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Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene

Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene

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Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene

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Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene

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New York: Nature Publishing Group US

Journal title

Nature biotechnology, 2012-04, Vol.30 (4), p.360-364

Language

English

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New York: Nature Publishing Group US

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Contents

Salinization of cultivated land and the need to increase agricultural productivity make the development of salt-resistant crops imperative. Field trials show that a durum wheat containing a sodium transporter derived from an ancestral wheat relative produces substantially more grain than a commercial durum wheat lacking this transporter on saline s...

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Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_993910510

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_993910510

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ISSN

1087-0156

E-ISSN

1546-1696

DOI

10.1038/nbt.2120

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