GENETIC modification could help alleviate a problem that affects two-thirds of Australia's wheat crop and costs grain growers $200 million a year. Australian scientists are developing salt-tolerant plants, in a bid to boost yields in areas affected by salinity. University of Adelaide professor of plant physiology Dr Mark Tester said plants were more salt-tolerant if they could keep concentrated sodium out of the shoots. Read more:
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
GM key to a saline solution
GENETIC modification could help alleviate a problem that affects two-thirds of Australia's wheat crop and costs grain growers $200 million a year. Australian scientists are developing salt-tolerant plants, in a bid to boost yields in areas affected by salinity. University of Adelaide professor of plant physiology Dr Mark Tester said plants were more salt-tolerant if they could keep concentrated sodium out of the shoots. Read more:
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