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Salt tolerance in Solanum pennellii: antioxidant response and related QTL.
BMC plant biology - 6 Apr 2010
Frary Anne, Göl Deniz, Keleş Davut, Okmen Bilal, Pinar Hasan, Siğva Hasan O, Yemenicioğlu Ahmet, Doğanlar Sami
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Excessive soil salinity is an important problem for agriculture, however, salt tolerance is a complex trait that is not easily bred into plants. Exposure of cultivated tomato to salt stress has been reported to result in increased antioxidant content and activity. Salt tolerance of the related wild species, Solanum pennellii, has also been associated with similar changes in antioxidants. In this work,...
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