Patents Assigned to Syngenta Participations AG
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Patent number: 12207658Abstract: The present invention is directed to the vegetative insecticidal proteins (Vips) modified to comprise heterologous bacterial carbohydrate binding modules and the methods of use thereof. Expression of modified proteins resulted in variations to activity against lepidopteran pest species of agricultural importance such as Corn earworm and Fall armyworm conveying broad spectrum insect control.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Joseph M Watts
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Publication number: 20250024804Abstract: Up until now, all varieties of Impatiens walleriana are susceptible to impatiens downy mildew cause by the water mold, Plasmopara obducens. The present invention relates to novel Impatiens walleriana seed containing a genetic resistance to Plasmopara obducens. The present invention also relates to methods for creating novel Impatiens walleriana seed containing a genetic resistance to Plasmopara obducens and Impatiens walleriana seed produced by the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Antonius Jacobus Gerardus GROOT, Nevena FOLKERTS-RADMANOVIC
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Patent number: 12203091Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, polypeptides, transgenic plants, compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity (e.g., insecticidal activity) to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds. Nucleic acids encoding the insecticidal proteins can be used to transform prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the insecticidal proteins. The recombinant organisms or compositions containing the recombinant organisms or insecticidal proteins or in combination with an appropriate agricultural carrier can be used to control an insect pest in various environments.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Hyunsook S. Chae
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Publication number: 20240423154Abstract: The present invention relates to novel tomato plants producing fruits displaying a modified sugar content, particularly displaying an increased sucrose content. The present invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example fruits. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using such seeds and plants. The present invention also relates to a novel sucrose modifier SucMod allele, which, when combined with a sucrose accumulation T/Vallele derived from a green-fruited wild tomato accession, significantly alters the proportion of sugar stored in the fruit, confers increased fruit sucrose content at the expense of hexose sugars and results in a fruit with a distinctive flavour.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicants: THE STATE OF ISRAEL, SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Arthur SCHAFFER, Michal MOY, Naomi HOUMINER, Marina PETREIKOV, Yelena YESELSON, Daniel RICKETT, Julien BONNET, Charles James BAXTER
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Patent number: 12171227Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, polypeptides, transgenic plants, compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity (e.g., insecticidal activity) to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds. Nucleic acids encoding the insecticidal proteins can be used to transform prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, including plants, to express the insecticidal proteins. The recombinant organisms and compositions containing the recombinant organisms or insecticidal proteins can be used to control a pest (e.g., an insect).Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Christopher Fleming, Richard Sessler
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Patent number: 12133528Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, novel insecticidal proteins having toxicity against Coleopteran and/or Lepidopteran insect pests are provided. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the novel insecticidal proteins are also provided. Methods of making the insecticidal proteins and methods of using the insecticidal proteins and nucleic acids encoding the insecticidal proteins of the invention, for example in transgenic plants to confer protection from insect damage, are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Clarence Michael Reynolds, Christopher Fleming
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Publication number: 20240360462Abstract: Disclosed are double stranded RNA molecules that are toxic to coleopteran insects. In particular, interfering RNA molecules capable of interfering with pest target genes and that are toxic to the target pest are provided. Further, methods of making and using the interfering RNA, for example in transgenic plants or as the active ingredient in a composition, to confer protection from insect damage are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Kevin L. DONOHUE, Yann NAUDET, Lies DEGRAVE, Isabelle MAILLET, Pascale FELDMANN
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Patent number: 12108723Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209, and plants produced according to these methods.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Benjamin Ford, Azzeddine Douiyssi, William H. Goodwin, Russel Pinnisch, Jason Cromley, Thomas Joseph Prest
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Publication number: 20240292845Abstract: Disclosed are double stranded RNA (dsRNA) molecules that are toxic to insect pests. In particular, interfering RNA molecules capable of modulating expression of a pest insect target gene and that are toxic to the insect pest are provided. Further, methods of making and using the interfering RNA, for example as the active ingredient in an insecticidal composition or in a transgenic plant, to confer protection from insect damage are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Yann NAUDET, Myriam BEGHYN, Lien DE SCHRIJVER, Annelies PHILIPS, Isabelle MAILLET
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Publication number: 20240284911Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling dallisgrass or tropical signalgrass in warm-season turfgrass, comprising applying to the warm-season turfgrass or to the locus of the warm-season turfgrass an effective rate of pinoxaden.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: John Robert JAMES, Lukas DANT
