Functional Genomic Studies of Mangrove Plants
(Collaborative projects with UPM)
Isolation of salinity tolerance genes from Mangrove
Development of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from Mangrove
An estimated 20% of the worlds cultivated land and up to half of all irrigated lands are currently affected by salinity and this is expected to worsen in the future. Whilst there are plants which are able to survive and even thrive in saline soils, mangrove plants being a good example, the mechanisms of salt tolerance are still poorly understood and have also been associated with general plant stress. As functional genomic studies begin to unravel the complex physiology involved in plant stress responses, it is becoming clear that a battery of stress response genes are involved, and that many of these are common to most stress responses. In our current projects, a genomics approach is being used to study local mangrove plants as a source of novel genes and pathways related to salinity and other stress tolerance.
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