Patents Assigned to BASF Plant Science GmbH
  • Patent number: 8134046
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing arachidonic acid and/or eicosapentaenoic acid in transgenic useful plants by introducing into the plant nucleic acids coding for polypeptides having ?6-desaturase, ?6-elongase or ?5-desaturase activity. Furthermore, a gene coding for an ?3-desaturase is advantageously expressed in said useful plants. In another advantageous embodiment of the process, further nucleic acid sequences coding for polypeptides of fatty acid or lipid metabolism biosynthesis may be expressed in the plants. Particularly advantageous nucleic acid sequences here are those coding for a ?8-desaturase, ?12-desaturase, ?15-desaturase, ?4-desaturase, ?9-elongase and/or ?5-elongase activity. The invention further relates to the use of the oils, lipids and/or fatty acids produced in the process according to the invention in feedstuffs or foodstuffs, cosmetics or pharmaceuticals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Petra Cirpus, Jörg Bauer, Xiao Qiu, Guohai Wu, Nagamani Datla, Martin Truksa
  • Publication number: 20120054922
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the identification and use of introns with gene expression enhancing properties. The teaching of this invention enables the identification of introns causing intron-mediated enhancement (IME) of gene expression. The invention furthermore relates to recombinant expression construct and vectors comprising said IME-introns operably linked with a promoter sequence and a nucleic acid sequence. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants and plant cells transformed with these recombinant expression constructs or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived there from, and to the use of same for the preparation of foodstuffs, animal feeds, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals, to improve plant biomass, yield, or provide desirable phenotypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Hee-Sook Song, Christian Dammann, Marc Morra, Jeffrey A. Brown, Liqun Xing, Hongmei Jia
  • Patent number: 8119861
    Abstract: The invention relates to nucleic acid derived from Perkinsus marinus which encodes a 9-elongase, a ?8-desaturase and a ?5-desaturase enzyme. All of the coding sequences can be transcribed as a single transcript.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova, Monica Venegas Caleron
  • Publication number: 20120030836
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Brevis Radix-like (BRXL) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a BRXL polypeptide, which plants have increased yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention additionally relates to nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and plants containing said nucleic acid sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Koen Bruynseels
  • Publication number: 20120017332
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process for the production of arachidonic acid and/or eicosapentaenoic acid in plants through the co-expression of a ?-12-/?-15-desaturase, ?-9-elongase, ?-8-desaturase and a ?-5-desaturase and a process for the production of lipids or oils having an increased content of unsaturated fatty acids, in particular ?-3 and ?-6 fatty acids having at least two double bonds and a 18 or 20 carbon atom chain length. Preferably the arachidonic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid are produced in at least a 1:2 ratio. The invention furthermore relates to the production of a transgenic plants, preferably a transgenic crop plant, having an increased content of arachidonic acid and/or eicosapentaenoic acid, oils or lipids containing C18- or C20-fatty acids with a double bond in position ?5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15 or 17 of the fatty acid produced, respectively due to the expression of the ?-12-/?-15-desaturase, of the ?-9-elongase, of the ?-8-desaturase and of the ?-5-desaturase in the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova
  • Patent number: 8097769
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
  • Publication number: 20120011618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new process for the production of arachidonic acid and/or eicosapentaenoic acid in plants through the co-expression of a ?-12-/?-15-desaturase, ?-9-elongase, ?-8-desaturase and a ?-5-desaturase and a process for the production of lipids or oils having an increased content of unsaturated fatty acids, in particular ?-3 and ?-6 fatty acids having at least two double bonds and a 18 or 20 carbon atom chain length. Preferably the arachidonic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid are produced in at least a 1:2 ratio. The invention furthermore relates to the production of a transgenic plants, preferably a transgenic crop plant, having an increased content of arachidonic acid and/or eicosapentaenoic acid, oils or lipids containing C18- or C20-fatty acids with a double bond in position 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15 or 17 of the fatty acid produced, respectively due to the expression of the ?-12-/?-15-desaturase, of the ?-9-elongase, of the ?-8-desaturase and of the ?-5-desaturase in the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova
  • Publication number: 20120005777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals in a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or parts thereof. The invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, antisense molecules, antibodies, host cells, plant tissue, propagtion material, harvested material, plants, microorganisms as well as agricultural compositions and to their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar Plesch, Piotr Puzio, Astrid Blau, Ralf Looser, Birgit Wendel, Beate Kamlage, Agnes Chardonnens, Amber Shirley, Xi-Qing Wang, Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Bryan McKersie, Ruoying Chen
  • Patent number: 8088974
