leader sequence for directing secretion of heterologous polypeptides (5010182)  
     Production of glucose syrups and purified starches from wheat and other cereal starches containing pentosans (5023176)  
     Processing of proteins (5246838)  
     Molecular cloning and expression of gene encoding lipolytic enzyme (5278066)  
     Methods and means for controlling the stability of proteins (5290690)  
     Recombinant DNA encoding neutral trehalase (5312909)  
     Recombinant genetic means for the production of serine protease muteins (5324653)  
     PB92 serine protease muteins and their use in detergents (5336611)  
     Modified prokaryotic glucose isomerase enzymes with altered pH activity profiles (5340738)  
     Mutant microbial .alpha.-amylases with increased thermal, acid and/or alkaline stability (5364782)  
     Glucose isomerase enzymes and their use (5376536)  
     Glucose isomerases with an altered pH optimum (5384257)  
     Cloning and expression of acetyl xylan esterases from fungal origin (5426043)  
     Cloning and expression of phytase from aspergillus (5436156)  
     Compositions and methods for making lipolytic enzymes (5529917)  
     Stabilization of carboxyl esterase (5538876)  
     Production of enzymes in seeds and their use (5543576)  
     Expression of phytase in plants (5593963)  
     Cloning and expression of xylanase B (5610046)  
     Cloning and expression of the exo-polygalacturonase gene from aspergillus (5624834)  
     Intersexual heterozygous phycomyces (5643719)  
     Cloning and expression of acetyl xylan esterases from fungal origin (5681732)  
     Modified signal sequences (5705362)  
     Production of heterologous proteins in filamentous fungi (5710021)  
     Method to alter the properties of acetylated xylan (5763260)  
     Expression of phytase in plants (5770413)  
     Cloning of the zymocin gene and use of zymocin in beverages (5783183)  
     Cheesemaking with recombinant aspartic protease (5800849)  
     Enzyme preparations stabilized with inorganic salts (5827709)  
     Method for producing lipolytic enzymes using transformed Pseudomonas (5830735)  
     Transformation of phaffia rhodozyma (5840528)  
     Yeast strains for saccharide fermentation (5858764)  
     Cloning and expression of DNA molecules encoding arabinan-degrading enzymes of fungal origin (5863783)  
     Selection marker gene free recombinant strains: method for obtaining them and the use of these strains (5876988)  
     Method for influencing .beta.-lactam antibiotic production and for isolation of large quantities of ACV synthetase (5882879)  
     Salt-stabilized enzyme preparations (5972669)  
     Phospholipases in animal feed (6017530)  
     Process for preparation of .beta.-lactams at constantly high concentration of reactants (6048708)  
     Process for obtaining aroma components and aromas from their precursors of a glycosidic nature, and aroma components and aromas thereby obtained (6106872)  
     Infectious bronchitis vaccine for poultry (RE31830)  
     Vaccines (RE32283)  
     Infectious bronchitis vaccine for poultry (RE34013)  
18 SANDOZ LTD. 50
     N-[O-(.beta.-Cyanoethyl)-phosphonomethyl]-glycines and derivatives (4025331)  
     Di-(acyloxyalkyl)-.beta.-haloethane-phosphonates and dithiophosphonates and use as plant growth regulators (4042370)  
     Antibiotic compositions for treating coccidiosis (4148890)  
     Di-(cyanoalkyl)-.beta.-haloethanephosphonates and dithiophosphonates and use as plant growth regulators (4190430)  
     Pyridinyloxy propoinamide derivatives useful in increasing the recoverable sugar in sugarcane (4615728)  
     Certain 1-(N-methylsulfonamido)-prop-2-yl 2-/4-(pyrid-2-yloxy)phenoxy/-propionate derivatives and their use for increasing recoverable sugar contained in sugar cane (4629497)  
     Pent-2-en-4-on-2-yl 2-(4-(5-trifluoromethyl-2-pyridinyloxy)phenoxy)propanoate useful for increasing recoverable sugar in sugar cane (4661148)  
     Method of increasing the yield of sugar from sugarcane (4662934)  
     Pleuromutilin derivatives process for their preparation and their use (4675330)  
     Method of increasing the yield of sugar from sugarcane (4685960)  
     Insecticidal hybrid bacteria from b.t. kurstaki and b.t. tenebrionis (4797279)  
     1,3,5-Triazine-2-one derivatives and their use as plant growth regulators (4826526)  
     Eclosion hormone peptides (5082828)  
     Heterocyclic diones as plant growth regulators (5336662)  
     Electrotransformation process (5371003)  
     Method and compositions for the biological control of field bindweed (5391538)  
     Pulp bleaching with thermo stable xylanase of thermomonosporafusca (5407827)  
     White-rot fungus and uses thereof (5427945)  
     Dominant orange allele in pepper (5440069)  
     Insecticidal plectoxins from Plectreurys tristis (5470735)  
     Pitch degradation with white rot fungus (5472874)  
     Pitch degradation with white rot fungi (5476790)  
     Pregerminated seeds (5522907)  
     Corn inbreds `899` and `901` and corn hybrid `N5220` (5530181)  
     Biological control for wood products (5532164)  
     Process for treatment of waste stream using Scytinostroma galactinum fungus ATCC 20966 (5545544)  
     Hyper-sensitivity related gene (5550228)  
     Hyper-sensitivity related gene (5552527)  
     Insecticidal toxins from the parastic wasp, bracon hebetor (5554592)  
     Heterocyclic diones as pesticides and plant growth regulators (5565410)  
     Pregerminated seeds (5585536)  
     Fragaria plants and seeds (5585540)  
     Somatic embryogenesis method (5587312)  
     Fungi for pitch reduction and their preparation (5607855)  
     Anti-microbial proteins (5607919)  
     Anti-microbial proteins (5608151)  
     Herbicidal compositions comprising a growth regulating herbicide to safen sulfonylurea herbicides (5612284)  
     Plant promoter (5612472)  
     Herbicidal compositions comprising a growth regulating herbicide to safen imidazolinone herbicides (5614466)  
     Thiol protease inhibitor (5629469)  
     Gene exhibiting resistance to acetolactate synthase inhibitor herbicides (5633437)  
     Doubled haploids (5639951)  
     Method of controlling insect with novel insecticidal protein (5712248)  
     Insecticide protein and gene (5731194)  
     Hybrid toxin (5736131)  
     Constructs containing impatiens necrotic spot tospovirus RNA and methods of use thereof (5773700)  
     Screening method for detection of herbicides (5780253)  
     Method for detection of herbicides (5780254)  
     Bacillus thuringiensis sporulation gene (5827515)  
     Insecticidal matrix and process for preparation thereof (5851545)  
19 INSTITUT PASTEUR 49
     Vectors for the insertion therein of foreign DNA fragments, according to any translation phase (4371625)  
     Stabilizing agents for live viruses for preparing vaccines, and stabilized vaccines containing said stabilizing agents (4500512)  
     Conjugate obtained by coupling a lectin and a specific ligand, containing such a conjugate and its applications in biology (4526871)  
     Probes comprising modified adenine groups, their preparation and their uses (4842996)  
     Probe containing a modified nucleic acid, recognizable by specific antibodies and use of this probe and theses specific antibodies to detect and characterize a homologous DNA sequence (4963477)  
     Transhybridomas (5073490)  
     Probe containing a modified nucleic acid recognizable by specific antibodies and use of this probe to detect and characterize a homologous dna sequence (5098825)  
     Adenyl cyclase derivatives and their biological uses (5183745)  
     DNA sequence performing a function which is expressed in an over-production of extracellular proteins by various strains of bacillus, and vectors containing this sequence (5264350)  
     Non-hemolytic mosquitocidal microorganisms (5304484)  
     Specific DNA molecular probes for Bos-type male genome (5328827)  
     Method for detecting Listeria monocytogenes (5389513)  
     Oligonucleotide probes and methods for detecting by hybridization the nucleic acids of bacteria and other living organisms (5407797)  
     DNA probes specific for hemolytic listeria (5523205)  
     DNA sequences derived from papillomavirus HPV-33 genome (5554538)  
     Probes, diagnostic method and immunization method based on papillomavirus types HPV 49 and HPV 50 (5591574)  
     Method of detecting and characterizing a nucleic acid or a sequence of the latter, and enzymatic reactant for the application of this method (5605800)  
     Nucleic acids derived from Salmonella typhi and detection of Salmonella using thereof (5618666)  
     Nucleotide sequences and proteins conferring cycloheximide resistance (5641674)  
     Nucleotide sequences which hybridize specifically with bacterial strains of the mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (5650272)  
     Nucleic acid sequences from Salmonella typhi for in vitro diagnosis in foodstuffs (5681716)  
     Nucleotide sequences coding for a protein with urease activity (5695931)  
     Non-hemolytic mosquitocidal microorganisms (5736513)  
     Process for determining the quantity of a DNA fragment of interest by a method of enzymatic amplification of DNA (5747246)  
     Method for generating structural and functional diversity in a peptide sequence (5756323)  
     Gram-positive bacteria replicon (5766586)  
     Nucleotide sequence encoding the enzyme I-SceI and the uses thereof (5792632)  
     Nucleotide sequences coding for polypeptides endowed with a larvicidal activity towards lepidoptera (5792928)  
     Derivatives utilizable in nucleic acid sequencing (5798210)  
     Nucleic acid sequences derived from the genome of Salmonella Typhi, and their uses, in particular for the in vitro diagnosis of the presence of bacteria of the salmonella genus in foodstuffs (5804378)  
     Clostridium bifermentans DNA fragment bearing genes coding for proteins linked to an insecticidal activity (5830722)  
     Recombinant Bacillus anthracis strains unable to produce the lethal factor protein or edema factor protein (5840312)  
     Process for aligning, adhering and stretching nucleic acid strands on a support surface by passage through a meniscus (5840862)  
     Method for hypermutagenesis of nucleotides (5843730)  
     Regulatory nucleotide sequence of the initiation of transcription (5858773)  
     Nucleotide sequence encoding the enzyme I-SceI and the uses thereof (5866361)  
     Primers for the amplification of genes coding for the enterotoxin and the lecithinase of Clostridium perfringens and their application to the detection and numeration of these bacteriae (5874220)  
     Method for detecting molecules containing nucleotide mismatches and the location of these mismatches, and application to the detection of base substitutions or deletions in nucleotide sequences (5879886)  
     DNA fragment encoding insecticidal crystal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (5928891)  
     Expression of a gram-positive bacteria replicon (5928897)  
     Nucleotide sequence encoding the enzyme I-SceI and the uses thereof (5948678)  
     Nucleotide sequences and proteins conferring cycloheximide resistance (5958687)  
     Nucleotide sequence encoding the enzyme I-SceI and the uses thereof (5962327)  
     Oligonucleotides for the detection of salmonella (6080545)  
     Strains of Bacillus thuringiensis and pesticide composition containing them (6096306)  
     Nucleotide sequences coding for polypeptides endowed with a larvicidal activity towards lepidoptera (6110734)  
     Surfaces for biological reactions, process for preparing them and process for their use (6130044)  
     Nucleotide sequences for the control of the expression of DNA sequences in a cell host (6140104)  
     Regulatory nucleotide sequence of the initiation of transcription (6153404)  
20 HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC. 48
     Plant growth regulating agents (4094664)  
     Assay for measuring gene expression (4661443)  
     Recombinant growth hormone releasing factor (4728609)  
     Recombinant sigma NS protein (4764460)  
     Process for isolating nucleic acids utilizing protease digestion (5063162)  
     Method and apparatus for cell culture (5081036)  
     Biosynthesis of 2 keto-L-gulonic acid (5082785)  
     Structure-independent DNA amplification by the polymerase chain reaction (5142033)  
     Homogeneous assay system using the nuclease activity of a nucleic acid polymerase (5210015)  
     Quantitation of nucleic acids using the polymerase chain reaction (5219727)  
     High-efficiency cloning of CDNA (5270185)  
     Ruthenium-lumazine energy transfer systems (5278043)  
     Reverse transcription with thermostable DNA polymerase-high temperature reverse transcription (5310652)  
     Methods for nucleic acid amplification (5314809)  
     Reverse transcription with thermostable DNA polymerases - high temperature reverse transcription (5322770)  
     Co-enzyme-independent L-sorbosone dehydrogenase of gluconobacter oxydans: isolation, characterization, and cloning and autologus expression of the gene (5352599)  
     Purified thermostable enzyme (5352600)  
     Expression control sequences (5362646)  
     DNA encoding a thermostable nucleic acid polymerase enzyme from thermotoga maritima (5374553)  
     Primes and probes for the amplification and detection of aids associated nucleic acids (5386022)  
     Coccidiosis vaccines (5403581)  
     DNA encoding a mutated thermostable nucleic acid polymerase enzyme from thermus species sps17 (5405774)  
     Reverse transcription with Thermus thermophilus polymerase (5407800)  
     Use of grease or wax in the polymerase chain reaction (5411876)  
     Reduction of non-specific amplification glycosylase using DUTP and DNA uracil (5418149)  
     Mutated thermostable nucleic acid polymerase enzyme from thermotoga maritima (5420029)  
     Tocopherol cyclase isolated from Chlorella protothecoides, Dunaliella salina and wheat leaves (5432069)  
     Mutated thermostable nucleic acid polymerase enzyme from Thermus species Z05 (5455170)  
     5' to 3' exonuclease mutations of thermostable DNA polymerases (5466591)  
     Quantitation of nucleic acids using the polymerase chain reaction (5476774)  
     Nucleic acid detection by the 5'-3'exonuclease activity of polymerases acting on adjacently hybridized oligonucleotides (5487972)  
     Methods for in-solution quenching of fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes (5491063)  
     Purified thermostable nucleic acid polymerase and DNA coding sequences from pyrodictium species (5491086)  
     Methods and reagents for the polymerase chain reaction amplification of long DNA sequences (5512462)  
     In situ polymerase chain reaction (5538871)  
     Methods for coupled high temperatures reverse transcription and polymerase chain reactions (5561058)  
     Compositions and methods for inhibiting dimerization of primers during storage of polymerase chain reaction reagents (5565339)  
     Methods for in-solution quenching of fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes (5571673)  
     Detection of nucleic acids using a hairpin forming oligonucleotide primer and an energy transfer detection system (5573906)  
     Unconventional nucleotide substitution in temperature selective RT-PCR (5618703)  
     Recombinant expression vectors and purification methods for Thermus thermophilus DNA polymerase (5618711)  
     Purified thermostable nucleic acid polymerase enzyme from Thermotoga maritima (5624833)  
     Method to detect protein-protein interactions (5637463)  
     Kits for high temperature reverse transcription of RNA (5641864)  
     Recombinant coccidiosis vaccines (5661015)  
     Coccidiosis vaccines (5688513)  
     Acylated oligopeptides for transfecting cells (5759827)  
     Coccidiostats (RE29244)  
21 RHONE-POULENC S.A. 47
     Fertilizer containing growth activators for plants (4021220)  
     Microorganism and proteolytic enzyme derived therefrom (4288556)  
     Method and composition to increase the sugar content of sugar cane (4299617)  
     Process for the preparation of new lysine-containing solid compositions for addition to animal feed (4327118)  
     2-Methylenesuccinamic acid compounds as plant growth regulants (4431442)  
     Means for embedding microorganisms in a polymer matrix (4434231)  
     N-Phenylcarbamoyl-pyridine compounds (4493729)  
     Method of producing endomycorrhizian fungi with arbuscules and vesicles in vitro (4599312)  
     Inocula of low water activity with improved resistance to temperature and rehydration, and preparation thereof (4755468)  
     Haloarylnitrile degrading gene, its use, and cells containing the gene (4810648)  
     Low-water-activity inocula for biological control (4886664)  
     Process for increasing rice crop yield (4932995)  
     Process for regenerating sunflowers by embryogenesis (5017491)  
     Synergistic plant growth regulator compositions (5123951)  
     Heteropolysaccharide BM07 (5252727)  
     Enzymic process for the synthesis of ammonium adipate (5258292)  
     Heteropolysaccharide BM07 (5348675)  
     Artificial seeds (5382269)  
     Plant growth regulatory mixture comprising mepiquat and cyclanilide or other cyclopropylmalonic acid anilides (5478796)  
     Chimeric gene comprising the arabidopsis histone H4 promoter for the transformation of plants (5491288)  
     Chimeric gene for the transformation of plants (5510471)  
     Production of .gamma.-linolenic acid by a .DELTA.6-desaturase (5552306)  
     Chimeric nitrilase-encoding gene for herbicidal resistance (5559024)  
     Sulfonamide resistance genes and their use (5597717)  
     Production of .gamma.-linolenic acid by a .DELTA.6-desaturase (5614393)  
     Polypeptides possessing a nitrilase activity and method of converting nitriles to carboxylates by means of said polypeptides (5629190)  
     Sulfonamide resistance genes and their use (5633444)  
     Chimeric gene for the transformation of plants (5633448)  
     Promoter elements of chimeric genes of .alpha.-tubulin (5635618)  
     Production of gamma linolenic acid by a .DELTA.6-desaturase (5689050)  
     Plant growth regulation using 3-cyano-1-phenylpyrazoles such as fipronil (5707934)  
     Sulfonamide resistance genes and their use (5719046)  
     Chimeric nitrilase-encoding gene for herbicidal resistance (5773698)  
     Production of .gamma.-linolenic acid by a .DELTA.6-desaturase (5789220)  
     Chimeric gene for the transformation of plants (5792930)  
     Chimeric plant genes based on upstream regulatory elements of helianthinin (5824865)  
     Seed specific biotinylated protein, SBP65, from leguminous plants (5837820)  
     Chimeric plant genes based on upstream regulatory elements of helianthinin (5859325)  
     Chimeric plant genes based on upstream regulatory elements of helianthinin (5905186)  
     Oleosin 5' regulatory region for the modification of plant seed lipid composition (5977436)  
     Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of monocots (6037522)  
     Nitrogen-containing silicone useful for compacting nucleic acid sequences and use for transforming cells (6068980)  
     Method of controlling weeds in transgenic crops (6069115)  
     Seed specific promoters based on arabidopsis genes (6100450)  
     Globulin protein 11S, usable as a seed impregnation marker during germination (6107051)  
     Compositions and methods for use in cropping bananas and plantain trees (6114285)  
     Chimeric gene for the transformation of plants (RE36449)  
22 BOEHRINGER MANNHEIM GMBH 46
     Process and reagent for the differentiated determination of isoenzymes of alkaline phosphatase (4681842)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease MaeI, a process for obtaining it and the use thereof (4693978)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease Mae II, a process for obtaining it and the use thereof (4693979)  
     New type II restriction endonuclease mae III, a process for obtaining it and the use thereof (4693980)  
     Restriction endonuclease cleaving palindromic DNA (4746609)  
     New strain of Bacillus, a toxin derived thereof and a composition for combating Coleoptera (4766203)  
     Restriction endonuclease Dra II (4840901)  
     Strains of Bacillus toxic to Coleoptera (4851340)  
     Restriction endonucleas DRA III (4863858)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease Dsa I with process for obtaining it and the use thereof (4871664)  
     Protein tokin from bacillus thiringiensis which is toxic to coleoptera (4889918)  
     DNA for the repressible and inducible expression of foreign genes (4963482)  
     Class II restriction endonuclease Ksp632I, a process for obtaining it and the use thereof (4970149)  
     Plasmids, genes and DNA expressing a bacillus thuringiensis protein toxic to coleoptera and bacteria transformed thereby (4973676)  
     Class II restriction endonuclease KspI and a process for obtaining it (4975376)  
     Method and kit for purifying nucleic acids (4997932)  
     Plasmids for the increased production of penicillin G amidase (5053335)  
     Process for the preparation of a microorganism which forms .alpha.-galactosidase but not invertase, a microorganism thus obtained, and its use (5061625)  
     Pyruvate oxidase mutants, DNA expressing pyruvate oxidase and methods of use thereof (5096821)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease RleAI (5134067)  
     Type II restriction endonucleae MCRI (5134068)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease SgrAI (5134069)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease MamI (5153122)  
     Pyruvate oxidase mutants, DNA expressing pyruvate oxidase and methods of use thereof (5153138)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease SwaI (5158878)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease Ssp4800I (5183747)  
     Process for the reduction of star activities (5204238)  
     Cloned N-methylhydantoinase (5213969)  
     Method for mammalian cell culture (5286646)  
     Expression enhancer and use thereof to increase the yield in the expression of recombinant genes (5336602)  
     Process for the detection of nucleic acids (5344757)  
     Type II restriction endonuclease SexAI (5354669)  
     Method of determining polymerase activity (5413906)  
     Cloned N-Methylhydantoinase (5432070)  
     Method for the non-radioactive measurement of the nucleic acid synthesis in eukaryotic cells (5455157)  
     Promotor controlled specific amplification of nucleic acid sequences (5474916)  
     Functionalized carrier materials for the simultaneous synthesis and direct labeling of oligonucleotides as primers for template-dependent enzymatic nucleic acid syntheses (5574141)  
     Reagents and kits for determining polymerase activity (5635350)  
     Process for the detection of nucleic acids (5702888)  
     Simultaneous sequencing of nucleic acids (5714318)  
     Method for the sensitive detection of nucleic acids (5753433)  
     Recombinant DNA and expression vector for the repressible and inducible expression of foreign genes (5830720)  
     Selective photoinducted flavin-dependent cleavage of RNA at G-U base pairs and kits therefor (5834198)  
     Nucleic acid analogue induced transcription of double stranded DNA (5837459)  
     Positive selection vector based on the caps gene, pCAPs vector and its use (5891687)  
     Method and kits for determining messenger RNA molecules in a sample (5955271)  
23 U.S. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 46
     Isoelectric focussing-polynucleotide/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (4495279)  
     Plasmid cloning vector pAS1 (4578355)  
     Stimulation of enzymatic ligation of DNA by high concentrations of nonspecific polymers (4582802)  
     Method of continuous production of retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS (4647773)  
     Method of continuous production of retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS using permissive cells (4652599)  
     Isolated, soluble immunogen against Schistosoma mansoni and a method of vaccination employing same (4656033)  
     Intact gene and method of excising and cloning same (4707445)  
     Mini Mu containing plasmid and a method for rapid DNA sequencing (4716105)  
     Adeno-associated virus as eukaryotic expression vector (4797368)  
     Process for site specific mutagenesis without phenotypic selection (4873192)  
     Plasmid cloning vector pAS1 (4925799)  
     Method for amplifying unknown nucleic acid sequences (5104792)  
     Stable mammalian cell line expressing a bacteriophage RNA polymerase (5126251)  
     Rapid, versatile and simple system for expressing genes in eukaryotic cells (5135855)  
     RRNA specific oligonucleotides (5220014)  
     Array-type multiple cell injector (5262128)  
     Molecular clones of bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (5380830)  
     Method of targeting DNA (5460941)  
     DNA for use in a simple method for detecting inhibitors of retrotransposition (5462873)  
     Retrovirus packaging and producer cell lines based on gibbon ape leukemia virus (5470726)  
     Serine protease and uses thereof (5500344)  
     Exchangeable template reaction (5503995)  
     Cloning of the recA gene from thermus aquaticus YT-1 (5510473)  
     Enzymatic degrading subtraction hybridization (5525471)  
     Pteridine nucleotide analogs as fluorescent DNA probes (5525711)  
     Efficient directional genetic cloning system (5595895)  
     Eukaryotic expression vector system (5604118)  
     DNA sequence which acts as a chromatin insulator element to protect expressed genes from cis-acting regulatory sequences in mammalian cells (5610053)  
     Vector systems for the generation of adeno-associated virus particles (5693531)  
     Reca-assisted cloning of DNA (5707811)  
     Method for detecting a receptor-ligand complex using a cytochrome P450 reporter gene (5726041)  
     Promotion of homologous DNA pairing by RecA-derived peptides (5731411)  
     Synthesis of typhoid fever vaccine from a plant or fruit polysaccharide (5738855)  
     Sequencing DNA; a modification of the polymerase chain reaction (5817797)  
     Expression of a heterologous polypeptide in mammary tissue of transgenic non-human mammals using a long whey acidic protein promoter (5831141)  
     Methods for sensitive detection of reverse transcriptase (5849494)  
     In vitro ligation of foreign DNA into large eukaryotic viruses (5866383)  
     Transframe peptide inhibitor of viral protease (5872210)  
     Large granular lymphocyte leukemia associated virus (5891723)  
     Method of adenoviral-medicated cell transfection (5928944)  
     Inhibition of protein kinase activity by aptameric action of oligonucleotides (5998596)  
     Probe-based analysis of heterozygous mutations using two-color labelling (6013449)  
     Mutant Aequorea victoria fluorescent proteins having increased cellular fluorescence (6027881)  
     Retrovirus vectors derived from avian sarcoma leukosis viruses permitting transfer of genes into mammalian cells (6096534)  
     Sequence modification of oligonucleotide primers to manipulate non-templated nucleotide addition (6110710)  
     Methods for sensitive detection of reverse transcriptase (6136534)  
24 TAKARA SHUZO CO., LTD. 34
     Continuous fermentor and reactor (4337315)  
     Soybean milk-containing alcoholic beverages (4656044)  
     Process for producing a restriction enzyme (4668631)  
     Process for producing restriction enzyme (4724209)  
     New restriction enzyme and process for producing the same (4808531)  
     New restriction enzyme and process for producing the same (4833082)  
     Enzyme composition (4868115)  
     Novel restriction endonuclease SplI and process for the production of the same (4886756)  
     Novel strains and their cultivation (4940837)  
     RNA polymerase gene, microorganism having said gene and the production of RNA polymerase by the use of said microorganism (5026645)  
     Restriction enzyme Sse 8387I (5179016)  
     MboI restriction-modification genes (5340733)  
     White mushroom (5349120)  
     Biologically pure mushroom culture and method for mushroom cultivation (5349121)  
     .alpha.-amylase gene (5366883)  
     Method for cloning of a gene for Pol I type DNA polymerase (5436326)  
     NSP7524V restriction-modification genes (5441881)  
     Restriction enzyme from Brevibacterium linens (5470732)  
     Restriction endonuclease (5496717)  
     Endo-xyloglucan transferase (5516694)  
     Biologically pure culture of Lyophyllum ulmarium (5571717)  
     Almond N-glycosidase gene (5710016)  
     Restriction endonuclease (5726052)  
     Hyperthermostable .beta.-galactosidase gene, enzyme encoded thereby, and process for production (5744345)  
     Method for cloning of a gene for pol I type DNA polymerase (5753482)  
     Hyperthermostable protease gene (5756339)  
     Genes encoding enzymes of bali restriction-modification system (5789226)  
     Promoter and method of gene expression using the same (5827687)  
     Endo-xyloglucan transferase (5840550)  
     Gene encoding lacto-N-biosidase (5908772)  
     Plant promoter and method for gene expression using said promoter (6028250)  
     Yeast promoter (6043051)  
     Endo-xyloglucan transferase (6120998)  
     Plasmid (6165749)  
25 UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 32
     Vaccine for diarrhea caused by E. coli (4298597)  
     Anucleated live E. coli vaccine (4311797)  
     Bovine herpesvirus type 1 polypeptides and vaccines (5151267)  
     Gamma-iterferon-leukotoxin gene fusions and uses thereof (5273889)  
     Assembled viral particles and their use in a vaccine to rotaviral disease (5298244)  
     Vaccines for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (5417971)  
     Enhanced immunogenicity using leukotoxin chimeras (5422110)  
     Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae outer membrane lipoprotein A and uses thereof (5441736)  
     Desiccated conifer somatic embryos (5464769)  
     Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin compositions and uses thereof (5476657)  
     Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae transferrin binding proteins and uses thereof (5521072)  
     Haemophilus somnus outer membrane protein extract enriched with iron-regulated proteins (5534256)  
     Nucleotide sequences encoding recombinant bovine herpesvirus type-1 GI, GIII and GIV polypeptides (5585264)  
     Chimeric protein comprising an RTX-family cytotoxin and interferon-2 or interferon (5594107)  
     Nematicidal bacillus strain and metabolite and methods of use thereof (5733544)  
     Bacterial vaccines using vaccine strains of pathogenic bacteria (5747309)  
     Vaccines for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (5801018)  
     Compositions and treatments for pneumonia in animals (5849531)  
     Vaccines comprising nucleotide sequences encoding bovine herpesvirus type 1 g1, g111 and gIV (5858989)  
     Camp factor of streptococcus uberis (5863543)  
     Leukotoxin vaccine compositions and uses thereof (5871750)  
     Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae transferrin binding protein vaccines and uses thereof (5876725)  
     Recombinant bovine herpesvirus type 1 polypeptides and immunoassays (5879895)  
     Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae outer membrane lipoprotein A and uses thereof (5891677)  
     Flax transformation (5973227)  
     Haemophilus somnus outer membrane protein extract enriched with iron-regulated proteins (5985289)  
     Maturation, desiccation and encapsulation of gymnosperm somatic embryos (5985667)  
     Recombinant bovine adenoviruses (6001591)  
     Bovine adenovirus expression vector system (6086890)  
     Recombinant bovine herpesvirus type 1 vaccines (6086902)  
     Vaccines with chimeric protein comprising gamma-interferon and leukotoxin derived from pasteurella haemolytica (6096320)  
     Nucleic acid molecules encoding Haemophilus somnus proteins (6100066)  
26 JAPAN MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES 31
     Process for saccharification of starch using enzyme produced by fungus belonging to genus Chalara (4591560)  
     Method for the preparation of branched cyclodextrins (4668626)  
     Process for enzymatic preparation of cellooligosaccharides (4908311)  
     Twig branched cyclodextrin (4910137)  
