Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a plant with a stress tolerance, comprising the step of inhibiting, in a plant, a function of a first polypeptide including an amino acid sequence represented by any one of SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. This enables developing a new technique capable of producing a plant with a stress tolerance such as a salt tolerance and a high osmotic pressure tolerance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 21, 2016
Assignees:
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, GREENSOGNA, INC.
Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a plant with a stress tolerance, comprising the step of inhibiting, in a plant, a function of a first polypeptide including an amino acid sequence represented by any one of SEQ ID NOS: 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. This enables developing a new technique capable of producing a plant with a stress tolerance such as a salt tolerance and a high osmotic pressure tolerance.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 3, 2009
Publication date:
August 25, 2011
Applicants:
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, GreenSogna, Inc.
Abstract: This invention relates to a peptide or protein capable of converting a transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor, a gene encoding such peptide or protein, a chimeric protein in which the aforementioned peptide or protein is fused to a transcription factor, a chimeric gene in which the gene encoding a peptide or protein is fused to a gene encoding a transcription factor, a recombinant vector having such chimeric gene, and a transformant comprising such recombinant vector. The peptide of the invention that is capable of converting a transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor is very short. Thus, it can be very easily synthesized, and it can effectively and selectively repress the transcription of a specific gene. Accordingly, such gene is applicable to and useful in a wide variety of fields, such as repression of the expression of cancerous genes and regulation of the expression of genes encoding pigment-metabolic enzymes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 24, 2002
Date of Patent:
March 11, 2008
Assignees:
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, GreenSogna, Inc.