salt tolerance

A Peptide That Helps Plants Deal With Salt Stress

A research group in Japan has discovered a peptide that helps increase salt tolerance in plants.

Why The Crab-Eating Frog Can Tolerate Salty Environments

A comparitve transcriptomics study has revealed the rapid evolution of kidney-related genes that make the crab-eating frog the only frog able to live in salty water.

Soybean Salt Tolerance Gene Found

A gene which confers salt tolerance has been isolated from the wild soybean plant.