Patents Assigned to Bayer CropScience N.V.
  • Methods of separating hybrid seed from a mixture of seeds
    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
  • Methods for determining fitness in plants
    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
  • Herbicide tolerant soybean plants and methods for identifying same
    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
  • Methods and means to modify a plant genome
    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
  • Stress resistant plants
    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
  • plant comprising a mutant INDEHISCENT allele
    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
  • Cotton fibers having positively charged oligosaccharides
    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
  • Herbicide tolerant cotton plants and methods for identifying same
    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
  • Insect resistant cotton plants and methods for identifying same
    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
  • Elite event A2704-12 and methods and kits for identifying such event in biological samples
    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
  • plants with increased fiber strength comprising a fiber strength allele spanning the GLUC1.1A gene from
    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
  • plant comprising mutant fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase alleles
    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
  • Elite event A5547-127 and methods and kits for identifying such event in biological samples
    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
  • Increase of yield in crop plants through selection of epigenetically modified populations
    Patent number: 8901369
    Abstract: Methods are provided to select plants and populations of epigenetically fixed crop plants with improved yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventor: Marc De Block
  • plant comprising a mutant indehiscent allele
    Patent number: 8809635
    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, while maintaining at the same time an agronomically relevant treshability of the pods, and for increasing yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience, N.V.
    Inventors: Benjamin Laga, Bart den Boer, Bart Lambert
  • Stress resistant plants
    Patent number: 8802927
    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: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience N.V.
    Inventors: Marc De Block, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
  • Methods and means for exact replacement of target DNA in eukaryotic organisms
    Patent number: 8765448
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience, N.V.
    Inventors: Anne Rolland, Manuel Dubald, Michiel Van Lookeren Campagne, Rene Ruiter
  • Poly ADP-ribose polymerase sequences and their uses
    Patent number: 8685736
    Abstract: The invention provides for the use of isolated polynucleotides encoding maize poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) proteins to identify endogenous PARP encoding genes or cDNAs from a plant and to produce plant cells and plants with high vigor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience N.V.
    Inventors: Elena Babiychuk, Kushnir Sergei, Marc De Block
  • Targeted DNA insertion in plants
    Patent number: 8653326
    Abstract: Methods and means are provided to improve targeted DNA insertion in plants using rare-cleaving “double stranded break” inducing enzymes. More specifically, the methods involve introducing the DNA that is to be inserted into the induced break into the plant cell via direct DNA delivery and incubating the plant cells in a plant phenolic compound prior to DNA delivery. Also provided are improved I-SceI encoding nucleotide sequences having a CG content of 50-60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience N.V.
    Inventors: Kathleen D′Halluin, Chantal Vanderstraeten, Rene Ruiter
  • Genetically engineered plant cells and plants exhibiting resistance to glutamine synthetase inhibitors, DNA fragments and recombinants for use in the production of said cells and plants
    Patent number: RE44962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a DNA fragment containing a determined gene, the expression of which inhibits the antibiotic and herbicidal effects of Bialaphos and related products. It also relates to recombinant vectors, containing such DNA fragment, which enable this protective gene to be introduced and expressed into cells and plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Bayer Cropscience N.V., Biogen Idec MA Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Leemans, Johan Botterman, Marc De Block, Charles Thompson, Rao Mouva