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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2011
Applicant:
Shimon Gepstein, Haifa, IL;
Inventor:
Shimon Gepstein, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12N 15/113 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/8273 (2013.01); C12N 15/113 (2013.01); C12N 15/8237 (2013.01); C12N 15/8261 (2013.01); C12N 15/8271 (2013.01); C12N 15/8295 (2013.01); Y02A 40/146 (2018.01);
Abstract
Provided are nucleic acid constructs which comprise a polynucleotide encoding adenosine phosphate-isopentenyltransferase (IPT) operably linked to a stress-related promoter. Also provided are host cells transformed with the nucleic acid constructs, transgenic plants expressing the IPT coding sequence under the transcriptional regulation of a stress-related promoter and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance of a plant, and biomass of plants under stress or normal conditions.