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 invention provides specific transgenic soybean plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a specific herbicide tolerance transformation event at a specific location in the soybean genome. Tools are also provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification of the event in biological samples.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 23, 2010
Publication date:
June 30, 2011
Applicants:
M.S. TECHNOLOGIES LLC, BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.
Inventors:
Justin Thomas MASON, Leslie James Lettow, Mark Alan Eby, William H. Eby, Günter Welz, Steven Verhaeghe, Marc De Beuckeleer, Veerle Habex, Jean-Marc Ferrulo
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.
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 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:
Grant
Filed:
August 24, 2007
Date of Patent:
April 19, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Marc De Beuckeleer, Kirk Johnson, Frank Michiels
Abstract: Novel bacterial insecticidal proteins and equivalents thereof were isolated. These proteins and the DNA sequences encoding them are useful to make insecticidal compositions or transgenic plants to protect plants from damage by insects, particularly coleopteran insects.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 10, 2006
Date of Patent:
April 5, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Annemie Boets, Greta Arnaut, Jeroen Van Rie, Nicole Damme
Abstract: The invention relates to fungal disease resistance, in particular to resistance to blackleg disease caused by Leptosphaeria maculans. Provided are Brassica plants and seeds comprising a fragment of chromosome 8 of a wild B. rapa accession in their genome, wherein this fragment comprises a blackleg resistance locus. Further provided are molecular markers linked to the blackleg resistance locus and methods of using the markers. Brassica plants and seeds with stacked blackleg resistance loci are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 2004
Date of Patent:
February 22, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Elke Diederichsen, Benjamin Laga, Johan Botterman
Abstract: The invention pertains to novel insecticidal compounds derived from Bacillus thuringiensis strains. New proteins designated. Cry2Ae, Cry2Af, and Cry2Ag, and variants thereof are provided, as well as DNA sequences encoding these proteins or their variants. Further provided are recombinant hosts expressing such proteins, particularly plant cells and plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 23, 2010
Publication date:
February 17, 2011
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Greta Arnaut, Annemie Boets, Stijn Vanneste, Jeroen Van Rie, Sara Van Houdt
Abstract: Four novel Bacillus thuringiensis strains, which are deposited at the BCCM-LMG under accession nos. LMG P-12592, LMG P-12593, LMG P-12594, and LMG P-13493, produce new crystal proteins during sporulation that are toxic to Lepidoptera, more particularly against Noctuidae such as Spodoptera spp. and Agrotis ipsilon, against Pyralidae such as Ostrinta nubilalis, and against Yponomeutidae such as Plutella xylostella, and that are encoded by a novel gene. The crystal proteins contain protoxins, which can yield a toxin as trypsin-digestion product. A plant, the genome of which is transformed with a DNA sequence that comes from either one of the strains and that encodes its respective toxin, is resistant to Lepidoptera. Each strain, itself, or its crystals, crystal proteins, protoxin or toxin can be used as the active ingredient in an insecticidal composition for combatting Lepidoptera.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 14, 2008
Date of Patent:
February 15, 2011
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Bart Lambert, Stefan Jansens, Katrien Van Audenhove, Marnix Peferoen
Abstract: This invention relates to crop plants of which the fruit dehiscence properties are modulated. More specifically the invention relates to improved methods and means for reducing seed shattering, or delaying seed shattering until after harvest, in plants, while maintaining at the same time an agronomically relevant threshability of the pods.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 25, 2008
Publication date:
February 3, 2011
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Benjamin Laga, Bart den Boer, Bart Lambert
Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant pest control, particularly insect control. Provided are nucleotide sequences from Bacillus thuringiensis encoding insecticidal proteins. Further provided are methods and means for using said nucleotide sequence for controlling plant insect pests.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 25, 2010
Publication date:
January 6, 2011
Applicant:
BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.
Inventors:
GRETA ARNAUT, ANNEMIE BOETS, KAREL DE RUDDER, 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:
Grant
Filed:
September 16, 2005
Date of Patent:
December 14, 2010
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Marc De Block, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
Abstract: The invention pertains to transgenic cotton plants, plant material and seeds, characterized by harboring a specific transformation event, particularly by the presence of a gene encoding a protein that confers herbicide tolerance, at a specific location in the cotton genome. The cotton plants of the invention combine the herbicide tolerant phenotype with optimal agronomic performance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2008
Date of Patent:
November 16, 2010
Assignee:
Bayer Biosciences N. V.
Inventors:
Linda Trolinder, Jefferson Gwynn, Marc De Beuckeleer