Patents by Inventor Jens Lerchl
Jens Lerchl 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).
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Publication number: 20150005168Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase or a mutated hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (mut-HPPD) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide and/or a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type homogentisate solanesyl transferase or a mutated homogentisate solanesyl transferase (mut-HST) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide, and applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising mut-HPPD, and methods of obtaining such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Johannes Hutzler, Stefan Tresch, Thomas Mietzner, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Raphael Aponte, Liliana Parra Rapado, Jill Marie Paulik
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Publication number: 20140357487Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase or a mutated hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (mut-HPPD) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide and/or a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type homogentisate solanesyl transferase or a mutated homogentisate solanesyl transferase (mut-HST) which is resistant or tolerant to a coumarone-derivative herbicide, and applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising mut-HPPD, and methods of obtaining such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Johannes Hutzler, Stefan Tresch, Thomas Mietzner, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Raphael Aponte, Liliana Parra Rapado, Jill Marie Paulik
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Patent number: 8877683Abstract: The present invention provides substituted pyridine compounds of the formula I or N-oxides or agriculturally suitable salts thereof, wherein the variables in the formula I are defined as in the description. Substituted pyridines of formula I are useful as herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Gilbert Besong, Michael Rack, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Jens Lerchl, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Richard Roger Evans
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Publication number: 20140323306Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds of the formula I and the N-oxides and salts thereof and to compositions comprising the same. The invention also relates to the use of the 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds or of the compositions comprising such compounds for controlling unwanted vegetation. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods of applying such compounds. In formula I, the variables have the following meanings R is e.g. hydrogen, cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl-C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-haloalkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C2-C6haloalkynyl, C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, O—Ra, Z—S(O)n—Rb, Z—C(?O)—Rc, Z—C(?O)—ORd, Z—C(?O)NReRf, Z—NRgRh, Z-phenyl and Z-heterocyclyl etc; R1 is e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Helmut Kraus, Matthias Witschel, Thomas Seitz, Trevor William Newton, Liliana Parra Rapado, Raphael Aponte, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Jens Lerchl, Richard Roger Evans
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Publication number: 20140309116Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds of the formula (I) and the N-oxides and salts thereof and to compositions comprising the same. The invention also relates to the use of the 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds or of the compositions comprising such compounds for controlling unwanted vegetation. Furthermore, the invention relates to methods of applying such compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Helmut Kraus, Matthias Witschel, Thomas Seitz, Trevor William Newton, Liliana Parra Rapado, Raphael Aponte, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Jens Lerchl, Richard Roger Evans
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Publication number: 20140309115Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds of the formula I and the N-oxides and salts thereof and to compositions comprising the same. The invention also relates to the use of the 1,2,5-oxadiazole compounds or of the compositions comprising such compounds for controlling unwanted vegetation. wherein X1 is N or CR1; X2 is N or CR2; X4 is N or CR4; provided that a least one of X1, X2 and X4 is N; R is e.g. selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl, C3-C7-cycloalkyl-C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-haloalkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C2-C6-haloalkynyl, C1-C4-alkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkoxy-C1-C4-alkyl, O—Ra, Z—S(O)n—Rb, Z—C(?O)—Rc, Z—C(?O)—ORd, Z—C(?O)—NReRf, Z—NRgRh, Z-phenyl and Z-heterocyclyl; R1 is e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Helmut Kraus, Matthias Witschel, Thomas Seitz, Trevor William Newton, Liliana Parra Rapado, Raphael Aponte, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Jens Lerchl, Richard Roger Evans
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Publication number: 20140173776Abstract: The present invention refers to method for producing a transgenic plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant, comprising transforming a plant cell or a plant cell nucleus or a plant tissue with a nucleic acid molecule encoding an Alopecurus cytochrome P450 monooxygenase, as well as to the nucleic acid, and plants with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance comprising the nucleic acid of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Stefan TRESCH, Doreen SCHACHTSCHABEL, Maciej PASTERNAK, Liliana PARRA RAPADO, Jens LERCHL, Thomas MIETZNER, Martin LaFOREST
