Could vesicular transport of Na+ and Cl- be a feature of salt tolerance in halophytes?
Background Halophytes tolerate external salt concentrations of 200 mm and more, accumulating salt concentrations of 500 mm and more in their shoots; some, recretohalophytes, excrete salt through glands on their leaves. Ions are accumulated in central vacuoles, but the pathway taken by these ions fr...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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