Basf Plant Science Company Gmbh

University of California

Josef Martin Kuhn

Linda Patricia Loyall

Malte Siebert

Elke Duwenig

Julian I Schroeder

Yingzhen Yang

Honghong Hu

Aurelien Boisson-Dernier

Maria Israelsson-Nordstrom

Jörg Bauer

Holger Schultheiss

Toralf Senger

Oliver Oswald

Julia Verena Hartig

Marc Saric

Maarten Hendrik Stuiver

Maria Israelsson Nordstrom

The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing constitutive promoters and the production of plants with enhanced constitutive expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to the promoters and/or introduced into plants.

Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing constitutive gene expression in plants

The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO) through plant stomata by controlling COsensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for 10 opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell.

Plant COsensors, nucleic acids encoding them, and methods for making and using them

The present invention relates to methods for the design and production of synthetic promoters with a defined specificity and promoters produced with these methods.

Synthetic promoter and methods of use thereof

The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing seed-specific and/or seed-preferential promoters and the production of plants with enhanced seed-specific and/or seed-preferential expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to the promoters and/or introduced into plants.

Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing seed-specific and/or seed-preferential gene expression in plants

Synthetic arcelin-5 promoter and methods of use thereof

The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing constitutive promoters and the production of plants with enhanced constitutive expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or introduced into plants.

Isolated nucleic acid molecules capable of regulating expression in plants, as well as expression [cassettes, vectors and transgenic plants comprising the same are provided.

Promoters for regulating expression in plants

The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO) through plant stomata by controlling COsensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell.

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The invention in principle pertains to the field of recombinant manufacture of fatty acids. It provides novel nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding fatty acid desaturases, elongases, acyltransferases, terminator sequences and high expressing seed-specific promoters operatively linked to the said nucleic acid sequences wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters.

Regulatory nucleic acid molecules for enhancing seed-specific gene expression in plants promoting enhanced polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis

The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing seed-specific and/or seed-preferential promoters and the production of plants with enhanced seed-specific and/or seed-preferential expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or introduced into plants.

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Ludwigshafen, Germany

Josef Martin Kuhn