Abstract: The invention relates to the control of pathogens. Disclosed herein are methods of producing transgenic plants with increased pathogen resistance, expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding for functional proteins, and transgenic plants and seeds generated thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 28, 2009
Publication date:
July 21, 2011
Applicant:
BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
Inventors:
Markus Frank, Gunnar Plesch, Piotr Puzio
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 DOF-C2 (DNA-binding with one finger, subgroup C2) domain transcription factor polypeptide or a MYB7 polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an a DOF-C2 domain transcription factor polypeptide or a MYB7 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising the DOF-C2 domain transcription factor polypeptide or the MYB7 polypeptide, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 29, 2008
Publication date:
July 21, 2011
Applicant:
BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
Inventors:
Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Christophe Reuzeau
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
Abstract: The invention relates generally to an improved plant breeding system. More particularly, this invention relates to a method for automated, high throughput analysis of plant phenotype and plant genotype in a breeding program.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 16, 2009
Publication date:
July 14, 2011
Applicant:
BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
Inventors:
Pierre Lejeune, Frederik Leyns, Cedrick Vandaele, Wim Van Caeneghem
Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, heat, cold, and/or salt tolerance to plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 23, 2005
Publication date:
July 14, 2011
Applicant:
BASF PLANT SCIENCE GMBH
Inventors:
Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Harry Wild, Gunnar Plesch, Bryan McKersie
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
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.
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
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
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:
Grant
Filed:
November 29, 2007
Date of Patent:
June 21, 2011
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Volker Mittendorf, Heiko Haertel, Petra Cirpus
Abstract: The invention provides nematode-resistant transgenic plants and seed comprising polynucleotides encoding Medicago truncatula cysteine cluster proteins which comprise no more than four cysteine residues in the respective mature peptides. The invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with increased resistance to soybean cyst nematode and expression vectors for use in such methods.
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 bHLH9 (basic-Helix-Loop-Helix group 9) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a bHLH9 polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hither-to unknown BHLH9-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing 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 an IMB1 (Imbibition-inducible 1) polypeptide.
Abstract: The invention provides polynucleotides encoding plant prenyl protease polypeptides, vectors, host cells, and transgenic plant comprising the polynucleotides. The invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants that have altered levels of prenyl protease polynucleotides and polypeptides, and transgenic plants that have increased tolerance to an environmental stress as compared to a wild type plant.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 17, 2007
Date of Patent:
May 31, 2011
Assignees:
BASF Plant Science GmbH, Performance Plants, Inc.
Inventors:
Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Stefan Henkes, Damian Allen, Oswaldo da Costa e Silva, Ruoying Chen, Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang, Delina Mary-Jane Melo, Monika Maria Kuzma, Angela Patricia Gilley Sample
Abstract: The present invention is concerned with means and methods for allowing tissue specific and, in particular, seed specific expression of genes. The present invention, accordingly, relates to a polynucleotide comprising an expression control sequence which allows seed specific expression of a nucleic acid of interest being operatively linked thereto. Moreover, the present invention contemplates vectors, host cells, non-human transgenic organisms comprising the aforementioned polynucleotide as well as methods and uses of such a polynucleotide.
Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various plant yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a RHL1 (Root Hairless 1). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a RHL1, which plants have enhanced various plant yield-related 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 22, 2009
Publication date:
May 5, 2011
Applicant:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Steven Vandenabeele
Abstract: The invention relates to the control of pathogens. Disclosed herein are methods of producing transgenic plants with increased pathogen resistance, expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding for functional proteins, and transgenic plants and seeds generated thereof.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 1, 2008
Publication date:
May 5, 2011
Applicant:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Markus Frank, Gunnar Plesch, Piotr Puzio, Robert Ascenzi, Volker Mittendorf
Abstract: This invention relates generally to plant cells and/or plants with increased tolerance to environmental stress and/or increased yield as compared to a corresponding, e.g. non-transformed, wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to plant cells and/or plants tailored to grow under conditions of environmental stress, and/or to plant cells and/or plant showing increased yield under environmental stress conditions. The invention also deals with methods of producing and screening for and breeding such plant cells and/or plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 19, 2008
Publication date:
April 28, 2011
Applicant:
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Inventors:
Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Stefan Henkes, Bruce Wesley, Resham Kulkarni, Krishna Kollipara, Christophe Reuzeau
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 sequence encoding a GS1 (Glutamine Synthase 1). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a GS1, 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. Furthermore, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various plant yield-related traits by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a PEAMT (Phosphoethanolamine N-methyltransferase) polypeptide.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of transgenic plants and/or plant cells with increased pathogenic resistance, whereby the transgenic plants or plant cells have an altered content or an altered activity of at least one actin-depolymerising factor (ADF) with relation to the wild type. The invention also relates to the use of nucleic acids, coding for at least one ADF, for the production of transgenic plants or plant cells with increased pathogenic resistance and, furthermore, nucleic acid sequences coding for an ADF.
Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules which encode novel fatty acid dehydratase family members. The invention also provides recombinant expression vectors containing dehydratase 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., SDA, EPA and DHA.