Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is the No. 1 fiber yielding
crop in the world. Creating water-deficit tolerant cotton would
benefit cotton production worldwide. To test whether PSARK::IPT
would also confer drought tolerance in cotton, we generated
transgenic cotton plants with the PSARK::IPT construct by using
Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer and analyzed their performance
under water-deficit conditions. Here, we report that waterdeficit
and maturation specific expression of IPT in cotton also
confers increased drought tolerance