     Novel auerobasidium sp. microorganisms, method for obtaining the same and method for preparing erythritol with the same (4939091)  
     Somatic hybrids of Rutaceae plants (4940836)  
     Novel Aureobasidium sp. microorganisms and method for obtaining the same, and method for preparing erythritol with the same (5036011)  
     Method of using .alpha.-amylase to prepare slightly decomposed starch granules having low viscosity (5445950)  
     Bioreactor (5587298)  
     Synthetic peptide sequences useful in detection of foot and mouth disease (5639601)  
     Nucleic acid markers for rice blast resistance genes and rice blast resistance genes isolated by the use of these markers (5674993)  
     Cultivation of flowering plants (5718080)  
     Cultivation of petunia (5732506)  
     Method for producing an asparaginyl endoprotease (5739025)  
     Method for cryopreservation of primordial germ cells and germ cells (5759763)  
     Apparatus and method for analyzing physiological state of organism (5759797)  
     Cellobiose phosphorylase gene, vector and transformant containing said gene (5849529)  
     Base sequence of the coat protein gene of papaya leaf-distortion mosaic virus (5859224)  
     Method of individual discrimination by polymerase chain reaction using MI primer (5863772)  
     Rice ornithine carbamyltransferase gene, and a vector containing said gene and a transformant (5928925)  
     Cultivation of flowering plants (6050026)  
     Chitin deacetylase gene, vector containing said gene and transformant (6057144)  
     .alpha.-amylase gene having ability for highly producing maltopentaose, vector containing said gene and transformant (6087147)  
     Plant-derived, asparagine residue-specific endoprotease cDNA and a gene (6107471)  
     Complementary DNA for rice chitinase having lytic activity against moulds and bacteria, and vector containing said complementary DNA and transformant (6124126)  
     Protein having cellulase activities and process for producing the same (6127160)  
     Mesophilic xylanases (6140097)  
     Method for transferring gene (6143949)  
     Chitin beads, chitosan beads, process for preparing these beads, carrier comprising said beads, and process for preparing microsporidian spore (6156330)  
     Wheat starch with novel characteristics (6165535)  
     Shuttle vector comprising a T-DNA Region and RI and RK2 origins of replication (6165780)  
27 COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORG. (CSIRO) 30
     Babesiosis antigen and method for preparation (4661348)  
     Bacteroides nodosus vaccine (4737363)  
     Plant anaerobic regulatory element (5001060)  
     Method of making staphylococcus aureus vaccine (5032522)  
     Bidirectional pox virus promoter element (5258294)  
     Polypetides, antigens or vaccines protective against babesiosis (5273884)  
     Endonucleases (5298612)  
     Pox virus vaccine (5368855)  
     Haemonchus contortus vaccine (5525508)  
     DNA sequences encoding at least part of the tomato enzyme endopolygalacturonase PG1 .beta.-subunit (5585542)  
     Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection (5693500)  
     Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection (5707819)  
     Ocs-element (5710267)  
     Nematode vaccine (5734035)  
     Industrial pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications for cultured plant cell gums (5747297)  
     Recombinant entomopoxvirus (5762924)  
     DNA molecules encoding inducible plant promoters and tomato ADH2 enzyme (5821398)  
     OCS element (5837849)  
     Vaccines against animal parasitic nematodes (5843706)  
     Enzyme based bioremediation (5843758)  
     Nematode vaccine (5871738)  
     Delivery of nucleic acids (5906922)  
     Nematode vaccine (5942413)  
     Toxin gene from Xenorhabdus nematophilus (5972687)  
     Genetic sequences conferring nematode resistance in plants and uses therefor (5994627)  
     Method for producing fruiting plants with improved fruit flavour (6011199)  
     Bacteriocin piscicolin 126 (6054163)  
     Expression of the glucose oxidase gene in transgenic organisms (6054318)  
     ShK toxin compositions and methods of use (6077680)  
     Toxins from the wasp Bracon hebetor (6156536)  
28 UNILEVER PATENT HOLDINGS B.V. 30
     Method and compositions for the control of coccidiosis in poultry (4863731)  
     Substitute milk fat compositions (4876107)  
     DNA sequences encoding the various allelic forms of mature thaumatin, and cloning vehicles, etc. (4891316)  
     Structural genes encoding the various allelic and maturation forms of preprothaumatin recombinant cloning vehicles, comprising said structural genes and expression thereof in transformed microbial host cells (4966842)  
     Protection (5006341)  
     Process for preparing L-rhamnose (5077206)  
     Production of guar alpha-galactosidase by hosts transformed with recombinant DNA. methods (5082778)  
     Lactic acid bacteria cultures supported on an expanded cereal for preparing flavor or aroma material (5211971)  
     Process for producing delta-lactones from 11-hydroxy fatty acids (5215901)  
     Method of producing gamma-hydroxydecanoic acid or its lactone by feeding a ricinoleic acid source to sp. odorus or rh. glutinis (5219742)  
     Production of aroma and/or flavor materials with lactic acid bacteria supported on an expanded, cereal adsorbent (5283069)  
     Production of guar alpha-galactosidase by hosts transformed with recombinant DNA methods (5296365)  
     Glu-D1 wheat flour blends (5308635)  
     Process for the preparation of .alpha.-acetolactic acid (5420021)  
     Astaxanthin from flowers of the genus adonis (5453565)  
     Method of producing embryogenic callus of Norway spruce (Picea abies and regenerating plantlets therefrom (5501972)  
     Cloning and expression of DNA encoding a ripening form of a polypeptide having rhamnogalcturonase activity (5550045)  
     Methods of detecting and isolating a ripening form of a polypeptide having rhamnogalacturonase activity (5591620)  
     Production of active Pseudomonas glumae lipase in homologous or heterologous hosts (5641671)  
     Process for producing/secreting a protein by a transformed mould using expression/secretion regulating regions derived from a aspergillus endoxylanase II gene (5705358)  
     Expression and production of polypeptides using the promoters of the hansenula polymorpha MOX and DAS genes (5741672)  
     Soft-milling wheats which produce dough with low elasticity (5763741)  
     Fresh, renneted cast cheese and a method of manufacturing (5766656)  
     Endo-1,4-beta-D-glucanase (5767364)  
     Process for producing gamma-lactomes (5789212)  
     Soft-milling wheats which produce dough with low elasticity (5859315)  
     Exo-(1--4)-.beta.-D galactanase (5981831)  
     Process for immobilizing enzymes to the cell wall of a microbial cell by producing a fusion protein (6027910)  
     Immobilized proteins with specific binding capacities and their use in processes and products (6114147)  
     Salt-inducible promoter derivable from a lactic acid bacterium, and its use in a lactic acid bacterium for production of a desired protein (6140078)  
29 HAYASHIBARA SEIBUTSU KAGAKU KENKYUJO K. K. 29
     Food products and process for producing same (4557927)  
     Process for the production of virus vaccine (4659569)  
     Lactoneotrehalose, and its preparation and uses (5218096)  
     Process for preparing neotrehalose and its uses (5403727)  
     Non-reducing oligosaccharide with neotrehalose structure, and its production and uses (5510250)  
     Non-reducing oligosaccharaide with neotrehalose structure, and its production and uses (5523099)  
     Maltohexaose and maltoheptaose-forming amylase from a microorganism (5527699)  
     Alkali-treated bagasse, and its preparation and uses (5545418)  
     Polypeptide possessing cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase activity (5545587)  
     Fermented bagasse feed, and its preparation and uses (5547692)  
     DNA encoding enzyme, recombinant DNA and enzyme, transformant, and their preparations and uses (5556781)  
     Biologically pure strain of Enterococcus falcium FERM BP-4504 (5622859)  
     Non-reducing oligosaccharide with neotrehalose structure, and its production and uses (5656308)  
     DNA encoding enzyme, recombinant DNA and enzyme, transformant, and their preparations and uses (5716813)  
     Maltohexaose and maltoheptaose-forming amylase, and its preparation and uses (5739024)  
     Recombinant enzyme for converting maltose into trehalose from pimelobacter sp. (5763228)  
     Recombinant thermostable enzyme for converting maltose into trehalose from Thermus aquaticus (5773282)  
     Non-reducing oligosaccharides and their production and use (5780620)  
     Saccharide composition containing trehalulose, its preparation and uses (5824521)  
     DNA encoding enzyme, recombinant DNA and enzyme, transformant, and their preparations and uses (5830715)  
     DNA encoding enzyme, recombinant DNA and enzyme, transformant, and their preparation and uses (5834287)  
     Maltohexaose and maltoheptaose forming amylase, and its preparation and uses (5846808)  
     DNA encoding enzyme recombinant DNA and enzyme transformant, and their preparation and uses (5871977)  
     DNA encoding enzyme, recombinant DNA and enzyme, transformant, and their preparations and uses (5871993)  
     DNA encoding enzyme, recombinant DNA and enzyme, transformant, and their preparation and uses (5871994)  
     High trehalose content syrup (5916881)  
     Polypeptides having .beta.-fructofuranosidase activity (5962297)  
     Recombinant thermostable enzyme for converting maltose into trehalose (6087146)  
     Maltohexaose and maltoheptaose-forming amylase, and its preparation and uses (6107348)  
30 SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO., LTD. 27
     Method for controlling the growth of plants (4070176)  
     Method for controlling the growth of plants (4113463)  
     Protease inhibitors (4206283)  
     Method for controlling the growth of plants (4244731)  
     Optical isomer of triazolylpentenols, and their production and use as fungicide, herbicide and/or plant growth regulant (4435203)  
     Homobrassinolide compounds which are steroids having plant growth promoting activity (4453967)  
     Process for producing 4-cyclopentenones (4511655)  
     Lactic acid fermentation products of sunflower seed milk (4563356)  
     Hybrid seed production in common wheat using cytoplasmic male sterility (4680888)  
     Geometrical isomer of 1-substituted-1-triazolystyrenes (4749716)  
     Composition for regulating plant growth (4755214)  
     Plant male sterilant (4915727)  
     Gene for corn phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (4970160)  
     Plant male sterilant (4976775)  
     Process for breeding a glabrous variety of rice crop and a glabrous plant (5173423)  
     Hydroxamic acid esters and plant growth regulation therewith (5228899)  
     Production of insecticidal protein of bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawal IPL by the expression of insecticidal protein gene in host cells (5231008)  
     Plant growth regulator containing a phthalimide derivative (5346879)  
     Process for production of biotin using bacteria belonging to the genus sphingomonas (5432067)  
     Carrot 16 KD protein, gene coding for said protein and plasmid containing said gene (5512484)  
     Method for increasing yield of soybean by inhibition of gibberellin biosynthesis (5665680)  
     Method for enhancing disease and pest resistance of plants (5767377)  
     Plant promoter and utilization thereof (5959176)  
     Cytoplasmic male sterility DNA factor and utilization thereof (5959183)  
     Porphyrin-accumulating type herbicide resistance gene (6160206)  
     Granular fertilizer compositions (RE33976)  
     Production of insecticidal protein of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai by the expression of insecticidal protein gene in host cells (RE35714)  
31 CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE 26
     Plasmid vectors for cloning and expression of a protein in a microorganism, comprising at least one promoter for expression of .beta.-glucosidase in yeasts; microorganisms containing these plasmids; a fermentation process and the enzymes obtained (4745062)  
     Immobilized luciferase for the quantitative determination of ATP (4833075)  
     Probes comprising modified adenine groups, their preparation and their uses (4842996)  
     Process for amplifying the expression of a specific gene in bacillus subtilis, and strains obtained (4959316)  
     Application of antibiotics of the phleomycin family as selection agent in the field of genetic engineering (5021344)  
     Application of antibiotics of the phleomycin family as selection agent in the field of genetic engineering (5118620)  
     Process for combatting "varroatosis" by biological means and devices for implementing this process (5135758)  
     Sphingophospholipids containing inositol, and their application as inducers of resistance to various cryptogamic diseases in plants (5154748)  
     Lipopolyamines, their preparation and their use (5171678)  
     Toxic metabolic product of Hirsutella sp. (5338675)  
     Substance with lipo-oligosaccharide structure capable of acting as plant-specific symbiotic signals, processes for producing them and their applications (5549718)  
     Plasmid replication origin increasing the copy number of the plasmid containing the said origin (5565333)  
     Nucleotide sequences permitting the replication and maintenance of a genetic information in animal cells (5597689)  
     Broad host spectrum rhizobiaceae nodulation signals (5646018)  
     Cloning and expression vectors in an actinomycetes strain, process for transformation of this strain, actinomycetes strain obtained and preparation of proteins (5688689)  
     Process for aligning, adhering and stretching nucleic acid strands on a support surface by passage through a meniscus (5840862)  
     Nucleic acid fragments and corresponding peptide fragments from the caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV) genome, and uses thereof (5858672)  
     Procedure for the polymerization of nucleic acid sequences and its applications (5863730)  
     DNA constructs related to capsanthin capsorubin synthase, cells and plants derived therefrom (5880332)  
     Neurotropic growth factors comprising a homeobox peptide (5888762)  
     Transgenic plants including a transgene consisting of a hybrid nucleic acid sequence, comprising at least one unedited mitochondrial gene fragment from higher plants and process for producing them (5914447)  
     DNA fragment encoding insecticidal crystal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (5928891)  
     Method for regulating the expression of a gene in a baculovirus using a retinoic acid receptor binding site and vector therefor (5939285)  
     DNA sequences coding for a cinnamoyl CoA reductase and their uses in the field of regulating the lignin levels of plants (6015943)  
     Active retinoic acid-free culture medium for chicken embryonic stem cells (6114168)  
     Phytopathogenic geminivirus resistant transgenic plants and seeds and methods for obtaining same by introduction of mutated C1 gene (6133505)  
32 HITACHI CHEMICAL CO., LTD. 26
     Chamber plate for use in cell fusion and a process for production thereof (4894343)  
     Production of substances with an acetic acid-producing and assimilating bacterium inhibited by acetic acid (5139938)  
     Apparatus containing a septum which impedes cell permeation for cell culture and method of use (5151362)  
     Culturing method, system and apparatus for cell culture (5166067)  
     Method and apparatus for detecting disorders in genomic substances (5194372)  
     Biological cell treatment method and apparatus (5308757)  
     DNA measuring method (5356776)  
     Process for culturing recombinant cells (5445948)  
     Hydrogen bond labeling and base sequence determination methods for DNA or RNA (5470707)  
     Rapid screening method of gene amplification products in polypropylene plates (5545528)  
     DNA base sequencer (5552322)  
     Process for determining nuclease activity (5554502)  
