US 7,566,552 B2
	Protection against environmental toxicity through manipulation of the processing of messenger RNA precursors
Oscar Vicente Meana, Valencia (Spain); Marta Roldan Medina, Valencia (Spain); Ramon Serrano Salom, Valencia (Spain); José Javier Forment Millet, Valencia (Spain); Miguel Angel Naranjo Olivero, Valencia (Spain); Roc Ros Palau, Valencia (Spain); and Rodolpho Arthur Kahnonou, Valencia (Spain)
Assigned to CropDesign N.V., Ghent (Belgium)
Appl. No. 10/258,148 PCT Filed Apr. 19, 2001, PCT No. PCT/EP01/04479 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Dec. 16, 2002, PCT Pub. No. WO01/81599, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 01, 2001.
Claims priority of application No. 200001102 (ES), filed on Apr. 19, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2004/0203157 A1, Oct. 14, 2004
Int. Cl. C12N 15/00 (2006.01); A01H 5/00 (2006.01); C07K 14/00 (2006.01); C12N 15/11 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 435—69.1  [435/320.1; 530/350; 800/298; 536/23.1]

29 Claims

1. A method of enhancing salt stress tolerance in plants, plant cells or yeast cells, said method comprising overexpression of a nucleic acid molecule encoding an RS domain (SEQ ID NO:21) in said plants or said cells.