METHODS FOR INCREASING RESISTANCE OF PLANTS TO DROUGHT, SALT AND PATHOGENS

摘要

The present invention is related to a method of increasing the resistance of a plant to stress, preferably drought or salt stress, and/or a method of increasing the fruit yield of a plant or generating a plant displaying a higher fruit yield, comprising the step of administering to the plant or a progenitor thereof, a nucleic acid molecule comprising a promoter functional in at least one plant species and an invertase from an organism, wherein said promoter is a fruit- specific promoter and said promoter differs from the endogenous promoter which controls the expression of said invertase in the genome of said organism, and wherein the promoter and the invertase are functionally linked to allow for expression of the invertase.