Patents Assigned to BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
  • Extraction device and method for extracting ingredients from a biological sample
    Patent number: 8927040
    Abstract: An extraction device (110) for extracting at least one ingredient from a biological sample (112) is disclosed, specifically for extracting metabolites from a plant specimen. The extraction device (110) has at least one liquid charger (116) which is adapted to be brought in contact with a first side (122) of the sample (112). The liquid charger (116) is adapted to apply an extraction liquid (128), specifically at least one solvent, to the first side (122) of the sample (112). The extraction device (110) further has at least one sampling device (118) which is adapted to be brought in contact with a second side (124) of the sample (112). The sampling device (118) is adapted to collect sample fluid (126) comprising the extraction liquid (128) and the ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Brand, Karl Henn, Sven Mahler, Ralf Looser
  • Methods for increasing the resistance of plants to fungi by silencing the fungal SMT1-gene
    Patent number: 8927812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for generating or increasing resistance to at least one fungi, in particular soy bean rust, in a plant or a part of a plant by the expression of RNA which is at least partial complementary and/or identical to the STM1-gene, wherein the RNA is capable to provide ds-RNA and/or siRNA and/or miRNA. Moreover, the invention relates to respective plants, parts thereof and vector constructs capable to provide such RNA and the use of such vector constructs to provide fungal resistant plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Schultheiβ
  • PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150007367
    Abstract: 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 an FBO13 (F-box and other domain containing protein) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an FBO13 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown FBO13-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Su-May Yu, Swee-Suak Ko, Yue-le Hsing, Tuan-Hua David Ho, Shuen-Fang Lo
  • Expression cassettes for endosperm-specific expression in plants
    Patent number: 8921657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an expression cassette for regulating seed-specific expression of a polynucleotide of interest, said expression cassette comprising a transcription regulating nucleotide sequence, to a vector comprising said expression cassette, host cells and transgenic plants comprising the expression cassette, and methods of producing said transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Huihua Fu, Jeffrey A. Brown, Kirk Francis, Hee-Sook Song
  • PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140366222
    Abstract: 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 HSFA4 or HSFA5 (Heat Shock Factor of the class A4 or A5) polypeptide, an oligopeptide transporter protein (OPT4-like) polypeptide, a plastochron2-like (PLA2-like) polypeptide, or a Wuschel related homeobox 1-like (WOX1-like) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding any of the aforementioned polypeptides, 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Steven Vandenabeele, Christophe Reuzeau
  • PLANTS HAVING EHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140352004
    Abstract: A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP (Growth Related Protein) polypeptide is provided. Plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants, and constructs comprising the GRP-encoding nucleic acid, useful in performing the methods for enhancing yield-related traits in plants are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Wim Van Camp, Steven Vandenabeele, Marieke Louwers, Jerome Matin
  • PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20140325708
    Abstract: 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 PRR-like (Pseudo Response Regulator-like) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PRR-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides an hitherto unknown PRR-like-encoding nucleic acid, and construct comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventor: Steve Vandenabeele
  • Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same
    Publication number: 20140298545
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an F-box Skp2-like polypeptide, or a DUF584 polypeptide. The present invention also provides plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an F-box Skp2-like polypeptide, or a DUF584 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared to control plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plants Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Steven Vandenabeele, Andry Andriankaja
  • Process for the Production of Fine Chemicals
    Publication number: 20140259212
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a fine chemical in a non-human organism, like a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or in one or more parts thereof. The invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes, vectors, antibodies, host cells, plant tissue, propagation material, harvested material, plants, microorganisms as well as agricultural compositions and to their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar Plesch, Astrid Blau, Michael Manfred Herold, Beate Kamlage, Birgit Wendel, Piotr Puzio, Stefan Henkes, Volker Haake, Wim Van Camp, Holger Fahnenstich, Bryan McKersie, Wesley Bruce, Nicole Christiansen
  • TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED TRAITS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140259224
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of producing a plant that exhibits an enhanced trait selected from the group consisting of altered hexose sugar level, altered starch level, altered sucrose phosphate synthase activity, altered ureide level and delayed senescence, as compared to a control plant. The present disclosure also provides transgenic cells, plants, plant parts, seeds, progeny plants, products or commodity products produced by this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH, MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.
