Breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat
Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2012
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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