Breeding salinity

Spiegel-Roy, M.P. Ben Hayyim, G. (1985). Selection and breeding for salinity tolerance in vitro. Plant and Soil, 89, 243-52. 

Yeo, A.R. Flowers, T.J. (1986). Salinity resistance in rice Oryza sativa L.) and a pyramiding approach to breeding varieties for saline soils. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 13, 161-73. 

Breeding Recurrent mass selection Adaptation to climate change Disease resistance Drought resistance Genetic diversity Salinity resistance Banilas et al. (2009) Carruba and Catalano (2009) Hejnak et al. (2009) Marais and Botes (2009) Martinez-Ballesta et al. (2009)... 

Effect of the extracts on the increased vascular permeability induced by acetic acid in mice was determined according to Whittle method with some modifications [5]. Each test sample was administered orally to a group of ten mice, which were male Swiss albino mice (20-25 g) were purchased from the animal breeding laboratories of Refik Saydam Central Institute of Health (Ankara, Turkey), in 0.2 mF20 g body weight. Thirty minutes after the administration each mice was injected with 0.1 ml of 4% Evans blue (Sigma, St. Louis, Missouri, USA) in saline solution (/.v.) at the... 

Gregorio GB, Senadhira D, Mendoza RD, Manigbas NL, Roxas JP, Guerta CQ. 2002. Progress in breeding for salinity tolerance and associated abiotic stresses in rice. Field Crops Research 76 91-101. 

Some of these suggested strategies, such as breeding for salt tolerant species or varieties (Colmer et al. 2005, McDonald et al. 2005) or controlling aquifer depth by using pumps or other engineering solutions (Clarke et al. 2002), have some potential to alleviate the symptoms of salinity. They do not seem promising, however, to address the causes of the salinity problem and will therefore not be discussed here. 

Lauchli A., Grattan SR. Plant growth and development under salinity stress. Jenks MA, Hasegawa PM. Jain SM. (ed.) Advances in Molecular Breeding toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Springer 2007,1-32. 

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