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Starting to photographically document the effect of salt on plant growth and appearance

This is a 13-day old wild type plant that has grown without salt under a long-day regime. In test experiments, I am making wild type

and mutant plants grow in 1, 10 and 100 mM NaC (salt).

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Salt is dangerous to most plants, as it quickly disrupts their ionic homeostasis and their physiology. Most studies on plant adaptation to soil salinisation focus on the root, the part of the plant directly exposed to the salt. However, my recent recent work shows that application of salt to the roots induce long-distance electrical signals that quickly travel to the leaves via the phloem. These data open new questions regarding the role of systemic electrical signals in salt adaptation.



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