US 7,576,263 B2
	Gene OSISAP1 of rice confers tolerance to stresses and a method thereof
Kumar Akhilesh Tyagi, New Delhi (India); Mukhopadyay Arnab, New Delhi (India); and Shubha Vij, New Delhi (India)
Assigned to University of Delhi, New Delhi (India)
Appl. No. 10/540,956 PCT Filed Dec. 23, 2003, PCT No. PCT/IN03/00397 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Mar. 13, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/058963, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 15, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 1317/DEL/02 (IN), filed on Dec. 31, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0218677 A1, Sep. 28, 2006
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12N 5/04 (2006.01); A01H 5/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 800—289  [800/278; 800/295; 800/320.2; 435/468]

11 Claims

1. A method of increasing abiotic stress tolerance in a plant, said method comprising transforming said plant with a recombinant vector comprising a polynucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 or a variant thereof coding for a polypeptide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, and expressing the polynucleotide sequence or the variant thereof to yield a transformed plant.