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Publication number: 20240284908Abstract: A fungicidal composition comprising a mixture of components (A) and (B), wherein components (A) and (B) are as defined in claim 1, and use of the compositions in agriculture or horticulture for controlling or preventing infestation of plants by phytopathogenic microorganisms, preferably fungi.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Thomas James HOFFMAN, Daniel STIERLI, Renaud BEAUDEGNIES, Martin POULIOT, Ulrich Johannes HAAS
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Publication number: 20240276939Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line HID3768, IID5385, KFX5360, KID7244, LFF6371, LFF7869, or MIJ7209, and plants produced according to these methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Benjamin Ford, Azzeddine Douiyssi, William H. Goodwin, Russel Pinnisch, Jason Cromley, Thomas Joseph Prest
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Patent number: 12060331Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal substituted phenyl-pyridazine-diones and substituted phenyl-pyridazinone derivatives of formula (I), as well as to processes and intermediates used for the preparation of such derivatives. The invention further extends to herbicidal compositions comprising such derivatives, as well as to the use of such compounds and compositions in controlling undesirable plant growth: in particular the use in controlling weeds, such as broad-leaved dicotyledonous weeds, in crops of useful plants.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Kenneth Bruce Ling, Christopher John Mathews, Timothy Jeremiah Cornelius O'Riordan, Stephen Edward Shanahan, Joseph Andrew Tate, Christiana Kitsiou, Peter Timothy Seden
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Patent number: 12052970Abstract: The invention relates to novel tomato plants producing fruits displaying a modified sugar content, particularly displaying an increased sucrose content. The invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example fruits. The invention further relates to methods of making and using such seeds and plants. The invention also relates to a sucrose modifier SucMod allele, which, when combined with a sucrose accumulation TIV allele derived from a green-fruited wild tomato accession, significantly alters the proportion of sugar stored in the fruit, confers increased fruit sucrose content at the expense of hexose sugars and results in a fruit with a distinctive flavor.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignees: The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization, Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Arthur Schaffer, Michal Moy, Naomi Houminer, Marina Petreikov, Yelena Yeselson, Daniel Rickett, Julien Bonnet, Charles James Baxter
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Patent number: 12043599Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and G are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I), to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Alan Joseph Hennessy, Elizabeth Pearl Jones, Shuji Hachisu, Nigel James Willetts, Suzanna Dale, Alexander William Gregory, Ian Thomas Tinmouth Houlsby, Yunas Bhonoah, Julia Comas-Barcelo
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Patent number: 12035666Abstract: Provided here are methods of using a mutated patatin-like phospholipase II? (“pPLAII?,” renamed here MATRILINEAL) to induce haploid induction in plants, cloning a pPLAII? to induce haploid induction in plants, and genetically engineering a plant to contain a mutated pPLAII?. Also provided are methods of applying topical and spray chemicals, lipids, and RNAi molecules to plants during pollination in order to induce haploid production. Further provided are methods of chemically treating plants during pollination to induce haploids while also reducing embryo abortion and increasing seed set.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Timothy Kelliher, Satya Chintamanani, Brent Delzer, Michael L Nuccio, Robert Arthur Dietrich, Suresh Babu Kadaru, Todd Lee Warner, William Paul Bullock
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Patent number: 12022788Abstract: The present invention relates to novel watermelon plants displaying an increased number of male flowers. The present invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example fruits. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using such seeds and plants. The present invention also relates to novel genetic determinants associated with an increased number of male flowers and to molecular markers linked to said novel genetic determinants.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: James P. Brusca, Matt Kinkade, Sarah Danan
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Patent number: 12016339Abstract: Disclosed are double stranded RNA (dsRNA) molecules that are toxic to insect pests. In particular, interfering RNA molecules capable of modulating expression of a pest insect target gene and that are toxic to the insect pest are provided. Further, methods of making and using the interfering RNA, for example as the active ingredient in an insecticidal composition or in a transgenic plant, to confer protection from insect damage are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Yann Naudet, Myriam Beghyn, Lien De Schrijver, Annelies Philips, Isabelle Maillet
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Patent number: 12012399Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates to agrochemical compositions which comprise compounds or compositions in agriculture or horticulture for combating, preventing or controlling infestation of plants, harvested food crops, seeds or non-living materials by phytopathogenic microorganisms, in particular fungi.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Farhan Bou Hamdan, Matthias Weiss, Laura Quaranta
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Patent number: 12004460Abstract: Up until now, all varieties of Impatiens walleriana are susceptible to impatiens downy mildew cause by the water mold, Plasmopara obducens. The present invention relates to novel Impatiens walleriana seed containing a genetic resistance to Plasmopara obducens. The present invention also relates to methods for creating novel Impatiens walleriana seed containing a genetic resistance to Plasmopara obducens and Impatiens walleriana seed produced by the method.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Antonius Jacobus Gerardus Groot, Nevena Folkerts-Radmanovic