Breeding salt-tolerant plants

Jay OwenSustainability News, Nature/Biomimicry

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Breeding salt-tolerant plants

Date:
October 10, 2017
Source:
University of Würzburg
Summary:
The quinoa plant might serve as a model for making other crops salt-tolerant. It grows well on saline soils because the excess salt is simply dumped into special bladders on its leaves.

 

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