Changqing Zhang

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from Mooresville, NC

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Transgenic Evaluation Of Activated Mutant Alleles Of Sos2 Reveals A Critical Requirement For Its Kinase Activity And C-Terminal Regulatory Domain For Salt Tolerance In Arabidoposis Thaliana
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US Patent:

20060168698, Jul 27, 2006
Filed:

Jan 24, 2005
Appl. No.:

11/040005
Inventors:

Jian-Kang Zhu - Riverside CA, US
Francisco Quintero-Toscano - Sevilla, ES
Jose Pardo-Prieto - Sevilla, ES
Quansheng Qiu - Urbana IL, US
Karen Shumaker - Tucson AZ, US
Masaru Ohta - Tsukuba, JP
Changqing Zhang - Tucson AZ, US
Yan Guo - Beijing, CN
Assignee:

Arizona Bd of Regents/Behalf of Univ. of Arizona - Tucson AZ
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS - Madrid
International Classification:

C12N 15/82
C12N 5/04
A01H 1/00
US Classification:

800289000, 435468000, 435419000
Abstract:

The present invention provides a method of increasing salt tolerance in a plant by overexpressing a gene encoding a mutant SOS2 protein in at least one cell type in the plant. The present invention also provides for transgenic plants expressing the mutant SOS2 proteins.