Abstract: The invention relates to a method for analyzing a crop sample comprising a target plant material with soil tare adhered thereto, in particular soiled plant material. Further, the invention relates to a method for generating first calibration data for analyzing a crop sample comprising a target plant material with soil tare adhered thereto, and an analysis assembly for analyzing a crop sample comprising a target plant material with soil tare adhered thereto. In addition, the invention relates to an arrangement for analyzing a crop sample comprising a target plant material with soil tare adhered thereto, a sugar production facility, and the use of an analysis assembly in a sugar production facility. Further, the invention relates to a method for determining components in sugar beets for sugar production. Further, the invention relates to an arrangement for determining components in sugar beets, and to a sugar production facility.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel methods for increasing recombination so that the resulting plant or plant material has an increased rate of recombination. In particular, the present invention provides methods for increase of recombination in agricultural plants. Increased recombination is achieved by a controlled temperature treatment by aligning meiosis progression in a specific treatment window to macroscopically or microscopically detectable characteristics. Furthermore, the methods described herein are also useful to shift meiotic recombination to regions in the genome which usually show a reduced amount of recombination. The resulting plants can for example be used to introduce new genetic variations into breeding pools and breeding populations, as the methods can be performed without a significant loss in fertility usually going along with uncontrolled heat/cold treatments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to hybrid barley seed production and marker assisted selection of barley plants in order to obtain barley plants or seeds comprising an Ant1 and/or Ant2 gene allowing color sorting of seeds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant biotechnology. Specifically, there are provided methods and nucleic acid sequences for obtaining pathogen resistance in plants and for generating resistant plants. In particular, the role of a central molecule in plant immunity is studied. Based on the mechanisms elucidated, the present invention provides strategies to specifically modulate said phosphatase-like protein family member molecule by different transient and/or stable techniques, alone or in combination, to achieve a robust increased of pathogen resistance in different target plants to obtain inherently pathogen resistant plants and plant materials to avoid severe harvest losses as caused by major plant pathogens by biological means instead of herbicide or pesticide treatment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying a plant or plant part, such as a maize plant or plant part, comprising a novel restorer of fertility locus, in particular a cytoplasmic male sterility restorer of fertility locus. The invention further relates to molecular markers associated with such locus and the use of such markers in the identification of plants. The invention further relates to methods for generating plants or plant parts comprising the novel restorer of fertility locus.

Abstract: A system analyzes crops provided by a truck on a transport device. The truck enters the transport device to transport and unload the crops. The system includes sensors to detect an identifier of the truck, detect a temperature of the crops, and determine components of the crops. A programmable-logic controller sends paired information between the detected identifier of the truck and the detected location of the crops to a non-transitory storage medium for storage. The processor also sends the detected temperature of the crops and the determined components of the crops to the non-transitory storage medium for storage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to non-transgenic and transgenic plants, preferably crop plants, comprising a mutation causing an alteration of the amino acid sequence in the CATD domain of the centromere histone H3 (CENH3), preferably within the loop1 or the ?2-helix of the CATD domain, which have the biological activity of a haploid inducer. Further, the present invention provides methods of generating the plants of the present invention and haploid and double haploid plants obtainable by crossing the plants of the present invention with wildtype plants as well as methods of facilitating cytoplasm exchange.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the technical field of targeted modification of a nucleotide sequence of interest in the genome of a plant by means of a site-specific nuclease, wherein the modification and precision is assisted by specifically enhancing DNA polymerase theta (Pol ?) activity to improve genome editing (GE) efficiencies, preferably for increasing targeted insertion of a DNA insert. The invention describes a method for increasing the efficiency of targeted transgene insertion in a plant or a plant cell. Further provided are methods to modulate endogenous repair pathways with the aim to favor Pol ? activity in the context of GE. Further disclosed are suitable sequences and GE tools suitable in the methods of the invention as well as cells, tissues, organs or materials obtainable by the methods. Finally, an expression construct assembly for conducting the methods of the invention is disclosed.

Abstract: Inbred corn line, designated KW 6FQ1969, is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of inbred corn line KW 6FQ1969, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line KW 6FQ1969 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line KW 6FQ1969 with itself or another corn line. The disclosure also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line KW 6FQ1969 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line KW 6FQ1969.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selecting or identifying a B. napus plant having resistance to Phoma stem canker, such as resistance to fungal pathogen(s) L. maculans and/or L. biglobosa, comprising detecting in said B. napus plant, or part thereof (such as tissue or seed), the presence or absence of at least one marker which is on a chromosomal interval between SEQ ID No: 1 and SEQ ID No: 10. The present invention also provides kits of primers for identifying a B. napus plant having resistance to Phoma stem canker, such as resistance to fungal pathogen(s) L. maculans and/or L. biglobosa. Also provided is the use of a marker as defined herein, or a sequence selected from SEQ ID No: 1-10, or a kit of primers according to the present invention to select a B. napus plant having resistance to Phoma stem canker, such as resistance to fungal pathogen(s) L. maculans and/or L. biglobosa.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved Helminthosporium turcicum-resistant plant, in particular a maize plant which comprises a polynucleotide with one or more resistance-conferring genes, for example on a truncated chromosome fragment from the accession Pepitilla, as well as a cell, a tissue, a part, grain and seeds thereof, an isolated polynucleotide which comprises one or more resistance-conferring genes against Helminthosporium turcicum, a vector, a transgenic plant cell and a transgenic plant containing this polynucleotide. Furthermore, the invention encompasses suitable markers and their use in introducing resistance or the transgene into a plant, as well as the identification of improved maize plants which comprise a truncated chromosome fragment.