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Patent number: 8729337Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of unsaturated fatty acids with at least two double bonds. The invention furthermore relates to the use of nucleic acid sequences SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 5, 9, and 11 encoding polypeptides having desaturase or elongase activity in the method and for generating a transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or a transgenic microorganism, with an increased content of fatty acids, oils or lipids with unsaturated C18-, C20-, or C22-fatty acids, and to their homologs or derivatives, to gene constructs encompassing these genes, and to their use alone or in combination with biosynthesis genes of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention also relates to multiexpression cassettes for seed-specific expression, and to vectors or organisms which encompass a desaturase gene alone or in combination with further desaturases and/or elongase genes or homologs using said expression cassettes.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Jens Lerchl, Andreas Renz, Ernst Heinz, Frederic Domergue, Ulrich Zähringer
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Publication number: 20140123340Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type or a mutated protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a benzoxazinone-derivative herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Inventors: Raphael APONTE, Stefan TRESCH, Matthias WITSCHEL, Jens LERCHL, Jill Marie PAULIK, Chad BROMMER
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Publication number: 20140094368Abstract: The present invention provides substituted pyridine compounds of the formula I or N-oxides or agriculturally suitable salts thereof, wherein the variables in the formula I are defined as in the description. Substituted pyridines of formula I are useful as herbicides.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Helmut Kraus, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Jens Lerchl, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Richard Roger Evans, Ruediger Reingruber, Liliana Parra Rapado, Gilbert Besong, Michael Rack, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz
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Publication number: 20130288899Abstract: The present invention provides substituted pyridine compounds of the formula I or N-oxides or agriculturally suitable salts thereof, wherein the variables in the formula I are defined as in the description. Substituted pyridines of formula I are useful as herbicides.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Gilbert Besong, Michael Rack, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Jens Lerchl, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Richard Roger Evans
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Publication number: 20130274109Abstract: The present invention provides substituted pyrazine compounds of the formula I or N-oxides or agriculturally suitable salts thereof, wherein the variables in the formula I are defined as in the description. Substituted pyrazines of formula I are useful as herbicides.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ruediger Reingruber, Helmut Kraus, Johannes Hutzler, Trevor William Newton, Matthias Witschel, William Karl Moberg, Liliana Parra Rapado, Gilbert Besong, Michael Rack, Andree Van Der Kloet, Thomas Seitz, Jens Lerchl, Klaus Kreuz, Klaus Grossmann, Richard Roger Evans
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Publication number: 20120210465Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of unsaturated fatty acids with at least two double bonds. The invention furthermore relates to the use of nucleic acid sequences SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 5, 9, and 11 encoding polypeptides having desaturase or elongase activity in the method and for generating a transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or a transgenic microorganism, with an increased content of fatty acids, oils or lipids with unsaturated C18-, C20-, or C22-fatty acids, and to their homologs or derivatives, to gene constructs encompassing these genes, and to their use alone or in combination with biosynthesis genes of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention also relates to multiexpression cassettes for seed-specific expression, and to vectors or organisms which encompass a desaturase gene alone or in combination with further desaturases and/or elongase genes or homologs using said expression cassettes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Jens Lerchl, Andreas Renz, Ernst Heinz, Frederic Domergue, Ulrich Zähringer
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Patent number: 8088974Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of unsaturated fatty acids with at least two double bonds. The invention furthermore relates to the use of nucleic acid sequences SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 11 encoding polypeptides having desaturase activity in the method and for generating a transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or a transgenic microorganism, with an increased content of fatty acids, oils or lipids with unsaturated C18-, C20-, or C22-fatty acids, and to their homologs or derivatives, to gene constructs encompassing these genes, and to their use alone or in combination with biosynthesis genes of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention also relates to multiexpression cassettes for seed-specific expression, and to vectors or organisms which encompass a desaturase gene alone or in combination with further desaturases and/or elongase genes or homologs using said expression cassettes.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Jens Lerchl, Andreas Renz, Ernst Heinz, Frederic Domergue, Ulrich Zähringer
