{"id":24047,"date":"2015-01-15T03:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.innovations-report.com%2Fhtml%2Freports%2Flife-sciences%2Fresearch-finds-salt-tolerance-gene-in-soybean.html"},"modified":"2015-01-15T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:30:16","slug":"research-finds-salt-tolerance-gene-in-soybean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/research-finds-salt-tolerance-gene-in-soybean\/","title":{"rendered":"Research finds salt tolerance gene in soybean"},"content":{"rendered":"

A collaborative research project between Australian and Chinese scientists has shown how soybean can be bred to better tolerate soil salinity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The researchers, at the University of Adelaide in Australia and the Institute of Crop Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, have identified a specific gene in soybean that has great potential for soybean crop improvement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSoybean is the fifth largest crop in the world in terms of both crop area planted and amount harvested,\u201d says the project\u2019s lead, University of Adelaide researcher Associate Professor Matthew Gilliham. \u201cBut many commercial crops are sensitive to soil salinity and this can cause major losses to crop yields.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn top of that, the area of salt-affected agricultural land is rapidly increasing and is predicted to double in the next 35 years. The identification of genes that improve crop salt tolerance will be essential to our efforts to improve global food security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Lijuan Qiu and Dr Rongxia Guan at the Institute of Crop Sciences pinpointed a candidate salt tolerance gene after examining the genetic sequence of several hundred soybean varieties. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Adelaide’s Waite campus then investigated the function of this gene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe initially identified the gene by comparing two commercial cultivars,\u201d says Professor Qiu. \u201cWe were surprised and pleased to see that this gene also conferred salt tolerance in some other commercial cultivars, old domesticated soybean varieties and even wild soybean.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears that this gene was lost when breeding new cultivars of soybean in areas without salinity. This has left many new cultivars susceptible to the rapid increases we are currently seeing in soil salinity around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

By identifying the gene, genetic markers can now be used in breeding programs to ensure that salt tolerance can be maintained in future cultivars of soybean that will be grown in areas prone to soil salinity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gene functions in a completely new way from other salt tolerance genes we know about,\u201d says Associate Professor Gilliham. \u201cWe can now use this information to find similar genes in different crops such as wheat and grapevine, to selectively breed for their enhanced salt tolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n

This research has received support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and is a feature article in The Plant Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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