Open AccessTargeted Overexpression of a Sodium Transporter in the Root Stele Increases Salinity Tolerance
Author(s) -
Kathleen L. Farquharson
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the plant cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.324
H-Index - 341
eISSN - 1532-298X
pISSN - 1040-4651
DOI - 10.1105/tpc.109.210710
Subject(s) - stele , biology , transporter , salinity , root (linguistics) , botany , genetics , gene , ecology , linguistics , philosophy
Soil salinity poses a major threat to global agricultural productivity. An elevated concentration of shoot Na+ causes stress in many crops growing in saline soils (reviewed in [Tester and Davenport, 2003][1]). Arabidopsis HKT1;1 (for high affinity potassium transporter1;1), a plasma membrane protein
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