Background

1.Kotuby-Amacher, J., Koenig, R., Kitchen, B. (1997). Salinity and plant tolerance. http://extension.usu.edu/publica/agpubs/salini.htm

2. Majerus, M. (1996). Plant materials for saline-alkaline soils. http//animalrangeextension.montana.edu/Articles/Forage/General/Salt-tolerance.htm

3. Nelson, DE., Shen, B., Bohnert, HJ., (1999). Salinity tolerance, mechanisms, models and the metabolic engineering of complex traits. Genetic Engineering Vol 20: 153-176. Plenum Press, New York

4. Canola council of Canada. http://www.canola-council.org

5. Quesada, V., García-Martínez, S., Piqueras, P., Ponce, MR., Micol, JL. (2002). Genetic architecture of NaCl tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant Phisiology Vol 130: 951-963.

6. Zhang, HX., Blumwald, E. (2001). Transgenic salt-tolerant tomato plants accumulate salt in foliage but not in fruit. Nature Biology Vol 19:765-768.

7. Zhang, HX., Hodson, JN., Williams, JP., Blumwald, E. (2001). Engineering salt-tolerant Brassica plants: Characterization of yield and seed oil quality in transgenic plants with increased vacuolar sodium accumulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98: 12832-12836.

Pictures

1. http//www.gaipm.org/canola/

2. http//www.virtualtourist.com/m/3bd31/de097/