Patent ID: 9487796
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: C07K,C12N

Claim Text:
1. A method of increasing biomass, growth rate, yield, nitrogen use efficiency or abiotic stress tolerance of a transformed plant as compared to a non-transformed plant of the same species grown under the same conditions, comprising transforming a plant with a nucleic acid construct which comprises an exogenous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 263 encoding the polypeptide as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 114, wherein said nucleic acid sequence is operably linked to a promoter which is capable of directing transcription of said exogenous polynucleotide in a plant cell, wherein expression of said polypeptide increases biomass, growth rate, yield, nitrogen use efficiency or an abiotic stress tolerance of said transformed plant as compared to a non-transformed plant of the same species grown under the same conditions, and wherein said abiotic stress is selected from the group consisting of osmotic stress and nitrogen deficiency.