Drought and heat tolerance in plants
AssigneeCeres, Inc.
InventorsCory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Abstract
Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.
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A plant cell comprising an exogenous nucleic acid, said exogenous nucleic acid comprising a regulatory region operably linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having 95 percent or greater sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:749, wherein said plant cell is from a plant or progeny thereof that is selected for having increased drought tolerance as compared to a control plant that does not comprise said nucleic acid wherein the selected plant or progeny has increased drought tolerance.
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