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Patent number: 7893320Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of fatty acid esters which comprise unsaturated fatty acids with at least three double bonds, and to free unsaturated fatty acids with a content of at least 1% by weight based on the total fatty acids present in the plants, by expressing at least one nucleic acid sequence which encodes a polypeptide with ?6-desaturase activity and at least one nucleic acid sequence which encodes a polypeptide with ?6-elongase activity. Advantageously, these nucleic acid sequences can, if appropriate, be expressed in the transgenic plant together with a third nucleic acid sequence which encodes a polypeptide with ?5-desaturase activity. The invention furthermore relates to the use of defined nucleic acid sequences which encode polypeptides with a ?6-desaturase activity, ?6-elongase activity or ?5-desaturase activity selected from a group of nucleic acid sequences, and/or to the use of nucleic acid constructs comprising the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Petra Cirpus, Andreas Renz, Jens Lerchl, Anne-Marie Kuijpers
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Patent number: 7727753Abstract: The present invention relates to a DNA encoding a polypeptide with dihydroorotase (EC 3.5.2.3) activity. Also, the invention relates to the use of this nucleic acid for the generation of an assay system.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Ehrhardt, Jens Lerchl, Marc Stitt Nigel, Rita Zrenner, Michael Schroeder
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Publication number: 20100021976Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of unsaturated fatty acids with at least two double bonds. The invention furthermore relates to the use of nucleic acid sequences SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 11 encoding polypeptides having desaturase activity in the method and for generating a transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or a transgenic microorganism, with an increased content of fatty acids, oils or lipids with unsaturated C18-, C20-, or C22-fatty acids, and to their homologs or derivatives, to gene constructs encompassing these genes, and to their use alone or in combination with biosynthesis genes of polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention also relates to multiexpression cassettes for seed-specific expression, and to vectors or organisms which encompass a desaturase gene alone or in combination with further desaturases and/or elongase genes or homologs using said expression cassettes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Jens Lerchl, Andreas Renz, Ernst Heinz, Frederic Domergue, Ulrich Zahringer
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Patent number: 7615679Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of unsaturated fatty acids with at least two double bonds. The invention further relates to the use of the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 encoding a polypeptide having delta-5 desaturase activity in the method and for generating a transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or microorganism with an increased content of fatty acids, oil or lipids with unsaturated long chain fatty acids, to their homologs or derivatives, and to gene constructs encompassing these genes. The invention also relates to the use of the nucleic acid sequences alone or in combination with further desaturases and/or elongase genes in the method and for generating transgenic organisms.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Jens Lerchl, Andreas Renz, Ernst Heinz, Frederic Domergue, Ulrich Zähringer
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Patent number: 7601889Abstract: This invention relates to a new elongase gene having the sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 or its derivatives, to a gene construct comprising this sequence or its derivatives and to its use. The inventive nucleic acid sequence encodes a polypeptide which elongates ?-linolenic acid (C18:3 d9, 12, 15) by at least two carbon atoms whereas ?-linolenic acid (C18:3 d6, 9, 12) is not elongated. The invention additionally relates to vectors or organisms comprising an elongase gene having the sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 or its derivatives. The invention further relates to a process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids (=PUFAs) with an organism which comprises the elongase gene and which organism produces high amounts of oils and especially oils with a high content of unsaturated fatty acids.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2002Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Inventors: Johnathan A. Napier, Colin M. Lazarus, Baoxiu Qi, Jens Lerchl
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Patent number: 7544859Abstract: The invention relates to novel elongase genes with the sequences stated in sequence SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 7 or their homologs, derivatives or analogs, to a gene construct comprising this gene or its homologs, derivatives and analogs, and to its use. The invention also relates to vectors or transgenic organisms comprising an elongase gene with the sequence SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 7 or its homologs, derivatives and analogs. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the elongase gene sequences alone or in combination with further elongases and/or further fatty acid biosynthesis genes. The present invention relates to a novel elongase gene with the sequence SEQ ID NO:1 or its homologs, derivatives and analogs.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ernst Heinz, Thorsten Zank, Ulrich Zähringer, Jens Lerchl, Andreas Renz