Patent ID: 7576260
Filing Date: 2009-08-18
Classification: C07K,C12N,Y02A,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for increasing pH tolerance or phosphate use efficiency in a plant comprising (1) transforming a plant with a recombinant DNA construct comprising a nucleic acid encoding a pH tolerance or phosphate use efficiency component operably linked to a plant promoter so that the pH tolerance or phosphate use efficiency component is ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plant and (2) selecting a transgenic plant that exhibits: i) higher tolerance to high pH, ii) higher tolerance to low phosphate concentration, or iii) higher tolerance to low nitrogen concentration than a progenitor plant which does not contain the construct, when the transgenic plant and the progenitor plant are cultivated under identical environmental conditions, and wherein the pH or phosphate use efficiency component is a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2.