Plants, like all organisms don’t like an excess of salt. One of its ways to deal with salt stress is to strengthen their cell walls. FER, a receptor in the cell membrane is one of the key proteins in regulating this. Now a group of Chinese researchers show that key to this is the small molecule phosphatidic acid.
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Salt loving bacteria help plants in salty soils
Crops growing on salty soil do less well than their on none salty soil growing counterparts. And this is a problem, as salinity affects huge swatches of soil all over the world. Now a group of Indian researchers decided to find out if salt loving bacteria could help plants grow on salty soils.
A waxy layer for salt tolerance
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.
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”.
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