Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing eicosapentanoic acid, docosapentanoic acid and/or docohexanoic acid in transgenic plants. According to said method, the plant is provided with at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypetide with a ?6 desaturase activity, at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a ?6 elongase activity, at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a ?5 desaturase activity, and at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a ?5 elongase activity, the nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a ?5 elongase activity being modified in relation to the nucleic acid sequence in the organism from which the sequence originates, such that it is adapted to the codon use in at least one type of plant. For the production of docosahexanoic acid, at least one nucleic acid sequence coding for a polypeptide with a ?4 desaturase activity is also introduced into the plant.

Abstract: An integration element including a shaft and a housing, wherein the housing includes a passage for the shaft and the shaft includes connecting elements on the shaft ends which are accessible from outside the housing, these elements providing a rotationally-fixed connection to connecting shafts. The housing has at least one connection for fastening to a connection structure and the shaft together with the housing delimits a measuring equipment space for receiving measuring equipment. The housing is formed by at least two housing parts detachably connected to each other, said housing parts being designed to be separated around the full extent of their circumference surrounding the shaft to allow access to the measuring equipment space. The housing has bearing seats for shaft bearings and these shaft bearings support the shaft in a rotatable manner with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A rotary joint which, in order to limit the mutual rotation of the outer bearing ring (2) with respect to the inner bearing ring (2), is provided with a raceway (11), which is limited by one or two stops (14) and in which a projection connected to the outer bearing ring engages. In order to ensure that a rotation greater than 360° is possible, the raceway is of helical design.

Abstract: An integration element including a shaft and a housing, wherein the housing includes a passage for the shaft and the shaft includes connecting elements on the shaft ends which are accessible from outside the housing, these elements providing a rotationally-fixed connection to connecting shafts. The housing has at least one connection for fastening to a connection structure and the shaft together with the housing delimits a measuring equipment space for receiving measuring equipment. The housing is formed by at least two housing parts detachably connected to each other, said housing parts being designed to be separated around the full extent of their circumference surrounding the shaft to allow access to the measuring equipment space. The housing has bearing seats for shaft bearings and these shaft bearings support the shaft in a rotatable manner with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A bearing element for two spatial directions, including a series of first rolling bodies (1), which roll on a first side (2) of an intermediate part (3) in a first direction, and a series of second rolling bodies (4), which roll on a second side (5) of the intermediate part and on a fastening part (6) in a second direction that differs to the first direction, the fastening part having a shaft (7), and a spring element (8) being arranged around the shaft. This bearing element addresses the problem of providing a bearing element for two spatial directions, which can absorb great forces perpendicularly to the two spatial directions and which is of compact design.

Abstract: A rotary joint which, in order to limit the mutual rotation of the outer bearing ring (2) with respect to the inner bearing ring (2), is provided with a raceway (11), which is limited by one or two stops (14) and in which a projection connected to the outer bearing ring engages. In order to ensure that a rotation greater than 360° is possible, the raceway is of helical design.

Abstract: A bearing element for two spatial directions, including a series of first rolling bodies (1), which roll on a first side (2) of an intermediate part (3) in a first direction, and a series of second rolling bodies (4), which roll on a second side (5) of the intermediate part and on a fastening part (6) in a second direction that differs to the first direction, the fastening part having a shaft (7), and a spring element (8) being arranged around the shaft. This bearing element addresses the problem of providing a bearing element for two spatial directions, which can absorb great forces perpendicularly to the two spatial directions and which is of compact design.

Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing arrangement (1), in particular for bearing the carrying shaft (30) of a parabolic trough collector (26), having a disc- or ring-shaped component (3), at least one support roller (5), which radially fixes the component (3) and on which the component (3) rolls on the circumferential side during rotation about a rotation axis (2), and a support structure (6), on which the support roller (5) is mounted by a radial sliding bearing (8). According to the invention, the lateral surface (12) of the support roller (5) which receives the component (3) has a convex curve in the axial direction. The invention further relates to parabolic trough collector (26) mounted on a plurality of such bearing arrangements (1).

Abstract: A bearing arrangement for the rotatable mounting of a shaft (7) in relation to a housing (8), including a back-up bearing (9) which is designed as a rolling contact bearing, wherein the rolling contact bearing can absorb forces in the axial and radial direction and is designed in particular as an angular rolling bearing, especially as a two-row angular ball bearing, wherein the rolling contact bearing (9) is substantially left open in the radial direction. The object addressed by the invention is that of providing a bearing arrangement with a back-up bearing for a shaft, which bearing arrangement can better absorb in particular the forces occurring in the mounting of rapidly rotating, solid shafts.

