Academics at The Hebrew University figure out how to water plants with salt water
Posted on July 21, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
Category: Environment |
“Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink.” Or so we thought.
Prof. Alex Levine and doctoral student Yehoram Leshem of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, have been studying how plants react under salty conditions and why.
The results of their work, published in the Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Sciences, show that through understanding the mechanisms by which plants deal with salty conditions and through genetic manipulation, it is possible to raise plants’ tolerance to what normally would be too much salt for survival.
Improving the salt tolerance of crops can be a life-save to many countries and societies.
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