Title:	Integrating genomic, molecular genetic and physiological approaches to identify plant aluminum tolerance genes and their associated physiological mechanisms.
Authors:	KOCHIAN, L. HOEKENGA, O. MAGALHAES, J. PINEROS, M. ALVES, V. MARON, L. MASON, P. GUIMARAES, C. SCHAFFERT, R.
Affiliation:	LEON KOCHIAN, USDA; OWEN HOEKENGA, USDA; JURANDIR VIEIRA DE MAGALHAES, CNPMS; MIGUEL PINEROS, USDA; VERA MARIA CARVALHO ALVES, CNPMS; LYZA MARON, USDA; PAUL MASON, USDA; CLAUDIA TEIXEIRA GUIMARAES, CNPMS; ROBERT EUGENE SCHAFFERT, CNPMS.
Date Issued:	2005
Citation:	In: INTERNATIONAL PLANT NUTRITION COLLOQUIUM, 15., 2005, Beijing, China. Proceedings... Beijing: Tsinghua University, 2005.
Pages:	p. 18-19.
Description:	Aluminum (Al) tox.icity is one of the most significant limitations to crop production worldwide, reducing yields on the acidic soils that comprise up to 50% of potentially arable lands. Breeding for Al tolerance and agronomic practices aimed at arneliorating soil acidity have been productive avenues for improved crop production on acid soils. However, it is widely recognized that biotechnology is a very important avenue for further future improvements in Al tolerance, especially for farmers without the economic resources to take advantage of improved agronomic practices. Hence a number of the laboratories around the world are working to identify and characterize Al tolerance geness in plants. The Kochian lab has been taking an interdisciplinary approach integrating approaches from genetics, genomics and Ínolecular biology, and physiology to identify Al to1erancegenes and the associated mechanisrns in 3 model plant systerns: sorghum, maize and Arabidopsis thaliana.
NAL Thesaurus:	Arabidopsis acid soils
Keywords:	Aluminum tolerance Gene cloning Maize Sorghum
Type of Material:	Artigo em anais e proceedings
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em anais de congresso (CNPMS)