UW researchers have identified and characterized a set of tissue-specific, maize promoters. To identify these promoters, the researchers combed through gene expression datasets, flagging genes express...
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In commercial crop production, it is often desirable to know which individuals are of a specific sex or those harboring certain traits. Current methods employed to isolate or enrich a desired plant po...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for complete dissolution of dried whole egg in formic acid that produces a very concentrated translucent solution of whole eggs that allows for lossless ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed and validated a novel “parasitome” method to accurately characterize parasites in samples. Like published metabarcoding protocols, the new method consists of ...
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Soil produces or consumes gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and oxygen through normal biological and geological processes. Current soil gas-flux measurement systems are ex...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed two related strains of S. eubayanus (yHJC187 and yHJC188) that possess the key desirable traits for lager beer fermentation: natural cold tolerance, an ability to...
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Aspects of the present disclosure from UW Madison researchers are directed to methods and apparatuses involving characterization via homologizing disparate speech terminology. As may be implemented in...
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UW Madison researchers have identified a maize gene that stimulates somatic embryogenesis upon overexpression in plant cells. The researchers studied genetic locations in chromosomes of maize lines th...
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The present invention relates to a ‘sugar fermentate of edible fungi’ (i.e., cultures of GRAS species from the genus Aspergillus) that exhibits antimicrobial activity (e.g., against Listeria monoc...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi provide nutrients to plants and aid their growth. This symbiotic interaction is mediated by signaling molecules, most notably lipochito-oligosaccharides (LCOs). LCOs ...
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In both beef and dairy livestock production facilities, feed bunk scoring and decisions about when to deliver feed are almost exclusively determined by visual assessment by trained staff. This is a hi...
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Hemp, one of the earliest plants to be spun into fiber thousands of years ago, now commands a $6 billion global market that includes high-profile products like CBD and other cannabinoid oils. However,...
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UW researchers have identified a genetic mutation in a family of genes that removes a repressor of the shikimate pathway. Their work identified the suppressor of tyra2 (sota) as a target to deregulate...
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Aspects of this innovation by UW researchers are directed to methods and apparatuses involving the characterization of livestock feeding functions. As may be implemented as or with one or more embodim...
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The present invention relates to novel IBV vaccines containing novel modified S and N antigens from avian coronaviruses. The modifications include: S has a modified transmembrane domain for better sec...
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UW Madison innovators provide a method to detect immune health status in a human infant or child, and compositions and methods to improve health status in a human fetus, infant or child, as well as co...
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Genetic transformation of maize and other crops is critically important to agronomy research as well as advancing desirable traits such as improved yield, disease resistance and drought tolerance. Mo...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed improved methods and systems for characterizing soil using visible-near-infrared spectroscopy (vis-NIRS) data. Combining their spectrographic data with additional...
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UW Madison researchers provide herein methods for preparing a product including predominantly prebiotic oligosaccharides by non-enzymatic methods of glycosylation of monosaccharides, disaccharides, an...
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The present invention is a new plant transit peptide that can be used to improve the efficiency of plant gene transformation. The UW-Madison researchers analyzed sequences of thousands of proteins inv...
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UW Madison researchers have developed compounds of Formula I, compositions comprising the compounds, and methods for using the compounds. The methods include methods for modulating quorum sensing by ...
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The present invention from UW Madison researchers provides pollen compositions, methods and kits for making said compositions, and methods of using said compositions to fertilize a plant. The pollen w...
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A UW-Madison researcher has developed a new carrot population, called WISYNTH, that was made by bringing together several carrot inbred lines, intermating them, and selecting for processing carrot typ...
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These inventors have recognized that various diseases in plants, such as Phytophthora infestans (late blight) and Alternaria solani (early blight), and/or various stages of such diseases in plants, ca...
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In the mid-1990s the UW began a program for developing seedless cucumber hybrids. The base populations for this program were a Gynoecious Synthetic population and a Hardwickii Semi-Exotic population r...
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