Metanomics Gmbh

Basf Plant Science Gmbh

Metanomics Gmbh and Co. Kgaa

Max-delbruck-centrum F&uuml;r Molekulare Medizin

Birgit Wendel

Astrid Blau

Ralf Looser

Piotr Puzio

Gunnar Plesch

Beate Kamlage

Ruoying Chen

Rodrigo Sarria-Millan

Michael Manfred Herold

Amber Shirley

Bryan D McKersie

Agnes Chardonnens

Xi-Qing Wang

Oliver Schmitz

Margret Hoehe

Florian Schauwecker

Mathieu Klein

The present invention relates to a process for decreasing verbascose in a plant by expression of a chloroplast-targeted polypeptide which is a member of the fimD superfamily in a plant cell, plant, or a part thereof. The invention furthermore relates to a process for producing a plant cell, plant, or part thereof with a decrease in the amount of verbascose. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs and vectors useful for practicing the methods as well as plants, plant tissues, propagation materials and harvested materials thus obtained. Agricultural compositions comprising the plant materials thus obtained is also provided.

Process for decreasing verbascose in a plant by expression of a chloroplast-targeted fimD protein

The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals in a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or in one or more parts thereof. The present invention relates further to a process for the control of the production of fine chemicals in a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or in one or more parts thereof. The invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, antisense molecules, antibodies, host cells, plant tissue, propagation material, harvested material, plants, microorganisms as well as agricultural compositions and to their use.

Process for the production of fine chemicals

The present invention relates to populations of trangenic plants encompassing a substantial part of all codogenic gene segments of a donor organism, and to biological material derived therefrom, plasmid collections and populations of transformed host organisms with which plants can be transformed in a suitable manner. There are also described methods for generating the plants and the material, and the use of the plants and of the material for functional studies. The codogenic gene segments are integrated into the genome of the plants. For example, there are described a population of plants of the speciesinto whose genome the codogenic gene segments fromare integrated, and their morphological analysis under normal conditions and stress conditions.

Population of transgenic plants individually comprising distinct codogenic gene segments, the population having at least 50% of the codogenic gene segments from a donor organism

The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals in a microorganism, a plant cell, a plant, a plant tissue or parts thereof by increasing or generating the biological activity of a ras-Like GTPase or the homologues thereof and growing the organism under conditions which permit the production of the fine chemicals in the organism. Preferred fine chemicals produced by the present invention include amino acids, carbohydrates, vitamins, fatty acids, and carotenoids.

The invention concerns the genomic sequence of the human &mgr; opioid receptor gene and its variants, polymorphisms and mutations.

Genomic sequence of the human &mgr;-opioid receptor gene and the variants, polymorphisms and mutations thereof

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Berlin, Germany

Birgit Wendel