Patents Assigned to Bayer CropScience N.V.
  • Patent number: 10028460
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for separating hybrid seed from a mixture of hybrid seed and inbred seed. In particular, said hybrid seed and said inbred seed have different phenotypes allowing separation of said hybrid seed with non-invasive methods based on the differences in said phenotypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignees: Bayer CropScience AG, Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Sigrid Weissmann, Elmar Alfons Weissmann, John Jacobs
  • Patent number: 9994621
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE N.V.
    Inventors: Veronique Gossele, Frank Meulewaeter, Bernadette Saey, Stefan Jansens
  • Patent number: 9914981
    Abstract: Means and methods are provided to produce abiotic stress tolerant plants with improved yield based on the specific identification of a DNA methylation signature in the plants out of a population of the plants. The methods involve identification and utilization of epigenetic features of a plant with high energy use efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Esse Ifebi Herve Akpo, Benjamin Laga, Marc De Block
  • Patent number: 9856484
    Abstract: A process of endowing a plant or plant cells with a trait of interest by expressing an RNA sequence of interest, said process comprising: providing plant cells or cells of said plant with a first vector and a second vector and selecting cells endowed with said trait of interest, wherein said first vector contains a first nucleotide sequence with a first segment coding, in 5? to 3? direction, for—a 5? part of said RNA sequence of interest and—a 5? part of an intron; and said second vector contains a second nucleotide sequence with a second segment coding, in 5? to 3? direction, for—a 3? part of an intron and—a 3? part of said RNA sequence of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE N.V.
    Inventors: Anatoly Giritch, Sylvestre Marillonnet, Victor Klimyuk, Yuri Gleba
  • Patent number: 9683242
    Abstract: The invention provides specific transgenic soybean plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a stack of specific transformation events at specific locations in the soybean genome. Tools are also provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification of these events in biological samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignees: M.S. Technologies, LLC, Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Justin Thomas Mason, Leslie James Lettow, Mark Alan Eby, William H. Eby, Gunter Welz, Steven Verhaeghe, Marc De Beuckeleer, Veerle Habex, Jean-Marc Ferrulo
  • Patent number: 9670496
    Abstract: Methods and means are provided to modify in a targeted manner the genome of a plant in close proximity to an existing elite event using a double stranded DNA break inducing enzyme. Also provided are plants, in particular cotton plants showing tolerance to a field dose of at least 1× of at least one HPPD inhibitor, and methods for making such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: Bayer CropScience N.V., Bayer CropScience AG, Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Kathleen D'Halluin, Jan Dittgen, Stefan Jansens, Frank Meulewaeter, Koen Weterings, Hal Moser, Thomas Wilde, Ruediger Hain, Udo Bickers, Linda Trolinder, Gary Henniger
  • Patent number: 9631202
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES LLC, BAYER CROPSCIENCE 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
  • Patent number: 9534230
    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: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Marc De Block, Michael Metzlaff, Véronique Gossele
  • Patent number: 9475849
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Benjamin Laga, Bart den Boer, Bart Lambert
  • Patent number: 9404119
    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: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Marc De Block, Frank Meulewaeter, Rainhard Koch, Bernd Essigmann
  • Patent number: 9394566
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Linda Trolinder, Veerle Habex
  • Patent number: 9382550
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE N.V.
    Inventors: Linda Trolinder, Sofie Moens, Dimitri Paelinck, Veerle Habex, Hans Van Herck
  • Patent number: 9328390
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Linda Trolinder, Sofie Moens, Veerle Habex, Dimitri Paelinck, Evelien Berghman
  • Patent number: 9322069
    Abstract: Tools are provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification elite event A207-12 in biological samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventor: Marc De Beuckeleer
  • Patent number: 9228192
    Abstract: A process of producing transgenic plants or plant cells stably transformed on a chromosome with a DNA sequence of interest capable of expressing a function of interest, said process comprising (a) providing plant cells or plants with at least two different vectors that are adapted to recombine with each other between site-specific recombination sites compatible with a site-specific recombinase that is also provided in order to produce a non-replicating recombination product containing said DNA sequence of interest, (ii) said at least two different vectors are adapted for integrating said DNA sequence of interest into said chromosome, (iii) said DNA sequence of interest contains sequence portions from at least two of said at least two different vectors, said sequence portions being necessary for expressing said function of interest from said DNA sequence of interest; and (b) selecting plants or plant cells expressing said function of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE N.V.
    Inventors: Anatoly Giritch, Serik Eliby, Sylvestre Marillonnet, Victor Klimyuk, Yuri Gleba
  • Patent number: 9121074
    Abstract: This invention relates to the field of agriculture, more specifically to the use of molecular biology techniques to alter fiber-producing plants, particularly cotton plants, and/or accelerate breeding of such fiber-producing plants. Methods and means are provided to alter fiber qualities, such as increasing fiber strength. Methods are also provided to identify molecular markers associated with fiber strength in a population of cotton varieties and related progenitor plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Tony Arioli, Steven Engelen, John Jacobs, Michel Van Thournout, Stephane Bourot
  • Patent number: 9062324
    Abstract: The invention provides specific transgenic soybean plants, plant material and seeds, characterized in that these products harbor a stack of specific transformation events at specific locations in the soybean genome (elite event EE-GM3 and elite event EE-GM2, or elite event EE-GM3 and elite event EE-GM1). The invention also provides for methods of producing soybean plants and seeds having elite event EE-GM3 and elite event EE-GM2, or elite event EE-GM3 and elite event EE-GM1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES LLC, BAYER CROPSCIENCE 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
  • Patent number: 9057073
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and means to alter fiber properties such as fiber length in fiber producing plants such as cotton. Additionally plant promoters with a fiber-preferential or fiber-selective expression profile are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE N.V.
    Inventors: Steven Engelen, Antonio Arioli
  • Patent number: 8981180
    Abstract: The invention relates to crop plants comprising novel seed lipid compositions. Provided are both wild type and mutant nucleic acid molecules encoding Brassica fatty acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterase B proteins (FATB) and the proteins as such. Also provided are Brassica plants, tissue and seeds comprising at least three mutant fatB alleles in their genome, whereby the seed oil fatty acid composition or profile is significantly altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Benjamin Laga, Bart Den Boer, Bart Lambert
  • Patent number: 8952142
    Abstract: Tools are provided which allow rapid and unequivocal identification of elite event A5547-127 in biological samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience N.V.
    Inventor: Marc de Beuckeleer