In the field of plant reproduction and cell and tissue technologies, Keygene’s patent portfolio plays a crucial role in driving advancements. These patents focus on innovative techniques, accelerating the plant breeding process and facilitating novel lead discovery processes. Keygene’s intellectual property empowers researchers with tools for genotype independent regeneration and manipulation of plant materials accelerating the development of improved crops.
Seeds with improved germination quality, by pollination of graft hybrid mother plants.
Plants with improved epidermis-based complex traits, e.g. biotic stress resistance
Method to increase shoot regeneration by overexpressing genes for histidine kinases
Transient expression of 2 genes circumvents the need for cytokinin and auxin
Mutant Centromere Protein C proteins, nucleic acid sequences, and plants for haploid inducer lines.
Mutant Musashi RNA-binding protein 2 (Msi2) proteins, nucleic acid sequences, and plants for haploid inducer lines.
Regenerate recalcitrant plant cells into regenerative shoots by establishing contact to regenerative plant cells.
Promoter sequences that convert a sexual allele into a parthenogenesis allele, which is capable of inducing parthenogenesis.