Production of Drought and Salt Tolerant Transgenic Cereal Plants

Genetic transformation of cereal plants is a powerful method for producing agronomically useful transgenic plants. Salt and drought stress result in substantial yield losses, which amounts to many billions of dollars

Genetic transformation of cereal plants is a powerful method for producing agronomically useful transgenic plants. SaR and drought stress result in substantial yield losses, which amounts to many billions of dollars each year. In addition, approximately one-quarter of the land in the world contains levels of salt too high for crop production. Therefore, generating salt-tolerant transgenic plants can reclaim new areas of land for growing plants,