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New breeding technologies successful to grow salt resistant crops

Prof Mark Tester, a world renowned authority on Food security said new technologies of breeding crops would be helpful to convert any crop become salt resistant to control scarcity of food globally.

“Through this new technique any crop would be made salt resistant through genetic engineering”, he said

Speaking as a guest speaker at COMSTECH, on “Advances in Increasing the Salinity Tolerance of Crops”, he explained the ways to counter the twin challenges of meeting food requirements of a rapidly growing world population and limited availability of fresh water are being addressed.

Prof. Tester’s research group on Salinity at the King Abdul Aziz University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia is actively addressing this serious problem by using the science of Genomics to identify the genes that enable plants to survive in saline conditions, said a news release.

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