Patent ID: 7214856
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: C12N

Abstract:
1. A method for imparting stress tolerance to a transgenic plant comprising: transforming a plant cell with a polynucleotide which encodes a polypeptide at least 95% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein said polypeptide has kinase activity and which induces the expression of stress-responsive transcription factors, growing a transgenic plant tissue or plant from the transformed cell, selecting a transgenic plant tissue which has a phenotype of increased stress tolerance to dehydration, osmotic or low temperature stresses as compared to a plant tissue obtained from the corresponding untransformed plant cell and growing a plant from said tissue, or selecting a transgenic plant which has a phenotype of increased tolerance to dehydration, osmotic or low temperature stresses as compared to the corresponding untransformed plant.