Nature Genetics
37, 1029 - 1030 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ng1005-1029
Unraveling salt tolerance in cropsAna M Rus, Ray A Bressan
& Paul M Hasegawa
Ana M. Rus, Ray A. Bressan and Paul M. Hasegawa are at the Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2010, USA. paul.m.hasegawa.1@purdue.edu
The ability of crop plants to tolerate high salt concentrations is an agriculturally useful trait. A new study in rice shows that allelic variation in OsHKT8, which encodes a Na+ transporter, contributes to the enhanced capacity of a salt-tolerant variety to maintain shoot K+ homeostasis under NaCl stress.
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