Process of Providing Plants with Abiotic Stress Resistance
AssigneeNomad Bioscience GmbH
InventorsAnka Tümmler, Doreen Bartels, Anatoli Giritch, Yuri Gleba
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Abstract
Crop growth management system comprising a process of providing a plant with improved abiotic stress tolerance, comprising providing aerial parts of said plant with a suspension containing cells of an Agrobacterium strain comprising a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid construct containing a nucleotide sequence of interest, said nucleotide sequence of interest providing said plant with increased abiotic stress tolerance upon expression in said plant.
Claims20
A process of providing a plant with improved abiotic stress tolerance, comprising providing aerial parts of said plant with a suspension containing cells of an Agrobacterium strain comprising a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid construct containing a nucleotide sequence of interest, said nucleotide sequence of interest providing said plant with increased abiotic stress tolerance upon expression in said plant.
A process of providing a plurality of plants with improved abiotic stress tolerance, comprising
- (a) growing said plurality of plants on a farm field;
- (b) determining whether an abiotic stress affects said plants;
- (c) providing aerial parts of said plants with said suspension containing cells of an Agrobacterium strain comprising a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid construct containing a nucleotide sequence of interest, said nucleotide sequence of interest providing said plants with increased abiotic stress resistance upon expression in said plants.
An agricultural process of producing plants or parts of said plants, comprising the following steps:
- (A) growing a plurality of plants on a farm field;
- (B) determining whether drought stress affects said plants;
- (C) if it was determined in step (B) that drought stress affects or may affect said plants, providing aerial parts of said plants with a suspension containing cells of an Agrobacterium strain comprising a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid construct containing a nucleotide sequence of interest, said nucleotide sequence of interest providing said plants with increased drought stress resistance upon expression in said plants;
- (D) harvesting said plants or desired parts thereof;
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- (E) if step (C) was performed, using the harvest of step (D) for a purpose for which having performed step (C) is acceptable;
- or, if step (C) was not performed, using the harvest of step (D) for a purpose for which having performed step (C) is not acceptable.
DNA molecule or vector for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of plants, comprising in T-DNA a nucleic acid construct containing a DNA sequence of interest operably linked to a promoter;
- said DNA sequence of interest encoding a protein capable of providing a plant with increased abiotic stress tolerance;
- said T-DNA not containing a selectable marker allowing selection of plant cells containing said T-DNA.
Agrobacterium strain comprising a heterologous DNA molecule comprising in T-DNA a nucleic acid construct containing a heterologous DNA sequence of interest operably linked to a promoter;
- said heterologous DNA sequence of interest encoding a protein capable of providing a plant with increased drought resistance;
- said T-DNA not containing a selectable marker allowing selection of plant cells containing said T-DNA.
A plant treated with a composition containing cells of an Agrobacterium strain comprising a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid construct containing a nucleotide sequence of interest, said nucleotide sequence of interest providing said plant with increased abiotic stress resistance upon expression in said plant;
- said plant containing in cells thereof said nucleotide sequence of interest and expresses said nucleotide sequence of interest.
Method of conferring abiotic stress tolerance to a plant, comprising the following steps:
- preparing a suspension containing cells of an Agrobacterium strain comprising a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid construct containing a nucleotide sequence of interest, said nucleotide sequence of interest providing said plant with increased abiotic stress resistance upon expression in said plant;
- and providing the suspension prepared in the previous step to aerial parts of said plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.