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of unsaturated fatty acids with at least two double bonds. The invention furthermore relates to the use of nucleic acid sequences SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 11 encoding polypeptides having desaturase activity in the method and for generating a transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or a transgenic microorganism, with an increased content of fatty acids, oils or lipids with unsaturated C18-, C20-, or C22-fatty acids, and to their homologs or derivatives, to gene constructs encompassing these genes, and to their use alone or in combination with biosynthesis genes of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention also relates to multiexpression cassettes for seed-specific expression, and to vectors or organisms which encompass a desaturase gene alone or in combination with further desaturases and/or elongase genes or homologs using said expression cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Lerchl, Andreas Renz, Ernst Heinz, Frederic Domergue, Ulrich Zähringer
  • Patent number: 8088971
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the identification and use of introns with gene expression enhancing properties. The teaching of this invention enables the identification of introns causing intron-mediated enhancement (IME) of gene expression. The invention furthermore relates to recombinant expression construct and vectors comprising said IME-introns operably linked with a promoter sequence and a nucleic acid sequence. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants and plant cells transformed with these recombinant expression constructs or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived there from, and to the use of same for the preparation of foodstuffs, animal feeds, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals, to improve plant biomass, yield, or provide desirable phenotypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Hee-Sook Song, Marc Morra, Liqun Xing, Hongmei Jia
  • Publication number: 20110321197
    Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities selected from the group consisting of 17.6 kDa class I heat shock protein, 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Schön, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Oliver Bläsing, Koen Bruynseels, Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Christophe Reuzeau, Steven Vandenabeele
  • Publication number: 20110321196
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Agnes Chardonnens, Piotr Puzio
  • Patent number: 8076142
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are rooted plant assay systems, methods of making rooted plant assay systems, and methods of using rooted plant assay systems for high throughput screening of test polynucleotides for their ability to effect phenotypic traits having agricultural value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Sciences GmbH
    Inventors: Xiang Huang, Ming Cheng, Haiping Hong, Yan Liu, Kangfeng Mei
  • Patent number: 8071383
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved methods and means for transformation of soybean (Glycine max) based on a D-alanine and/or D-serine selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Diana Arias, Sara Price, Leslie Grist, Ming Cheng, Haiping Hong, Libby Bernal, Paula Olhoft, Hee-Sook Song, Luke Mankin
  • Patent number: 8067668
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for generating or increasing a pathogen resistance in plants by reducing the expression, activity or function of an NADPH oxidase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Kogel, Ralph Hückelhoven, Marco Trujillo
  • Publication number: 20110277179
    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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bl¿sing, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Sch¿n
  • Patent number: 8053630
    Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters, and essential promoter elements, which 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 plant roots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Aaron Wig, Robert Ascenzi, Sumita Chaudhuri, Xiang Huang, Rui-Guang Zhen, Yu Han
  • Publication number: 20110271404
    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 ASPAT (Asparatate AminoTransferase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown ASPAT-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Christophe Reuzeau
  • Patent number: 8049064
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids in transgenic plants, by introducing, into the plant, the nucleic acids which code for polypeptides with ?6-desaturase, ?6-elongase, a ?5-desaturase, ?5-elongase, ?4-desaturase, ?12-desaturase and/or ?3-desaturase activity. These desaturases and elongases are advantageously derived from Phytophthora sojae. The invention furthermore relates to the nucleic acid sequence, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and organisms comprising the nucleic acid sequences according to the invention, vectors comprising the nucleic acid sequence and/or the nucleic acid constructs and to transgenic plants comprising the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence, nucleic acid constructs and/or vectors. A further part of the invention relates to fatty acid compositions produced by the process according to the invention and to their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Petra Cirpus, Jörg Bauer
  • Patent number: 8039703
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated HHA601ND, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred maize line HHA601ND, to the plants of inbred maize line HHA601ND and to methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line HHA601ND with itself or another maize line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from the inbred HHA601ND.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Anthony J. Maves, Luiz Antonio Michelini, Charles S. McFarlane