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The present invention is in the field of plant biochemistry and genetics. More specifically the invention relates to nucleic acid sequences from plant cells, in particular, genomic DNA sequences from Arabidopsis thaliana plants. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules present in non-coding regions as well as nucleic acid molecules that encode proteins and fragments of proteins. In addition, the invention also encompasses proteins and fragments of proteins so encoded and antibodies capable of binding these proteins or fragments. The invention also relates to methods of using the nucleic acid molecules, proteins and fragments of proteins, and antibodies, for example for genome mapping, gene identification and analysis, plant breeding, preparation of constructs for use in plant gene expression, and transgenic plants.

The present invention provides for the identification and cloning of functional plant centromeres in Arabidopsis. This will permit construction of stably inherited plant artificial chromosomes (PLACs) which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. In addition, information on the structure and function of these regions will prove valuable in isolating additional centromeric and centromere related genetic elements and polypeptides from other species.

The invention discloses three novel cotton ABF / AREB / ABI5 / DPBF type transcription factors GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5, and coding genes and application thereof. Amino acid sequences of the GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5 are shown as SEQ ID NO: 2, 5 and 8 respectively. Nucleotide sequences of the coding genes GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5 are shown as SEQ ID NO: 1, 4 and 7 respectively. The invention also discloses the structural characteristics on genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and a ribonucleic acid (RNA) editing law of reading frame regions of the coding genes GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5. The invention also discloses the cotton expression characteristics and yeast expression characteristics of the three genes and the characteristic that the three genes can improve the drought resistance of arabidopsis thaliana. The genes provide gene resources for culturing a plant variety resistant to abiotic stress, and have great significance for improving the abiotic stress resistance of plants.

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT (Asparatate AminoTransferase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown ASPAT-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a MYB91 like transcription factor (MYB91 ) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding an MYB91 polypeptide, which plants have increased yield- related traits relative to control plants. The invention additionally relates to nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and plants containing said nucleic acid sequences. Even furthermore, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GASA (Gibberellic Acid-Stimulated Arabidopsis). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GASA, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Yet furthermore, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an AUX / IAA (auxin / indoleacetic acid) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding IAA polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising AUX / IAA-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention.

A transcription factor PwNAC2 related to plant stress tolerance, a coding gene thereof and applications of the transcription factor are disclosed. Protein provided by the invention is a), b), c) or d), wherein the a) is protein the amino acid sequence of which is shown as a sequence 2; the b) is fusion protein obtained by connecting a label to the N end and / or C end of the protein shown as the sequence 2; the c) is protein having same functions and obtained by substitution and / or deletion and / or addition of one or a plurality of amino acid residues to the amino acid sequence shown as the sequence 2; and the d) is protein which has functions same to functions of the amino acid sequence shown as the sequence 2, and which has 75% or 75% or above of homology with the amino acid sequence shownas the sequence 2. The new gene PwNAC2 is found and is introduced into arabidopsis thaliana to obtain a PwNAC2-transgenicarabidopsis thaliana plant. Experiments prove that drought tolerance and salt tolerance of the PwNAC2-transgenicarabidopsis thaliana plant are significantly improved, thus proving that the PwNAC2 or the protein coded by the PwNAC2 has stress tolerance.

This invention discloses a method for preparing rice gene WRKY45 and its applications. This invention successfully separates gene WRKY45 from rice, determines its nucleotide sequence, and deduces its amino acid sequence. Gene functional analysis shows that rice gene WRKY45 can effectively improve the disease and drought resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana, rice, economic crops, horticultural plants, and pasture grass, thus has wide potential applications.

The invention belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering and provides a sesame drought resisting and salt-tolerant gene SiMYB75 as well as encoded protein and application thereof. The sesame drought resisting and salt-tolerant gene SiMYB75 is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO:1 or a nucleotide sequence with drought resistance and salt tolerance, generated by adding, displacing, inserting or deleting one or more nucleotides. The gene SiMYB75 disclosed by the invention is constructed to an expression vector and is transferred into arabidopsis by a agrobacterium tumefaciens medicated transformation method to obtain transgenic arabidopsis; by overexpression of the drought resisting and salt-tolerant gene SiMYB75 in the arabidopsis, the gene is found to remarkably improve thedrought resistance and the salt tolerance of plants. Therefore, the sesame drought resisting and salt-tolerant gene SiMYB75 has a good application prospect in improving the properties of the plants, such as the drought resistance and the salt tolerance.

The invention belongs to the technical field of agricultural biology, and particularly relates to a thellungiella salsuginea transcription factor EsMYB41 for controlling plant anthocyanin synthesis and an encoding gene and application thereof. The amino acid sequence of the thellungiella salsuginea transcription factor EsMYB41 for controlling plant anthocyanin synthesis is shown in SEQ ID No.1. Byconstructing an EsMyb41 containing over expression vector, tobacco and arabidopsis are transferred, and EsMYB41 transgenic tobacco and arabidopsis are obtained; results find that the transgenic planthas the almost whole-plant claret-colored phenotype; the anthocyanin content of different tissues of transgenic plants and the expression of the anthocyanin synthesis structure gene are both remarkably higher than the wild type, and meanwhile under the salt stress, the anti-oxidase capability of the transgenic plant is improved remarkably.

TGD2 proteins of Arabidopsis are proposed to be a substrate binding component of a lipid transfer complex in the inner chloroplast envelope membrane. Loss of function of this protein or other components of this complex may disrupt the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-pathway of thylakoid lipid biosynthesis. In one embodiment, the present invention contemplates a minimal binding domain capable of specifically binding phosphatidic acid. Alternatively, the minimal binding domain may further comprise accessory binding domains that, in combination, create a complete TGD2 phosphatidic acid binding domain. Consequently, phosphatidic acid may be quantitatively detected from samples as described in the methods herein.