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Table 3.2 Some promising genes that can be expressed in plants for abiotic stress tolerance
Gene and gene product Plant Resistance to Reference

betA (Choline
dehydrogenase)

Tobacco Salinity and low

temperature

Holmstrom et al.
( 2000 )

BADH1 (Betaine aldehyde
dehydrogenase)

Tomato Salinity Jia et al. ( 2002 )

EctA, ectB, ectC Tobacco Salinity Nakayama et al.

( 2000 )

OstA, OstB (Trehalose-6-P
synthase, Trehalose-6-P
phosphatase)

Tobacco rice Salt, drought Garg et al. ( 2002 )

TPS and TPP (Trehalose
synthesis)

Arabidopsis Drought, salt,

temperature

Miranda et al. ( 2007 )

TPP1 (Trehalose synthesis) Rice Salt and cold Ge et al. ( 2008 )

TPS1 (Trehalose synthesis) Alfalfa Drought, salt,

temperature

Suarez et al. ( 2009 )

WCOR15 (cold induced
gene)

Tobacco Freezing Shimamura et al.

( 2006 )

AtOAT (Ornithine amino
transferase)

Rice Drought and salt Jang et al. ( 2003 )

pdc1 (Pyruvate decarboxylase
overexpression)

Rice Submergence

tolerance

Minhas and Grover
( 1999 )

pdc1 and pdc2 (Pyru-
vate decarboxylase
overexpression)

Arabidopsis Hypoxic stress

survival

Ismond et al. ( 2003 )

ppo (Polyphenol oxidases
suppression)

Tomato Drought Thipyapong et al.

( 2004 )

SAMDC (polyamine
synthesis)

Tobacco Drought, salinity,

Verticillium,
Fusarium wilts

Waie and Rajam
( 2003 )

SPDS (Spermidine synthase) Arabidopsis Salinity Bagni et al. ( 2006 )

P5CS (∆ 1 -pyrroline-5-carbox-
ylate synthase)

Bean Drought, salt and cold Chen et al. ( 2009 )

P5CS (∆ 1 -pyrroline-5-carbox-
ylate synthase)

Potato Salt Hmida-Sayari et al.

( 2005 )

P5CS (∆ 1 -pyrroline-5-carbox-
ylate synthase)

Wheat Drought Vendruscolo et al.

( 2007 )

adc (polyamine synthesis) Rice Drought Capell et al. ( 2004 )

Osm1 to Osm4 (Osmotin
protein accumulation)

Strawberry Salt and drought Husaini and Abdin

( 2008 )

ME-leaN4 (Lea protein) Lettuce Salt Park et al. ( 2005 )

Os LEA3-1 (Lea protein) Rice Drought Xiao et al. ( 2007 )

HVA1 (group 3 LEA protein
gene)

Mulberry Salt and drought Lal et al. ( 2008 )

BhLEA1, LEA2 (LEA
protein)

Tobacco Drought Liu et al. ( 2009 )

HAL3 (FMN-binding
protein)

Arabidopsis Salt and osmotic

tolerance

Espinosa-Ruiz et al.
( 1999 )

HAL1 Arabidopsis Salt Ellul et al. ( 2003 )