Salt-loving plants may be key to global efforts for sustainable food production
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 11:00
in Earth & Climate
Farmland is vanishing in part because the salinity in the soil is rising as a result of climate change and other man-made phenomena. In an Opinion piece publishing in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Sciences, researchers propose a new concept for breeding salt- tolerant plants as a way to contribute to global efforts for sustainable food production.