Tag: salinity
New study to help develop salt-tolerant plants
In the new study, a joint team of researchers have sequenced the genome and analyzed the salinity tolerance genes of Avicennia marina, an extremely salt-tolerant mangrove specie...........................
Study establishes relevance of traditional knowledge for agricultural sustainability
It was conducted in Kachchh in Western India, which is a typical representative of allied arid and semi-arid tropics that are prone to various natural threats and stressors like drought, salinity, and erratic rainfall pattern...............
Scientists develop transgenic rice that can grow under high salinity &...
The research group has been engaged in understanding biochemical and molecular basis of salinity tolerance of the Pokkali rice for the past two decades..............