Claims for Patent: 7,154,025

Summary for Patent: 7,154,025

Title:	Method for obtaining plants exhibiting enhanced resistance to water stress
Abstract:	A method for obtaining a plant having a modified amount of ASR protein, providing it with enhanced resistance to water stress compared to a non-transformed plant, comprises: transforming at least a plant cell with a vector, containing an expression cassette including a nucleotide sequence coding for an ASR protein or inhibiting the expression of an ASR protein; culturing the resulting transformed cell so as to generate a plant containing in its genome the expression cassette.
Inventor(s):	Zivy; Michel (Paris, FR), Perez; Pascual (Chanonat, FR)
Assignee:	Biogemma (Paris, FR) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Paris, FR) Association Generale des Producteurs de Mais Technique (Montardon, FR)
Application Number:	10/258,521
Patent Claims:	1. A method for obtaining a transformed plant exhibiting an increased amount of ASR (ABA-water stress-ripening-induced) protein, conferring on said plant increased resistance to water deficit stress compared to a non-transformed plant, comprising transforming at least one plant cell with a vector containing an expression cassette comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding an ASR protein, wherein said ASR protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; and culturing the cell thus transformed so as to generate a plant containing, in its genome, said expression cassette, and wherein said plant expresses said protein. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said nucleotide sequence encoding said ASR protein comprises sequence SEQ ID No 1. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the expression cassette comprises a promoter for constitutive expression of the nucleotide sequence encoding the ASR protein. 4. A plant, or plant part comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein said plant or plant part is obtained by the method of claim 1. 5. The plant, or part of a plant, according to claim 4, that exhibits an increase in expression of the ASR protein compared to a non-transformed plant. 6. The plant, or part of a plant, according to claim 4, which is a field crop plant selected from maize, wheat, rapeseed, sunflower and peas. 7. The plant, or part of a plant, according to claim 4, which is maize. 8. The method according to claim 3, wherein said promoter is a rice actin promoter operably linked to a rice actin gene intron.

Details for Patent 7,154,025

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