Stress resistant plants

US8450562B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bayer CropScience N.V. · BE

Inventors

• Marc De Block · Merelbeke, BE
• Michael Metzlaff · Tervuren, BE
• Veronique Gossele · Evergem, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 2012
• Grant date: May 28, 2013
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N9/93
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway from fungal or yeast like organisms other than Saccharomyces cereviseae, e.g., for overexpression in plants.