Periodic Reporting for period 3 - Sense2SurviveSalt (Surviving salinity: How do plants sense Na+?)

Summary
Globally, 6% of the arable land is affected by high salinity and the area of land affected by salinization is increasing by a rate of 3 hectares/min. Plant growth is highly responsive to increasing soil salinity (sodium chloride; NaCl) and results in severely hampered growth...
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