Patent ID: 7847159

Claim:
A transgenic plant cell with increased tolerance and/or resistance to drought and/or low temperature stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell, wherein the transgenic plant cell is transformed with a Stress-Related Protein (SRP) coding nucleic acid selected from the group consisting of: a) a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 65, b) a nucleic acid molecule comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 64, c) a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 65 and conferring said increased tolerance and/or resistance to drought and/or low temperature stress in a plant cell, and d) a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 95% sequence identity with the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 64 and encoding a polypeptide conferring said increased tolerance and/or resistance to drought and/or low temperature stress in a plant cell, wherein the low temperature stress is below 15° C., and wherein expression of said SRP coding nucleic acid confers the increased tolerance and/or resistance to drought and/or low temperature stress to the plant cell.