Patents Assigned to SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
  • Patent number: 8604278
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with the expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for the production of food and animal feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
  • Publication number: 20110289622
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with the expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for the production of food and animal feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
  • Patent number: 8022272
    Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors, which contain vegetable constitutive promoters and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences preferably selection markers in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention also relates to transgenic plants that have been transformed using these expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation products derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for producing food and animal feed agents, seeds, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
  • Patent number: 7736886
    Abstract: The invention relates to recombination systems and methods for eliminating nucleic acid sequences from the chromosomal DNA of eukaryotic organisms, and to transgenic organisms—preferably plants—which comprise these systems or were generated using these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA and Institut f. Pflanzengenetik u. Kulturpflanzenforschung
    Inventors: Holger Puchta, Christian Biesgen
  • Patent number: 7589254
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the directed, transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences in the carbohydrate-storing sink tissues of plants using transgenic expression cassettes which comprise the Vicia faba plastidic 1,4-?-D-glucan:phosphate ?-D-glucosyltransferase promoter. Furthermore, the invention relates to said transgenic expression cassettes and to transgenic expression vectors and transgenic organisms comprising them, and to the use of the same for the production of foodstuffs, feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald
  • Patent number: 7572950
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for generating or increasing a pathogen resistance in plants by expression, preferably pathogen-inducible expression, of a sucrose isomerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Karin Herbers, Bettina Tschiersch, Uwe Sonnewald, Frederik Börnke, Horst-Ekkehard Neuhaus
  • Patent number: 7563944
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences predominantly in starch-comprising tissues of plants, preferably in fruits, roots, seeds or tubers, wherein the nucleic acid sequence is expressed under the control of a promoter of a starch synthase 3. Furthermore in accordance with the invention are transgenic expression cassettes and vectors comprising a promoter of a starch synthase 3, and the use thereof for the production of foodstuffs, feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann
  • Patent number: 7462758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel methods for the generation of transgenic plants with genetically modified plastids, and to the transgenic plants generated with these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Christian Biesgen
  • Patent number: 7402733
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the targeted transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences in nonreproductive floral tissues of plants, and to transgenic expression cassettes and expression vectors which comprise promoters having an expression specificity for nonreproductive tissues of the flower. The invention further relates to organisms (preferably plants) transformed with these transgenic expression cassettes or expression vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived therefrom, and to the use of the same for producing human and animal foods, seeds, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Martin Klebsattel, Ulrich Keetman, Karin Herbers, Ralf Flachmann, Matt Sauer, Heike Hillebrand
  • Patent number: 7385123
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing ketocarotenoids by cultivation of genetically modified organisms which, compared with the wild type, have a modified ketolase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, and to the use thereof as human and animal foods and for producing ketocarotenoid extracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Matt Sauer, Ralf Flachmann, Martin Klebsattel, Christel Renate Schopfer
  • Patent number: 7381541
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of astaxanthin-containing plants or parts of plants of the genus Tagetes or astaxanthin-containing extracts of astaxanthin-containing plants or parts of plants of the genus Tagetes for oral administration to animals, methods for producing animal feed preparations, the animal feed preparations themselves, a method for pigmenting animals or animal products, and also a method for producing pigmented animals and animal products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignees: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Flachmann, Matt Sauer, Christel Renate Schopfer, Martin Klebsattel, Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer, Thomas Luck, Dirk Voeste
  • Patent number: 7348167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing vitamin E by growing organisms, in particular plants, which have an increased tyrosine aminotransferase activity in comparison with the wild type, and to the genetically modified organisms, in particular plants, themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ralf Badur, Michael Geiger, Rainer Lemke, Klaus-Dieter Salchert, Susanne Tropf
  • Patent number: 7345216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with meristem-preferential or meristem-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At2g02180, At5g54510, At2g26970, At2g01180, At3g45560, At4g00580, At1g54480, or At4g11490, or the Arabidopsis thaliana genomic sequences as described by SEQ ID NO: 35 or 36.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Patent number: 7332649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals, in particular vitamin E, vitamin K and/or ubiquinone by culturing organisms, in particular plants, whose shikimate pathway is genetically modified over that of the wild type, and to the transgenic organisms themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ralf Badur, Michael Geiger, Irene Kunze, Susanne Sommer
  • Patent number: 7303909
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a binary vector which is distinguished by the combination of a variety of elements, demonstrates particularly high compatibility from the cloning aspect and which, besides the T-DNA flanked by the right and left border, contains an additional sequence which makes possible highly efficient and correct transfer of the T-DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze
  • Publication number: 20070094749
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of ketocarotenoids by culturing genetically modified plants which show a ketolase activity in fruits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel
  • Publication number: 20060253927
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing zeaxanthin and/or biosynthetic intermediates and/or secondary products thereof by culturing genetically modified plants which, compared to the wild type, have a reduced ?-cyclase activity caused by double-stranded ?-cyclase ribonucleic acid sequences, to the genetically modified plants and to the use thereof as foodstuffs and feedstuffs and for producing carotenoid extracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel
  • Publication number: 20060130182
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences predominantly in starch-comprising tissues of plants, preferably in fruits, roots, seeds or tubers, wherein the nucleic acid sequence is expressed under the control of a promoter of a starch synthase 3. Furthermore in accordance with the invention are transgenic expression cassettes and vectors comprising a promoter of a starch synthase 3, and the use thereof for the production of foodstuffs, feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene Gmbh & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann
  • Publication number: 20060130178
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with meristem-preferential or meristem-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At2g02180, At5g54510, At2g26970, At2g01180, At3g45560, At4g00580, At1g54480, or At4g11490, or the Arabidopsis thaliana genomic sequences as described by SEQ ID NO: 35 or 36.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Publication number: 20060117415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with root-preferential or root-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At1g66280, At1g74500, At1g49570, At1g70710, At5g66690, At3g29630, At5g48070, or At4g17800.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand