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Salt Tolerance Breeding

Salt stress causes ionic stress in plants, which affects the ionic homeostasis of plant cells and makes it difficult for plants to absorb water, which can cause osmotic stress in plants. In addition, when too many salt ions enter the plant, it can affect the enzyme activity, protein function, etc., which interferes with the normal life activities of plants. Currently, the main ways to alleviate salt stress are screening salt-tolerant varieties and breeding transgenic plants with salt-tolerant properties.

Lifeasible is dedicated to breeding salt-tolerant varieties of ornamental flowers and has provided various effective solutions for breeding salt-tolerant ornamental plant varieties using a combination of salt-tolerance identification screening and multi-omics research techniques.

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  • Salt tolerance identification and screening

Plant species differ genetically from one another and within themselves. Identifying and screening salt tolerance will result in ornamental plant species with high salt tolerance at the germination stage. Identifying salt-tolerant plant species and identifying them quickly and accurately are essential for the rational use of plant resources. Different varieties of a certain ornamental flower were evaluated for their salinity tolerance and screened out to be the most salinity-tolerant ones based on their differences in germination potential, germination rate, seedling height, root length, and salt tolerance index. Through salt tolerance identification and screening, we have already obtained several plant varieties with high salt tolerance.

In addition, we are continuously strengthening the screening of the identification of salt tolerance at the germination stage in breeding salt-tolerant plants and using the germplasm materials of plants with strong salt tolerance at the germination stage to carry out intra-species and inter-neighboring cross-breeding, to select and breed new excellent varieties with strong salt tolerance at the germination stage.

  • Genetic engineering-assisted salt tolerance breeding

With the rapid development of biotechnology, it has become a reality to enhance the ability of plants to withstand external stresses through transgenic techniques. For example, we can reduce the sensitivity of germination and seedling stages to salt stress by regulating the biosynthetic pathways of abscisic acid (ABA), GA, and ethylene by expressing regulatory-related salt tolerance regulatory genes in target plants. Thus, exogenous genes transferred into plants can enhance salinity tolerance during seed germination by regulating specific biological processes. Currently, we have also successfully transferred salt tolerance genes into a variety of plants using transgenic technology.

In addition, since plant salinity tolerance is a complex process controlled by multiple genes, we are continuously strengthening our research on the co-transformation of multiple species of salt tolerance genes, especially the co-transformation of salt tolerance genes involving various aspects such as antioxidant system, osmoregulation, ion transport, and material transformation.

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Advantages of our services - Lifeasible

Lifeasible uses transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic technologies to conduct multi-level high-throughput systematic research for the study and cultivation of salt-tolerant ornamental plants, which will greatly improve the characteristics of ornamental plant species, broaden the cultivation applicability of ornamental plants, and improve environmental beautification. If you are interested in us, please feel free to contact us.

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