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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A former UW-Madison genetics researcher, Jerry Kermicle, previously developed a corn line that contained a teosinte crossing barrier (TCB) which prevents the line from successfully crossing with any o...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed doubled haploid and recombinant inbred line populations from crosses among public maize lines for the purposes of genetic mapping. In hybrid combination, these li...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed new tomato rootstock crosses based on cultivators and germplasm accessories obtained from USDA germplasm bank to identify rootstock populations. This new tomato r...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed new tomato rootstock varieties for inbred Ralstonia bacteria-resistant lines that may be useful for grafted tomato production in tropical locations. This new toma...
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Conjugates of protein and polysaccharide linked by a phosphate bridge. The conjugates are made by reacting a protein with a polysaccharide in the presence of POCl3.
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Over-fishing and environmental degradation have severely curtailed the production and consumption of yellow perch meat, yet this fish remains highly regarded and sought after by consumers. Our invento...
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Saccharomyces eubayanus is the cold-tolerant parent yeast of the lager brewing yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus. In recent years there has been considerable interest in brewing with pure strains of S. ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new set of inbred corn lines with desirable traits such as high sugar content, creamy texture, tenderness and excellent flavor. Some lines also have attractive ...
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According to the USDA, Wisconsin farmers produced 73,610 tons of carrots in 2010.
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The UW-Madison researcher generated a set of sweet corn inbred lines for sweet corn hybrid production. These new lines offer sweet, visually appealing corn desired by consumers as well as the high yie...
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The present technology provides a nanoparticle that includes a silica network comprising crosslinked polysiloxanes, wherein the crosslinks comprise disulfide linkages, and the nanoparticle has a surfa...
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