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: The present invention relates to rice genomic promoter sequences which promote transcription preferentially in microspores and/or pollen of plants. Also provided are chimeric genes comprising these promoter sequences, and plant transformation vectors comprising these chimeric genes. The present invention also discloses plant cells, plant tissues, plants, seeds and grains comprising these chimeric genes. The invention further discloses methods for expressing foreign nucleic acid sequences preferentially in pollen and for producing plants with modified pollen fertility.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 29, 2009
Publication date:
September 16, 2010
Applicant:
BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.
Inventors:
MARIE-THERESE SCHEIRLINCK, EVA PEREZ-PRAT VINUESA, JEAN BROADHVEST
Abstract: The present invention relates to novel gene sequences encoding insecticidal proteins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis strains. Particularly, new chimeric genes encoding a Cry1C, Cry1B or Cry1D protein are provided which are useful to protect plants from insect damage. Also included herein are plant cells or plants comprising such genes and methods of making or using them, as well as plant cells or plants comprising one of such chimeric gene and at least one other of such chimeric genes.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 16, 2007
Publication date:
September 16, 2010
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Jeroen Van Rie, Frank Meulewaeter, Gerben Van Eldik
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing plants in which expression of an insecticidal protein is regulated by a wound-induced promoter inducing local expression to the chimeric genes used in this method and the plants obtained thereby, and to the processes for obtaining resistance to insects feeding on plants by localized expression of an insecticidal protein induced on wounding of plants by insect feeding.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 5, 2003
Date of Patent:
September 7, 2010
Assignee:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Stefan Jansens, Miriam Hauben, Arlette Reynaerts
Abstract: Methods and means are provided to increase the tolerance of plants to abiotic stress or adverse growing conditions, including drought, high light intensities, high temperatures, nutrient limitations and the like by reducing the activity of endogenous PARG proteins in plants.
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 present invention relates to novel DNA sequences encoding insecticidal Cry1 C proteins derived from Bacillus thuringiensis, and their use in plants to control insect pests. Also included herein are plant cells or plants comprising such genes and methods of making or using them, as well as plant cells or plants comprising a Cry1 C chimeric gene of the invention and at least one other chimeric gene, such as a chimeric gene encoding an insecticidal Cry1Ab protein, and methods of making or using such plant cells or plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 28, 2008
Publication date:
July 15, 2010
Applicant:
BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.
Inventors:
Veronique Gossele, Frank Meulewaeter, Bernadette Saey, Stefan Jansens
Abstract: Methods and means are provided for the exact exchange in eukaryotic cells, such as plant cells, of a target DNA sequence for a DNA sequence of interest through homologous recombination, whereby the selectable or screenable marker used during the homologous recombination phase for temporal selection of the gene replacement events can subsequently be removed without leaving a foot-print employing a method for the removal of a selected DNA flanked by two nucleotide sequences in direct repeats.
Abstract: Methods and means are described to modify fiber characteristics in a fiber producing plant, such as cotton, based on the use of a novel type of sucrose synthase protein or related nucleic acids.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 20, 2007
Publication date:
July 1, 2010
Applicants:
BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V., COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
Inventors:
Yong Ling Ruan, Robert Furbank, Elizabeth Brill, Michel Van Thournout, Antonio Arioli
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. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 27, 2007
Date of Patent:
June 29, 2010
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Greta Arnaut, Annemie Boets, Karel De Rudder, Stijn Vanneste, Jeroen Van Rie
Abstract: The invention provides methods to modify the N-glycosylation pattern of glycoproteins in higher plant cells, through reducing or eliminating the level of ?(1,2) xylosyltransferase and ? (1,3) fucosyltransferase activity and increasing the ?(1,4) galactosyltransferase activity in the cell of the higher plant.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 20, 2008
Publication date:
June 17, 2010
Applicant:
BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.
Inventors:
Koen Weterings, Gerben Van Eldik, Bicke Nagels
Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for modulating properties of fruit dehiscence in plants such Brassicaceae plants, specifically to improved methods and means for reducing seed shattering in Brassicaceae plants, particularly the Brassicaceae plants grown for oil production, to a degree which is agronomically important.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 23, 2004
Date of Patent:
May 18, 2010
Assignees:
The Regents of the University of California, Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Guy Vancanneyt, Martin Yanofsky, Sherry Kempin
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.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 31, 2008
Publication date:
March 25, 2010
Applicant:
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Inventors:
Linda Trolinder, Sofie Moens, Dimitri Paelinck, Veerle Habex, Hans Van Herck
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: Alternative and/or improved methods are described for the exact removal of a selected subfragment from a DNA molecule by intrachromosomal recombination between two directly repeated DNA sequences using a rare-cleaving double stranded break inducing DNA endonuclease expressed under control of a micro-spore specific promoter. These methods can be applied for the exact exchange of a target DNA fragment for a DNA fragment of interest in plant cells and plants.
Abstract: The present invention relates to rice genomic promoter sequences which promote transcription preferentially in microspores and/or pollen of plants. Also provided are chimeric genes comprising these promoter sequences, and plant transformation vectors comprising these chimeric genes. The present invention also discloses plant cells, plant tissues, plants, seeds and grains comprising these chimeric genes. The invention further discloses methods for expressing foreign nucleic acid sequences preferentially in pollen and for producing plants with modified pollen fertility.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 13, 2005
Date of Patent:
February 23, 2010
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Marie-Therese Scheirlinck, Eva Perez-Prat Vinuesa, Jean Broadhvest
Abstract: Methods and means are provided to improve targeted DNA insertion in plants using rare-cleaving “double stranded break” including enzymes. Also provided are improved I-SceI encoding nucleotide sequences.
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 from fungal or yeast like organisms other than Saccharomyces cereviseae, e.g., for overexpression in plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 16, 2007
Publication date:
December 24, 2009
Applicant:
BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.
Inventors:
Marc De Block, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
Abstract: Methods and means are provided to improve targeted DNA insertion in plants using rare-cleaving “double stranded break” inducing enzymes. Also provided are improved I-SceI encoding nucleotide sequences.
Abstract: The invention relates to the isolation of promoters from corn capable of directing transcription of an operably linked foreign DNA sequence preferentially, selectively or exclusively in the roots of plants, such as corn plants. The invention also relates to the use of chimeric genes for the preferential or selective expression of biologically active RNA of interest in the roots of plants, such as corn plants. Plants, such as corn plants, comprising corn root preferential or selective promoters operably linked to a foreign DNA sequence which, upon transcription, yield biologically active RNA preferentially or selectively in the roots of plants are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 8, 2007
Date of Patent:
June 30, 2009
Assignee:
Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Inventors:
Greet Vanderkimpen, Gerben Van Eldik, Frank Meulewaeter