Abstract: Hybrid cereals are described which are obtained by restoring the pollen fertility for the Pampa cytoplasmic male sterility (P-CMS) and which are characterized by a reduced linkage drag. Plants are provided, in particular rye, which, as the male pollen parent, are capable of restoring the pollen fertility for the P-CMS. Furthermore, the nucleic acid molecule which carries the necessary information for restoring the P-CMS, DNA and vectors which contain such a nucleic acid molecule, corresponding host cells as well as a protein which can be encoded by the nucleic acid molecule and antibodies directed against it are also described. Furthermore, methods for the production of corresponding hybrid plants and transgenic plants are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to plant hybrid cross testing, such as in cereal crops such as Triticum, preferably Triticum aestivum. The invention in particular relates to methods for evaluating test crosses, in particular for evaluating heterosis and/or (general and/or specific) combining ability by using male sterile plants, which allows the use of small scale planting schemes comprising a limited number of parallel rows of tester and breeding lines.

Abstract: The present invention relates to materials and methods for creating and maintaining a cereal plant line for the production of a hybrid cereal plant, that include for example, and not limitation, using the BLue Aleurone (BLA) system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to plants having increased resistance or tolerance to pathogens. Such plants have reduced expression levels of CPL1 and/or ERF922. The invention further relates to methods for producing such plants, as well as methods for identifying such plants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a MAD7-type nuclease, which has been engineered to recognize a PAM selected from TYCV, TATV or TTCN. The invention provides sequences encoding or representing a MAD7-type nuclease carrying certain mutations compared to the sequence of a MAD7 nuclease. The invention also provides a genome engineering system, an expression construct and a kit comprising a MAD7-type nuclease according to the invention. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for the targeted modification of at least one genomic target sequence in a cell, which comprises introducing the MAD7-type nuclease according to the invention into the cell. The invention also provides a cell and an organism obtained by a method according to the invention.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of targeted modification of a nucleotide sequence of interest in the genome of a plant by specifically boosting homology-directed repair (HDR)-mediated genome editing. Provided are methods using at least one plant-specific HDR booster, at least one genome modification system and at least one repair template, optionally in combination with at least one plant regeneration booster, wherein such modified plant cells are regenerated in a direct or an indirect way. Finally, methods, tools, constructs and strategies are provided to effectively modify at least one genomic target site in a plant cell in a highly controllable manner to obtain said modified cell and to regenerate a plant tissue, organ, plant or seed from such modified cell.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of increasing the cold tolerance of a plant or part thereof and/or preventing or inhibiting bolting of a plant, comprising deregulating phloem flux and plants or parts thereof having deregulated phloem flux. The invention also extends to the use of genes for deregulating phloem flux in a plant or part thereof; and/or increasing cold tolerance of a plant or part thereof; and/or preventing or inhibiting bolting in a plant. The invention also provides methods of selecting and/or producing a plant with deregulated phloem flux and/or increased cold tolerance and/or delayed or inhibited bolting. The invention also extends to constructs, isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides which can be used to deregulate phloem flux, plant cells transformed with such constructs, and to plants or parts thereof having deregulated phloem flux.

Abstract: The present application provides a new technology to confer or enhance insect resistance and, optionally also resistance to fungal pathogens in plants. In particular, the present invention provides a method for conferring or increasing resistance or tolerance to insect and optionally also to fungal pathogens in maize and oil seed rape (OSR) by targeting the endogenous Lox3 gene. By introducing either a gene silencing construct, a genome editing system or a genome modification, which leads to a targeted knock-down or knock-out of the Lox3 gene endogenous to the plant, a new or increased resistance to insect and, optionally fungal pathogens can be created.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling actions of a mobile entity on a field management unit. The method comprises providing a database, wherein georeferenced boundaries of field management units are stored in the database, providing an assessment unit, determining a current position of a mobile entity by using a global navigation satellite system receiver for establishing a Position of the mobile entity, determining a current field management unit, in which the mobile entity is located, based on the current Position of the mobile entity and based on the georeferenced boundaries of the field management units stored in the database, determining one or more adjacent field management units, which are arranged adjacent to the current field management unit, based on the current Position of the mobile entity and/or on the current field management unit and based on the georeferenced boundaries of the field management units stored in the database.