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Nature Genetics 37, 1141–1146 (1 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/ng1643

A rice quantitative trait locus for salt tolerance encodes a sodium transporter

Zhong-Hai Ren , Ji-Ping Gao , Le-Gong Li , Xiu-Ling Cai , Wei Huang , Dai-Yin Chao , Mei-Zhen Zhu , Zong-Yang Wang , Sheng Luan & Hong-Xuan Lin

Many important agronomic traits in crop plants, including stress tolerance, are complex traits controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Isolation of these QTLs holds great promise to improve world agriculture but is a challenging task.