Patent ID: 8916746

Claim:
A plant comprising in its genome a recombinant DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to at least one heterologous regulatory element, wherein said polynucleotide comprises a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide with drought tolerance activity, wherein the polypeptide has an amino acid sequence of at least 90% sequence identity, based on the Clustal V method of alignment with pairwise alignment default parameters of KTUPLE=1, GAP PENALTY=3, WINDOW=5 and DIAGONALS SAVED=5, when compared to SEQ ID NO:27; (b) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide wherein the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide comprises SEQ ID NO:27; and (c) a nucleotide sequence comprising SEQ ID NO:26; and wherein said plant exhibits increased drought tolerance when compared to a control plant not comprising said recombinant DNA construct.