Most plants don’t like to much salt. Still, there are plants that flourish under salty conditions. Not surprisingly researchers are curious how plants adapted that don’t stress out over an extra pinch of salt.
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Getting a little salt tolerance
Plants in a saline environment have no other choice than to adapt. Spanish and French researchers show one of those adaptions in the newly published research “Parallel evolution of salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from Cape Verde Islands”.
Overcoming salt stress with a one-two punch
Some plants thrive in a salty environment. Now Japanese researchers show that one of them, Vigna marina, thanks its extreme salt tolerance due to a two-pronged approach.
Armed against salt
Armed against salt When there is an extensive amount of salt plants take action. One of the things they do, as researchers lead by Christa Testerink show in The Plant Cell, is adapting their cell wall. To prevent weakening by sodium ions. Plants, just like other organisms, don’t like an extensive amount of salt. ItContinue reading “Armed against salt”
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