Engineering salt tolerance in crop plants
CA 2313449 A1 · Owner: Aharon, Gilad · Inventors: Blumwald, Eduardo; Aharon, Gilad; Apse, Maris
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The invention is an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a Na+/H+ exchanger protein for extrusion of sodium ions from the cytosol of a cell to provide the cell with salt tolerance. In a preferred embodiment the nucleic , acid, is obtained from Arabidopsis thaliana. Crop species transformed with the gene are capable of surviving in soil with high salt levels that would normally inhibit, growth of the crop species.
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- Filed July 21, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 21, 2020.
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