National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation

Unilever Patent Holdings B.v.

Brunob Ii Bv

National Starch and Chemical Company

Roger John Westcott

Stephen Alan Jobling

Christopher Michael Sidebottom

Richard Safford

Michael John Gidley

David Cooke

Catherine Rosemary Martin

Elizabeth Anne Edwards

Martine Debet

Alison Mary Smith

Gerhard Peter Schwall

A method for modifying plants by manipulating the activity of a combination of plant enzymes having starch synthase activity, in particular starch synthase II (SSII) and starch synthase III (SSIII). Modified plants, their use as food products and starch, in particular obtained from a modified potato plant, having novel properties and uses thereof are also disclosed.

Method for producing modified starch

Disclosed is a nucleotide sequence encoding an effective portion of a class A starch branching enzyme (SBE) obtainable from potato plants, or a functional equivalent thereof, together with, inter alia, a corresponding polypeptide, a method of altering the characteristics of a plant, a plant having altered characteristics; and starch, particularly starch obtained from a potato plant, having novel properties.

Plant Starch Composition

Plant starch composition

A starch obtained from a plant modified by manipulating the activity of a combination of plant enzymes having starch synthase activity, in particular starch synthase II (SSII) and starch synthase III (SSIII). Modified plants, their use as food products and starch, in particular obtained from a modified potato plant, having unexpected properties and uses thereof are also disclosed.

Starch obtainable from modified plants

High amylose starch from transgenic potato plants

A method of producing embryogenic conifer callus, comprising culturing somatic tissue capable of growth derived from a conifer so as to form non-embryogenic callus and then culturing the non-embryogenic callus in the presence of a nurse culture so as to produce embryogenic callus. Embryogenic callus derived in this way can be used to produced plantlets by known techniques.

Method of producing embryogenic callus of Norway spruce (Picea abies and

Growing community of inventors

Wellingborough, United Kingdom

Roger John Westcott