Methods of increasing crop yield under abiotic stress
AssigneeCeres, Inc.
InventorsRoger I. Pennell, Wuyi Wang, Chuan-Yin Wu, Dwarkesh Parihar, Paresh Verma, Vijay R. Kumar, Shridhar J. Rao
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Abstract
Methods and materials for increasing abiotic stress tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding abiotic stress tolerance-increasing polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased tolerance to abiotic stress and methods of increasing plant yield under abiotic stress conditions.
Claims15
A method of increasing plant yield in a plant grown under drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency, said method comprising:
- (a) growing plants transformed with an exogenous nucleic acid under drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency, said exogenous nucleic acid comprising a heterologous promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 2;
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- (b) selecting a transformed plant from said transformed plants that expresses said polypeptide and has increased yield when grown under drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency as compared to the corresponding yield of a control plant of the same species that does not comprise said exogenous nucleic acid and grown under identical stress conditions.
A method of producing a plant with tolerance to drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency, said method comprising:
- (a) expressing in a plurality of plants transformed with an exogenous nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide, said exogenous nucleic acid comprising a heterologous promoter operably linked to the nucleotide sequence, and the polypeptide having at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 2;
- (b) selecting from said plurality of transformed plants a transformed plant that expresses said polypeptide and has increased tolerance to drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking said exogenous nucleic acid and grown under identical stress conditions;
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- (c) growing the selected transformed plant having increased tolerance to drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking said exogenous nucleic acid and grown under identical stress conditions.
A method of producing a transgenic plant with increased yield grown under drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency stress, said method comprising:
- (a) growing plant cells transformed with an exogenous nucleic acid, wherein said exogenous nucleic acid comprising a polynucleotide having a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 2, and wherein said nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a heterologous promoter;
- (b) producing transgenic plants from said transformed plant cells;
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- (c) selecting for a transgenic plant from said transgenic plants that expresses said polypeptide in the selected transgenic plant and which exhibits increased yield when grown under drought stress, osmotic stress, or nitrogen deficiency stress as compared to a control plant of the same plant species that does not comprise said exogenous nucleic acid and grown under identical stress conditions.
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