Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a TCP1 or a TCP2 transcription factor, an Epsin-like polypeptide, a tRNA delta(2)-isopentenylpyrophosphate transferase (IPPT) polypeptide, or a SHORT-ROOT (SHR) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a TCP1 or TCP2 polypeptide, an Epsin-like polypeptide, a tRNA delta(2)-isopentenylpyrophosphate transferase (IPPT) polypeptide, or a SHORT-ROOT (SHR) 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 performing the methods of the invention.
Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or increased biomass production as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency in plants.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 17, 2008
Date of Patent:
March 4, 2014
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Schön
Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants, in particular for increasing plant yield and/or early vigor, relative to control plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits comprising modifying the expression of a nucleic acid encoding a HAL3 polypeptide, MADS15 polypeptide, PLT transcription factor polypeptide, basic/helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor, or SPL15 transcription factor. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
Abstract: A transgenic plant transformed by a Stress-Related Polypeptide (SRP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the plant results in the plant's increased growth under normal or stress conditions and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic plants. Also provided are isolated SRPs, and isolated nucleic acid coding SRPs, and vectors and host cells containing the latter.
Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides from Ostreococcus lucimarinus which code for desaturases and elongases 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, and to the polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides. Finally, the invention also relates to production processes for the polyunsaturated fatty acids and for oil, lipid and fatty acid compositions.
Abstract: 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 GRP (Growth-Related Protein), specifically a nucleic acid encoding a HAL3 polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding a MADS15 polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding a PLT transcription factor polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding a Squamosa promoter binding protein-like 15 (SPL15) transcription factor polypeptide or a nucleic acid encoding a basic/helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP, which plants have improved growth characteristics 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:
June 5, 2013
Publication date:
December 5, 2013
Applicant:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Christophe Reuzeau, Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of generating or increasing a pathogen resistance in plants by reducing the expression of at least one subtilisin polypeptide or a functional equivalent thereof. The invention relates to novel nucleic acid sequences coding for a Hordeum vulgare subtilisin (HvRNR9) and Triticum aestivum subtilisin (TaRNR9) polynucleotide and describes homologous sequences (RNR9) thereof, and to their use in methods for obtaining a pathogen resistance in plants, and to nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes and vectors which comprise these sequences and which are suitable for mediating a fungal resistance in plants. The invention furthermore relates to transgenic organisms, in particular plants, which are transformed with these expression cassettes or vectors, and to cultures, parts or transgenic propagation material derived therefrom.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2008
Date of Patent:
November 26, 2013
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Markus Frank, Patrick Schweizer, Dimitar Douchkov
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 NITR (Nitrite Reductase) polypeptide or an ASNS (Asparagine Synthase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a NITR polypeptide or an ASNS polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising NITR-encoding nucleic acids or ASNS-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a TCP1 transcription factor. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a TCP1 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.
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 Yield Enhancing Protein (YEP). The YEP is selected from a Vacuolar Processing Enzyme (VPE) or a CCA1-like polypeptide or a SAP-like polypeptide or a Seed Yield Promoting Factor 1 (SYPF1) polypeptide or a Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) activase (RCA) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding such a YEP, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown YEP-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
Abstract: The invention provides isolated promoter polynucleotides that are root-specific and/or induced by plant parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots and are particularly useful for controlling transcription of nucleic acids encoding agents that disrupt formation or maintenance of parasitic nematode feeding sites in plants.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 4, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 22, 2013
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Aaron Wiig, Robert Ascenzi, Xiang Huang, Sumita Chaudhuri, Rui-Guang Zhen, Yu Han
Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a 1-AminoCyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase-like Polypeptide (ACCDP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the crop plant results in the plant's increased root growth, and/or increased yield, and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic crop plants. Also provided are isolated novel ACCDPs, and isolated novel nucleic acids encoding ACCDPs, and vectors and transgenic plant containing the same.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 12, 2011
Publication date:
October 17, 2013
Applicant:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
Abstract: The present invention pertains transgenic plant cells and mature plants comprising Oxidoreductase Stress Related Proteins (ORSRP) resulting in increased tolerance and/or resistance to environmental stress as compared to non-transformed wild type cells and methods of producing such plant cells or plants. Further object of the present invention are isolated ORSRPs or ORSRP encoding nucleic acids from plants.
Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants' roots. The invention also provides expression cassettes including the plant gene promoters and regulatory elements of the invention, transgenic plants containing such expression cassettes, and methods of producing such transgenic plants.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 12, 2007
Date of Patent:
October 1, 2013
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Aaron Wiig, Robert Ascenzi, Xiang Huang, Sumita Chaudhuri, Rui-Guang Zhen, Yu Han
Abstract: The present invention relates to improved methods for the incorporation of DNA into the genome of a soybean (Glycine max) plant utilizing meristematic cells of primary or higher leaf nodes as target tissue by means of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and subsequent regeneration of the transformed cells into a whole plant.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 4, 2005
Date of Patent:
September 24, 2013
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Paula Olhoft, Leslie Grist, Libby Bernal, Sara Price, Diana Arias, Haiping Hong
Abstract: The invention provides expression vectors comprising root-specific promoters in operative association with polynucleotides that are down-regulated in syncytia of nematode-infected plants, for use in methods of producing transgenic plants with increased resistance to nematode infestation. The invention also provides nematode-resistant transgenic plants and seeds comprising such expression vectors.
Abstract: The invention relates to efficient, high-throughput methods, systems, and DNA constructs for identification and isolation of transcription termination sequences. The invention relates further to specific terminator sequences identified by said methods isolated from rice.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 15, 2013
Publication date:
September 12, 2013
Applicant:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Hee-Sook Song, Michael Kock, Jeffrey A. Brown, Linda Patricia Loyall, Liqun Xing, Hongmei Jia, John McMillan, Lesley Ireland
Abstract: The invention provides a transgenic plant, which expresses a transgene encoding a citrate synthase (CS) wherein the transgenic plant is characterized by increased yield when compared to an isoline that does not express the transgene; and also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with economically relevant traits and provides expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding Citrate Synthase.
Abstract: The present invention relates to Constitutive Triple Response-like (CTR1-like) nucleic acid sequences and the sugar and lipid metabolism regulator proteins encoded by the said nucleic acid sequences. Further, the present invention relates to the use of the aforementioned nucleic acid sequences and proteins in transgenic plants. In particular, the invention is directed to methods for manipulating sugar-related compounds and for increasing oil level and altering the fatty acid composition in plants and seeds. The invention further relates to methods of using these novel plant polypeptides to stimulate plant growth and/or to increase yield and/or composition of seed storage compounds.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 18, 2006
Date of Patent:
August 20, 2013
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Heiko A. Härtel, Jermaine Gibson, Jeffrey A. Brown
Abstract: The present invention relates “disarmed” strain variants of Agrobacterium strain K599 (NCPPB 2659), “disarmed” plasmid variants of the Ri-plasmid pRi2659, and derivatives thereof, and methods employing these strains and plasmids in plant transformation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 10, 2012
Date of Patent:
February 4, 2014
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Luke Mankin, Dwight-Steven Hill, Paula Olhoft, Effie Toren, Jeffrey A. Brown, Liqun Xing, Huihua Fu, Lesley Ireland, Hongmei Jia, Hee-Sook Song, Allan R. Wenck, Larry Nea