Abstract: A bearing arrangement for the rotatable mounting of a shaft (7) in relation to a housing (8), including a back-up bearing (9) which is designed as a rolling bearing, wherein the rolling bearing can absorb forces in the axial and radial direction and is designed in particular as an angular rolling bearing, especially as a two-row angular ball bearing, wherein the rolling bearing (9) is substantially free in the radial direction. The problem addressed by the invention is that of providing a bearing arrangement with a back-up bearing for a shaft, which bearing arrangement can better absorb in particular the forces occurring in the mounting of rapidly rotating, solid shafts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing polyunsaturated fatty acids in an organism, according to which nucleic acids coding for polypeptides with an acyl-CoA:lysophospholipid-acyltransferase activity am introduced into the organism. Advantageously, said nucleic acid sequences can be expressed in the transgenic organism optionally together with other nucleic acid sequences coding for polypeptides of the fatty acid or lipid metabolism. The invention also relates to the inventive nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs containing the inventive nucleic acid sequences, vectors containing the inventive nucleic acid sequences and/or the nucleic acid constructs, and transgenic organisms containing said nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs and/or vectors. The invention further relates to oils, lipids and/or fatty acids produced according to the inventive method, and to the use of the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods of increasing the total oil content and/or the glycerol 3-phosphate content in transgenic oil crop plants which comprise at least 20% by weight of oleic acid based on the total fatty acid content, preferably in plant seeds, by expressing glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenases (G3PDHs) from yeasts, preferably from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The oil and/or the free fatty acids obtained in the process are advantageously added to polymers, foodstuffs, feedstuffs, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals or products with industrial applications.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of multiply-unsaturated fatty acids in an organism, into which nucleic acids have been introduced, which code for polypeptides with ?-5 elongase activity. Said nucleic acid sequences, optionally with further nucleic acid sequences, coding for polypeptides for the biosynthesis of fatty acids and lipid metabolism, are advantageously expressed in the organism. Nucleic acid sequences coding for a ?-6 desaturase, a ?-5 desaturase, ?-4 desaturase and/or ?-6 elongase activity are particularly advantageous and, advantageously, said saturases and elongases are derived from Thalassiosira, Euglena or Ostreococcus. The invention further relates to a method for the production of oils and/or triacylglycerides with an increased content of long-chain, multiply-unsaturated fatty acids.

Abstract: A prepolymer is prepared from a starting material a) of one or more bifunctional or polyfunctional organic cyanates; and a starting material b) of one or more bifunctional or polyfunctional aromatic alcohols and/or one or more bifunctional or polyfunctional aliphatic alcohols substituted in the aliphatic group with at least one fluorine atom, wherein the starting materials a) and b) are present in a weight ratio ensuring a molar ratio of the OCN groups to the OH groups between 95:5 and 70:30 in the starting materials a) and b). The prepolymer has a degree of crosslinking that is below the gel point of the prepolymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids in an organism by introducing, into the organism, nucleic acids which encode polypeptides with ?5-elongase, ?6-desaturase, ?5-desaturase, ?4-desaturase, ?12-desaturase and/or ?6-elongase activity. These desaturases and elongases are advantageously derived from Ostreococcus. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the production of oils and/or triacylglycerides with an elevated content of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention furthermore relates to the nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and organisms comprising the nucleic acid sequences according to the invention, to vectors comprising the nucleic acid sequences and/or the nucleic acid constructs and to transgenic organisms comprising the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs and/or vectors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the content of polyunsaturated long-chain fatty acids in an organism by introducing into said organism nucleic acids coding for polypeptides or proteins exhibiting a phospholipase, ketoacyl-CoA reductase and/or dehydratase activity. Advantageously, said enzymes originate from Ostreococcus or Thraustochytrium. The present invention further relates to the nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and organisms containing the nucleic acid sequences according to the present invention, vectors containing the nucleic acid sequences and/or the nucleic acid constructs as well as to transgenic organisms containing the above mentioned nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs and/or vectors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for production of unsaturated ?-3-fatty acids and to a process for production of triglycerides with an elevated content of unsaturated fatty acids, especially of ?-3-fatty acids having more than three double bonds. The invention relates to the production of a transgenic organism, preferably of a transgenic plant or of a transgenic microorganism, with an elevated content of unsaturated ?-3-fatty acids, oils or lipids having ?-3-double bonds as the result of the expression of an ?-3-desaturase from fungi of the family Pythiaceae such as the genus Phytophtora, for example of the genus and species Phytophtora infestans.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica napus, and Helianthus annuus are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches, or seed storage proteins.

Abstract: Hyperbranchend compounds of triazine rings that contain free OH groups in the outer sphere, are obtainable by copolymerization of (1) at least one di- or higher functional cyanate compound, and (2) at least one compound, selected from mono-, di- and polyvalent aromatic alcohols and mono-, di- and polyfunctional, partly or fully fluorinated alcohols. With one or more (activated) organic acids having formula Q-C(O)Y, wherein Q is an organic residue X having at least one unit which can serve as a crosslinking unit or an organic residue P which cannot undergo a crosslinking reaction, and wherein C(O)Y is either a carboxylic group or is an activated carboxylic residue, derivatives are obtained which can be crosslinked into polymers, via the X residues, and/or which may have specifically tailored properties, via the P residues, and/or by using less than the required amount of acid in order to maintain part of the free hydroxy residues.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in an organism by introducing, into the organism, nucleic acids which code for polypeptides with acyl transferase activity. These nucleic acid sequences, if appropriate together with further nucleic acid sequences which code for polypeptides of the fatty acid or lipid metabolism biosynthesis, can advantageously be expressed in the organism. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for the production of oils and/or triacylglycerides with an elevated content of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. The invention furthermore relates to the nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and organisms comprising the nucleic acid sequences according to the invention, vectors comprising the nucleic acid sequences and/or the nucleic acid constructs and to transgenic organisms comprising the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs and/or vectors.