STRESS-REGULATED GENES OF PLANTS, TRANSGENIC PLANTS CONTAINING SAME, AND METHODS OF USE

摘要

The present invention relates to clusters of plant genes that areregulated in response to one or more stress conditions. The present invention also relates to isolated plant stress-regulated genes, including portions thereof comprising a coding sequence or a regulatory element, and to consensus sequences comprising a plant stress-regulated regulatory element. In addition, the invention relates to a recombinant polynucleotide, which includes a plant stress-regulated gene, or functional portion thereof, operatively linked to a heterologous mucleotide sequence. The invention further relates to a transgenic plant, which contains a plant stress-regulated gene or functional portion thereof that was introduced into a progenitor cell of the plant. In addition, the invention relates to methods of using a plant stress-regulated gene to confer upon a plant a selective advantage to a stress condition. The invention also relates to a method of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a plant stress-regulated regulatory element.