     Oligoprobe designstation: a computerized method for designing optimal DNA probes (5556749)  
     Water-soluble tetraazaporphins and fluorochrome for labeling (5627028)  
     DNA analyzing method (5650274)  
     Gene database retrieval system where a key sequence is compared to database sequences by a dynamic programming device (5706498)  
     DNA sequencing by extension of probe chip immobilized oligonucleotides (5741644)  
     DNA base sequencer (5744097)  
     Fractionation method for nucleotide fragments (5817464)  
     DNA analyzing method (5824481)  
     Method of analysis or assay for polynucleotides and analyzer or instrument for polynucleotides (5861252)  
     Method of DNA base sequence determination (5935794)  
     DNA sequencing method and reagents kit (5968743)  
     DNA sequencing method and DNA sample preparation method (5985556)  
     DNA analyzing method and device therefor (6106777)  
     Method for determining nucleic acids base sequence and apparatus therefor (6136543)  
33 INSTITUT MERIEUX 25
     Vaccine for viral pericardite in barbary ducks (3950511)  
     Method for the culture of the TRT/SHS virus, and vaccine therefrom, especially for the treatment of turkeys (4810493)  
     Peptide fractions which induce antibodies protecting against the bovine leukemia virus, a process for obtaining such fractions, their coding sequences and vaccines made from such fractions (5239056)  
     Recombinant herpesviruses, in particular for the production of vaccines, process for preparing them, plasmids produced during this process and vaccines obtained (5266489)  
     Viral vaccines (5558860)  
     Process for the production of a viable cell culture infected by a multiple sclerosis-associated virus (5585262)  
     Method for detecting bovine diarrhoea virus infection, nucleotide sequence encoding a protein induced by this virus infection and recombinant proteins and antigens relating thereto (5648466)  
     Method of detecting bovine diarrhoea virus infection, nucleotide sequence encoding a protein induced by this virus infection and recombinant proteins and antigens relating thereto (5665534)  
     Avian herpesvirus-based live recombinant avian vaccine, in particular against Gumboro disease (5733554)  
     Viral vaccines (5744143)  
     Chimera oligonucleotide and its utilization for obtaining transcripts of a nucleic acid (5744308)  
     Vaccine method against swine dysentery (5750118)  
     Method for amplifying nucleic acid sequences by strand displacement using DNA/RNA chimeric primers (5824517)  
     Viral vaccines (5840574)  
     Oligonucleotide which can be used as primer in a method of amplification based on a replication accompanied by strand displacement (5874260)  
     Field bag boost vaccination delivery system (5884583)  
     Modified promoter for RNA polymerase, its preparation and its applications (5891681)  
     Viral nucleotide sequences (5906821)  
     Process for the production of a viable cell culture infected by a multiple sclerosis-associated virus (5925555)  
     Viral vaccines (5958425)  
     Viral nucleotide sequences (5965435)  
     Live recombinant avian vaccine using an avian herpesvirus as vector (5980906)  
     Reagent and method for the detection of a nucleotide sequence with signal amplification (6017707)  
     Nucleotide sequence detection with signal amplification (6033853)  
     Method and apparatus for carrying out nucleic acid amplification reactions within a porous absorbent material (6103503)  
34 JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 25
     Novel protein and plant-virus disease preventive agents (4701522)  
     Gene encoding aqualysin I, recombinant vector containing the same and process of producing aqualysin I (5124261)  
     Vector (5304731)  
     Method for producing antiviral protein utilizing E. coli transformant, and gene and E. coli vector used in the method (5318900)  
     Antiviral protein (5340732)  
     Ustilago trichophora mycoherbicidal compositions and methods of use (5434120)  
     Method for producing potato microtubers (5498541)  
     Method for dwarfing lilies and lily bulbs obtained from the dwarfing treatment (5500404)  
     Method for decreasing seed storage proteins and for transforming plants (5516668)  
     Method for introducing two T-DNAS into plants and vectors therefor (5731179)  
     Phospholipase D gene originated from plant (5747327)  
     Method for producing potato tubers using a graft plant (5771633)  
     DNA fragment, recombinant vector containing the same and method for expressing foreign genes using the same (5801016)  
     Pectinase from Saccharomyces bayanus (5807727)  
     DNA encoding ATP-dependent fructose 6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase originating from plant, recombinant vector containing the same and method for changing sugar content in plant cells under low temperature (5824862)  
     .alpha.-agarase and production process of oligosaccharides and monosaccharides (5834257)  
     Disease-controlling agent and disease control method for useful gramineous plants (5843428)  
     Method for producing potato microtubers (5854066)  
     DNA encoding phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, recombinant vector and transformed plant containing the same (5880334)  
     Controlling Cyperus weeds with Ascochyta sp. FERM BP-5176 (5902580)  
     Plants in which the expression of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase gene is inhibited (5910444)  
     Polypeptide having cold-stable pyruvate, orthophoshate dikinase activity, DNA encoding the same and recombinant vector and transformed plants containing the DNA (5912156)  
     Method of changing the composition of the phospholipid produced by the living body and recombinant vector therefor (5973226)  
     Cold-inducible promoter sequences (6084089)  
     Nucleic acids and methods for detecting pathogenic xanthomonas campestris using the same (6143500)  
     Petunia plant named `Magic Star` (PP11663)  
     Delphinium plant name `Plagu Light Purple` (PP11704)  
35 KIRIN BREWERY CO., LTD. 24
     Promoter derived from chloroplast DNA (4710461)  
     Delivery unit of plant tissue (4769945)  
     DNA strand coding for .alpha.-acetolactate decarboxylase and yeast transformed with the DNA strand (4895802)  
     Cell culturing apparatus (4966853)  
     Artificial seed comprising a sustained-release sugar granule (5010685)  
     DNA strand coding for alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase and yeast transformed with the DNA strand (5043276)  
     Bioreactor (5057428)  
     Alginate gel bead (5334229)  
     Method for regeneration of rice plants (5350688)  
     Process for producing plantlets whereby the formation of a cell mass is induced (5413929)  
     Plants resistant against plural viruses and method for producing them using as RNase genes (5491080)  
     Chilling-resistant plants and their production (5516667)  
     DNA sequences useful for the synthesis of carotenoids (5589581)  
     Alcohol acetyltransferase genes and use thereof (5728412)  
     DNA strands useful for the synthesis of xanthophylls and the process for producing the xanthophylls (5811273)  
     Transformation systems for the yeast candida utilis and the expression of heterologous genes therewith (5849524)  
     Process for producing tuber (5862626)  
     Gene conferring flocculating property on yeast and gene product thereof (5866374)  
     Keto group-introducing enzyme, DNA coding therefor and method for producing ketocarotenoids (5910433)  
     DNA strands useful for the synthesis of xanthophylls and the process for producing the xanthophylls (5972690)  
     Promoter and terminator sequences of formate dehydrogenase gene of Candida boidinii (6001590)  
     Gene for fatty acid desaturase, vector containing said gene, plant transformed with said gene, and process for creating said plant (6043411)  
     DNA strands useful for the synthesis of xanthophylls and the process for producing the xanthophylls (6150130)  
     DNA strands coding for glycerol-e-phosphate acyltransferase (6160203)  
36 MAX-PLANCK INSTITUT 24
     Methods and vectors for selectively cloning exons (5252475)  
     Process for producing proteins using gram negative host cells (5268270)  
     Wound-stimulated DNA-sequence from solanum tuberosum and its use (5428146)  
     Method of producing pathogen-resistant plants (5633442)  
     Modified ribozymes (5672695)  
     Transgenic pathogen-resistant plant (5689045)  
     Expression cassette for antisense expression of ribozyme (5695992)  
     Fungus-responsive chimaeric gene (5723760)  
     Fungus-responsive chimaeric gene (5750874)  
     Process for analyzing length polymorphisms in DNA regions (5766847)  
     Method for direct identification of few nucleic acid strands (5807677)  
     Modified ribozymes (5817635)  
     Agent for stimulating animal cell division (5831067)  
     Modular promoter construct (5859331)  
     Fungus-responsive chimaeric gene (5859332)  
     Chimeric genes comprising a fungus-responsive element (5910629)  
     Middle chain-specific thioesterase genes from Cuphea lanceolata (5910631)  
     Nucleic acid molecules encoding cytochrome P450-type proteins involved in the brassinosteroid synthesis in plants (5952545)  
     Fungus-responsive chimeric gene (5994527)  
     Synthetic Bacillus thuringiensis cryic gene encoding insect toxin (6043415)  
     Plant DNA encoding glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) (6103520)  
     Gene synthesis method (6110668)  
     Ribozyme gene library and method for making (6130092)  
     Keto-acyl-(ACP) reductase promoter from cuphea lanceolata (6133506)  
37 MOGEN INTERNATIONAL N.V. 24
     Recombinant DNA: transformed microorganisms, plant cells and plants: a process for introducing an inducible property in plants, and a process for producing a polypeptide or protein by means of plants or plant cells (5057422)  
     Antifungal preparations, and process for making such preparations (5389609)  
     Process for the site-directed integration of DNA into the genome of plants (5501967)  
     Production of enzymes in seeds and their use (5543576)  
     Expression of phytase in plants (5593963)  
     Agrobacterium bacteria capable of site-specific recombination (5635381)  
     Production of heterologous proteins in plants and plant cells (5650307)  
     Fungal resistant plants, process for obtaining fungal resistant plants and recombinant polynucleotides for use therein (5670706)  
     Transgenic plants having a modified carbohydrate content (5705375)  
     Production of enzymes in seeds and their use (5714474)  
     Production of heterologous proteins in plants and plant cells (5716802)  
     Production of heterologous protein in plants and plant cells (5763748)  
     Expression of phytase in plants (5770413)  
     Method for the isolation and/or testing of genes and promoters involved in plant-nematode interactions using plants of the genus arabidopsis (5770786)  
     Method for producing seeds and plants thereof involving an in vitro step (5840557)  
     Antifungal preparations containing osmotin (5856151)  
     Method for the protection of plants against pathogens (5866776)  
     Method for obtaining plants with reduced susceptibility to plant-parasitic nematodes (5866777)  
     Production of trehalose in plants (5925804)  
     Chitinase, DNA coding therefor and plants containing same (5993808)  
     Antifungal chitin binding proteins and DNA coding therefor (5994625)  
     Male-sterile plants, method for obtaining male-sterile plants and recombinant DNA for use therein (6005167)  
     Expression of phytase in plants (6022846)  
     Transgenic fungal resistant plants expressing chitinase and glucanase, process for obtaining, and recombinant polynucleotides for uses therein (6087560)  
38 SCHERING AG 24
     Fractionation of sperm (4009260)  
     1,2,3-Thiadiazole-5-yl-urea derivatives, process for making the same and plant retardation and defoliation composition containing same (4163658)  
     1,2,3-Thiadiazole-2-id derivatives, process for making the same and composition containing the same having a growth regulating activity for plants (4181517)  
     1,2,3-Thiadiazole-3-in-5-ylidene-urea derivatives, process for making the same and compositions containing the same having growth regulating activity for plants (4243404)  
     Method of preparation and use of N-phenyl-N'-1,2,3-thiadiazole-5-yl-thiourea (4245101)  
     Composition for plant growth regulation (4261726)  
     Agents for the defoliation of plants (4294605)  
     Fungicidal 2-sulfinyl-5-sulfonyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives (4369185)  
     Composition for plant growth regulation (4402726)  
     Xylite derivatives, methods for their production as well as compositions containing them having growth regulatory activity for plants (4474596)  
     1,2,3-Thiadiazole-5-yl-urea derivatives, processes for their use as plant growth regulating and defoliating agents (4491466)  
     1,2,3-Thiadiazole-5-yl-urea derivatives, agents containing these compounds with plant growth regulating and defoliating activity (4515619)  
     1,2,3-thiadiazol-3-in-5-ylidene-urea derivatives, methods for the production of these compounds as well as compositions containing the same and having growth-regulatory and defoliating activity (4591376)  
     (6,7-)dihydro-(1,2,4) triazolo (1,5-A) (1,3,5) Triazine-2-sulphonamides, and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (4859231)  
     6,7-dihydro-pyrazolo (1,5-A)(1,3,5)triazine-2-sulphonamides, processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides and plant growth regulators (4892576)  
     Process for the preparation of festuclavine (4939089)  
     Cyclohexenecarboxylic acid derivatives as plant growth regulants (4943310)  
     Substituted pyrimidinyloxy(thio)- and triazinyloxy (thio)acrylic acid derivatives, processes for their preparation and their use as herbicides, fungicides and plant growth regulators (5089044)  
     2-triazinylacetics acid derivatives, and their use as herbicides, fungicides and plant growth regulators (5098465)  
     Substituted 2-pyrimidinyl-acetic acid derivatives, and their use as herbicides, fungicides and plant growth regulators (5238907)  
     Fermentation process for the production of .beta.-carboline derivatives by Myrothecium verrucaria (5258290)  
     Herbicide-tolerant plants expressing carbamate hydrolase (5347076)  
     Plasmid for the preparation of transgenic plants with a change in habit and yield (5436394)  
     Process for the isolation and characterisation of a gene enzyme system for inactivation of the herbicide phenmedipham and transfer of the gene into plants (5543306)  
39 MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORP. 22
     Plant growth regulator (4059431)  
     Plant growth regulator (4059432)  
     Plant growth regulating composition (4799950)  
     Method for producing acrylamide using a microorganism (4851342)  
     Expression vectors encoding cardionatrin and cardiodilatin (4851349)  
     Method for preservation of nitrile hydration activity (4931391)  
     Feed additive for ruminants (4996067)  
     Cell culture microcarriers (5006467)  
     Plant growth regulating composition (5116406)  
     Multi-layered porous hollow fiber membrane for use in cell culture (5149649)  
     Method for producing L-threonine, and plasmid and microorganism employed in the same (5153123)  
     Cell culture carriers (5173421)  
     Adenine derivatives and their use as a plant growth regulator (5211738)  
     Gramineous hybrid plants and process for preparing them (5250433)  
     Synthetic insecticidal gene, plants of the genus oryza transformed with the gene, and production thereof (5436391)  
     Oilseed crops producing valuable seeds having altered amino acid composition and fatty acid composition (5530192)  
     Coryneform bacteria DNA fragment containing a gene responsible for the function of autonomous replication of plasmid (5597727)  
     Methods for introducing a fertility restorer gene and for producing F.sub.1 (5644066)  
     Promoter DNA fragment from coryneform bacteria (5726299)  
     Oligonucleotide and method for analyzing base sequence of nucleic acid (5738993)  
