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Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2005
Applicants:

Jian-kang Zhu, Riverside, CA (US);

Francisco Javier Quintero-toscano, Sevilla, ES;

Jose Manuel Pardo-prieto, Sevilla, ES;

Quansheng Qiu, Urbana, IL (US);

Karen Sue Schumaker, Tucson, AZ (US);

Masaru Ohta, Tsukuba, JP;

Changqing Zhang, Tucson, AZ (US);

Yan Guo, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Jian-Kang Zhu, Riverside, CA (US);

Francisco Javier Quintero-Toscano, Sevilla, ES;

Jose Manuel Pardo-Prieto, Sevilla, ES;

Quansheng Qiu, Urbana, IL (US);

Karen Sue Schumaker, Tucson, AZ (US);

Masaru Ohta, Tsukuba, JP;

Changqing Zhang, Tucson, AZ (US);

Yan Guo, Beijing, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12N 15/54 (2006.01); C12N 15/29 (2006.01); A01H 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention provides a method of increasing salt tolerance in a plant by overexpressing a gene encoding a mutant SOS2 protein in at least one cell type in the plant. The present invention also provides for transgenic plants expressing the mutant SOS2 proteins.


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