Environmental stress-tolerant plants

Abstract

The present invention relates to an environmental stress-tolerant plant. The invention discloses a transgenic plant containing a gene in which a DNA encoding the following protein (a) or (b) is ligated downstream of a stress responsive promoter: (a) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 8 or SEQ ID NO: 10; (b) a protein which consists of the amino acid sequence having deletion, substitution or addition of at least one amino acid in the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 8 or SEQ ID NO: 10 and which regulates the transcription of genes located downstream of a stress responsive element.

1 . A transgenic plant containing a gene in which a DNA encoding the following protein (a) or (b) is ligated downstream of a stress responsive promoter: 
 (a) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 8 or SEQ ID NO: 10;    (b) a protein which consists of the amino acid sequence having deletion, substitution or addition of at least one amino acid in the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO:  6 , SEQ ID NO: 8 or SEQ ID NO: 10 and which regulates the transcription of genes located downstream of a stress responsive element.    
     
     
         2 . A transgenic plant containing a gene in which the following DNA (c) or (d) is ligated downstream of a stress responsive promoter: 
 (c) a DNA consisting of the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 7 or SEQ ID NO: 9;    (d) a DNA which hybridizes with the DNA consisting of the nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 7 or SEQ ID NO: 9 under stringent conditions and which codes for a protein that regulates the transcription of genes located downstream of a stress responsive element.    
     
     
         3 . The transgenic plant of  claim 1  or  2 , wherein the stress is dehydration stress, low temperature stress or salt stress.  
     
     
         4 . The transgenic plant of any one of  claims 1  to  3 , wherein the stress responsive promoter is at least one selected from the group consisting of rd29A gene promoter, rd29B gene promoter, rd17 gene promoter, rd22 gene promoter, DREB1A gene promoter, cor6.6 gene promoter, cor15a gene promoter, erd1 gene promoter and kin1 gene promoter.