Salinity tolerance and long-distance transport in cereals

该计划的目的是通过利用新的转基因技术来操纵根中特定细胞类型的过程来改变谷物中溶质的积累。主要目标是培育对盐碱地耐受性更高的谷物。这在澳大利亚显然具有重要的农业意义。更普遍的结果包括产生叶片和籽粒中一系列营养物质浓度发生改变的植物。这将具有广泛的农业和营养效益，并提供对植物长距离协调过程的基本原理的理解。

The aim of this program is to alter shoot accumulation of solutes in cereals by exploiting novel transgenic technology to manipulate processes in specific cell types in the roots. The primary objective is the generation of cereals which have increased tolerance of saline soils. This is clearly of much agricultural significance in Australia. More general outcomes include the generation of plants with altered concentrations of a range of nutrients in both leaves and grain. This will be of wide agricultural and nutritional benefit, as well as providing an understanding of principles underlying the long-distance co-ordination of processes in plants.