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Plant Tolerance Mechanisms to Soil Salinity Contribute to the Expansion of Agriculture and Livestock Production in Argentina
This chapter addresses salt tolerance mechanisms in crops and woody species cultivated in Argentina, highlighting the contribution of local research to these topics. Work on forages and woody species represents approximately half of this research that has been published by Argentine authors in international journals. Basic research on plant salinity mounts to only 12% of the total, indicating that it still does not attract sufficient consideration among researchers. Among forage plants, attention in this chapter is focused on Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana Kunth), while in woody perennials, salt tolerance mechanisms in Prosopis, which have been extensively investigated locally, are reported. Despite the importance of soybean in Argentine economy, as well as that of other crops such as maize, wheat, sunflower, relatively little research attention has been paid to salinity issues in these major field crops. This situation may reflect the fact that they are mostly cultivated in non-saline soils.Instituto de FisiologĂa y Recursos GenĂ©ticos VegetalesFil: Taleisnik, Edith. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas. Unidad de Estudios Agropecuarios (UDEA); Argentina. Instituto Nacional de TecnologĂa Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de FisiologĂa y Recursos GenĂ©ticos Vegetales; ArgentinaFil: Taleisnik, Edith. Universidad CatĂłlica de CĂłrdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias; ArgentinaFil: RodrĂguez, AndrĂ©s Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientĂficas y TĂ©cnicas; ArgentinaFil: RodrĂguez, AndrĂ©s Alberto. Instituto TecnolĂłgico de ChascomĂşs (INTECH). Laboratorio de EstrĂ©s AbiĂłtico y BiĂłtico en Plantas. Unidad de BiotecnologĂa 1; ArgentinaFil: Bustos, Dolores Angela. Instituto Nacional de TecnologĂa Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de FisiologĂa y Recursos GenĂ©ticos Vegetales; ArgentinaFil: Luna, Dario Fernando. Instituto Nacional de TecnologĂa Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de FisiologĂa y Recursos GenĂ©ticos Vegetales; Argentin
Oxygen tension modulates the effects of TNF alpha in compressed chondrocytes
This work was supported by a QMUL Principal EPSRC PhD studentship and project grants by the AO Foundation (S-09-83C) and UM High Impact Research Grant (UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/44) from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia