Plants pass the salt

• Autores: John M. Ward, Kendal D. Hirschi, Heven Sze
• Localización: Trends in plant science, ISSN 1360-1385, Vol. 8, Nº. 5, 2003, págs. 200-201
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Recently, overexpression of the plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter SOS1 was shown to increase salt tolerance of Arabidopsis and revealed that levels of SOS1 mRNA are post-transcriptionally regulated by salt stress. In addition to demonstrating a novel approach to engineer salt-tolerant crops, the results provide the first glimpse of a previously unknown mechanism used by plants to regulate gene expression in response to salt stress.