Euphorbia pulcherrima




Family Euphorbiaceae
Scientific name Euphorbia pulcherrima Willdenow ex Klotzsch
Synonyms Euphorbia pulcherrima Willdenow ex Klotzsch var. plenissima hort.; Poinsettia pulcherrima (Willdenow ex Klotzsch) Graham
Common name (English common name) poinsettia
(Japanese common name) poinsettia
Distribution Mexico, Guatemala
Reference Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch
Euphorbia pulcherrima
Therapeutic uses of pungent botanicals and their related compounds (US Patent 6063381/2000)
Phytopathogenic geminivirus resistant transgenic plants and seeds and methods for obtaining same by introduction of mutated C1 gene (US Patent 6133505/2000)
Sunflower disease resistance genes (US Patent 6608240/2003)
Production of modified polysaccharides (US Patent 6639126/2003)
Defense-related signaling genes and methods of use (US Patent 6630615/2003)
Lipoxygenase polynucleotides and methods of use (US Patent 6921847/2005)
Manipulation of plant polysaccharide synthases (US Patent 7098380/2006)
UTR tag assay for gene function discovery (US Patent 7026123/2006)
FUS6 nucleic acid molecules and methods of their use in enhancing disease resistance in plants (US Patent 7262342/2007)
Insecticidal plant cyclotide with activity against homopteran insects (US Patent 7211658/2007)
Antifungal polypeptides (US Patent 7306946/2007)
Methods of protecting plants from pathogenic fungi and nematodes (US Patent 7301069/2007)
Promoter from maize invertase inhibitor gene (US Patent 7276596/2007)
Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the Dw3 P-glycoprotein of sorghum and methods of modifying growth in transgenic plants therewith (US Patent 7276647/2007)
Maize Cr1Bio gene promoter and its use to direct root-preferred transgene expression in plants (US Patent 7268270/2007)
Maize Cyclo1 gene and promoter (US Patent 7268226/2007)
Genes for galactomannan production in plants and methods of use (US Patent 7265265/2007)
Wuschel (WUS) Gene Homologs (US Patent 7256322/2007)
Antifungal polypeptides (US Patent 7306946/2007)



December 2007
at Tsukuba Botanical Garden
December 2007
at Tsukuba Botanical Garden