Patents Assigned to BASF Plant Science GmbH
  • Patent number: 8039704
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated HMA699ND, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred maize line HMA699ND, to the plants of inbred maize line HMA699ND and to methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line HMA699ND 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 HMA699ND.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Ming-Tang Chang, Anthony J. Maves, Luiz Antonio Michelini
  • Publication number: 20110252504
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with the provision of means and methods for gene expression. Specifically, it relates to a polynucleotide comprising an expression control sequence which allows for bidirectional expression of two nucleic acid of interest being operation linked thereto in opposite orientations. Furthermore, vectors, host cells, non-human transgenic organisms and methods for expressing nucleic acids of interest are provided which are based on the said polynucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Huihua Fu, Hee-Sook Song
  • Publication number: 20110252508
    Abstract: The present application is directed to modification of yield related traits by modulating the expression of a Cofactor Required for SP1 activation (CRSP), Myb related CAB promoter binding protein (MCB), Sirtuin 2 (SRT2) or SPX-RING. Furthermore, the application is directed to improved abiotic stress tolerance by modulating the expression of YRP2, YRP3 or YRP4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Valerie Frankard, Yves Hatzfeld, Christophe Reuzeau
  • Patent number: 8034994
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of agricultural biotechnology. Disclosed herein are expression constructs with expression specificity for the starchy endosperm and/or the germinating embryo, transgenic plants comprising such expression constructs, and methods of making and using such DNA constructs and transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Hee-Sook Song, Christina E. Roche, Christian Dammann
  • Publication number: 20110247096
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventor: Bonnie McCaig
  • Publication number: 20110247098
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a cytochrome c oxidase (COX) VIIa subunit polypeptide (COX VIIa subunit). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a COX VIIa subunit, which plants have enhanced abiotic stress tolerance relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Furthermore, 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 YLD-ZnF polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Christophe Reuzeau, Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero
  • Patent number: 8030540
    Abstract: The invention provides transgenic corn seed, which expresses a gene encoding a double mutant of the E. coli glgC gene in endosperm plastids, wherein the mutant protein has a proline to aspartic acid substitution at amino acid 295 and a glutamic acid to lysine substitution at amino acid 296. The transgenic corn seed of the invention is characterized by enhanced levels of a number of amino acids and oil, when compared to isogenic corn seed, which does not express the transgene in an endosperm plastid. However, the amount of starch in the transgenic corn seed of the invention is decreased or unchanged when compared to the amount of starch in the isogenic control corn seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Hanping Guan, Deborah Wetterberg, Angela L. McKean, Peter L. Keeling
  • Patent number: 8017839
    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 Ci?- or C20-fatty acids with a double bond in position ? 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15 or dffthe 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova
  • Patent number: 8013216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the production of ?-linolenic acid (18:3?6,9,12) or stearidonic acid (18:4?6,9,12,15) or ?-linolenic acid (18:3?6,9,12) and stearidonic acid (18:4?6,9,12,15) in transgenic plants of the family Brassicaceae, where the transgenic plants comprise at least 10% by weight of oleic acid based on the total fatty acid content and, as the result of the activity of the ?6-desaturases used in the method, have an increased ?6-C18-fatty acid content. The invention furthermore relates to novel nucleic acid sequences which code for the ?6-desaturases used in the method, gene constructs comprising these nucleic acid sequences, a vector and transgenic plants comprising at least one nucleic acid sequence or a gene construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Johnathan A. Napier, Olga Sayanova, Monica Venegas Caleron
  • Publication number: 20110214203
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Mittendorf, Heiko Haertel, Petra Cirpus
  • Patent number: 8008545
    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 by increasing or generating the biological activity of a ras-Like GTPase or the homologues thereof and growing the organism under conditions which permit the production of the fine chemicals in the organism. Preferred fine chemicals produced by the present invention include amino acids, carbohydrates, vitamins, fatty acids, and carotenoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20110209241
    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 PRE-like (Paclobutrazol REsistance) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PRE-like polypeptide, 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. In another embodiment, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an SCE1 (SUMO Conjugating Enzyme 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Steven Vandenabeele
  • Publication number: 20110195843
    Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising 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 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, Adenylate kinase, B2758-protein, Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, cysteine synthase, Exopolyphosphatase, geranylgeranyl reductase, Mating hormone A-factor precursor, mitochondrial succinate-fumarate transporter, modification methylase HemK family protein, Myo-inositol transporter, oxidoreductase subunit, peptidy-prolyl-cis-trans-isomerase, protein kinase, Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase, slr1293-protein, YDR049W-protein, YJL181W-protein, and YPL109C-protein-activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Schön, Oliver Bläsing
  • Patent number: 7994399
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved methods for the incorporation of DNA into the genome of a Zea mays plant by means of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Preferred is the use of the Zea may lines deposited with American Type Culture Collection under the Patent Deposit Designation PTA-6170 and PTA-6171.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Fang-Ming Lai, Penny Mrabet, Kangfeng Mei, Luke Mankin, Hongyi Zhang, Christopher Bagley, Larry Nea, Zhongqi Wang, Bijay Singh, Jianying Peng
  • Patent number: 7989678
    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: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    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 Richard Wenck, Larry Nea
  • Patent number: 7982106
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated HMA02ND, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred maize line HMA02ND, to the plants of inbred maize line HMA02ND and to methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line HMA02ND 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 HMA02ND.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Ming Tang Chang, Darcy Breyfogle, Anthony Maves, Luiz Antonio Michelini
  • Publication number: 20110162105
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids derived from Drechslera tritici-repentis, Cylindorcarpon herteronema, Diploida natalensis, Stagonospora nodorum, Microdochium nivalae and Periplaneta americana. The invention also relates to the individual coding sequences and to proteins encoded by these sequences in combination with other sequences as well as to a process for converting oleic acid to linoleic acid to Iinoleic acid and the production of arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid in a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicants: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.
    Inventors: Jörg Bauer, Toralf Senger, Thorsten Zank, Xiao Qiu, Guohai Wu
  • Publication number: 20110162103
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica napus, Glycine max, Oryza sativa, and Triticum aestivum are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches, or seed storage proteins. The nucleic acids and proteins also are used in methods of modulating the seed size, seed number, seed weight, root length, and leaf size of plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko A. Härtel, Garima Bhatt, Volker Mittendorf, Karin J. Shank
  • Publication number: 20110154531
    Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a Membrane Transporter-like Polypeptide (MTP) 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan Mckersie
  • Publication number: 20110154530
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of Yield-Related Proteins (YRP) and/or Yield and Stress-Related Proteins (YSRP) in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Piotr Puzio