     Gene which determines cytoplasmic sterility and a method of producing hybrid plants using said gene (5866782)  
     Method for increasing storage lipid content in plant seed (5914449)  
40 CANADIAN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD 21
     Methods and compositions for increasing the amounts of phosphorus and/or micronutrients available for plant uptake from soils (5026417)  
     Method and compositions for controlling round-leaved mallow using Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. malvae, A.T.C.C. 20767 (5296369)  
     Brassica Sp. polygalacturonase gene promoter (5689053)  
     Enzyme additives for ruminant feeds (5720971)  
     Anti-sense RNA for CAB transcript to reduce chlorophyll content in plants (5773692)  
     Seed coat-specific cryptic promoter in tobacco (5824863)  
     Cold induced promoter from winter Brassica napus (5847102)  
     Induction of embryogenesis using cytoskeleton inhibitors or protein synthesis inhibitors (5900375)  
     Brassica sp. gene promoter highly expressed during stigma development (5907083)  
     Brassica sp. gene promoter highly expressed during tapetum development (5919919)  
     Phytases of ruminal microorganisms (5939303)  
     Xylanase obtained from an anaerobic fungus (5948667)  
     Insecticidal factor from field peas (5955082)  
     DNA sequences encoding phytases of ruminal microorganisms (5985605)  
     Protein production in transgenic alfalfa plants (5990385)  
     Potatoes having improved quality characteristics and methods for their production (5998701)  
     Wheat aleurone regulatory elements (6013862)  
     Tolerance of trichothecene mycotoxins in plants and animals through the modification of the peptidyl transferase gene (6060646)  
     Regeneration of somatic embryos from plant tissues (6071746)  
     Coniothyrium minitans xylanase gene Cxy1 (6121034)  
     Xylanase obtained from an anaerobic fungus (6137032)  
     `AC Harrow Dawn` Peach (PP11449)  
     `AC Harrow Fair` peach (PP11455)  
     `AC Harflame` nectarine (PP11496)  
     Shrub rose plant named `Lambert Closse` (PP9978)  
     Climbing rose plant named `Quadra` (PP9995)  
41 AGRICULTURAL GENETICS CO., LTD. 19
     Plant protection method (4640836)  
     Inoculant composition for plants (4849005)  
     Preparation of strains of Bacillus thuringiensis having an improved activity against certain lepidopterous pests and novel strain produced thereby (4935353)  
     Preparations of protease enzymes derived from entomopathogenic fungi (4987077)  
     Non-radioactive nucleic acid hybridization probes (4996142)  
     Antibiotic derived from B. subtilis (5061495)  
     Preparation of strains of Bacillus thuringiensis having an improved activity against certain lepidopterous pests and novel strain produced thereby (5063055)  
     Method of preparing coated seeds (5106648)  
     Modification of plant viruses or their effects (5175102)  
     Bowman-Birk trypsin inhibitor isolated from Vigna unguiculata (5218104)  
     Seed coatings (5300127)  
     Transformed plant which expresses an insecticidally effective amount of a Bowman-Birk tryspin inhibitor from Vigna unguiculata in leaves, stems or roots, and a method for the production thereof (5306863)  
     Strain of microorganism having antimicrobial activity (5344647)  
     Biological control of lepidopterons pests using Bacillus thuringiensis (5501852)  
     Biological control of dipteran pests of the genus Lycoriella using Bacillus thuringiensis (5512279)  
     Biological control of molluscs with nematodes and bacteria that support growth and pathogenicity of nematodes (5527525)  
     Insect control using lectins having specific mannose-binding ability (5545820)  
     Proteins with insecticidal properties against homopteran insects and their use in plant protection (5604121)  
     Inoculant composition for plants (RE34670)  
42 TOYO BOSEKI K. K. 19
     Production method for PvuI restriction endonuclease (5049501)  
     Thermostable xanthine oxidase from Arthrobacter luteus (5185257)  
     Thermostable DNA polymerase thermus thermophilus and a method of producing the same (5192674)  
     Method of producing a thermostable DNA polymerase from Thermus thermophilus (5242818)  
     Thermostable DNA polymerase from Thermus thermophilus HB-8 (5413926)  
     Sorbitol oxidase from Xanthomonas maltophilia FERM BP-4512 (5472862)  
     Nucleic acid sequence amplification method, detection method, and reagent kit therefor (5525462)  
     Apparatus for automated assay of DNA probe and method for assaying nucleic acid in sample (5538849)  
     DNA fragment containing a gene encoding creatinine amidohydrolase (5627065)  
     Sorbitol oxidase reagent from xanthomonas (5741687)  
     Method and reagent for detecting a ligand in a sample (5821061)  
     Cotton fiber tissue-specific genes (5932713)  
     Methods for nucleic acid amplification with thermostable ribonuclease H (5972607)  
     Method for amplifying and detecting of target nucleic acid sequence using thermostable enzyme (5981183)  
     Method for isolating ribonucleic acid (5990302)  
     Modified thermostable DNA polymerase derived from pyrococcus sp. KOD and DNA polymerase composition thereof for nucleic acid amplification (6008025)  
     Thermostable DNA polymerase from a hyperthermophilic archaeon strain KOD1 (6033859)  
     Methods of amplification using a thermostable DNA polymerase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon strain KOD1 and reagent kit therefor (6054301)  
     DNA encoding a thermostable DNA polymerase (6143536)  
43 UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH 19
     Hybridization process utilizing a combination of cytoplasmic male sterility and herbicide tolerance (4517763)  
     Hybridization using cytoplasmic male sterility and herbicide tolerance from nuclear genes (4658084)  
     Hybridization using cytoplasmic male sterility, cytoplasmic herbicide tolerance, and herbicide tolerance from nuclear genes (4658085)  
     Production of cole crops which exhibit triazine tolerance (4767888)  
     Cell surface modification using a novel glycoproteinase of pasteurella haemolytica (4906571)  
     Leukotoxin gene of pasteurella haemolytica (5055400)  
     Rapid stick test for the diagnosis of bovine leukemia virus infection from serum or milk (5077194)  
     Serum-free, cell-free vaccine effective against pneumonic pasteurellosis in cattle (5165924)  
     Process to induce desiccation tolerance in somatic embryos (5238835)  
     Diagnosis for porcine malignant hyperthermia (5358649)  
     Process for the production of vaccine for prevention of Pasteurella haemolytica pneumonia in bovine (5378615)  
     Hyperproduction of shoots during a vitro regeneration of plant (5477000)  
     Process for producing seeds capable of forming F.sub.1 hybrid plants utilizing self-incompatibility (5628145)  
     S-locus receptor kinase gene in a self-incompatible brassica napus line (5821094)  
     Method for separating sex specific molecules and non-sex specific molecules (5840504)  
     Method for enriching docosahexaenoic acid in expressed milk of dairy cattle (5932257)  
     Proteins involved in the synthesis and assembly of O-antigen in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (5994072)  
     Method and apparatus for electrically treating foodstuffs for preservation (6093432)  
     Method for determining predisposition to boar taint (6107035)  
44 CANADA NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 17
     Immunoassays for discriminating between brucellosis infections and vaccinations (5006463)  
     Bioreactor for the perfusion culture of cells (5320963)  
     Construction of thermostable mutants of a low molecular mass xylanase (5405769)  
     Selectable/reporter gene for use during genetic engineering of plants and plant cells (5474929)  
     Use of compounds to enhance synchrony of germination and emergence in plants (5518995)  
     Enhanced regeneration system (5589617)  
     Bifunctional genetic markers (5639663)  
     Brassica Sp. polygalacturonase gene promoter (5689053)  
     Formulation for synthetic seed (5737872)  
     Tryptamine producing tryptophan decarboxylase gene of plant origin (5814520)  
     Modification of xylanase to improve thermophilicity, alkophilicity and thermostability (5866408)  
     Promoter for expressing foreign genes in monocotyledonous plants (5866793)  
     Testing for infestation of rapeseed and other cruciferae by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans (blackleg infestation) (5916744)  
     Brassica sp. gene promoter highly expressed during tapetum development (5919919)  
     Hyperabas: biologically active abscisic acid analogs with unsaturated carbon substituents at the 8'-methyl or 9'-methyl carbon atoms (6004905)  
     Modification of plant lipids and seed oils utilizing yeast SLC genes (6051755)  
     DNA sequences from brassicaceae encoding squalene epoxidase and process of raising squalene levels in plants therewith (6153815)  
45 MEIJI SEIKA KAISHA LTD. 17
     Novel antibiotic BN-109 substance, its production and use (3940479)  
     Method of producing high purity maltose (4294623)  
     Plasmids derived from Actinomycetes (4460693)  
     Livestock feed containing inulo-oligosaccharides and breeding of livestock by using the same (4778680)  
     Gene coding for signal peptides and utilization thereof (4783415)  
     Feeding method in breeding sows (4788065)  
     Process for the preparation of inulase (4990451)  
     Process for improving quality of fruit (4993185)  
     Compound having insecticidal activity and insecticide composition containing the same (5026547)  
     Fructose transferring enzyme absorbed on a granular carrier for production of fructooligosaccharides (5314810)  
     Gamma-polyglutamate hydrolase (5356805)  
     Enterobacter cloacae ferm BP1529 having plant growth acceleratory activity (5360737)  
     Feed for swine and method of breeding swine using the same (5431928)  
     Plant cultivation method (5588254)  
     Method for reducing the incidence of premature piglets by using feed containing oligosaccharides (5714181)  
     Protein having cellulase activities and process for producing the same (6127160)  
     Mesophilic xylanases (6140097)  
46 SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC. 17
     Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium as a source of resistance to the plant pathogen phytophthora infestans (5866764)  
     Papaya ringspot virus protease gene (5877403)  
     Lactuca sativa cultivar exhibiting resistance to downy mildew and corky root rot (5973232)  
     Potyvirus coat protein genes and plants transformed therewith (5998699)  
     Transgenic plants expressing ACC synthase gene (5998702)  
     Coat protein gene for the FLA83 W strain of papaya ringspot virus (6002072)  
     Papaya ringspot virus replicase gene (6005166)  
     Transgenic plants exhibiting heterologous virus resistance (6015942)  
     Transgenic plants expressing ACC oxidase genes (6043409)  
     Cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica oleracea plants which contain the polima CMS cytoplasm and are male sterile at high and low temperatures (6046383)  
     Papaya ringspot virus NIa protease gene (6046384)  
     Seedless tomatoes and method for making the same (6060648)  
     Transgenic plants resistant to geminivirus infection (6087162)  
     Plants resistant to C strains of cucumber mosaic virus (6127601)  
     Starchless variety of pisum sativum having elevated levels of sucrose (6127605)  
     Carbon-based process for selection of transgenic plant cells (6143562)  
     Lettuce infectious yellows virus genes (6160201)  
47 YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CO., HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM 17
     Antifungal compositions containing trichoderma active against fusarium (4748021)  
     Nematicidal strain of pseudomonas and its use as a biocontrol agent (5089263)  
     Method and kit for testing for the presence of catalase in milk (5091306)  
     Newcastle disease virus vaccine and method for the application thereof (5152981)  
     Ampelomyces quisqualis AQ10, CNCM I-807, for biological control of powdery mildew (5190754)  
     DNA encoding spiroplasma sp. dna methylase (5296371)  
     Supported polyionic hydrogels containing biologically active material (5648252)  
     Methods of use of cellulose binding domain proteins (5670623)  
     Cellulose binding domain fusion proteins (5719044)  
     Kits and methods of detection using cellulose binding domain fusion proteins (5738984)  
     Lycopene cyclase gene (5792903)  
     Carotenoid-producing bacterial species and process for production of carotenoids using same (5935808)  
     Plants transformed with a potato virus Y gene (5939603)  
     Polynucleotide molecule from Haematococcus pluvialis encoding a polypeptide having a beta-C-4-oxygenase activity for biotechnological production of (3S, 3'S) astaxanthin and its specific expression in chromoplasts of higher plants (5965795)  
     Arabidopsis thaliana endo-1,4-.beta.-glucanase gene and promoter (6005092)  
     Transgenic tomato plants containing a fusarium resistance gene (6100449)  
     Synchronous ripening of tomatoes (6134829)  
48 BEHRINGWERKE AG 16
     Method for the determination of protease inhibitors (4918001)  
     Method for the determination of the activity of serine proteases or serine protease inhibitors (5057414)  
     Protein PP15 prepared by genetic manipulation (5188933)  
     Protease absorbent for isolating and purifying proteases, a process for the preparation therefor, and the method for purifying a protease (5202416)  
     DNA encoding anticoagulative protein PP4-X, and its preparation and use (5320950)  
     Functional DNA block and plasmid coding for hirudin, transformed yeast, method for preparing hirudin, hirudin obtained and its pharmaceutical use (5591640)  
     Method for producing a polynucleotide for use in single primer amplification (5595891)  
     Method for preventing amplification of nucleic acid contaminants in amplification mixtures using nuclease-receptor conjugates (5605796)  
     Double receptor polynucleotide assay method (5629157)  
     Method for introducing defined sequences at the 3'end of polynucleotides (5679512)  
     Methods for producing a single stranded polydeoxynucleotide having two different defined sequences and kits (5683879)  
     Internal positive controls for nucleic acid amplification (5882857)  
     Vectors for the genetic selection of ligand binding proteins in microorganisms by means of signal transduction (5882924)  
     Process for the production of proteins (5981227)  
     Multicistronic expression units and their use (6060273)  
     Nucleic acid amplification using single primer (6124090)  
49 HENKEL & CIE GMBH 16
     Plant growth regulators and process of regulating plant growth (3985541)  
     Animal feeds containing a mixture of virginiamycin, zinc bacitracin or flavophospholipol and proteolytic enzymes (4218437)  
     Acid stable protease from mutants of genus Rhizopus (4473644)  
     Acid stable protease from mutants of genus Aspergillus (4518697)  
     Process for producing Xanthomonas biopolymers (4618582)  
     Crossflow microfiltration process for the separation of biotechnologically produced materials (4751003)  
     Process and microorganism for degrading steroids (4784953)  
     Candida tropicalis transformation system (5204252)  
     Alkaline proteolytic enzyme and method of production (5352604)  
     Method of controlling foam with carbonic acid ester agents (5378485)  
     Expression systems for the production of target proteins in bacillus (5646044)  
     Fat splitting process (5677160)  
     Process for continuously splitting a glyceride into carboxylic acids and glycerin (5830719)  
     Expression systems for commercial production of cellulase and xylanase in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis (5888800)  
     Production of wheat protein hydrolyzates by multistage hydrolysis with a proteinase and peptidase (5945299)  
     Mutant proteolytic enzymes and method of production (5985639)  
50 NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORP. (UK) 16
