Patents Assigned to BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
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Publication number: 20140147925Abstract: The present invention provides a method for profiling phytohormone levels in plant tissue or tissue of other plastid containing organisms, i.e. a method for the simultaneous determination of a multitude of phytohormone levels in plant tissue or tissue of other plastid containing organisms, which method comprises the following steps: i. extraction of particulate tissue material of the plastid containing organism, in particulate tissue material of plants, with a liquid extractant, which is a mixture of at least one water miscible neutral organic solvent having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and 1 heteroatom selected from O and N with water containing from 0.1 to 5% by weight, based on the extractant, of at least one acid, whereby a first liquid extract is obtained; ii. contacting the liquid extract obtained in step i. with a solid absorbent having a hydrophobically modified surface and removing the solid absorbent to obtain a second liquid extract; iii.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Regine Fuchs, Martin Dostler, Maria Wahl, Benjamin Hentschel, Ralf Looser
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Publication number: 20140137283Abstract: 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 a CASAR 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 a CASAR protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Holger SCHULTHEISS, Nadine TRESCH, Ralf FLACHMANN
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Publication number: 20140137284Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a transgenic plant cell, a transgenic plant or a transgenic part thereof having an increased resistance to pathogens, wherein the content and/or activity of a receptor-like protein kinase is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Holger SCHULTHEISS, Tobias MENTZEL, Patrick SCHWEIZER, Dimitar DOUCHKOV, Axel HIMMELBACH
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Publication number: 20140123344Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PtMYB12L polypeptide in a plant. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PtMYB12L polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are PtMYB12L-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventor: Christophe Reuzeau
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Publication number: 20140123343Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a variant synovial sarcoma translocation (SYT) polypeptide comprising or consisting of any one or more of the following domains: an SNH domain; a Met-rich domain; and a QG-rich domain. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding such a variant SYT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Constructs useful in the method are provided as well.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Valerie Frankard, Marieke Louwers
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Publication number: 20140090110Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by increasing expression in plants of a nucleic acid encoding a Low Sulfur Upregulated polypeptide (LSU). Also provided are plants having increased expressing of a nucleic encoding an LSU polypeptide, which have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are LSU-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Jenny Russinova
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Publication number: 20140053298Abstract: Provided is a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding a bZIP-like polypeptide or a BCAT4-like polypeptide in a plant. Also provided are plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a bZIP-like polypeptide or a BCAT4-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared with control plants. Also provided are constructs comprising bZIP-like polypeptide-encoding nucleic acids or BCAT4-like polypeptide-encoding nucleic acids, useful in enhancing yield-related traits in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Valerie Frankard, Steven Vandenabeele
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Publication number: 20140047579Abstract: 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 RLK1 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 RLK1 protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GMBHInventors: Holger SCHULTHEISS, Tobias MENTZEL
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Publication number: 20140047576Abstract: 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 HCP4 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 HCP4 protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Holger SCHULTHEISS, Ralf FLACHMANN
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Publication number: 20140047577Abstract: 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 RLK2 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 RLK2 protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Holger SCHULTHEISS, Tobias MENTZEL, Ralf FLACHMANN
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Publication number: 20140047578Abstract: 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 HCP5 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 HCP5 protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Holger SCHULTHEISS, Ralf FLACHMANN
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Publication number: 20140026257Abstract: 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 WI12-like (WIL) polypeptide or a SAWADEE-like polypeptide or a POZ-like (Pox virus and Zn Finger) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a WIL polypeptide or a SAWADEE-like polypeptide or a POZ-like polypeptide, which have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown WIL-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, and hitherto unknown POZ-like encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GmbHInventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Steven Vandenabeele, Koen Bruynseels, Valerie Frankard
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Publication number: 20140007289Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid molecules capable of regulating expression in plants, as well as expression [cassettes, vectors and transgenic plants comprising the same are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Josef Martin Kuhn, Holger Schultheiss, Julia Verena Hartig, Linda Patricia Loyall, Elke Duwenig, Marc Saric, Maarten Hendrik Stuiver, Oliver Oswald
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Publication number: 20130340120Abstract: Provided are a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a DUF642 (Protein containing a Domain of Unknown Function) polypeptide, or an epimerase-related like polypeptide, or a phospholipase/carboxylesterase (PLPCase) polypeptide, and plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a DUF642 polypeptide, or an epimerase-related like polypeptide, or a PLPCase polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. Also provided are DUF642-encoding nucleic acids, or epimerase-related like polypeptides, or PLPCase-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods for enhancing yield-related traits in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Marieke Louwers, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Yves Hatzfeld
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Publication number: 20130340119Abstract: A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a POI (Protein Of Interest) polypeptide is provided. Methods for the production of plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a DnaJ-like chaperone polypeptide are provided, in which plants have enhanced yield-related traits compared to control plants. Nucleic acids encoding DnaJ-like chaperone, constructs comprising the same and uses thereof are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Gunnar Plesch, Astrid Blau, Michael Manfred Herold, Beate Kamlage, Birgit Wendel, Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Janneke Hendriks, Christophe Reuzeau
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Patent number: 8586367Abstract: The present invention is concerned with the analysis of polar metabolites and provides methods for analyzing polar metabolites including extracting a biological sample with a extraction buffer containing a phase separator and a volatile neutral ammonium salt under conditions which allow for immediate disruption of cells in the biological sample, separating the polar metabolites in the extract by chromatography, and analyzing the separated polar metabolites. Moreover, a method for quenching a biological sample containing cellular material is contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Gerd Balcke, Tilmann B. Walk, Martin Dostler, Ralf Looser, Susan Carvalho
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Publication number: 20130298289Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and discloses a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention discloses a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a CYP704-like (Cytochrome P450 family 704) polypeptide, a DUF1218 polypeptide, a translin-like polypeptide, or an ERG28-like polypeptide. The present invention also discloses plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a CYP704-like (Cytochrome P450 family 704) polypeptide, a DUF1218 polypeptide, a translin-like polypeptide, or an ERG28-like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown DUF1218 polypeptide-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Christophe Reuzeau, Valerie Frankard, Cécile Vriet
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Publication number: 20130298288Abstract: 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 HAB1 (Hypersensitive to ABA1) polypeptide or a KELP polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a HAB1 polypeptide or a KELP polypeptide, which have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown HAB1-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising HAB1 or KELP-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Valerie Frankard
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Publication number: 20130291228Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules which encodes a novel fatty acid desaturase, KCS, KCR, DH and ECR from Nannochloropsis oculata. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing desaturase, KCS, KCR, DH and ECR 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: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GmbHInventors: Toralf Senger, Jörg Bauer, Laurent Marty
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Publication number: 20130263330Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the design and production of synthetic promoters with a defined specificity and promoters produced with these methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Linda Patricia Loyall, Josef Martin Kuhn, Malte Siebert