Nankai University

Zhaoxia Guo

Li Gao Xiong

Wei Xu

Sheng Liu

Dan Wang

Yuanyuan Mei

Juanjuan Bi

Lifang Sun

Ningning Wang

Nasrullah

This disclosure provides a stress-responsive polypeptide sequence for fusion with a polypeptide to specifically induce stability of the fusion polypeptide under stress conditions, such as drought, high salt and high temperature, in plants. Also disclosed includes an expression vector for expressing a fusion polypeptide comprising the stress-responsive peptide in plants transformed therewith, and a method for generating a transgenic plant with enhanced tolerance to environmental stresses, comprising introducing into the transgenic plant a polynucleotide encoding a fusion polypeptide which comprises the stress-responsive peptide as disclosed and a plant anti-stress gene, such as the plant senescence-associated gene SSPP. A plant expressing the expression vector that have an enhanced stress tolerance, includingand soybean, is also provided.

Polypeptide and use thereof for improving stress tolerance in plants

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Tianjin, China

Zhaoxia Guo