Patents Assigned to SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
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Patent number: 8604278Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
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Publication number: 20110289622Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
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Patent number: 8022272Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 13, 2004Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
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Patent number: 7736886Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 5, 2004Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA and Institut f. Pflanzengenetik u. KulturpflanzenforschungInventors: Holger Puchta, Christian Biesgen
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Patent number: 7589254Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald
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Patent number: 7572950Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2003Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Karin Herbers, Bettina Tschiersch, Uwe Sonnewald, Frederik Börnke, Horst-Ekkehard Neuhaus
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Patent number: 7563944Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 15, 2004Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann
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Patent number: 7462758Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventor: Christian Biesgen
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Patent number: 7402733Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2003Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Martin Klebsattel, Ulrich Keetman, Karin Herbers, Ralf Flachmann, Matt Sauer, Heike Hillebrand
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Patent number: 7385123Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2003Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Matt Sauer, Ralf Flachmann, Martin Klebsattel, Christel Renate Schopfer
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Patent number: 7381541Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2003Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignees: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA, BASF Aktiengesellschaft, BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Ralf Flachmann, Matt Sauer, Christel Renate Schopfer, Martin Klebsattel, Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer, Thomas Luck, Dirk Voeste
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Patent number: 7348167Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 2002Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ralf Badur, Michael Geiger, Rainer Lemke, Klaus-Dieter Salchert, Susanne Tropf
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Patent number: 7345216Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
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Patent number: 7332649Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2001Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ralf Badur, Michael Geiger, Irene Kunze, Susanne Sommer
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Patent number: 7303909Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2001Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze
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Publication number: 20070094749Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of ketocarotenoids by culturing genetically modified plants which show a ketolase activity in fruits.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2003Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel
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Publication number: 20060253927Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2003Publication date: November 9, 2006Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel
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Publication number: 20060130182Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2004Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: SunGene Gmbh & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann
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Publication number: 20060130178Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
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Publication number: 20060117415Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand