Salt cress genome yields new clues to salt tolerance

Friday, July 13, 2012 - 09:00 in Biology & Nature

Biologists have completed the genomic sequence and analysis of salt cress Thellungiella salsuginea, a wild salt-tolerant plant. The salt cress genome serves as a useful tool for exploring mechanisms of adaptive evolution and sheds new lights on understanding the genetic characteristics underlying plant abiotic stress tolerance.

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