Patents by Inventor Stefan Tresch
Stefan Tresch 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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Patent number: 11365426Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant or plant part comprising a polynucleotide encoding a wildtype or mutated cellulose synthase (CESA) polypeptide, the expression of said polynucleotide confers to the plant or plant part tolerance to CESA-inhibiting herbicides, such as azines.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Stefan Tresch, Doreen Schachtschabel, Mihiret Tekeste Sisay, Jens Lerchl, Julia Major, Florian Vogt, Frederick Calo, Jill Marie Paulik
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Publication number: 20220137057Abstract: The invention provides methods of characterising the mode of action of a test compound by exposing populations of a living system to control and treatment conditions, using an unlabeled and labeled isotope source materials. The measurement of the isotopomer distribution of metabolites reveals the effect of the test compounds on the metabolism in that living systems. Further embodiments include where the living system is a plant, fungus, invertebrate, bacteria or virus, and where the test compound is a screening lead in a pesticide product development program.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Veronique Starck, Janneke Hendriks, Peter Driemert, Michael Herold, Tobias Mentzel, Ruth Campe, Stefan Tresch, Regine Fuchs, Karsten Hiller, Christian-Alexander Dudek
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Patent number: 11306322Abstract: 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 PPO-inhibiting 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
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Patent number: 11274313Abstract: 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 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 mutated PPO enzymes having a substitution at a position corresponding to position Arg128 of SEQ ID NO:2 and an amino acid substitution at a position corresponding to position Phe420 of SEQ ID NO:2, and methods of obtaining such plants.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.Inventors: Johannes Hutzler, Raphael Aponte, Thomas Mietzner, Matthias Witschel, Anja Simon, Jens Lerchl, Stefan Tresch, S. Luke Mankin
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Patent number: 11248234Abstract: 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 a mutated HPPD polypeptide, as well as to the nucleic acid, and plants with increased HPPD-inhibiting herbicide tolerance or resistance comprising the nucleic acid of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Stefan Tresch, Maciej Pasternak, Liliana Parra Rapado, Jill M. Paulik, Jens Lerchl, Gilbert Besong, Markus Kordes, Thomas Mietzner, Eva Stauffer
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Publication number: 20220025392Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant or plant part comprising a polynucleotide encoding a wildtype or mutated cellulose synthase (CESA) polypeptide, the expression of said polynucleotide confers to the plant or plant part tolerance to CESA-inhibiting herbicides, such as azines.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Stefan Tresch, Mihiret Tekeste Sisay, Doreen Schachtschabel, Kristin Hanzlik, Brigitte Weston, Florian Vogt, Danny Geerdink, Jens Lerchl
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Patent number: 11230717Abstract: 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 HPPD-inhibiting 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 HPPD-inhibiting herbicide, 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Maciej Pasternak, Stefan Tresch, Helmut Kraus, Johannes Hutzler, Jens Lerchl, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik
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Publication number: 20210380999Abstract: 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 PPO-inhibiting 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: April 19, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
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Patent number: 11185075Abstract: The present invention relates to phenyltriazolinones of formula (I) or their agriculturally acceptable salts or derivatives, wherein the variables are defined according to the description, processes and intermediates for preparing the uracilpyryidines of the formula (I), compositions comprising them and their use as herbicides, i.e. for controlling harmful plants, and also a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one urycilpyridine of the formula (I) to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Tobias Seiser, Manuel Johannes, Matthias Witschel, Liliana Parra Rapado, Raphael Aponte, Thomas Mietzner, Dario Massa, Thomas Seitz, Peter Dombo, Andreas Landes, Stefan Tresch, Trevor William Newton
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Publication number: 20210340555Abstract: 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 HPPD-inhibiting 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 HPPD-inhibiting herbicide, 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: May 21, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Maciej PASTERNAK, Stefan TRESCH, Johannes HUTZLER, Jens LERCHL, Thomas MIETZNER, Brigitte WESTON, Matthias WITSCHEL, Jill Paulik
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Patent number: 11149030Abstract: 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 protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Liliana Parra Rapado, Tobias Seiser, Jill Marie Paulik, Matthias Witschel
