Patent ID: 8552255

Claim:
A method of producing a transgenic plant having an increased tolerance to an environmental stress, said method comprising the steps of: (a) transforming plant cells with an expression cassette comprising a polynucleotide sequence which comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding an Oxidoreductase Stress-Related Protein (ORSRP) having an amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 8, and wherein the nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a promoter; (b) regenerating transgenic plants from said transformed plant cells; and (c) selecting a transformed plant from said transgenic plants which exhibits increase in tolerance to an environmental stress as compared to an untransformed plant of the same species, and wherein said increase in environmental stress tolerance is due to the expression of said Oxidoreductase Stress-Related Protein in said selected transformed plant.