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Salinity Research
Prof.Tim Flowers and Dr. Tony Yeo
Work focusses on the effects of soil salinity on plants and is part
of a general interest within the department in environmental stresses.
Salinity most seriously affects irrigated agricultural systems in arid
and semi-arid regions of the world. We are concerned both with the basic
physiology and genetics of salt tolerance and with the practical application
of this to crop improvement. The range of studies extends from subcellular
compartmentation of inorganic ions through genome mapping of important
traits to breeding programmes in south and southeast Asia. Basic research
is funded by the BBSRC and the applied aspects by the Overseas Development
Administration. Electron microscopy is used in anatomical studies (for
example of salt glands, of flowering in cereals and the development of
succulence) and inconjunction with X-ray analysis
and cryo-preparation to measure ion concentrations at the cellular or sub-cellular
level.
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