Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with guard cell-preferential or guard cell-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana gene At5g58580, or from Arabidopsis genomic DNA sequences as described by SEQ ID NO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, or 15.

Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with seed-preferential or seed-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At4g12910, At1g66250, At4g00820, At2g36640, At2g34200, At3g11180, At4g00360, At2g48030, At2g38590, At1g23000, At3g15510, At3g50870, At4g00220, or At4g26320.

Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with constitutive expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At5g17920, At3g03780, At2g01100, At2g34770, At5g61560, At4g00830, At3g10220, At4g38520, At3g11110, At2g47170, At1g64090, At5g60690, At1g76350, At1g76580, At1g31930, At5g18230, At1g20970, or At4g35620.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of ketocarotenoids by culturing plants which show a modified ketolase activity in petals in comparison with the wild type, to the genetically modified plants, to their use as foodstuffs and feedstuffs, and for the production of ketocarotenoid extracts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing transgenic plants and/or plant cells having an elevated vitamin E content, said transgenic plants and/or plant cells having a serine-acetyltransferase (SAT) content and/or activity which is modified in relation to the wild type, and/or a modified thiol compound content. The invention also relates to the use of nucleic acids coding for a SAT, for producing transgenic plants or plant cells having an elevated vitamin E content. The invention further relates to a method for producing vitamin E by cultivating transgenic plants or plant cells having a modified SAT content in relation to the wild type.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for the directed, transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences in the carbohydrate-storing sink tissues of plants using transgenic expression cassettes which comprise the Vicia faba plastidic 1,4-?-D-glucan:phosphate ?-D-glucosyltransferase promoter. Furthermore, the invention relates to said transgenic expression cassettes and to transgenic expression vectors and transgenic organisms comprising them, and to the use of the same for the production of foodstuffs, feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.

Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of said expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with said expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived therefrom and also to the use of same for the production of food- and feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing plants containing increased quantities of tocopherols, vitamin K, carotinoids, chlorophylls and polyterpenes by overexpression of a DXPRI gene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a binary vector which is distinguished by the combination of a variety of elements, demonstrates particularly high compatibility from the cloning aspect and which, besides the T-DNA flanked by the right and left border, contains an additional sequence which makes possible highly efficient and correct transfer of the T-DNA.

Abstract: The invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding a protein with homogentisate phytyltransferase activity, to the use of the nucleic acids for generating transgenic organisms such as, for example, transgenic plants with an elevated tocopherol and tocotrienol content, to a method of generating plants with an elevated tocopherol and/or tocotrienol content, and to the transgenic plants themselves.

Abstract: A method of producing transgenic plants of the genus Tagetes which is based on an Agrobacterium-tumefaciens-mediated transformation of cell cultures, the subsequent selection of the transformed cells and their regeneration into stably transformed plants is described. Transformed cells and regenerated transgenic plants express the foreign gene.