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Unlocking salt tolerance from Fertile Crescent wild barley: evolutionary and physiological mechanisms in introgressed lines.
Scientific reports - 12 May 2026
Eskandari Masoumeh, Majidi Mohammad Mahdi, Iravani Fatemeh, Naderi Sarvin, Mirmohammady Maibody Seyyed Ali Mohammad
Abstract excerpt
Soil salinity limits barley productivity, worsened by domestication bottlenecks that reduced stress-adaptive diversity. We employed a multi-origin introgression strategy using 21 wild Hordeum spontaneum accessions from diverse Fertile Crescent ecotypes to restore ancestral resilience. These foreground segments were embedded in a single cultivated background, yielding a nested backcross population (NBP) and 63...
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