Abstract: The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought stress. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing raffinose content in the plant.

Abstract: This invention provides a novel gene that can impart salt stress tolerance to plants for a long period of time and salt stress tolerant transgenic plants to which such gene has been introduced. Such novel gene encodes the following protein (a), (b), or (c), and such salt stress tolerant transgenic plant has such gene introduced therein: (a) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing; (b) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having activity of imparting salt stress tolerance to plants; or (c) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having UDP-glucose 4-epimerase activity.

Abstract: This invention provides a novel gene that can impart salt stress tolerance to plants for a long period of time and salt stress tolerant transgenic plants to which such gene has been introduced. Such novel gene encodes the following protein (a), (b), or (c), and such salt stress tolerant transgenic plant has such gene introduced therein: (a) a protein consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing; (b) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having activity of imparting salt stress tolerance to plants; or (c) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 in the Sequence Listing by deletion, substitution, or addition of one or several amino acid residues and having UDP-glucose 4-epimerase activity.

Abstract: The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought stress. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing raffinose content in the plant.

Abstract: The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought stress. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing raffinose content in the plant.

Abstract: The present invention describes a novel plant having increased activity of glutamate glyoxylate aminotransferase (GGT), a method of producing the plant, a seed of the plant, and a plant having an increased amino acid content. The present invention more specifically provides a plant which is improved in the content of at least one of the amino acid selected from the group consisting of serine, arginine, glutamine, and asparagine, and a method of producing the plant, as well as the seed of the plant. A plant having increased GGT activity is produced by mutagenesis, introduction of a nucleic acid molecule and the like. A genetic construction being capable of enhancing the expression of a GGT gene, particularly a genetic construct being capable of expressing a GGT gene and/or increasing the level of an endogenous gene having GGT activity is introduced into a plant.

Abstract: The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought and high salt concentration. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing galactinol content in the plant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for increasing glutamate content of plants and/or seeds by deleting or reducing GGT activity, and also plants and/or seeds having deleted or reduced GGT activity, particularly having a glutamate content higher than that of corresponding wild type plants cultivated under the same conditions.

Abstract: The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought and high salt concentration. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing galactinol content in the plant.

Abstract: The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought stress. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing raffinose content in the plant.

Abstract: The present invention enables production of a plant resistant to environmental stresses including drought and high salt concentration. The invention increases stress resistance to a plant by increasing galactinol content in the plant.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a transformed plant whose free glutamic acid content is increased. Moreover, it is a further object of the present invention to provide a transformed plant, whose free glutamic acid content is increased, progeny plants thereof and seeds thereof.

Abstract: Hybrids of onion and garlic or Chinese chive are obtained by culturing the ovule-embryo after fertilization of the male (e.g. garlic pollen) and female (e.g. onion egg cell) gametes. The hybrids have the useful characteristics of both species and can be propagated.