Bayer Cropscience Nv

Bayer Bioscience N.v.

Plant Genetic Systems N.v.

Biogen, Incorporated

Basf Se Corporation

Biogen Idec Ma Inc.

Guerriero, Gea

Bulone, Vincent

Marc De Block

Michael Metzlaff

Frank Meulewaeter

Johan Botterman

Veronique Gossele

Rao Mouva

Elena Babiychuk

Jan Jozef Leemans

Rainhard Koch

Bernd Essigmann

Charles Thompson

Sergei Kushnir

Benjamin Laga

Esse Ifebi Herve Akpo

Vincent Bulone

Véronique Gossele

Jan Leemans

Gea Guerriero

Kushnir Sergei

Esse Ifebi Akpo

Essè Ifêbi Hervé Akpo

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

Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway e.g. for overexpression in plants.

Stress resistant plants

Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant cell walls, particularly as they can be found in natural fibers of fiber producing plants by inclusion of positively charged oligosaccharides or polysaccharides into the cell wall. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, particularly an N-acetylglucosamine transferase, capable of being targeted to the membranes of the Golgi apparatus in cells of a plant.

Cotton fibers having positively charged oligosaccharides

Methods and means are provided for the modification of the reactivity of plant secondary cell walls, particularly in cotton cell walls found in cotton fibers. This can be conveniently achieved by expressing a chimeric gene encoding achitin synthase in cotton plants.

Methods for manufacturing plant cell walls comprising chitin

Methods are provided to select plants and populations of epigenetically fixed crop plants with improved yield.

Increase of yield in crop plants through selection of epigenetically modified populations

The invention relates to a DNA fragment containing a determined gene, the expression of which inhibits the antibiotic and herbicidal effects of Bialaphos and related products. It also relates to recombinant vectors, containing such DNA fragment, which enable this protective gene to be introduced and expressed into cells and plant cells.

Genetically engineered plant cells and plants exhibiting resistance to glutamine synthetase inhibitors, DNA fragments and recombinants for use in the production of said cells and plants

The invention provides for the use of isolated polynucleotides encoding maize poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) proteins to identify endogenous PARP encoding genes or cDNAs from a plant and to produce plant cells and plants with high vigor.

Poly ADP-ribose polymerase sequences and their uses

Methods for altering the reactivity of plant cell walls

Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway from fungal or yeast like organisms other than, e.g., for overexpression in plants.

Methods are provided for increasing the resistance of plants to hypoxic or anoxic conditions. Such methods may be applied to increase the penetrance of plant roots in the growth medium or into soil. The methods according to the invention may include providing plants with a stress tolerance gene. Similar effects can be obtained by applying chemical compounds, including neonicotinoid compounds, to the plants.

Methods for increasing the resistance of plants to hypoxic conditions

The invention provides for the use of isolated polynucleotides encoding maize poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) proteins to produce eukaryotic cells and organisms, particularly plant cells and plants, with modified programmed cell death. Eukaryotic cells and organisms particularly plant cells and plants, are provided wherein either in at least part of the cells, preferably selected cells, the programmed cell death (PCD) is provoked, or wherein, on the contrary, PCD of the cells or of at least part of the cells in an organism is inhibited, by modulation of the level or activity or PARP proteins in those cells.

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Merelbeke, Belgium

Marc De Block