Patents Assigned to BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
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Publication number: 20160068856Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the order Pucciniales in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of a MybTF protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the order Pucciniales, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding a MybTF protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Holger Schultheiss, Ralf Flachmann, Tobias Mentzel
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Patent number: 9260490Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a BET1-like polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding this BET1-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a CRT (Calreticulin). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a Calreticulin, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventor: Yves Hatzfeld
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Publication number: 20150376636Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing one or more yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a DTF (DREB Transcription Factor) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nu-cleic acid encoding a DTF polypeptide, which plants have one or more enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. The invention also provides a hitherto unknown DTF-encoding nucleic acid, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GMbHInventor: Valerie FRANKARD
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Publication number: 20150361443Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacosporaceae in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of an HCP6 protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the family Phacopsoraceae, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding an HCP6 protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GmbHInventors: Holger Schultheiss, Ralf Flachmann
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Patent number: 9212371Abstract: The present invention pertains to the recombinant manufacture of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Specifically, it relates to acyltransferase polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding said acyltransferases as well as vectors, host cells, non-human transgenic organisms containing said polynucleotides. Moreover, the present invention contemplates methods for the manufacture of polyunsaturated fatty acids as well as oils obtained by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Toralf Senger, Sten Stymne, Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz
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Publication number: 20150353956Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacopsoraceae in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of an EIN2 protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the family Phacopsoraceae, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding an EIN2 protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GmbHInventors: Holger Schultheiss, Ralf Flachmann, Tobias Mentzel
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Publication number: 20150353957Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacosporaceae in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of an HCP7 protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the family Phacopsoraceae, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding an HCP7 protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Holger Schultheiß, Ralf Flachmann
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Publication number: 20150322449Abstract: Provided are methods for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ELM2-related polypeptide, or a WRKY-related polypeptide, or an EMG1-like polypeptide, or a GPx-related polypeptide in a plant. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ELM2-related polypeptide, or a WRKY-related polypeptide, or an EMG1-like polypeptide, or a GPx-related polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. Further provided are constructs comprising a nucleic acid encoding an ELM2-related polypeptide, or a WRKY-related polypeptide, or an EMG1-like polypeptide, or a GPx-related polypeptide, useful in carrying out the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Valerie Frankard, Christophe Reuzeau, Yves Hatzfeld, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Steven Vandenabeele
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Publication number: 20150317458Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying at least one metabolic conversion step, the modulation of which increases the amount of a metabolite of interest in a plant cell, plant or plant part, said method comprising establishing a stoichiometric network model for the metabolism of the plant cell, plant or plant part including the synthesis pathway for the metabolite of interest, identifying at least one candidate metabolic conversion step by applying at least one algorithm of Growth-coupled Design, and validating the at least one candidate metabolic conversion step by a constraint-based modeling approach in the stoichiometric network model, wherein an increase in the metabolite of interest occurring in said constraint-based modeling approach is indicative for a metabolic conversion step, the modulation of which increases the amount of the metabolite of interest in the plant cell, plant or plant part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Katrin Lotz, Michael Leps, Rainer Lemke, Bjoern Junker, Falk Schreiber
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Patent number: 9157092Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a CLC-like (Chloride Channel-like) polypeptide, or an OsBURP-like (BURP-domain containing protein) polypeptide, or an AP2/ERF polypeptide or a protein fusion comprising a TPS (trehalose-6-phosphate synthase) and a TPP (trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase) polypeptide or modulating one or more nucleic acid encoding a TPS and a TPP enzyme, whether comprised in the same or in separate molecules. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acids and constructs comprising them, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignees: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH, Crop Functional Genomics CenterInventor: Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero
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Patent number: 9150871Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing seed-specific and/or seed-preferential promoters and the production of plants with enhanced seed-specific and/or seed-preferential expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or introduced into plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Josef Martin Kuhn, Linda Patricia Loyall, Malte Siebert, Elke Duwenig
