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Comprehensive phenotypic analysis of rice (Oryza sativa) response to salinity stress.
Physiologia plantarum - 1 Sept 2015
Pires Inês S, Negrão Sónia, Oliveira M Margarida, Purugganan Michael D
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Increase in soil salinity levels is becoming a major cause of crop yield losses worldwide. Rice (Oryza sativa) is the most salt-sensitive cereal crop, and many studies have focused on rice salinity tolerance, but a global understanding of this crop's response to salinity is still lacking. We systematically analyzed phenotypic data previously collected for 56 rice genotypes to assess the extent to which rice uses...
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