    Inventors: Nicole Christiansen, Stefan Henkes, Ganesh Kumar, Amanda McClerren, Robert Meister, Marie Petracek, Sasha Preuss, Richard Trethewey, Qingzhang Xu
  • Method for Identification and Isolation of Terminator Sequences Causing Enhanced Transcription
    Publication number: 20140250546
    Abstract: The invention relates to efficient, high-throughput methods, systems, and DNA constructs for identification and isolation of terminator sequences causing enhanced transcription. The invention further relates to terminator sequences isolated with such methods and their use for enhancing gene expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Julia Verena Hartig, Alrun Nora Burgmeier, Josef Martin Kuhn, Linda Patricia Loyall, Elke Duwenig
  • Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same
    Publication number: 20140250548
    Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an NEMTOP6 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are NEMTOP6-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH Patents, Trademarks and Licenses
    Inventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Steven Vandenabeele
  • Desaturases and process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids in transgenic organisms
    Patent number: 8822662
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides from Cochliobolus heterostrophus C5, Cyanothece sp. CCY0110, Mycocentrospora acerina 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Jörg Bauer, Johnathan A. Napier
  • Regulatory Nucleic Acid Molecules for Enhancing Constitutive Gene Expression in Plants
    Publication number: 20140230087
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing constitutive promoters and the production of plants with enhanced constitutive expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or introduced into plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Julia Verena Hartig, Maarten Hendrik Stuiver, Josef Martin Kuhn, Alrun Nora Burgmeier
  • Phacosporacea Resistant Soybean Plants
    Publication number: 20140208460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacosporaceae in transgenic plants and/or plant cells. In these plants, the ethylene signaling pathway and/or activity of the ethylene signaling compounds is changed. This is achieved by priming the ethylene signaling pathway in these plants in comparison to wild type plants and/or wild type plant cells. Depending on the activating or inhibitory function of a particular signaling compound overexpression or knock-down of the cognate gene might be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventor: Holger Schultheiss
  • Nuclease Fusion Protein and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20140208457
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with nuclease fusion proteins and various uses thereof. Specifically, it relates to a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising (i) a first module comprising at least a first DNA binding domain derived from a homing endonuclease, (ii) a linker, and (iii) a second module comprising at least a second DNA binding domain and a cleavage domain derived from a restriction endonuclease, wherein said polypeptide functionally interacts only with DNA comprising a DNA recognition site for the first DNA binding domain and a DNA recognition site for the second DNA binding domain, and wherein said cleavage domain cleaves DNA within a specific DNA cleavage site upon binding of the polypeptide. Further contemplated are a vector and a non-human transgenic organism comprising said polynucleotide as well as a polypeptide encoded by the polynucleotide of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Ines Fonfara, Wolfgang Wende, Alfred Pingoud
  • Development of Phytophthora Resistant Potato with Increased Yield
    Publication number: 20140196174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic potato plants having an increased resistance against Phytophthora infestans and a comparable yield of potato tubers compared with the wildtype potato plants, wherein the blb1-gen and blb2-gen are integrated within a specific genetic background into the potato plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Schultheiss, Timo Böhme
  • System for Monitoring Growth Conditions of Plants
    Publication number: 20140173769
    Abstract: A system (110) for monitoring growth conditions of a plurality of plant containers (112) is disclosed. The system (110) has a transport system (118) for transporting the plant containers (112). Each plant container (112) comprises at least one growing medium (114) and preferably at least one plant specimen (116). The system (110) further comprises at least one measurement position (130) having at least one contactless capacitive humidity sensor (132). The system (110) is adapted to successively transport the plant containers (112) to and from the measurement position (130). The system (110) is further adapted to measure the humidity of the growing medium (114) of the plant containers (112) in the measurement position (130) by using the contactless capacitive humidity sensor (132).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Frederik Leyns, Cedrick Vandaele, Fabio Fiorani, Pierre Lejeune
  • Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same
    Publication number: 20140165229
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ELNINI (comprising an ELNINI signature sequence) polypeptide. The present invention also provides plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ELNINI polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The present invention also provides constructs comprising ELNINI-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Su-May Yu, Swee-Suak Ko, Yue-Le Hsing, Tuan-Hua David Ho, Shuen-Fang Lo
  • Screening Device for Screening Plant Specimens
    Publication number: 20140154729
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Frederik Leyns, Cédrick Vandaele, Pierre Lejeune, Jeroen Baert, Fabio Fiorani