Patents Assigned to SunGene GmbH
  • Publication number: 20080184390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with mesophyll- and/or epidermis-preferential or mesophyll- and/or epidermis-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At5g13220, At1g68850, At4g36670, At3g10920, At1g33240, or At1g28440.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: SUNGENE GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Publication number: 20080184387
    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: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • 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: 7378572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with constitutive expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At5g17920, At3g03780, At2g01100, At2g34770, At5g61560, At4g00830, At3g10220, At4g38520, At3g11110, At2g47170, At1g64090, At5g60690, At1g76350, At1g76580, At1g31930, At5g18230, At1g20970, or At4g35620.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • 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: 7342147
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Publication number: 20080060096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing ketocarotenoids by cultivating genetically modified, non-human organisms which have, by comparison with the wild type, a modified ketolase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, to the use thereof as human and animal foods and for preparing ketocarotenoid extracts, and to novel ketolases and nucleic acids encoding these ketolases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2004
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Matt Sauer, Christel Renate Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Martin Klebsattel, Thomas Luck, Dirk Voeste, Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer, Hendrik Tschoep
  • Patent number: 7335813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with guard cell-preferential or guard cell-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana gene At5g58580, or from Arabidopsis genomic DNA sequences as described by SEQ ID NO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, or 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH
    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: 20060225155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the incorporation of DNA into the genome of a Gramineae plant, preferably a wheat plant, by means of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation employing isolated zygotes as target material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Kumlehn
  • Publication number: 20060194274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of ketocarotenoids by culturing genetically modified organisms which in comparison with the wild-type have a modified ketolase activity and a modified ?-cyclase activity, to the genetically modified organisms, and to their use as foodstuffs and feedstuffs for the production of ketocarotenoid extracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2004
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Flachmann, Christel Schopfer, Karin Herbers, Irene Kunze, Matt Sauer, Martin Klebsattel, Thomas Luck, Dirk Voeste, Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20060162020
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of promoters for the expression, preferably for the flower-specific expression, of genes in plants of the genus Tagetes, to the genetically modified plants of the genus Tagetes, and to a process for the preparation of biosynthetic products by culturing the genetically modified plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2004
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Matt Sauer, Christel Schopfer, Ralf Flachmann, Karin Herbes, Martin Klebsatten, Thomas Luck, Dirk Voeste, Angela-Maria Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20060162025
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with vascular tissue-preferential or vascular tissue-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At4g00140, At5g45350, At2g39830, At1g68430, or At5g67280.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Publication number: 20060156429
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with mesophyll- and/or epidermis-preferential or mesophyll- and/or epidermis-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At5g13220, At1g68850, At4g36670, At3g10920, At1g33240, or At1g28440.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand