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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Rus, A., Bressan, R. & Hasegawa, P. Unraveling salt tolerance in crops. Nat Genet 37, 1029–1030 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1005-1029
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