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Breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat

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This work is significant as salinity already affects over 20% of the world's agricultural soils, and salinity poses an increasing threat to food production due to climate change. The salt-tolerant gene (known as TmHKT1;5-A) works by excluding sodium from the leaves. Richard James and University of Adelaide student Bo Xu.

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