New Study to Help Develop Salt-Tolerant Plants

New Study to Help Develop Salt-Tolerant Plants

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Efforts to make use of mangrove plants to meet the increasing need for food production in the wake of a growing world population could get a major boost with a team of Indian researchers reporting a reference-grade genome of a highly salt-tolerant mangrove species called Avicennia marina. It grows optimally in 75% seawater and can tolerate even 250% seawater.
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Scientists Develop Salt Tolerant Rice Variety

Scientists Develop Salt Tolerant Rice Variety

A group of Indian scientists has developed a new salt-tolerant transgenic rice plant by over-expressing a gene from wild rice called Porteresia coarctata into the commonly used IR 64 indica rice variety. Porteresia coarctata is a native of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar and is grown mainly in saline estuaries

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