	US 11,840,699 B2
	Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modulated growth rate and biomass in plants grown in saline conditions
Fasong Zhou, Oxnard, CA (US); Kenneth A. Feldmann, Tucson, AZ (US); and Julissa Sosa, Northridge, CA (US)
Assigned to Ceres, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Filed by CERES, INC., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/831,156.
Application 17/831,156 is a division of application No. 17/002,713, filed on Aug. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,421,245.
Application 17/002,713 is a division of application No. 16/554,199, filed on Aug. 28, 2019, granted, now 10,968,461, issued on Apr. 6, 2021.
Application 16/554,199 is a division of application No. 16/275,537, filed on Feb. 14, 2019, granted, now 10,428,346, issued on Oct. 1, 2019.
Application 16/275,537 is a division of application No. 15/487,287, filed on Apr. 13, 2017, granted, now 10,233,460, issued on Mar. 19, 2019.
Application 15/487,287 is a division of application No. 13/663,204, filed on Oct. 29, 2012, granted, now 9,637,756, issued on May 2, 2017.
Application 13/663,204 is a division of application No. 12/282,342, granted, now 8,324,454, issued on Dec. 4, 2012, previously published as PCT/US2007/006544, filed on Mar. 14, 2007.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/782,735, filed on Mar. 14, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2022/0372505 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C07K 14/415 (2006.01); C12N 9/88 (2006.01); A23K 10/30 (2016.01); A23L 19/00 (2016.01)

CPC C12N 15/8273 (2013.01) [A23K 10/30 (2016.05); A23L 19/00 (2016.08); C07K 14/415 (2013.01); C12N 9/88 (2013.01); C12N 15/8261 (2013.01); C12Y 208/02015 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01); Y02A 40/146 (2018.01)]

6 Claims

1. A method of increasing tolerance to salinity in a plant, said method comprising providing a plurality of transgenic plants comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid, wherein the promoter and the nucleic acid are heterologous to each other and whereby the nucleic acid is expressed, and said nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of:

(a) a nucleotide sequence that encodes a protein comprising an amino acid sequence that has at least 95% identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:106;

(b) a nucleotide sequence that encodes a protein that comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 106;

(c) a nucleotide sequence comprising the polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:105 that encodes a protein having 100% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 106; and

(d) a nucleotide sequence comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 95% nucleotide sequence identity to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:105 and encoding a protein having the functional activity of the protein as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 106; and

selecting from the plurality of said transgenic plants a transgenic plant that overexpresses said protein of (a), (b), (c) or (d) and exhibits increased tolerance to salinity as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking said nucleic acid and grown under identical growth conditions.