Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC

Bayer Cropscience Nv

Basf Se Corporation

Bayer Bioscience N.v.

Benjamin Laga

Bart Den Boer

Bart Lambert

Marc De Block

Peter Denolf

Esse Ifebi Herve Akpo

Johan Botterman

Marc Bots

Elke Diederichsen

Celine Mouchel

Esse Ifebi Akpo

Essè Ifêbi Hervé Akpo

This invention relates to crop plants of which the fruit dehiscence properties are modulated. More specifically the invention relates to improved methods and means for reducing seed shattering, or delaying seed shattering until after harvest, while maintaining at the same time an agronomically relevant treshability of the pods, and for increasing yield.

Brassica plant comprising a mutant indehiscent allele

This invention relates to crop plants of which the fruit dehiscence properties are modulated. More specifically the invention relates to improved methods and means for reducing seed shattering, or delaying seed shattering until after harvest, in plants, while maintaining at the same time an agronomically relevant threshability of the pods.

The invention relates to crop plants comprising novel seed lipid compositions. Provided are both wild type and mutant nucleic acid molecules encodingfatty acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterase B proteins (FATB) and the proteins as such. Also provided areplants, tissue and seeds comprising at least three mutant fatB alleles in their genome, whereby the seed oil fatty acid composition or profile is significantly altered.

Brassica plant comprising mutant fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase alleles

Means and methods are provided to produce abiotic stress tolerant plants with improved yield based on the specific identification of a DNA methylation signature in the plants out of a population of the plants. The methods involve identification and utilization of epigenetic features of a plant with high energy use efficiency.

Methods for determining fitness in plants

plant comprising a mutant indehiscent allele

The present invention relates toplants comprising mutant FAD2 genes, FAD2 nucleic acid sequences and proteins, as well as methods for generating and identifying said plants and alleles, which can be used to plants with increased levels of C18:1 in the seed oil. The invention further relates to combining the mutant FAD2 alleles with mutant FAD3 alleles to increase the levels of C18:1 and reduce the levels of C18:3 in the seed oil.

plants with modified seed oil composition

The present invention relates toplants comprising mutant ALC genes, ALC nucleic acid sequences and proteins, as well as methods for generating and identifying said plants and alleles, which can be used to plants with increased podshatter resistance.

plant comprising a mutant ALCATRAZ allele

The present invention relates to methods and means to increase seed weight in. More specifically, the invention relates to mutant DA1 genes inplants and the use thereof to seed weight.

Brassica plants comprising mutant DA1 alleles

The present invention relates toplants comprising mutant FAD3 alleles, FAD3 nucleic acid sequences and proteins, as well as methods for generating and identifying said plants and alleles, which can be used to obtain seed oil with a reduced alpha-linolenic acid content.

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The invention relates to fungal disease resistance, in particular to resistance to blackleg disease caused by. Provided areplants and seeds comprising a fragment of chromosome 8 of a wildaccession in their genome, wherein this fragment comprises a blackleg resistance locus. Further provided are molecular markers linked to the blackleg resistance locus and methods of using the markers.plants and seeds with stacked blackleg resistance loci are also provided.

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Wingene, Belgium

Benjamin Laga