Patent ID: 8247651

Claim:
A transgenic plant cell with increased tolerance and/or resistance to an environmental 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 comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 279; (b) a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 280; and (c) a nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 280 and conferring increased tolerance and/or resistance to the environmental stress in the transgenic plant cell as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell, wherein the environmental stress comprises drought stress, and wherein expression of said SRP coding nucleic acid confers increased tolerance and/or resistance to drought stress in the transgenic plant cell as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell.