Patents Assigned to Wageningen University
  • Protein repelling silicon and germanium surfaces
    Patent number: 8481435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a functionalized Si/Ge-surface, wherein an unfunctionalised Si/Ge-surface is contacted in the presence of ultraviolet radiation with a C2-C50 alkene and/or a C2-C50 alkyne, the alkene and/or alkyne being optionally substituted and/or being optionally interrupted by one or more heteroatoms. The present invention further relates to articles or substrates comprising the functionalized Si/Ge-surface and the use of the functionalised Si/Ge-surface to prevent or to reduce adsorption of a biomolecule to an article or a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Wageningen University
    Inventors: Catharina Gerarda Petronella Henrica Schroën, Michel Rosso, Johannes Teunis Zuilhof
  • Statistical approach for optimal use of genetic information collected on historical pedigrees, genotyped with dense marker maps, into routine pedigree analysis of active maize breeding populations
    Patent number: 8321147
    Abstract: This invention provides a novel means of predicting plant phenotypes that incorporates previously unusable dense marker data derived from historical pedigrees. The method operates by collecting information from a population pertaining to one or more loci, which is used to build one or more matrices by calculating, for the alleles present at the measured loci, the probability that the alleles are identical by descent. These matrices are then used to develop a second set of one or more matrices in which each value represents the probability that a certain individual in the population descended from a certain ancestral (founder) genotype. This set of second matrices can then be used as part of a breeding program for selecting and breeding individuals from the population or can be used to better classify the individuals in the population, leading to improved plant phenotypes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc, Wageningen University, Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek
    Inventors: Marinus C. A. M. Bink, Carl J. F. ter Braak, Oscar S. Smith, L. Radu Totir
  • Tailor-made functionalized silicon and/or germanium surfaces
    Patent number: 8221879
    Abstract: The present invention relates to functionalized silicon and/or germanium surfaces, methods for the preparation of such tailor-made functionalized silicon and/or germanium surfaces, the use of such tailor-made functionalized silicon and/or germanium surfaces for the preparation of surface-bonded organic materials and the use in industrial devices. The silicon and/or germanium surfaces comprise silicon nitride, silicon carbide, germanium nitride, germanium carbide and silicon germanium surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Wageningen University
    Inventors: Johannes Teunis Zuilhof, Catharina Gerarda Petronella Henrica Schröen, Ahmed Arafat Mohamed Khamis
  • Nucleotide sequences involved in plant disease resistance
    Patent number: 7947872
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for producing plants having enhanced disease resistance. NRC1 proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these are provided, as well as transgenic plants producing NRC1 proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignees: Keygene N.V., Wageningen University
    Inventors: Suzan Herma Elisabeth Johanna Gabriëls, Jack Hubertus Vossen, Matthieu Henri Antoon Jozef Joosten, Peter Jozef Gerard Marie De Wit
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES INVOVLED IN PLANT DISEASE RESISTANCE
    Publication number: 20090123999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for producing plants having enhanced disease resistance. NRC1 proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these are provided, as well as transgenic plants producing NRC1 proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicants: Keygene N.V., Wageningen University
    Inventors: Suzan Herma Elisabeth Gabriels, Jack Hubertus Vossen, Matthieu Henri Antoon Jozef Joosten, Peter Jozef Marie De Wit
  • Device manufacturing method and device
    Patent number: 7507675
    Abstract: A method for patterning a polished silicon surface is disclosed, the method including steps leading to an organic monolayer on at least a part of the silicon surface, the monolayer being functionalized in specific desired locations. The method can be used to produce a device comprising one or more FET structures, the gate of the FET being formed by the functionalized organic monolayer. The functionalized monolayer preferably contains oligosaccharides or oligopeptides which are capable of interacting with biological substance, such that the device acts as a bio-sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignees: ASML Netherlands B.V., Wageningen University
    Inventors: Johannes Teunis Zuilhof, Klaus Simon, Ernst Jan Robert Sudholter, Qiao-Yu Sun
  • Nucleotide sequences involved in plant disease resistance
    Patent number: 7320892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for producing plants having enhanced disease resistance. NRC1 proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these are provided, as well as transgenic plants producing NRC1 proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignees: Keygene N.V., Wageningen University
    Inventors: Suzan Herma Elisabeth Johanna Gabriëls, Jack Hubertus Vossen, Matthieu Henri Antoon Jozef Joosten, Peter Jozef Marie De Wit