| Family |
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) |
| Subfamily |
Faboideae |
| Tribe |
Loteae |
| Scientific name |
Lotus corniculatus L. var. japonicus Regel |
| Synonyms |
Lotus japonicus (Regel) K. Larsen |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) miyako-gusa (ミヤコグサ, 都草 [meaning: Capital City weed]) |
| (English common name) none |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) Korea, China, Taiwan, Nepal, India |
| Habitat |
Seaside |
| Chromosomal number |
2n=12 |
| Description |
Plants creeping 15-35cm tall. Leaves leaflets 6-13mm long, 3-8mm wide,
2 stipules 6-13mm long, 3-8mm wide. Flowers (1-3) yellow 15mm long, flowering
in April to October. Fruits 2-3.5cm long. Perennial plants. |
| Reference |
Lotus corniculatus L. var. japonicus Regel |
| Method for the expression of genes in plants, parts of plants, and plant
cell cultures, and DNA fragments, plasmids, and transformed microorganisms
to be used when carrying out the method, as well as the use thereof for
the expression of genes in plants (US Patent 4886753/1989) |
| Method of regenerating plantlets from mesophyll protoplasts of phaseolus
angularis (US Patent 4977087/1990) |
| Fungal herbicides (US Patent 5212086/1993) |
| Process for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition selectively
lowering the blood-lipid level (US Patent 5277910/1994) |
| Organ-specific plant promoter sequences (US Patent 5391725/1995) |
| Enod2 gene regulatory region (US Patent 5631358/1997) |
| Maize protein for insect control (US Patent 5882668/1999) |
| Cytochrome P-450 monooxygenases (US Patent 5882851/1999) |
| Fertile transgenic corn plants (US Patent 6013863/2000) |
| Method and composition for promoting and controlling growth of plants (US
Patent 6318023/2001) |
| Limonene and other downstream metabolites of geranyl pyrophosphate for
insect control in plants (US Patent 6291745/2001) |
| Cultured plant cell gums for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and industrial
applications (US Patent 6350594/2002) |
| Efficient method of protoplast culture (US Patent 6569680/2003) |
| Nucleic acid comprising the sequence of a promoter unductible by stress
and a gene sequence coding for a stilbene synthase (US Patent 6800794/2004) |
| Methods for generating and identifying mutant polyploid plants, and uses
therefor (US Patent 6696294/2004) |
| Aldehyde oxidase gene derived from plant and utilization thereof (US Patent
6831168/2004) |
| Transgenic poplar trees comprising glutamine synthetase from pine having
improved nitrogen metabolism and methods of making and using the same (US
Patent 6911576/2005) |
| Lipoxygenase polynucleotides and methods of use (US Patent 6921847/2005) |
| Method for preparing fertile transgenic corn plants (US Patent 6946587/2005) |
| Pest-resistant plants comprising a construct encoding a vacuole targeting
sequence and avidin or streptavidin (US Patent 6972350/2005) |
| Application of bi-directional promoters for modification of gene expression
(US Patent 7053265/2006) |
| Nucleic acid encoding a chitinase and methods of using it to make fungal
resistant plants (US Patent 7145060/2006) |
| Enzymatic methods for modulating the levels of organic sulfur compounds
in plants (US Patent 7038109/2006) |
| Compositions and methods for altering tocotrienol content (US Patent 7154029/2006) |
| Genes encoding proteins with pesticidal activity (US Patent 7105332/2006) |
| Cloning and characterization of the broad-spectrum resistance gene Pi2
(US Patent 7094951/2006) |
| Nucleic acid encoding maize endoplasmic reticulum oxidoreductin and method
of use (US Patent 7064247/2006) |
| Genes and regulatory DNA sequences associated with stress-related gene
expression in plants and methods of using the same (US Patent 7176027/2007) |
| Antifungal polypeptides (US Patent 7306946/2007) |
| Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the Dw3 P-glycoprotein of sorghum
and methods of modifying growth in transgenic plants therewith (US Patent
7276647/2007) |
| Genes for galactomannan production in plants and methods of use (US Patent
7265265/2007) |
| Engineering single-gene-controlled staygreen potential into plants utilizing
ACC synthase from maize (US Patent 7230161/2007) |
| Polynucleotides and polypeptides that confer increased biomass and tolerance
to cold, water deprivation and low nitrogen to plants (US Patent 7196245/2007) |
| Enod2 gene regulatory region (US Patent 7214861/2007) |
| Methods of using non-plant encoding nucleic acids (US Patent 7214860/2007) |
| Synthetic methods for preparing procyanidin oligomers (US Patent 7282598/2007) |
| Genes encoding proteins with pesticidal activity (US Patent 7378499/2008) |
| Plant activation of Cry8Bb1 by insertion of a plant protease-sensitive
site (US Patent 7339092/2008) |
| Bacillus thuringiensis cry gene and protein (US Patent 7329736/2008) |
| Transgenic rice plants with reduced expression of Os2AP and elevated levels
of 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (US Patent 7319181/2008) |
| Ryegrass CBF3 gene: identification and isolation (US Patent 7317098/2008) |
