KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA

Inbred corn line, designated KW6FD0043, is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of inbred corn line KW6FD0043, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line KW6FD0043 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line KW6FD0043 with itself or another corn line. The disclosure also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line KW6FD0043 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line KW6FD0043.

The present invention provides a method for plant genome modification, preferably for the targeted modification of at least one genomic target sequence, for obtaining at least one modified cell, wherein modification of a cell is achieved by providing a genome modification or editing system together with at least one regeneration booster, or a combination of regeneration boosters, which is/are transiently active in the cell and/or with at least one epigenetically regulating chemical. Preferably, the effector molecules are introduced by means of particle bombardment. Furthermore, the modified plant cell is regenerated to obtain a plant, which inherits the modification to its progeny. In addition, methods, tools, constructs and strategies are provided to effectively modify the genome of a plant cell or at least one genomic target site in a plant cell, to obtain said modified cell and to regenerate a plant tissue, organ, plant or seed from the modified cell. Finally, the present invention also relates to an improved method of regenerating a plant tissue, organ or a plant from a single plant cell.

The present invention relates to identifying, selecting, or generating a barley plant or plant part having (improved) resistance (or tolerance) to Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) and/or insects, comprising screening for the presence or absence of one or more molecular marker co-segregating with a resistance locus comprising a resistance gene located on chromosome 3. The invention further relates to the resistance gene and polynucleotides encoding the resistance gene or capable of detecting the resistance gene, in particular molecular markers. The invention further relates to barley plants comprising the resistance gene.

Inbred corn line, designated CB121, is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of inbred corn line CB121, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line CB121 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line CB121 with itself or another com line. The disclosure also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line CB121 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line CB121.

The present invention relates to nucleic acid constructs or sets of nucleic acid constructs, which confer resistance to two or more viruses to plants of the genus Beta . The nucleic acid constructs comprise or encode sense and/or antisense sequences targeting a genomic sequence of at least two relevant viruses, which infect Beta plants. The present invention also provides transgenic Beta plants, which are resistant to at least two viruses as well as a method of conferring resistance to a Beta plant to at least two viruses, which comprises the step of transforming a Beta plant cell with a nucleic acid construct or a set of nucleic acid constructs according to the invention.

The present invention relates to a method for plant genome modification of at least one plant cell being in the developmental stage of a plant immature inflorescence meristem (IIM) cell, wherein the modification of the specific cell type is achieved by providing a genome modification or editing system, optionally together with at least one regeneration booster, preferably wherein the effector molecules are introduced by means of particle bombardment. To this end, new artificial and precisely controllable booster genes and proteins are provided. Further, the modified plant cells are regenerated in a direct or an indirect way. Finally, methods, tools, constructs and strategies are provided to effectively modify at least one genomic target site in a plant cell, to obtain said modified cell and to regenerate a, plant tissue, organ, plant or seed from such modified cell.

A computer-implemented method can include acquiring first training images using a first image acquisition technique, where each first training image depicts a plant-related motive; and acquiring second training images using a second image acquisition technique, where each second training image depicts the motive depicted in a respective one of the first training images. The method can include automatically assigning at least one label to each of the acquired second training images. The method can include spatially aligning the first and second training images which are depicting the same one of the motives into an aligned training image pair. The method can include training a machine-learning model as a function of the aligned training image pairs and the labels, wherein during the training the machine-learning model learns to automatically assign one or more labels to any test image acquired with the first image acquisition technique which depicts a plant-related motive.

The present invention relates to hybrid barley seed production and marker assisted selection of barley plants in order to obtain barley plants or seeds comprising an Ant 1 and/or Ant2 gene allowing color sorting of seeds.

The present application is directed to a method for identifying at least one candidate (Loc), namely a gene location and/or a sequence variant, indicative for at least one selected (phenotypic) trait of an organism, in particular, of a plant.

It was found that the flowering ability of a Triticeae plant could be improved by suppressing the function of the Sof1 gene, and that the flowering ability of a Triticeae plant can be evaluated based on suppression of the function of the Sof1 gene. A method for producing a a Triticeae plant with improved flowering ability and a method for improving flowering ability of a Triticeae plant are also disclosed.