Patents Assigned to Bejo Zaden B.V.
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Patent number: 11991965Abstract: Provided herein is a genetic determinant for potato late blight resistance caused by the plant pathogen Phytophtora infestans, in potato, Solanum tuberosum L. Specifically, disclosed herein are Solanum tuberosum plants having a genetic determinant providing qualitative resistance against Phytophtora infestans which genetic determinant is located in the distal part of chromosome 12 of Solanum tuberosum between positions 60.1 and 67.2. Mbp and which genetic determinant is obtainable from a Solanum tuberosum plant with deposit No. NCIMB 43225.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Anthonius Schuit, Martinus Jacobus Theodorus Klaver, Marie Anne Sophie Jeanne Elisabeth Hardy, Dora Lisa Moita E Coelho, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Publication number: 20230404006Abstract: Provided herein are spinach plants resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium, and spinach plants additionally resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). Also provided herein are genomic fragments providing the present resistances and use thereof for identifying spinach resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium, and spinach plants additionally resistant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV). Provided herein are a spinach plant resistant to Peronospora farinosa and Stemphylium vesicarium: including a genomic fragment of Spinacia tetrandra located on chromosome 4 between positions 8255074 and 8620598 of the spinach reference genome, the genomic fragment of Spinacia tetrandra lacking a lethal factor and providing Peronospora farinosa resistance and including a genomic fragment located on chromosome 3 and between positions 1177586 and 1271037 of the spinach reference genome providing Stemphylium vesicarium resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Jordi Cornelis Boshoven, Stefanus Johannes Kaandorp, Raimon Jozef Laan, Roelof Marinus Veenstra, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 11457583Abstract: The present invention relates to Apium graveolens plants being resistant to one or more genomically encoded resistances to the plant pathogen Septoria apiicola. Specifically the present invention relates to Apium graveolens plants wherein at least one genomically encoded resistance to the plant pathogen Septoria apiicola is the genomically encoded resistance to the plant pathogen Septoria apiicola as present in deposit NCIMB 42711. The present invention further relates to hybrids containing the present Septoria apiicola resistance and agents, as molecular markers, suitable for detecting the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Elisabeth Lucia Maria Stam, Jacob van Dorp, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 11439073Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid between a leek and a garlic plant. More specifically, the invention relates to an interspecific hybrid plants resulting from a cross between an Allium ampeloprasum plant and an Allium sativum plant. Specifically, the present invention relates to Interspecific hybrid plants derived from a cross between an Allium ampeloprasum plant and an Allium sativum plant, wherein the hybrid plants are capable of producing seed and contains nuclear genomic material derived from both said Allium ampeloprasum plant and said Allium sativum plant, and further wherein the interspecific hybrid plants contain at least 250 mg/kg of allicin when determined in the white part of the leaf sheet of the plants and furthermore wherein the interspecific hybrid plants are obtainable, obtained or derived, from an interspecific hybrid plant as deposited under accession number NCIMB 42564.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Kai Ament, Henricus Chretien Marie Louise Bongers, Marcel Adriaanse, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 11071270Abstract: Provided herein are substantially pericarp free Spinacia oleracea, or spinach, seeds. Also provided herein are methods for producing substantially pericarp free Spinacia oleracea, or spinach, seeds and Spinacia oleracea, or spinach plant capable of producing substantially pericarp free seeds. Also provided herein are Spinacia oleracea seeds wherein the seeds are substantially free of pericarp and the seeds are obtainable by crossing a female Spinacia oleracea parent plant with a male Spinacia oleracea parent plant resulting in seed production by the female Spinacia oleracea parent plant, the female Spinacia oleracea parent homozygously comprises in its genome a recessive trait substantially preventing pericarp formation on seeds produced and harvesting Spinacia oleracea seeds substantially free of pericarp.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Elisabeth Lucia Maria Stam, Jacob Van Dorp, Nicolaas Anthonius Zutt, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 11058090Abstract: Provided herein are hybrid True Potato Seeds (TPS). Also provided herein are potato plants grown from the present hybrid True Potato Seeds and the potato tubers produced by these plants. Also provided herein is use of the present potato tubers for vegetative propagation thereof and to the use of the present potato tubers as seed potato for producing potato tubers for consumption and the food processing industry. Specifically, provided herein are hybrid True Potato Seed (TPS), wherein the seed is tetraploid and is produced as an F1 of a cross between a tetraploid male potato line and a tetraploid female potato line and preferably to hybrid True Potato Seed (TPS) wherein said tetraploid male potato line and said tetraploid female potato line have a sufficient degree of genetic and phenotypic uniformity to yield, as F1, hybrid True Potato Seed (TPS).Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Martinus Jacobus Theodorus Klaver, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 10750700Abstract: Provided herein are sprouting broccoli plants, or Brassica oleracea convar. botrytis var. asparagoides plants, with one or more improved phenotypes such as floret development in a single horizontal plane allowing simultaneous harvest of all florets, a reduced cultivation period until harvest and/or not requiring exposure to a cold period below 15° C. during at least one to two weeks. Also provided herein are seeds, cells and plant parts, especially harvestable plant parts such as florets, of the present plants.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: BEJO ZADEN B.V.Inventors: Jan De Geus, Johannes Gerardus Maria Hoogland, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 10704058Abstract: Provided herein are carrot plants resistant to powdery mildew, and especially powdery mildew caused by the plant pathogen Erysiphe heraclei, wherein the powdery mildew resistance is provided by one or two dominant powdery mildew resistance genes. Also provided herein are molecular markers genetically linked to the present powdery mildew, and especially powdery mildew caused by the plant pathogen Erysiphe heraclei, resistance providing genes and the use thereof for identifying carrots plants, or Daucus carota plants, being resistant to powdery mildew, and especially powdery mildew caused by the plant pathogen Erysiphe heraclei. Also provided herein are seeds, plant parts, pollen, egg cells, callus, suspension culture, somatic embryos and edible plant parts of the present plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Adriana Dorien Haarsma, Willem Arie Zwaan, Jurgen Franciscus Nijkamp, Jacobus Petrus Martinus, Petrus Arnoldus Dekker, Laurentius Petrus Nicolaas Martinus Kroon, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 10021848Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for providing cytoplasmic male sterile Petroselinum plants, cytoplasmic male sterile Petroselinum crispum plants and to seeds, cells, tissues and plant parts thereof. Specifically the present invention relates to a method for providing a cytoplasmic male sterile Petroselinum crispum plant comprising: (a) providing first protoplasts obtained from a plant selected from the group consisting of Daucus carota L., Foeniculum vulgare Mill., Apium graveolens L., and Pastinaca sativa L., wherein the first protoplasts have a substantially inactivated nuclear genome and a substantially non-modified cytoplasm; (b) providing second protoplasts obtained from Petroselinum crispum wherein the second protoplasts have a substantially inactivated cytoplasm and a substantially non-modified nuclear genome; (c) fusing said first and second protoplasts; and (d) obtaining from the fusion product of said first and second protoplasts a cytoplasmic male sterile Petroselinum crispum plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: BEJO ZADEN B.VInventors: Cornelis Glas, Nicolas Johannes Dol, Witte Van Cappellen, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 10015942Abstract: The present invention relates to cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) Cichorium plants and especially to cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) green chicory plants; cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) radicchio rosso plants; cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) red leaved chicory plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) Treviso plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) white chicory plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) sugar loaf plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) Belgian endive plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) witloof plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) Catalogna plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) C. intybus var. foliosum plants, cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) C. endivia plants and cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) C. intybus L. var. sativum plants. The present invention further relates to methods for identifying cytoplasmic male sterile (CMS) Cichorium plants and mitochondrial nucleic acid sequences providing cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in Cichorium plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Elizabeth Rosalien de Jong, Adriana Dorien Haarsma, Witte Van Cappellen, Cornelis Glas, Nicolaas Anthonius Zutt, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 9516823Abstract: The present invention relates to a Plasmodiophora brassicae-resistant Brassica plant. The present invention relates more specifically to a Plasmodiophorabrassicae-resistant Brassica plant comprising in its genome two or more genetic factors imparting resistance, where in the presence of the genetic factors imparting resistance can be determined by the presence of a Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL1) and a Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL3) and/or a Quantitative Trait Locus 5 (QTL5).Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: BEJO ZADEN B.V.Inventors: Laurentius Petrus Nicolaas Martinus Kroon, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver, Roelof Marinus Veenstra, Klaas Biersteker