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Patent number: 9139854Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides from Cochliobolus heterostrophus C5, Cyanothece sp. CCY0110, Mycocentrospora acerin and Hyaloperonospora parasitica, which code for desaturases and which can be employed for the recombinant production of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention furthermore relates to vectors, host cells and transgenic nonhuman organisms which comprise the polynucleotides according to the invention, and to the polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides. The invention furthermore relates to antibodies against the polypeptides according to the invention. Finally, the invention also relates to production processes for the polyunsaturated fatty acids and for oil, lipid and fatty acid compositions and to their use as drugs, cosmetics, foodstuffs, feedstuffs, preferably fish food, or food supplements.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Toralf Senger, Jörg Bauer, Johnathan A. Napier
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Patent number: 9074989Abstract: A screening device (110) for screening at least one plant specimen (112) in a plurality of plant specimens (114) is disclosed. The screening device (110) comprises a detector (116) adapted for acquiring spatially resolved images (117). The screening device (110) further comprises at least one selection device (118) adapted for selecting a single plant specimen (120) or a group of plant specimens (122) from the plurality of plant specimens (114) for imaging by the detector (116). The selection device (118) comprises a deflection device (124) adapted for deflecting electromagnetic waves propagating between the plant specimens (112) and the detector (116).Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Frederik Leyns, Cádrick Vandaele, Pierre Lejeune, Jeroen Baert, Fabio Fiorani
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Publication number: 20150150158Abstract: A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid up-regulated upon overexpression of a NAC1 or NAC5-encoding gene, referred to herein as a NUG or NAC up-regulated gene, is provided. Plants having modulated expression of a NUG, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants, are also provided. A method for conferring abiotic stress tolerance in plants, comprising modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a NAC1 or NAC5 polypeptide in plants grown under abiotic stress conditions, is also provided. Plants expressing a nucleic acid encoding a NAC1 or NAC5 polypeptide, aside from having increased abiotic stress tolerance, have enhanced yield-related traits and/or modified root architecture compared to corresponding wild type plants. Constructs useful in the methods and plants produced by the methods are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicants: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH, Crop Functional Genomic CenterInventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Yang Do Choi, Ju Kon Kim, Jin Seo Jeong
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Patent number: 8993841Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules which encodes a novel fatty acid nECR. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing nECR nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and methods for large-scale production of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs), e.g., ARA, EPA and DHA.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova, Frederic Beaudoin
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Publication number: 20150075519Abstract: A method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a flavodoxin polypeptide in plants in a specific way. Provided are plants having the expression of a nucleic acid encoding a flavodoxin polypeptide modulated by a particular type of promoter, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Hitherto unknown constructs, which are useful in performing the methods of the invention, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventor: Christophe Reuzeau
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Publication number: 20150059015Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacosporaceae in plants and/or plant cells. This is achieved by increasing the expression of an ACD protein or fragment thereof in a plant, plant part and/or plant cell in comparison to wild type plants, wild type plant parts and/or wild type plant cells. Furthermore, the invention relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and/or plant cells having an increased resistance against fungal pathogens, in particular, pathogens of the family Phacopsoraceae, and to recombinant expression vectors comprising a sequence that is identical or homologous to a sequence encoding an ACD protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Holger Schultheiss, Ralf Flachmann
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Publication number: 20150052636Abstract: The invention relates to methods and means for enhancing the reliability of expression in transgenic plants by reducing the coefficient of variation of expression and/or the number of no- or low-expressing plants in a population of plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2012Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Julia Verena Hartig, Maarten Hendrik Stuiver, Josef Martin Kuhn, Alrun Nora Burgmeier
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Patent number: 8952216Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated promoter or an active fragment or derivative thereof capable of conferring selective expression on a gene to which it is operably connected in the endosperm of a developing plant seed and preferably in the basal endosperm transfer layer (BETL) of endosperm. The present invention also provides expression vectors and constructs and transgenic plant cells, plant parts and whole plants comprising the promoter, active fragments and derivatives, and well as methods of modulating one or more plant phenotypes employing the promoter, active fragments and derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: German Spangenberg, Ulrik John, Carl Ramage, Huihua Fu
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Patent number: 8946512Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of one or more nucleic acid(s) encoding at least two iSYT (interactor of SYT-synovial sarcoma translocation-) polypeptides. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown nucleic acids encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Furthermore the present invention also relates to an iSYT-based protein complex.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Valerie Frankard, Andry Andriankaja, Yves Hatzfeld, Marieke Louwers, Steven Vandenabeele, Aurine Verkest, Geert De Jaeger, Dirk Inzé