Abstract: This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a thioredoxin protein. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the thioredoxin protein, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the thioredoxin protein in a transformed host cell.

Abstract: DNA encoding mannose 6-phosphate reductase (M6PR) and the use of the DNA in vectors and bacteria and in plants. The enzyme enables the production of mannitol in plants which increases stress tolerance, particularly to salt.

Abstract: DNA encoding mannose 6-phosphate reductase (M6PR) and the use of the DNA in vectors and bacteria and in plants. The enzyme enables the production of mannitol in plants which increases stress tolerance, particularly to salt.

Abstract: This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding all or a substantial portion of a plant glycogenin or water stress protein. The invention also relates to the construction of chimeric genes encoding all or a portion of a plant glycogenin or water stress protein, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of a plant glycogenin or water stress protein in a transformed host cell.

Abstract: DNA encoding mannose 6-phosphate reductase (M6PR) and the use of the DNA in vectors and bacteria and in plants. The enzyme enables the production of mannitol in plants which increases stress tolerance, particularly to salt.

Abstract: A converter for converting a delta sigma modulated signal into a pulse code modulated signal comprises an n bit counter, an (n-1) true/complement, zero one element which is controlled by the most significant bit of the counter and operates on (n-1) bits of the counter in accordance with the pulse density modulation input to produce weighted output samples. An m bit accumulator accumulates the weighted samples to produce pulse code modulated samples.

Abstract: A digital-to-analogue converter which uses a technique of two-level quantization in order to generate a pulse density code signal which yields the analogue signal when filtered. Standard digital logic adders and registers are used in the conversion of PCM signals to the pulse density code. The adders and registers are arranged as a feedback loop in which an approximation signal capable of either a "high" or a "low" level is compared repetitively with a PCM signal and the difference is accumulated, but at the end of each operation the accumulated total is tested and the value of the approximation signal for the next cycle is chosen so as to reduce the accumulated total. The cycle period is set by a clock, and the approximation signal is the pulse density code signal. The noise spectrum of the pulse density code signal may be adjusted by the addition of an offset signal to the incoming PCM signal.