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Patent number: 11064701Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of the compounds of formula (I) wherein the variables are defined according to the description, for controlling unwanted vegetation Further the invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I), compositions comprising them a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one azine of the formula I to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Matthias Witschel, Thomas Mietzner, Manuel Johannes, Thomas Seitz, Trevor William Newton, Gerd Kraemer, Stefan Tresch
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Patent number: 11046971Abstract: 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 HPPD-inhibiting 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 HPPD-inhibiting herbicide, 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: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Inventors: Maciej Pasternak, Stefan Tresch, Johannes Hutzler, Jens Lerchl, Thomas Mietzner, Brigitte Weston, Matthias Witschel, Jill Marie Paulik
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Publication number: 20210112811Abstract: The present invention relates to diaminotriazine compounds of the formula (1) and to their use as herbicides. The present invention also relates to agrochemical compositions for crop protection and to a method for controlling unwanted vegetation. wherein all variable as are defined in claim 1 including their agriculturally acceptable salts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Florian VOGT, Danny GEERDINK, Thomas ZIERKE, Thomas SEITZ, Kristin HANZLIK, Trevor William NEWTON, Peter DOMBO, Stefan TRESCH
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Patent number: 10982227Abstract: 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 PPO-inhibiting 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
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Patent number: 10968462Abstract: The present invention refers to a plant or plant part comprising (i) a recombinant polynucleotide encoding a wildtype or mut-PPO polypeptide, and (ii) a recombinant polynucleotide encoding a CYP450 polypeptide, the expression of said polynucleotides (i) and (ii) confers to the plant or plant part tolerance to PPO-inhibiting herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: BASF AGRO B.V.Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Stefan Tresch, Matthias Witschel, Jens Lerchl, Dario Massa, Tobias Seiser, Thomas Mietzner, Doreen Schachtschabel, Jill Marie Paulik, Chad Brommer
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Patent number: 10941122Abstract: The present invention relates to diaminotriazine compounds of the formula (I) and to their use as herbicides. The present invention also relates to agrochemical compositions for crop protection and to a method for controlling unwanted vegetation. wherein q is 0, 1, 2 or 3 Ra is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6-haloalkoxy, C1-C6-haloalkylthio, (C1-C6-haloalkyl)sulfinyl, (C1-C6-haloalkyl)-carbonyl, etc.; Rb is selected from the group consisting of halogen, OH, CN, amino, NO2, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, etc.; R1 is selected from the group consisting of H, OH, S(O)2NH2, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, (C3-C6-cycloalkyl)-C1-C4-alkyl, etc.; R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, OH, S(O)2NH2, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, (C3-C6-cycloalkyl)-C1-C4-alkyl, etc.; R3 is selected from the group consisting of H, halogen, OH, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, (C1-C6-alkoxy)-C1-C6-alkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl, etc.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Julia Major, Florian Vogt, Frederick Calo, Thomas Seitz, Doreen Schachtschabel, Trevor William Newton, Kristin Hanzlik, Johannes Hutzler, Klaus Kreuz, Stefan Tresch
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Publication number: 20210002662Abstract: 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 protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting 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: November 28, 2018Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Raphael Aponte, Tobias Seiser, Stefan Tresch, Peter Alexander Bowerman, Liliana Parra Rapado, Matthias Witschel, Laetitia Souillart, Manuel Johannes, Thomas Mietzner, Jill Marie Paulik
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Patent number: 10881109Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising an isoxazolo[5,4-b]pyridine and at least one further compound selected from herbicidally active compounds and, if desired, safeners. The present invention also relates to the use of such a composition for controlling unwanted vegetation and to a method for controlling unwanted vegetation, which comprises allowing a composition to act on plants, their seeds and/or their habitat.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Johannes Hutzler, Helmut Kraus, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Yogesh Oturkar, Trevor William Newton, Stefan Tresch, Jens Lerchl, Thomas Seitz, Richard Roger Evans, Klaus Kreuz, Ulrich Steinbrenner
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Patent number: 10881110Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising an isoxazolo[5,4-b]pyridine and at least one further compound selected from herbicidally active compounds and, if desired, safeners. The present invention also relates to the use of such a composition for controlling unwanted vegetation and to a method for controlling unwanted vegetation, which comprises allowing a composition to act on plants, their seeds and/or their habitat.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Johannes Hutzler, Helmut Kraus, Anna Aleksandra Michrowska-Pianowska, Yogesh Oturkar, Trevor William Newton, Stefan Tresch, Jens Lerchl, Thomas Seitz, Richard Roger Evans, Klaus Kreuz, Ulrich Steinbrenner