Plant Responses
AssigneePlant Bioscience Limited
InventorsPhil Mullinbaux, Ulrike Bechtold
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Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and uses for improving traits in plants which are important in the field of agriculture. In particular, the methods and uses of the invention use a plant Hsf to increase plant productivity, water use efficiency, drought or pathogen resistance.
Claims16
A method for improving water use efficiency and/or water productivity in a plant, the method comprising introducing and overexpressing a polynucleotide sequence comprising or consisting of a plant heat shock factor (Hsf) into the plant.
A method for improving plant productivity, the method comprising introducing and overexpressing a polynucleotide sequence comprising or consisting of a plant Hsf into the plant.
A method for conferring pathogen resistance in a plant, the method comprising introducing and overexpressing a polynucleotide sequence comprising or consisting of a plant Hsf into the plant.
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A method for improving water use efficiency and/or water productivity in plants, the method comprising introducing and overexpressing a polynucleotide sequence comprising or consisting of a biologically active derivative of a plant Hsf polynucleotide sequence.
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