Sungene Gmbh & Co. Kgaa

Basf Plant Science Gmbh

Ralf Badur

Michael Geiger

Michael Kock

Markus Frank

Irene Kunze

Susanne Sommer

Rainer Lemke

Klaus-Dieter Salchert

Susanne Tropf

The present invention relates to processes for preparing transformed plant cells or organisms by transforming a population of plant cells which comprises at least one marker protein having a direct or indirect toxic effect for said population, with at least one nucleic acid sequence to be inserted in combination with at least one compound, preferably a DNA construct, capable of reducing the expression, amount, activity and/or function of the marker protein, with the transformed plant cells having a growth advantage over nontransformed cells, due to the action of said compound.

Selection method

The present invention relates to a process for producing vitamin E by growing organisms, in particular plants, which have an increased tyrosine aminotransferase activity in comparison with the wild type, and to the genetically modified organisms, in particular plants, themselves.

Increase in the vitamin E content in organisms due to an increase in the tyrosine aminotransferase activity

The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals, in particular vitamin E, vitamin K and/or ubiquinone by culturing organisms, in particular plants, whose shikimate pathway is genetically modified over that of the wild type, and to the transgenic organisms themselves.

Changing the fine chemical content in organisms by genetically modifying the shikimate pathway

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