Salt Tolerance

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      1. Sodium chloride severely inhibited plant growth. Applied in large quantities, it could limit growth to less than 10% of the normal plant weight. It also destroys the chance of germination when Brassica napus seeds are treated with 20g/L of salt.                                         

      2. The transgenic plants grew better than the wild-type plants under salt stressed conditions in vegetative growth for all the four transgenic lines tested, but only two of the transgenic lines performed better  in the germination experiment. [These two lines (line 3 and 4) were constructed the way that the gene is expressed in all the plant tissue instead of mainly in roots (line 1 and 2)].