Provided are methods of increasing the tolerance of a plant to abiotic stresses and/or increasing the biomass and/or increasing the yield of a plant by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide homologous to SEQ ID NO:13.
A novel tomato plant derived regulatory sequence which comprises the nucleic acid set forth in SEQ ID NO:23 and which is active in trichomes is provided. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs comprising the tomato plant promoter and methods of using same for directing expression
