Patent ID: 7253338

Claim:
A method for producing a plant with enhanced tolerance or resistance to osmotic stress or salt stress, said method comprising: (a) transiently introducing into a plant cell a recombinant DNA comprising a polynucleic acid which is expressed in an amount effective to confer enhanced tolerance or resistance to osmotic stress or salt stress, wherein the polynucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of: (i) a polynucleic acid of SEQ ID NO: 73 or the complementary strand thereof; (ii) a polynucleic acid which is 95% identical to the polynucleic acid of SEQ ID NO: 73, wherein said polynucleic acid encodes a homeotic protein capable of conferring to a plant enhanced tolerance or resistance to osmotic stress or salt stress; or (iii) a polynucleic acid which comprises a sequence which is degenerate as a result of the genetic code to the sequence of the polynucleic acid of SEQ ID NO: 73; and (b) culturing the plant cell to regenerate a plant, thereby producing a plant with enhanced tolerance or resistance to osmotic stress or salt stress.