Patent ID: 9012721
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: C12N,Y02A

Abstract:
1. A method for increasing growth, yield, nitrogen use efficiency, nitrogen transport, nitrogen stress tolerance, pathogen resistance, survival and/or nitrogen acquisition of a plant comprising introducing and expressing a nucleic acid construct encoding a nitrate transporter having a pH sensing motif comprising amino acid residues VYEAIHKI comprising a nucleic acid sequence as defined in SEQ ID No. 1 or a homolog thereof, operably linked to a regulatory sequence in a plant, wherein if the nucleic acid sequence is as defined in SEQ ID No. 1, said plant is not rice, and wherein growth, yield, nitrogen use efficiency, nitrogen transport, nitrogen stress tolerance, pathogen resistance, survival and/or nitrogen acquisition is increased in said plant as compared to a plant that does not contain and express said nucleic acid sequence.