Abstract: Methods are provided for the isolation of biological macromolecules including peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids from mature plant fibers such as cotton fibers and from textiles. The biological macromolecules can be used to characterize the plant fiber (source, origin, genomic composition of producing plant etc.).
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stimulating the growth of the plants and/or improving the biomass production and/or increasing the carbon fixation by the plant comprising introducing into a rice plant cell, rice plant tissue or rice plant one or more nucleic acids, wherein the introduction of the nucleic acid(s) results inside the chloroplast of a de novo expression of one or more polypeptides having the enzymatic activity of a glycolate dehydrogenase.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 19, 2014
Publication date:
April 30, 2015
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Rashad Kebeish, Fritz Kreuzaler, Michael Metzlaff, Markus Niessen, Christoph Peterhaensel, Jeroen Van Rie
Abstract: The present invention relates to materials and methods for the expression of a gene of interest specifically in seeds of plants, even more specifically in oilseed plants. In particular, the invention provides an expression cassette for regulating seed-specific expression in plants.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 2009
Date of Patent:
September 16, 2014
Assignees:
Bayer BioScience N.V., Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Inventors:
Franck Pinot, Daniele Werck, Jürgen Ehlting, Alexandre Olry, Peter Denolf, Katrien Van Audenhove, Lien Van de Putte, Esmeralda Posada
Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a mutated hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD), to a chimeric gene which comprises this sequence as the coding sequence, and to its use for obtaining plants which are resistant to HPPD inhibitor herbicides.
Abstract: The invention provides specific transgenic cotton plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a specific transformation event at a specific location in the cotton genome. Tools are also provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification of the event in biological samples.
Abstract: The invention provides for the use of isolated polynucleotides encoding maize poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) proteins to produce eukaryotic cells and organisms, particularly plant cells and plants, with modified programmed cell death. Eukaryotic cells and organisms particularly plant cells and plants, are provided wherein either in at least part of the cells, preferably selected cells, the programmed cell death (PCD) is provoked, or wherein, on the contrary, PCD of the cells or of at least part of the cells in an organism is inhibited, by modulation of the level or activity or PARP proteins in those cells.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 23, 2011
Publication date:
June 28, 2012
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Elena BABIYCHUK, Sergei Kushnir, Marc De Block
Abstract: Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant cell walls, particularly as they can be found in natural fibers of fiber producing plants by inclusion of positively charged oligosaccharides or polysaccharides into the cell wall. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, particularly an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, capable of being targeted to the membranes of the Golgi apparatus in cells of a plant.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 20, 2011
Publication date:
February 2, 2012
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Marc DE BLOCK, Frank Meulewaeter, Rainhard Koch, Bernd Essigmann
Abstract: The invention provides for the use of isolated polynucleotides encoding maize poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) proteins to produce eukaryotic cells and organisms, particularly plant cells and plants, with modified programmed cell death. Eukaryotic cells and organisms particularly plant cells and plants, are provided wherein either in at least part of the cells, preferably selected cells, the programmed cell death (PCD) is provoked, or wherein, on the contrary, PCD of the cells or of at least part of the cells in an organism is inhibited, by modulation of the level or activity or PARP proteins in those cells.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2007
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Elena Babiychuk, Sergei Kushnir, Marc De Block
Abstract: The invention pertains to novel insecticidal compounds derived from Bacillus thuringiensis strains. New proteins designated Cry1Jd, Cry9Fa, and Cry1Bf, and insecticidal fragments thereof are provided, as well as DNA sequences encoding these proteins or their insecticidal fragments. Further provided are recombinant hosts expressing such proteins, particularly plant cells and plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 1, 2011
Publication date:
November 10, 2011
Applicant:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Greta ARNAUT, Annemie Boets, Nicole Damme, Jeroen Van Rie
Abstract: The invention relates to the use of cotton parp2 gene or cDNA sequences to obtain stress tolerant cotton plants. Various cotton parp2 sequences are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 27, 2005
Date of Patent:
November 8, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Michel Van Thournout, Arlette Reynaerts, John Jacobs
Abstract: This invention relates to transgenic winter oilseed rape (WOSR) plants, plant material and seeds, harboring a specific transformation event. It pertains to winter oilseed rape plants, more particularly to a pair of winter oilseed rape plants, which is particularly suited for the production of hybrid seed. More specifically, one plant is characterized by being male-sterile, due to the presence in its genome of a male sterility gene, while the other is characterized by carrying a fertility-restorer gene, capable of preventing the activity of the male-sterility gene. The invention further provides a method for producing hybrid seed, a process for producing a transgenic WOSR plant oil or plant, and a method to identify a transgenic plant, cell or tissue. A kit for identifying the transgenic plants comparing the elite event of the present invention is also described.
Abstract: Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant cell walls, particularly as they can be found in natural fibers of fiber producing plants by inclusion of positively charged oligosaccharides or polysaccharides into the cell wall. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, particularly an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, capable of being targeted to the membranes of the Golgi apparatus in cells of a plant.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 19, 2006
Date of Patent:
August 30, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Marc De Block, Frank Meulewaeter, Rainhard Koch, Bernd Essigmann
Abstract: The invention provides specific transgenic rice plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a specific transformation event at a specific location in the rice genome. Tools are also provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification of the event in biological samples.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 1, 2011
Publication date:
July 7, 2011
Applicant:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Marc DE BEUCKELEER, Kirk Johnson, Frank Michiels
Abstract: The present invention relates to new DNA sequences encoding an insecticidal Cry9Fa protein and insecticidal parts thereof, which are useful to protect plants from insect damage. Also included herein are micro-organisms and plants transformed with a DNA sequence encoding an insecticidal Cry9Fa protein and processes for controlling insects and to obtain a plant resistant to insects.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2008
Date of Patent:
June 21, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Annemie Boets, Nicole Damme, Eva Mathieu, Stijn Vanneste, Jeroen Van Rie
Abstract: Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway e.g. for overexpression in plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 29, 2010
Publication date:
June 2, 2011
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Marc DE BLOCK, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and means for determining parent inbred plant lines with good combining ability, for determining good combinations of parent inbred plant lines capable of yielding hybrid lines with high heterosis, and further for determining the agronomical performance of different plant lines, which can be performed in vitro by determining the electron flow in the mitochondria under control and stress conditions.