Patent · US Expired

Use of VLCFAE for identifying herbicidally active compounds

US6849435B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC · DE

Inventors

Christa Lechelt-Kunze · Recklinghausen, DE
Ruth Meissner · Leverkusen, DE
Klaus Tietjen · Langenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 13, 2001
Grant date	Feb 1, 2005
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 16, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2500/04
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to the use of nucleic acids which code for plant polypeptides with the biological activity of very long chain fatty acid elongases and to the use of the polypeptides encoded thereby for identifying novel, herbicidally active compounds, and to methods for finding modulators of these polypeptides.

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