MODIFICATION OF PLANT RESPONSES TO SALT

摘要

The present invention relates to nucleic acids and nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for salt stress-inducible proteins, protein phosphatases mediating salt adaptation in plants, plasma membrane sodium/proton antiporters, salt-associated proteins, glutathione peroxidase homologs associated with response to saline stress in plants, and early salt-responding enzymes such as glucose 6-phosphate 1 dehydrogenase and fructose-biphosphate aldolase in plants and the use thereof for, inter alia, modification of plant tolerance to environmental stresses and osmotic stresses such as salt stress modification of plant capacity to survive salt shocks, modification of compartmentalization of sodium in plants, for example into the plant cell vacuole, modification of sodium ion influx and/or efflux, modification of plant recovery after exposure to salt stress, and modification of plant metabolism under salt stress.