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Patent number: 9000258Abstract: The present invention relates to a Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) resistant Brassica plant, and seeds, fruits and or plant parts thereof, and to methods for preparation thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to a Xcc resistant Brassica oleracea plant, and seeds, fruits and/or plant parts thereof, and methods for preparation thereof. Further, the present invention relates to Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL's) providing the present Xcc resistance and molecular markers, specifically Random Amplified Microsatellite Polymorphism (RAMP) markers, for identifying the present QTL's.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Johannes Theodorus Wilhelmus Ligthart, Roelof Marinus Veenstra, Klaas Biersteker, Jan De Geus, Hendrikus Stephanus Maria Huits, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 8987558Abstract: The present invention relates to cytoplasmic male sterile leek (Allium ampeloprasum) plants comprising cytoplasmic encoded male sterility originating from garlic plant (Allium sativum L.) with deposit number NCIMB 41563. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for providing hereof. And the invention relates to use of the provided plant and of garlic for providing cytoplasmic encoded male sterility.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Witte Van Cappellen, Marcel Adriaanse, Eduard Alphonsus Langedijk, Henricus Chretien Marie Louise Bongers, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver
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Patent number: 8492615Abstract: On embodiment of the present invention discloses Brassica oleracea plants with a resistance gene to Mycosphaerella brassicicola. An embodiment of the invention also discloses a method for providing a Brassica oleracea plant with a resistance to Mycosphaerella brassicicola, including providing a first B. oleracea plant, which plant includes a resistance gene to M. brassicicola; crossing the resistant plant with a susceptible second B. oleracea plant; isolating from the progeny genomic DNA for detecting the presence of an introgression with the resistance gene using one or more specific DNA markers linked to the resistance gene; and selecting from the progeny a B. oleracea plant in which the presence of the introgression with the resistance gene has been demonstrated.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventor: Piet Barten
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Patent number: 8445752Abstract: At least one embodiment of the present invention relates to Brassica oleracea plants with a resistance gene to Albugo candida, the cause of white blister. At least one embodiment of the invention also relates to a method for providing a Brassica oleracea plant with a resistance to Albugo candida, the at least one embodiment including a) providing a first B. oleracea plant which comprises a resistance gene to A. candida; (b) crossing the resistant plant with a susceptible second B. oleracea plant; (c) isolating genomic DNA from the progeny for detecting the presence of an introgression with the resistance gene using one or more specific DNA markers linked to the resistance gene; and (d) selecting from the progeny a B. oleracea plant in which the presence of the introgression with the resistance gene has been demonstrated in step (c).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventors: Jan De Geus, Albertus Johannes Maria Schrijver, Johannes Gerardus Maria Hoogland, Adriana Dorien Postma-Haarsma
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Patent number: 6308456Abstract: A garlic plant (Allium sativum L.) provided with an agent containing a hormone for improving the forming of flowers, at least substantially without bulbils, which has been added thereto in vivo prior to the forming of flowers, which hormone is selected from the group of gibberellins, preferably gibberellic acid type GA3. The agent containing the hormone is for example injected into the flower stalk of the garlic plant.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventor: Piet Barten
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Patent number: 5917128Abstract: B. oleracea plant, whose cytoplasm is provided, via protoplast fusion, with mitochondria comprising DNA at least partially originating from a B. napus plant, and which is linked to the property of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) (i.e. responsible for cytoplasmic male sterility in the B. oleracea plant), and whose cells are provided with species-specific nuclear genome being normal for this plant.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: Bejo Zaden B.V.Inventor: Pieter Barten