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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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