     Production of mycorrhizal fungi (4294037)  
     Method for monitoring pregnancy in milk-producing domestic animals (4294922)  
     Harvesting material from micro-culture plates (4304865)  
     Pasteurellosis vaccines (4346074)  
     Streptomyces plasmid and culture (4360597)  
     Coccidiosis vaccines (4438097)  
     Method of combatting plant diseases (4517177)  
     Synthetic plasmid and bacteria containing it (4567146)  
     Mushroom mutant strains (4608775)  
     Liver fluke antigens derived from juvenile fasciolo organisms (4743446)  
     Vaccine for swine dysentery (4748019)  
     DNA sequences encoding infectious bronchitis virus spike protein (5032520)  
     Vaccines for coccidiosis comprising live sporulated oocysts from strains of eimeria species (5055292)  
     Sampling of material (5063791)  
     Fowlpox virus promoters (5182210)  
     Newcastle disease virus gene clones (5310678)  
51 AGENCY OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 15
     Process for recovering cellulases (4746611)  
     DNA sequence involved in gene expression and protein secretion, expression-secretion vector including the DNA sequence and the method of producing proteins by using the expression-secretion vector (5015574)  
     Bacillus subtilis strain whose extracellular protease activities are reduced, method for obtaining the strain and method for secreting proteins by using the strain (5084383)  
     Chimeric fused monooxygenase of cytochrome P-450 and NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase (5114852)  
     Thermostable tryptophan synthetase gene and extremely thermophilic plasmid vector incorporating said gene (5120658)  
     Process for producing deacetylase from Vibrio cholerea IFO 15429 (5252468)  
     Chimeric fused monooxygenase of cytochrome P-450 and NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase (5436159)  
     Hammerhead ribozymes with enhanced stability provided by an additional 3' ha (5436330)  
     Fluorine-containing .beta.-indolebutyric acid compounds, and regulation of plant growth therewith (5496794)  
     RNA transcription system using novel ribozyme (5500357)  
     Variant-type carbohydrate hydrolase, variant gene of the enzyme and method for producing oligosaccharide using the enzyme (5538882)  
     DNA base sequence containing regions involved in the production and secretion of a protein, recombinant DNA including the whole or a part of the DNA base sequence, and method of producing proteins by use of the recombinant DNA (5612192)  
     Variant-type carbohydrate hydrolase, variant gene of the enzyme and method for producing oligosaccharide using the enzyme (5631149)  
     Variant-type carbohydrate hydrolase, variant gene of the enzyme and method for producing oligosaccharide using the enzyme (5635378)  
     Plant growth promoter (6117815)  
52 NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. 15
     Process for controlling the growth of suckers on a tobacco plant (4619685)  
     Method for producing acrylamide using a microorganism (4851342)  
     Process for preparing oligopeptide (4935351)  
     Method for regulating plant growth (4957537)  
     Bacillus strain and insect pest controlling agent (5266483)  
     Anti-bacterial substances and microorganisms which produce them (5346919)  
     Fermentation broth and microorganisms which produce them (5460814)  
     Insect controlling agent from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis var. Kurstaki (5516514)  
     Regulatory system for expression of nitrilase gene (5602014)  
     Method for preserving nitrile hydratase or nitrilase activity of microbial cells with inorganic salts (5705382)  
     Bacillus strain and harmful organism controlling agents (5736514)  
     Gene encoding a regulatory factor involved in activating expression of the nitrilase gene promoter (5830693)  
     Bacillus strain and harmful organism controlling agents (5834296)  
     Bacillus strain and harmful organism controlling agents (5837526)  
     Rice NADH-dependent reductase, gene therefor, and use thereof (5986172)  
53 SAPPORO BREWERIES LTD. 15
     Method for preparing transformed plant (5272072)  
     Gene and process for producing a thermostable urease (5298399)  
     Barley .beta. amylase structural gene (5726057)  
     Method for producing virus-free rootsticks of hop (5731201)  
     Culture medium and a microbiological test method employing the same (5756303)  
     Gene expression vector using the gene expression regulating region of the ADP ribosylation factor (5773688)  
     Variety classification method for barley or malt using gene diagnosis and the primer used therefor (5807676)  
     Method for producing phalaenosis clone plants through root tip culture (5864985)  
     Gene of the hop latent virus and methods for detecting the same (5869235)  
     Genetic variety identifying method in hops (5948650)  
     Tissue-specific promoter (5952489)  
     Gene expression regulatory DNA, expression cassette, expression vector and transgenic plant (5955649)  
     Methods for clone-multiplication of paphiopedilums (6060313)  
     Hop mosaic virus gene and method for detecting hop mosaic virus (6107022)  
     Hop latent virus coat protein (6132960)  
     Hops named `Furano No. 18` (PP9511)  
54 SUNTORY LTD. 15
     Protease and process for production and use thereof (4650763)  
     Protease and process for production and use thereof (4704359)  
     Glucoamylase gene of rhizopus oryzae (4863864)  
     Process for producing alcohol using yeast transformed by Rhizopus glucoamylase gene (5084385)  
     Process for producing peroxidase (5116751)  
     KEX2 endoprotease without a C-terminal hydrophobic region (5162220)  
     DNA encoding a KEX2 endoprotease without a C-terminal hydrophobic region (5234830)  
     Fusaric acid resistant genes (5292643)  
     Microbiological process for production of fatty acids having high degree of unsaturation with echinosporangium (5314812)  
     Process for production of bishomo-gamma-linolenic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid (5401646)  
     Bacterial collagenase gene of Vibrio alginolyticus (5453371)  
     Method for constructing transformant not having selective marker gene (5965444)  
     Method for animal cell culture (5976833)  
     Cytochrome P450 gene (6069241)  
     Foam proteins and use thereof (6080405)  
     Torenia plant `Sunrenipiho` (PP10118)  
     Torenia plant `Sunrenibu` (PP10119)  
     Torenia plant `Sunrenimu` (PP10120)  
     Petunia plant named `Sunbelkuho` (PP10278)  
     Petunia plant named `Sunbelkubu` (PP10279)  
     Petunia plant named `Sunbelkupi` (PP10287)  
     Petunia plant named `Revolution Pastelpink No. 3` (PP10310)  
     Verbena plant named `SUNVP-SU` (PP10311)  
     Petunia plant named `(Revolution Violet No. 3)` (PP10330)  
     Petunia plant named `Sunbelochipi` (PP10355)  
     Fuchsia plant, Sanistanf (PP10377)  
     Fuchsia plant, Sanihanf (PP10378)  
     Fuchsia plant--`Sanicomf` (PP10453)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunvp-Pi` (PP10705)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmariho` (PP10743)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmaref TP-SP` (PP10755)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmariba` (PP10801)  
     Torenia plant named `Sunrenilabu` (PP10843)  
     Petunia plant named `Revolution Marrose` (PP10904)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmariripi` (PP11037)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmariwaba` (PP11104)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmaribisu` (PP11113)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmarila` (PP11120)  
     Verbena plant named `Sunmarisa` (PP11130)  
     Torenia plant named `Sunrenidibu` (PP11131)  
     Petunia plant named `Sunbelkist` (PP11352)  
     Mandevilla plant named `Sunmandeho` (PP11556)  
     Petunia plant named `Sunbelki` (PP11558)  
     Hesperozygis plant named `Sunminbu` (PP11677)  
     Petunia plant named `Revolution Brilliantpink-Mini` (PP6899)  
     Petunia plant `Revolution Brilliantpink` (PP6914)  
     Petunia plant `Revolution Purplepink` (PP6915)  
     Petunia plant named `Revolution Pastelpink` (PP8489)  
     Petunia plant named Revolution White (PP8768)  
     Verbena plant -- `Sunmaref TP-R` (PP8995)  
     Verbena plant--`Sunmaref TP-P` (PP9014)  
     Verbena plant -- `Sunmaref TP-W` (PP9059)  
     Verbena plant--`Sunmaref TP-C` (PP9085)  
     Verbena plant `Sunmaref TP-L` (PP9121)  
     Petunia plant `Revolution Bluevein` (PP9322)  
     Petunia plant `Revolution Pinkvein` (PP9341)  
     Petunia plant named `Revolution Violet` (PP9342)  
     Verbena plant `Sunmaref TP-V` (PP9411)  
     Petunia plant named `Revolution Pinkmini` (PP9556)  
     Petunia plant `Suntory SP-R` (PP9557)  
     Petunia plant named `Sunberubu` (PP9754)  
55 TAKEDA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD. 15
     Plasmid and production thereof (4518698)  
     Promoter plasmid containing the promoter and use thereof in transforming Bacillus (4705750)  
     Expression vector for animal cell line and use thereof (4935352)  
     Gylceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene and promoter (5162228)  
     Method for increasing gene expression using protease deficient yeasts (5182195)  
     Host and vector for producing D-ribose (5281531)  
     Method for the production of trehalose using strains of Micrococcus and Deinococcus (5447856)  
     DNA encoding glycosylated FGF and production thereof (5464943)  
     Mutant strains of agrobacterium for producing .beta.-1,3-glucan (5508191)  
     DNA Fragment encoding acylamino acid racemase (5525501)  
     Culture of Rhizobium cobalaminogenum capable of producing vitamin B.sub.12 and mutants thereof (5538888)  
     Method of producing vitamin B12 using rhizobium cobalaminogenum ferm BP-4429 (5545538)  
     Protein disulfide-isomerase and production thereof (5700678)  
     Protein disulfide isomerase and method of using (5874247)  
     Method of probing the function of proteins or peptides encoded by partially sequenced cDNAs by inhibiting protein synthesis with antisense oligonucleotides (5985554)  
56 UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 15
     Cellulose binding fusion proteins for immobilization and purification of polypeptides (5137819)  
     DNA construct for enhancing the efficiency of transcription (5164316)  
     DNA construct for enhancing the efficiency of transcription (5196525)  
     Cellulose binding fusion proteins having a substrate binding region of cellulase (5202247)  
     Method of preparing a B-1,4 glycan matrix containing a bound fusion protein (5340731)  
     Bacterial surface protein expression (5500353)  
     Characterization and structure of an endodglucanase gene of Cellulomonas fimi (5643791)  
     Compositions and methods for modulating cell proliferation using growth factor-polysaccharide binding fusion proteins (5874308)  
     Biological systems incorporating stress-inducible genes and reporter constructs for environmental biomonitoring and toxicology (5877398)  
     Conjugate of non-protein chemical moiety and polypeptide having cellulose binding region (5928917)  
     Oligosaccharide synthesis using activated glycoside derivative, glycosyl transferase and catalytic amount of nucleotide phosphate (5952203)  
     Polysaccharide binding fusion proteins and conjugates (5962289)  
     Coniferin beta-glucosidase cDNA for modifying lignin content in plants (5973228)  
     Two-phase partition affinity separation system and affinity separated cell-containing composition (6048715)  
     Polysaccharide binding fusion proteins and conjugates (6124117)  
57 MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LTD. 14
     Detection of mutations in nucleic acids (5217863)  
     Isolated DNA molecules for intergration site independent gene expression in mammalian host cells (5532143)  
     Production of antibodies from transgenic animals (5545807)  
     Methods of obtaining a DNA sequence for integration site independent gene expression (5635355)  
     Process for categorizing nucleotide sequence populations (5728524)  
     Isolated DNA molecules for integration site independent gene expression in mammalian host cells (5736359)  
     Vector for integration site independent gene expression in mammalian host cells (5770398)  
     Vector for integration site independent gene expression in mammalian host cells which permit immunoglobulin gene expression (5770449)  
     Vector for integration site independent gene expression in mammalian host cells (5849997)  
     Vector for integration site independent gene expression in mammalian host cells (5859309)  
     Recombinant binding proteins and peptides (6010884)  
     Binding proteins for recognition of DNA (6013453)  
     DNA sequencing method (6087095)  
     Locus control subregions conferring integration-site independent transgene expression abstract of the disclosure (6110666)  
58 NIPPON ZEON CO., LTD. 14
     Method for producing S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase (4609626)  
     Polynucleotide synthesizing apparatus (4671941)  
     Recombinant vaccinia virus expressing E-protein of Japanese encephalitis virus (5021347)  
     Recombinant baculovirus (5229293)  
     Recombinant avipoxvirus (5286639)  
     Recombinant fowlpox vaccine for protection against Marek's disease (5369025)  
     Vaccine comprising fowlpox virus recombinants expressing the envelope glycoprotein of an avian reticuloendotheliosis retrovirus (5403582)  
     Poultry mycoplasma antigen, gene thereof and recombinant vectors containing the gene as well as vaccines utilizing the same (5489430)  
     Poultry Mycoplasma antigens and recombinant vectors containing the gene as well as diagnostics and vaccines utilizing the same (5621076)  
     Plant growth promoter (5776860)  
     Plant growth promoter comprising jasmonate and brassinolide (5814581)  
     Recombinant Avipox virus encoding polypeptide of mycoplasma gallisepticum, and utilized a live vaccine (5871742)  
     Plant growth promoter (6093683)  
     Growth regulator for crop plants and method for regulating the growth of crop plants (6114284)  
59 QUEST INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS AND FOOD INGREDIENTS CO. 14
     Bacteriocin from Lactococcus lactis subspecies lactis (5173297)  
     Bacteriocin from lactococcus lactis subspecies lactis (5231165)  
     Bacteriocin from lactococcus lactis subspecies lactis (5232849)  
     Multiple bacteriocin producing lactococcus and compositions (5348881)  
     Streptococcus lactis plasmid encoding for mucoidness (5672477)  
     DNA encodoing phage abortive infection protein from lactococcus lactis and method of use thereof (5814499)  
     Isolated DNA encoding enzyme for phage resistance (5824523)  
     DNA encoding phage abortive infection protein from Lactococcus lactis and method of use thereof (5910571)  
     Method and culture for inhibiting undesired microorganisms with culture of Bacillus subtilis (5919695)  
     Isolated DNA encoding enzyme for phage resistance (5925388)  
     DNA encoding phage abortive infection protein from Lactococcus lactis and method of use thereof (5928688)  
     Enzyme for phage resistance (5972673)  
     DNA encoding phage resistance protein (5994118)  
     Complex inducible promoter system derivable from a phage of a lactic acid bacterium (LAB), and its use in a LAB for production of a desired protein (6143525)  
60 AFFYMAX TECHNOLOGIES N.V. 13
     Peptide library and screening method (5270170)  
     Peptide library and screening method (5338665)  
     Recombinant library screening methods (5427908)  
     Peptide library and screening systems (5432018)  
     Methods for making a device for concurrently processing multiple biological chip assays (5545531)  
     Computer-aided engineering system for design of sequence arrays and lithographic masks (5571639)  
     Recombinant library screening methods (5580717)  
     Methods for in vitro recombination (5605793)  
     Peptide library and screening systems (5723286)  
     Peptide library and screening method (5733731)  
     Methods for generating polynucleotides having desired characteristics by iterative selection and recombination (5811238)  
     DNA mutagenesis by random fragmentation and reassembly (5830721)  
     Peptide library and screening method (6156511)  
61 INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE 12
     Vectors for the insertion therein of foreign DNA fragments, according to any translation phase (4371625)  
     Modular apparatus for cell culture (4696902)  
     Serum-free animal cell culture medium and methods for the primary culture and production of cell lines using this medium (4786599)  
     Probe containing a modified nucleic acid, recognizable by specific antibodies and use of this probe and theses specific antibodies to detect and characterize a homologous DNA sequence (4963477)  
     Oligonucleotide probes and methods for detecting by hybridization the nucleic acids of bacteria and other living organisms (5407797)  
     Nucleic acids derived from Salmonella typhi and detection of Salmonella using thereof (5618666)  
     Nucleic acid sequences from Salmonella typhi for in vitro diagnosis in foodstuffs (5681716)  
     Nucleotide sequences coding for a protein with urease activity (5695931)  
     Process for determining the quantity of a DNA fragment of interest by a method of enzymatic amplification of DNA (5747246)  
     Nucleic acid sequences derived from the genome of Salmonella Typhi, and their uses, in particular for the in vitro diagnosis of the presence of bacteria of the salmonella genus in foodstuffs (5804378)  
     Method for detecting molecules containing nucleotide mismatches and the location of these mismatches, and application to the detection of base substitutions or deletions in nucleotide sequences (5879886)  
     Oligonucleotides for the detection of salmonella (6080545)  
62 RHONE-POULENC RORER, S.A. 12
     Process for stereoselectively hydrolyzing, transesterifying or esterifying with immobilized isozyme of lipase from Candida rugosa (5108916)  
     Methods for purification of recombinantly produced proteins (5530100)  
     K. lactis transaldolase gene promoter and use thereof (5616474)  
     Yeast promoter and its use (5627046)  
     K. lactis RP28 ribosomal protein gene promoter and use thereof (5627049)  
     K. lactis pyruvate-decarboxylase promoter and use thereof (5631143)  
     Yeast promoter and use thereof (5646012)  
     Polypeptides having NMDA receptor activity, nucleic acids encoding those polypeptides and applications (5648259)  
     Polypeptides having granulocyte colony stimulating activity, their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them (5665863)  
     Cells with altered betaine catabolism and their use in producing metabolites or enzymes (5691163)  
     Polypeptides involved in the biosynthesis of streptogramins, nucleotide sequences coding for these polypeptides and their use (5891695)  
     Biosynthesis method enabling the preparation of cobalamins (6156545)  
63 DEGUSSA AG 11
     Feed additive for ruminants (4044169)  
     Plasmids from corynebacterium glutamicum and plasmid vectors derived therefrom (5175108)  
     Peptide amidase and the use thereof (5190875)  
     Method for the conjugative transfer of mobilizable vectors for E. coli to gram-positive bacteria and vectors suitable for use in such a method (5346818)  
     Peptide amidase and the use thereof (5369016)  
     Method for isolation of insertion elements from coryneform bacteria (5380657)  
     Transposon consisting of a fragment of the R plasmid pCxM82B, test vectors containing this transposon, and methods of mutagenesis (5516669)  
     Method for location of insertion elements (5633154)  
     Production of tryptophan by the bacterium Escherichia coli (5756345)  
     Microorganisms their use and method of producing L-.alpha.-amino acids (5827717)  
     Peptide amidase from xanthomonas (5985632)  
64 MITSUI TOATSU CHEMICALS INC. 11
     DNA coding for a signal amino acid sequence and DNA containing the same (4663294)  
     Method of culturing protoplasts (4880744)  
     Isoxazoline derivatives and plant growth regulators (4889551)  
     Isoxazoline derivatives and plant growth regulators (4906277)  
     Process for separating single-chain TPA and double-chain from each other (4978620)  
     Method of regulating expression of a foreign gene by controlling culture temperature and a process of producing a foreign gene product thereby (5043277)  
     Method for electroporation (5124259)  
     Method of regulating expression of a foreign gene by controlling the sugar concentration in a medium and a process of producing a foreign product thereby (5139935)  
     Method of culturing protoplasts (5166068)  
     Method of producing rice cybrid cells (5360725)  
     Phytase (5830732)  
65 ROUSSEL-UCLAF 11
     Increasing yields of vegetable crops with o-phenyl hydroxylamines (4472194)  
     Combined vaccine (4537768)  
     Process for preparing cheese and product produced (4588593)  
     Process for preparing improved quality cheeses and product produced (4588594)  
     Supports useful in solid phase synthesis of oligonucleotides (4780504)  
     Supports and their use (4812512)  
     Plasmids (5547869)  
     Sucrose phosphate synthetase isolated from maize (5714365)  
     Biological control agents (5770192)  
     Saccharose phosphate synthetase (SPS), a preparation method and CDNA therefor, and use of the CDNA for modifying SPS expression in plant cells (5917126)  
     Arabidepsi thaliana proteins having .DELTA.-5,7-sterol-.DELTA.-7-reductase activity (5965417)  
66 TRANSGENE S.A. 11
     Cloning of the bioA, bioD, bioF, bioC and BioH genes of bacillus spraericus, vectors and transformed cells (5096823)  
     Recombinant fowlpox virus (5180675)  
     Method for expressing a heterologous protein in a dapD.sup.- mutant of E. coli and the strain obtained (5198343)  
     Yeast vector coding for heterologous gene fusions linked via KEX2 cleavage site and coding for truncated KEX2 genes (5521093)  
     Application of novel DNA fragments as a coding sequence for a signal peptide for the secretion of mature proteins by recombinant yeast, expression cassettes, transformed yeast and corresponding process for the preparation of proteins (5631144)  
     Expression of a tumor-specific antigen by a recombinant vector virus and use thereof in preventitive or curative treatment of the corresponding tumor (5744133)  
     Vectors for the expression and secretion of hirudin by transformed yeasts (5821079)  
     DNA sequences, vectors, recombinant viruses and method which employs recombinant vaccinia viruses capable of muliplying in CHO cells (5830688)  
     Yeast strains for the production of mature heterologous proteins, especially hirudin (5879926)  
     Expression of a tumor-specific antigen by a recombinant vector virus and use thereof in preventive or curative treatment of the corresponding tumor (6007806)  
     Method for the preparation of a viral vector by intermolecular homologous recombination (6110735)  
67 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 11
     Anaerobic thermophilic culture system (4292406)  
     Anaerobic thermophilic culture (4292407)  
     Method of saccharifying cellulose (4540664)  
     pLS010 plasmid vector (4729954)  
     Process for producing ethanol from plant biomass using the fungus paecilomyces sp. (4840903)  
     Plasimids containing the gene for DNA polymerase I from Streptococcus pneumoniae (5002875)  
     Purification of polymorphic components of complex genomes (5032502)  
     Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) using cellobiose fermenting yeast Brettanomyces custersii (5100791)  
     Optical probe for the cytochrome P-450 cholesterol side chain cleavage enzyme (5110725)  
     Combined enzyme mediated fermentation of cellulous and xylose to ethanol by Schizosaccharoyces pombe, cellulase, .beta.-glucosidase, and xylose isomerase (5372939)  
     Fatty acyl-CoA reductase (6143538)  
68 AMERSHAM INTERNATIONAL LTD. 10
     Method of detecting mutations in DNA and RNA (4656127)  
     Detecting polynucleotide sequences (4716106)  
     Capture method for cell nucei using a DNA mesh (5447864)  
     Subtraction hybridization (5589339)  
     Subtraction hybridization employing aziridinylbenoquinone cross-linking agents (5591575)  
     RNA fingerprinting to determine RNA population differences (5665544)  
     Magnetic bead precipitation method (5665554)  
     Modifying nucleotide analogues (5670346)  
     Vectors for differential expression (5932441)  
     Relating to assay systems (6074829)  
69 PHARMING B.V. 10
     DNA sequences to target proteins to the mammary gland for efficient secretion (5565362)  
     Method of producing a transgenic bovine or transgenic bovine embryo (5633076)  
     Homologous recombination in mammalian cells (5721367)  
     Transgenic bovine (5741957)  
     Transgenic non human mammal milk (5750172)  
     Method for the production of biologically active polypeptides in a mammal's (5959171)  
     Targeted synthesis of protein in mammary gland of a non-human transgenic mammal (5994616)  
     Transgenic bovines and milk from transgenic bovines (6013857)  
     Production of recombinant polypeptides by bovine species and transgenic methods (6066725)  
     Production of recombinant polypeptides by bovine species and transgenic methods (6140552)  
70 QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY 10
     Process for extractive fermentation (4865973)  
     Sodium tolerance genes derived from schizosaccharomyces pombe (5272085)  
     Indexing linkers (5508169)  
     Indexing linkers (5858656)  
     Enhanced transport with a plastid membrane transport protein (5919999)  
     Antisense strategy for the production of species specific viral insecticides (5925346)  
     Electroporation device and method of use (6001617)  
     Spruce budworm antifreeze proteins, genes and methods of using same (6008016)  
     Constructs and methods for enhancing protein levels in photosynthetic organisms (6011198)  
     Phosphate starvation-inducible proteins (6096545)  
71 SHIMADZU CORP. 10
     Apparatus for fusing cells (4804450)  
     DNA probes for detecting salmonella and a method for detecting salmonella therewith (5043264)  
     Apparatus for isolation of synthetic peptide without mechanical loss (5356596)  
     Cleavage apparatus (5460786)  
     Oligonucleotides for detecting bacteria and detection method using same (5516898)  
     Oligonucleotides for detecting bacteria and detection method using same (5525718)  
     Method for testing causative microorganisms of food poisioning and reagents therefor (5529910)  
     Oligonucleotides for detecting Salmonella species and detection process using the same (5683883)  
     Oligonucleotides for detecting bacteria and detection process (5795717)  
     Method for synthesis of nucleic acids (5912146)  
72 SHIN-ETSU BIO, INC. 10
     Xanthomonas campestris strain for production of xanthan gum (5279961)  
     Rifampicin resistant xanthan hyperproducing Xanthomonas campestris strain (5310677)  
     DNA segments controlling production of xanthan gum (5338841)  
     Enzymatic clarification of polysaccharides (5354671)  
     Biologically pure culture of a strain of Xanthomonas compestris ATCC 55429 (5472870)  
     DNA segments and methods for increasing polysaccharide production (5854034)  
     Preparation of xanthan gum (5912151)  
     DNA segments and methods for increasing polysaccharide production (5985623)  
     Process of purifying xanthan gum using an alkaline protease and lysozyme (5994107)  
     Production of non-native bacterial exopolysaccharide in a recombinant bacterial host (6027925)  
73 SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. 10
     Xanthomonas campestris strain for production of xanthan gum (5279961)  
     Rifampicin resistant xanthan hyperproducing Xanthomonas campestris strain (5310677)  
     DNA segments controlling production of xanthan gum (5338841)  
     Enzymatic clarification of polysaccharides (5354671)  
     Biologically pure culture of a strain of Xanthomonas compestris ATCC 55429 (5472870)  
     DNA segments and methods for increasing polysaccharide production (5854034)  
     Preparation of xanthan gum (5912151)  
     DNA segments and methods for increasing polysaccharide production (5985623)  
     Process of purifying xanthan gum using an alkaline protease and lysozyme (5994107)  
     Production of non-native bacterial exopolysaccharide in a recombinant bacterial host (6027925)  
74 U.S. OF AMERICA GOVERNMENT 10
     Method of cell culture using a dual circuit, woven artificial capillary bundle (4200689)  
     Capillary cell culture device (4220725)  
     Method and apparatus for cell and tissue culture (4241187)  
     Method for rapid base sequencing in DNA and RNA (4962037)  
     Biological control of postharvest rots in fruits using Pseudomonas cepacia and pyrrolnitrin produced therefrom (4975277)  
     Gene encoding serine protease inhibitor (5151509)  
     Conjugate and method for integration of foreign DNA into cells (5428132)  
     Fertile transgenic oat plants (5773269)  
     Methods and an acetyl CoA carboxylase gene for conferring herbicide tolerance and an alteration in oil content of plants (6069298)  
     Methods for expressing a maize acetyl CoA carboxylase gene in host cells and encoded protein produced thereby (6146867)  
75 VISIBLE GENETICS INC. 10
     Virtual DNA sequencer (5776767)  
     Method for amplification and sequencing of nucleic acid polymers (5789168)  
     Method and kit for quantitation and nucleic acid sequencing of nucleic acid analytes in a sample (5795722)  
     Method for single-tube sequencing of nucleic acid polymers (5830657)  
     Method and system for DNA sequence determination and mutation detection with reference to a standard (5853979)  
     Method for identification of mutations using ligation of multiple oligonucleotide probes (5888731)  
     Method and apparatus for thermal cycling and for automated sample preparation with thermal cycling (5897842)  
     Method and apparatus for alignment of signals for use in DNA based-calling (5916747)  
     Method and apparatus for DNA-sequencing using reduced number of sequencing mixtures (5981186)  
     Method for bi-directional sequencing of nucleic acid polymers (6083699)  
76 FRANCE COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE 9
     Apparatus for the intensive, controlled production of microorganisms by photosynthesis (4868123)  
     Method for producing pyruvic acid by fermentation (4918013)  
     Mineral hollow fiber bioreactor for the cultivation of animal cells (5064764)  
     Basic protein phospholiphase A2 (5164315)  
     Process for the production and extraction of antioxidants from a micro-organism culture (5179012)  
     Specific DNA molecular probes for Bos-type male genome (5328827)  
     Process for the selective production of polyunsaturated fatty acids from a culture of microalgae of the porphyridium cruentum (5338673)  
     Hybrid proteins between an extracytoplasmic enzyme and at least another protein, method for preparing them and also their applications (5362644)  
     Chimeric proteins activating polymerase III transcription, use thereof for detecting and analysing protein-protein interactions and genes coding for said proteins (5905025)  
77 MCGILL UNIVERSITY 9
     Synergistic herbicidal compositions comprising microbial herbicides and plant growth regulators (4808207)  
     Shuttle vector, utilizing the E. coli asparagine synthetase gene, and capable of dominant transfection and amplification in animal cells (5011776)  
     Process for controlling undesirable vegetation with Colletotrichum coccodes spores (5028253)  
     Composition for biocontrol of wild buckwheat (5082489)  
     Genes which participate in .beta.-glucan assembly and use thereof (5194600)  
     Fungal herbicides (5212086)  
     Immortalized bovine mannary epithelial cell line (5227301)  
     Composition for biocontrol of fireweed (5244659)  
     Sclerotinia minor for broad spectrum broadleaf weed control (5994267)  
78 RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN 9
     Process for the in-vitro transformation of plant protoplasts with plasmid DNA (4684611)  
     Process for the activation of promoters of bacteria (5019501)  
