Patents by Inventor Aurine Verkest

Aurine Verkest has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9388423
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an importin or a yield-related polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an importin or a yield-related polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Dirk Inzé, Geert De Jaeger, Aurine Verkest, Valerie Frankard, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Koen Bruynseels
  • Publication number: 20150106974
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of one ore more nucleic acid(s) encoding at least two iSYT (interactor of SYT—synovial sarcoma translocation—) polypeptides. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. Nucleic acids encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides and constructs comprising the same useful in performing the methods of the invention are also disclosed. Also provided are constructs useful in the methods of the invention. The present invention also relates to an iSYT-based protein complex. The use of the complex to promote plant growth, and a method for stimulating the complex formation, by overexpressing at least two members of the complex, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: VALERIE FRANKARD, ANDRY ANDRIANKAJA, YVES HATZFELD, MARIEKE LOUWERS, STEVEN VANDENABEELE, AURINE VERKEST, GEERT DE JAEGER, DIRK INZÉ
  • Patent number: 8946512
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of one or more nucleic acid(s) encoding at least two iSYT (interactor of SYT-synovial sarcoma translocation-) polypeptides. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown nucleic acids encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Furthermore the present invention also relates to an iSYT-based protein complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Valerie Frankard, Andry Andriankaja, Yves Hatzfeld, Marieke Louwers, Steven Vandenabeele, Aurine Verkest, Geert De Jaeger, Dirk Inzé
  • Publication number: 20120331586
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an importin or a yield-related polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an importin or a yield-related polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Dirk Inzé, Geert De Jaeger, Aurine Verkest, Valerie Frankard, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Koen Bruynseels
  • Publication number: 20120331585
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a poly(A)-RRM or a Q-rich polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a poly(A)-RRM or a Q-rich polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Inzé, Geert De Jaeger, Aurine Verkest, Valerie Frankard
  • Publication number: 20120324602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to protein complexes based on AN3-interactors, more specifically interactors that are plant variants subunits of the SWI/SNF complex, and proteins that interact with those subunits, preferably in an AN3 free protein complex. It relates further to the use of the complexes to promote plant growth, and to a method for stimulating the complex formation, by overexpressing at least one, preferably at least two members of a complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Geert De Jaeger, Dirk Inzé, Aurine Verkest
  • Publication number: 20110214207
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of one or more nucleic acid(s) encoding at least two iSYT (inter-actor of SYT-synovial sarcoma translocation-) polypeptides. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown nucleic acids encoding at least two iSYT polypeptides, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Furthermore the present invention also relates to an iSYT-based protein complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Valerie Frankard, Andry Andriankaja, Yves Hatzfeld, Marieke Louwers, Steven Vandenabeele, Aurine Verkest, Geert De Jaeger, Dirk Inze
  • Publication number: 20110162110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an AN3-based protein complex. It relates further to the use of the complex to promote plant growth, and to a method for stimulating the complex formation, by overexpressing at least two member of the complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Geert De Jaeger, Aurine Verkest, Dirk Inzé