Because fall is a great time to plant, now may be the time to plan around salt damage. The two major problems for plants are saline soils and salt spray. Saline soils are a general problem with less ...

Winter garden with shrubbery and dusting of snow on grass - Maria Evseyeva/Shutterstock While many people in the northern US wonder what a polar vortex means for our winter gardens, we're not just ...

Salt stress is a major abiotic constraint that affects plant growth, development and productivity on a global scale. Plants have evolved a range of adaptive mechanisms—from maintaining ion homeostasis ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – High salt levels found in one-third of the world's cropland causes reduced yields and poor growing conditions. Now, a team of Purdue University scientists have discovered the ...

A breakthrough has been made in investigating salt tolerance in plants which could lead to new salt tolerant varieties of crops, and also answer unresolved questions in plant biology. University of ...

Salt tolerance is one such coveted trait. Recent research on promoting salt tolerance through transgenesis focuses on boosting salt-sequestering physiological mechanisms within species, and ...

Despite years of effort and advances in understanding how salinity tolerance works in plants, very few salt-tolerant crops have been released for commercial use. In a comprehensive review of breeding ...

The quinoa plant might serve as a model for making other crops salt-tolerant. It grows well on saline soils because the excess salt is simply dumped into special bladders on its leaves. Soil erosion ...

A bacterium living inside the roots of some plants enables them to grow well despite salty conditions. Their secret weapon is to trigger sulfur metabolism, a finding that is already helping to develop ...

The birthplace of agriculture, the Mideast’s Fertile Crescent, became largely a desert long ago, and salt in the soil had a lot to do with it. Today, according to some estimates, salt-laden soil ruins ...

In 1956, Congress authorized the interstate highway system, and ribbons of asphalt were poured in short order. Now, almost 50,000 miles of interstates and hundreds of thousands of state and local ...