PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an activated AREB1 improving the environmental stress resistance including resistance to drought, salt and low temperature of plants through its high expression therein, and to provide a method for improving such environmental stress resistance of plants utilizing the activated AREB1.SOLUTION: A gene encoding the activated AREB1 as an environmental stress responsive transcription factor is provided, being such that the activation control domain of the AREB1 as an environmental stress responsive transcription factor in a plant is deleted and the transcription activation domain on the N-terminal and the DNA-binding domain are contained.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】植物体内で高発現することにより、植物の乾燥・塩・低温等の環境ストレス耐性を向上させる活性型AREB1の提供ならびに該活性型AREB1を利用して植物の環境ストレス耐性を向上させる方法の提供。【解決手段】植物の環境ストレス応答性転写因子AREB1の活性化制御領域を欠失し、N末端の転写活性化ドメインおよびDNA結合ドメインを含む、活性型の環境ストレス応答性転写因子AREB1遺伝子。【選択図】なし
