Identifying novel salinity tolerance mechanisms by spatial and temporal analysis of lipids in barley.

农业食品生产面临着双重挑战，即世界人口不断增加，以及气候变化和可耕地侵蚀造成的非生物压力的威胁。谷物是主要的粮食作物，对大多数非生物胁迫的适应性较差，包括盐度。该项目应用新技术，研究模式谷物大麦（Hordeum vulgare）的时空生化机制，以适应和耐受盐度。目的是调查的作用，具体的质膜脂质调节信号通路或膜流动性，在盐度适应的影响。研究结果将为禾谷类耐盐种质的选育提供新的思路。

Agrifood production faces the dual challenges of an increasing world population and the threats of abiotic stresses arising from climate change and the erosion of arable land. Cereals, the major food crops, are poorly adapted to tolerate most abiotic stresses, including salinity. This project applies new technologies investigating spatial and temporal biochemical mechanisms a model cereal, Hordeum vulgare (barley), utilises to adapt and tolerate salinity. The aims are to investigate the role of specifically plasma membrane lipids modulating either signalling pathways or membrane fluidity that impacts on adaptation during salinity. The results will provide new leads for the development of cereal germplasm with increased salt tolerance.