cv. H-86, Kashi vishesh) was obtained. Disarmed Agrobacterium tumifaciens strain GV 3101
was used in conjugation with binary vector pBinAR containing a construct consisting of the
coding sequence of the BcZAT12 gene under the regulatory control of the stress inducible
Bclea1a promoter. ZAT12 encodes a C2H2 zinc finger protein which confers multiple abiotic
stress tolerance to plants. Integration of ZAT12 gene into nuclear genome of individual …