Patent ID: 11859195
Assignee: CERES, INC.
Field: Biotechnology (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  Y | IPC C

Claim 0:
1. A transgenic plant transformed with an exogenous nucleic acid molecule, wherein the exogenous nucleic acid molecule comprises:
a) a first nucleic acid having a regulatory sequence capable of causing transcription in a plant; and
b) a second nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence that exhibits at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 31;
wherein said first and second nucleic acids are operably linked,
wherein said second nucleic acid is heterologous to said first nucleic acid, and
wherein said second nucleic acid encoding said polypeptide is overexpressed in the transgenic plant; and
wherein the transgenic plant exhibits increased drought tolerance, increased thermotolerance, increased osmotic stress tolerance, and/or increased water use efficiency as compared to a control plant of the same plant species lacking said exogenous nucleic acid molecule.