     Recombinant DNA: transformed microorganisms, plant cells and plants: a process for introducing an inducible property in plants, and a process for producing a polypeptide or protein by means of plants or plant cells (5057422)  
     Process for introducing foreign DNA into the genome of plants (5149645)  
     Process for the incorporation of foreign DNA into the genome of dicotyledonous plants (5464763)  
     Fungal resistant plants, process for obtaining fungal resistant plants and recombinant polynucleotides for use therein (5670706)  
     Crucifer ACC synthase and uses thereof (5908971)  
     Chitinase, DNA coding therefor and plants containing same (5993808)  
     Transgenic fungal resistant plants expressing chitinase and glucanase, process for obtaining, and recombinant polynucleotides for uses therein (6087560)  
79 ZENCO LTD. 9
     Inbred corn line ZS1679 (5589606)  
     Method and instrument for the preparation of pollen for cryogenic storage (5596838)  
     Inbred corn line ZS1022 (5602314)  
     Inbred corn line ZS1202 (5602315)  
     Inbred corn line ZS1783 (5602316)  
     Inbred corn line ZSO541 (5625131)  
     Method of hybrid crop production using dehydrated pollen from storage (5689914)  
     Inbred corn line ZS01220 (5866763)  
     Cytoplasmic male sterility system production canola hybrids (5973233)  
80 CANADIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL AND FORESTRY 8
     Process for conducting site-directed mutagenesis (5071743)  
     Method for quantitatively assaying the presence of diarrhetic shellfish poisoning toxins in marine samples (5180665)  
     Abscisic acid-related plant growth regulators - germination promoters (5201931)  
     Enzyme-based biosensor system for monitoring the freshness of fish (5288613)  
     Vertebrate poxvoris expression vector under the control of entomopoxvirus spheroidin gene promoter (5338679)  
     Isolation, quantitation and purification of insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (5356788)  
     Identification, quantitation and purification of insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (5523211)  
     Lytic .beta.-1,3-glucanase gene (5883244)  
81 CANADIAN PATENTS AND DEVELOPMENT LTD. 8
     Enteric disease vaccine (3975517)  
     Attractant for beet webworm moths (4059689)  
     Pentose fermentation with selected yeast (4477569)  
     Bacterial enzyme used as cheese ripening aid (4690826)  
     Transposable linkers to transfer genetic information (4830965)  
     Antigenic polysaccharide specific to Brucella abortus and Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 0:9 (4831126)  
     Cell culture bioreactor (4906577)  
     Protease for specific processing of secreted proteins (4929553)  
82 CANON KK 8
     Method for detecting bioindividuals by use of nonnatural type nucleic acid probe (5545521)  
     Nucleic acid determination employing pyryilium dye (5670315)  
     Process for detecting nucleic acid by capillary electrophoresis (5679516)  
     Method for detecting a target nucleic acid by using an interaction of two kinds of reagents (5705346)  
     Method for recovering DNA from soil (5753466)  
     Partially double-stranded oligonucleotide and method for forming oligonucleotide (5830643)  
     Detection of nucleic acid hybrid variation which interacts with double helix or with second reagent through double helix by charge transfer and probe for hybridizing with target nucleic acid (5939256)  
     Pseudomonas cepacia strain isolated from termite intestines that degrades trichlorethylene and furan compounds (6096530)  
83 CHEMO-SERO-THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH INST. 8
     Method of the preparation of improved mutant strain of Bordetella bronchiseptica useful as live attenuated vaccine for prophlaxis of B. bronchiseptica infection (4456588)  
     Method for purification of Japanese encephalitis virus (4725546)  
     Live vaccine for contagious diseases of chickens (4980162)  
     Recombinant Marek's disease virus and process for preparing the same (5171677)  
     Recombinant Marek's disease virus, process for preparing the same and vaccine containing the same (5558867)  
     Shuttle vector (5707862)  
     Exogenous gene expression vector containing chick .beta.-actin gene promoter (5811260)  
     Recombinant Marek's disease virus (MDV) and vaccine (6013261)  
84 CLARIANT FINANCE LTD. 8
     Thermostable endoxylanases (5486468)  
     Biological control for wood products and debarking (5518921)  
     White-rot fungus and uses thereof (5554535)  
     Cloning and expression of ligninases (5616473)  
     Mating process for preparing Ophiostoma piliferum fungi for pitch reduction (5695975)  
     Pitch degradation with wood colonizing bacteria (5766926)  
     Process for treating pulpwoods and pulps with a pitch degrading fungus of the genus Ophiostoma (5853537)  
     Fungi for pitch reduction and their preparation (5998197)  
85 DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LIMITED 8
     Strains of Aspergillus and use thereof to produce amylolytic enzymes (4593005)  
     Novel strains of agrobacterium and preparation of cyclic (1.fwdarw.2)-.beta. (4673644)  
     Method for the prevention of fusarium diseases and microorganisms used for the same (4988586)  
     Microorganisms detoxifying fusaric acid and method for detoxifying fusaric acid by the use of the same (5178863)  
     Fusaric acid resistant genes (5292643)  
     Diagnostic applications of double D-loop formation (5670316)  
     In situ hybridization method (5719023)  
     In-situ hybridization method using RecA protein and RecA protein having marker or ligand for use in said method (5965361)  
86 INST. OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH (SAITAMA) 8
     Method of producing brassinosteroids (5084388)  
     Aspergillus terreus blasticidin S deaminase, a blasticidin S deaminase gene, a vector incorporating said gene and a transformant containing said vector (5527701)  
     Method for purification and transfer to separation/detection systems of DNA sequencing samples and plates used therefor (5856100)  
     Mutant gene causing a defect in mitochondrial recombination and a method for its detection (5908747)  
     Method for the purification of DNA (5916775)  
     Kaurene synthase (6020176)  
     Method for determining DNA nucleotide sequence (6074824)  
     Method for forming full-length cDNA libraries (6143528)  
87 INTERNATIONAL FLOWER DEVELOPMENTS PTY., LTD. 8
     Genetic sequences encoding a 3',5'-hydroxylase and uses therefor (5349125)  
     Genetic sequences encoding flavonoid pathway enzymes and uses therefor (5569832)  
     Genetic sequences encoding flavonoid pathway enzymes and uses therefor (5639870)  
     Genetic sequences encoding flavonol synthase enzymes and uses therefor (5859329)  
     Genetic sequences encoding glycosyltransferase enzymes and uses therefor (5859334)  
     Genetic sequences encoding flavonoid pathway enzymes and uses therefor (5861487)  
     Transgenic plants having altered anthocyann levels (5948955)  
     Transgenic plants exhibiting altered flower color and methods for producing same (6080920)  
88 KIKKOMAN CORP. 8
     Somatic hybrids of Rutaceae plants (4940836)  
     Luciferase gene and novel recombinant DNA as well as a method of producing luciferase (4968613)  
     Mutant luciferase of a firefly, mutant luciferase genes, recombinant DNAS containing the genes and a method of producing mutant luciferase (5219737)  
     Mutant luciferase of a firefly (5330906)  
     DNA fragment containing a tannase gene, a recombinant plasmid, a process for producing tannase, and a promoter (5665584)  
     Biotinated firefly luciferase, a gene for biotinated firefly luciferase, a recombinant DNA, a process for producing biotinated luciferase and a bioluminescent analysis method (5814465)  
     Biotinated firefly luciferase, a gene for biotinated firefly luciferase, a recombinant DNA, a process for producing biotinated luciferase and a bioluminescent analysis method (5843746)  
     Leucine aminopeptidase gene, recombinant DNA, and process for producing leucine aminopeptidase (6127161)  
89 NATIONAL SCIENCE COUNSIL OF R.O.C. 8
     Gene expression system comprising the promoter region of the .alpha.-amylase genes (5460952)  
     Oligonucleotides for detection of baculovirus infection (5521299)  
     Photo-induced DNA-cleaving agents (5527683)  
     Gene expression system comprising the promoter region of the alpha-amylase genes (5712112)  
     Semiselective medium composition for detecting seed-borne Alternaria brassicicola (5849516)  
     Satellite RNA from bamboo mosaic virus as a vector for foreign gene expression in plants (5849891)  
     Process for sexing cow embryos (5876942)  
     Sugar-responsive enhancers in .alpha.-amylase genes (5917029)  
90 NOVO NORDISK BIOTECH, INC. 8
     Fungicidal and insecticidal compounds and compositions derived from fungal strains of Prenophora teres (5491122)  
     Aspergillus expression system (5667990)  
     Processes for producing an enzyme (5702934)  
     Methods for producing polypeptides in respiratory-deficient cells (5891669)  
     Nucleic acids encoding a polypeptide having protease activity (5891701)  
     Methods for producing a polypeptide in a bacillus cell (5955310)  
     Methods for modifying the production of a polypeptide (5958727)  
     Methods of producing polynucleotide variants (6159688)  
91 PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INST. OF NYC 8
     Expression and secretion vectors and method of constructing vectors (4663280)  
     High yield protein production system (5011772)  
     Nucleic acid process containing improved molecular switch (5118801)  
     Assays and kits incorporating nucleic acid probes containing improved molecular switch (5312728)  
     Selection of ribozymes that efficiently cleave target RNA (5616459)  
     Diagnostic assays and kits for RNA using RNA binary probes and a ribozyme ligase (5652107)  
     Diagnostic assays and kits for RNA using RNA binary probes and a protein that is an RNA-directed RNA ligase (5807674)  
     Method of sorting a mixture of nucleic acid strands on a binary array (6103463)  
92 SAGAMI CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER 8
     Process for recovering protease (4212945)  
     Process for recovering protease (4212946)  
     Protease (5496710)  
     Process for producing cDNAs with complete length, process for producing intermediates thereof and process for producing vectors containing cDNAs with complete lengths (5597713)  
     Cloning vector plasmid vector-primer derived therefrom and preparation method of the same (5624826)  
     Protease II (5728544)  
     Epoxycyclohexane derivative and plant growth regulator (5801123)  
     Plant growth regulating composition comprising epoxycyclohexane derivatives and brassinosteroids as well as method of regulating plant growth comprising the application thereof (5965488)  
93 SHIONOGI AND CO., LTD. 8
     Vaccines for fowl colibacillosis (4837018)  
     DNA encoding flagellin and vector having the same (4886748)  
     Cephalosporin acetylhydrolase gene from Bacillus subtilis (5281525)  
     Protease (5459064)  
     Poultry mycoplasma antigen, gene thereof and recombinant vectors containing the gene as well as vaccines utilizing the same (5489430)  
     Poultry Mycoplasma antigens and recombinant vectors containing the gene as well as diagnostics and vaccines utilizing the same (5621076)  
     Protease from Streptomyces fradiae (5665586)  
     Recombinant Avipox virus encoding polypeptide of mycoplasma gallisepticum, and utilized a live vaccine (5871742)  
94 UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL 8
     Aseptic in vitro endomycorrhizal spore mass production (5554530)  
     Oligonucleotide probe and primers specific to bovine or porcine male genomic DNA (5596089)  
     Nucleozymes (5652094)  
     Endochitinase gene induced by osmotic stress and abscisic acid isolated from the wild tomato Lycopersicon chilense Dun (5656474)  
     Freezing tolerance proteins Wcs19 and Wcor410 from gramineae (5731419)  
     Catalytic DNA (5861288)  
     Hybrid ribozymes and methods of use (5942395)  
     DNA plasmid vaccine for immunization of animals against BVDV (6060457)  
95 YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD. 8
     Production of hybrid cucumber seeds (4822949)  
     Method of producing herbicide resistant plant varieties and plants produced thereby (4900676)  
     Cell culture carriers and method of use (5168058)  
     Fibrous matrix for in vitro cell cultivation (5266476)  
     Transgenic plants overproducing threonine and lysine (5367110)  
     Anti-tumor vaccines (5582831)  
     Chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll derivatives, their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them (5650292)  
     Transgenic tomato plants containing a fusarium resistance gene (6100449)  
96 AMANO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD 7
     Method for the quantitative determination of physiological components in biological fluids (4554249)  
     Novel .alpha.-1,6-glucosidase and process for producing the same (4902622)  
     Process for modifying fats and oils (5219744)  
     Recombinant DNA, bacterium of the genus Pseudomonas containing it, and process for preparing lipase by using it (5290694)  
     Isoamylase and process for producing the same (5352602)  
     Recombinant transglutaminase (5420025)  
     Caffeine demethylate gene-containing DNA fragment and microbial process for producing 3-methyl-7-alkylxanthine (5550041)  
97 BIOTECH AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. AND CSIRO 7
     Haemonchus contortus vaccine (5525508)  
     Nematode vaccine (5734035)  
     Vaccines against animal parasitic nematodes (5843706)  
     Vaccines against animal parasitic nematodes (5843710)  
     Nematode vaccine (5871738)  
     Nematode vaccine (5942413)  
     Oral vaccines (6103243)  
98 KAO CORP. 7
     Plant growth regulator composition (4732605)  
     DNA fragments containing alkaline cellulase gene, recombinant plasmids with said DNA fragments inserted therein, and recombinant microorganisms (4904599)  
     Alkaline cellulase and process for producing the same (5045464)  
     Processes for the production of phosphatidic acid (5183750)  
     Regeneration method of individual coconut plantlet (5229290)  
     Bed material for cell culture (5284766)  
     Immobilized phosphorylase (5543310)  
99 KUMIAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD. 7
     Cyclohexane derivatives having plant-growth regulating activities, and uses of these derivatives (4560403)  
     Cyclohexane derivatives having plant-growth regulating activities, and uses of these derivatives (4678496)  
     Plant growth regulating composition and method for regulating growth of a plant (4954157)  
     Plant growth regulating composition and method for regulating growth of a plant (5015283)  
     Phenoxyacetic acid derivatives and plant growth regulating agents containing them as active ingredients (5235092)  
     Plant growth regulator composition comprising a cyclohexanone compound and adjuvants (5436225)  
     Plant growth regulator composition comprising a cyclohexanone compound and adjuvants (5510321)  
100 RIKAGAKU KENKYUSHO 7
     Novel endonuclease and process for production thereof (4161424)  
     Nicotinamide-ammonium hydroxide plant growth regulator compositions (4212664)  
     Plasmid, method for construction of the same, microorganism carrying the plasmid and method for cultivation of the microorganism (4624922)  
     Fluidized bed cell culture apparatus with a drain valve for the removal of support material (5043283)  
     Cell culture method (5185255)  
     Method for producing penicillinase and xylanase (5190874)  
     Secretion plasmid comprising the kilgene (5246839)  
Note: Patent assignees and subsequent determinations of locations are based on USPTO assignee data, which might be missing, incomplete, or indicate multiple assignees per patent. Multiple spellings or abbreviations have been consolidated to a single assignee identification.
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