Drought resistance in plants: UPL4
AssigneeKeygene N.V.
InventorsAnne Deslattes Mays, Marieke Helena Adriana Van Hulten, Shital Anilkumar Dixit, Martin De Vos, Jesse David Munkvold, Matthew Vitabile Dileo
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a new method for increasing drought resistance of a plant. The method encompasses the impairment of the expression of a gene or genes in said plant. In comparison to a plant not manipulated to impair the expression of said gene(s), the plants display improved drought resistance. Also provided are plants and plant product that can be obtained by the method according to the invention.
Claims8
A method for identifying one or more plants with drought resistance, comprising determining the sequence of at least part of the endogenous UPL4 gene of said plants;
- identifying one or more plants having a mutation in the endogenous UPL4 gene resulting in impaired expression of functional UPL4 protein, wherein the functional UPL4 protein comprises the amino acid sequence of any of SEQ ID NO:
- 2, 6, 8, and 12, wherein the functional UPL4 protein has ubiquitin-protein ligase activity;
- and exposing the identified one or more plants to drought stress and assaying the plants for drought resistance to select a plant exhibiting improved drought resistance.
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