Simulating seawater in the lab is more complicated than just getting the salt concentration right.
Tag - osmotic stress
Erin Zimmerman
Simulated seawater flooding reduces oilseed rape growth, yield and progeny performance
Of the many threats to global food security, one of the most pressing is the increased incidence of extreme weather events. In addition to extreme rainfall, a combination of global sea level rise and storm surge is...
Alex Assiry
Evaluating traits contributing to salinity tolerance
Salinity stress impacts myriad aspects of a plant’s function, with potentially catastrophic results for crop yield. As an alternative to studying overall salinity tolerance according to physiological effects, Negrão et...
botanyone
Regulation of a Solanum Double-B box gene
Kiełbowicz-Matuk et al. investigate variations in a Solanum DBB protein, SsBBX24, in S. tuberosum and S. sogarandinum and find evidence of trafficking from the nucleus to the cytosol during the light period.
