Patents Assigned to Enza Zaden, de Enkhuizer Zaadhandel B.V.
  • Fruits of the genus capsium with improved taste and enhanced nutritional value
    Publication number: 20060195921
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum with improved taste and enhanced nutritional value and especially to fruits with increased sucrose and/or ascorbic acid content as compared to plants of a similar type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: Enza Zaden de Enkhuizer Zaadhandel B.V.
    Inventor: Anton Van Der Heiden
  • Lettuce plants having broad-spectrum Dm-resistance genes
    Patent number: 6903249
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a plant, in particular a cultivated lettuce plant (L. sativa), with a lasting resistance to a pathogen, in particular Bremia lactucae, comprising of providing one or more specific DNA markers linked to one or more resistance genes, determining the presence of one or more resistance genes in a plant using these DNA markers, subsequently crossing a first plant comprising one or more resistance genes with a second plant comprising one or more resistance genes, and selecting from the progeny a plant in which one or more resistance genes are present by using the DNA markers. The invention further relates to the plants obtained with this method, seeds and progeny of these plants, as well as progeny thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Enza Zaden, de Enkhuizer Zaadhandel B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Jacobus Maria Lambalk, Nanne Machiel Faber, Arie Bastiaan Bruijnis, Petrus Cornelis Johannes Conijn, Ijfke Arendtje Dèn Wi{acute over (t)}te, Jacqueline Nieuwenhuis, Cornelis Jacob De Jong