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US 7,442,852 B2Granted
High salt plants and uses for bioremediation
OwnerEduardo Blumwald, Maris Apse +2inventors
InventorsEduardo Blumwald, Maris Apse, Wayne Snedden, Gil Aharon
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Abstract
The subject invention includes non-naturally occurring salt tolerant plants that accumulate sodium in their tissues substantially in the vacuole. The present invention also includes methods of making such non-naturally occurring plants. One preferred method is generating a transgenic plant that has an ectopically expressed NHX related gene product.
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A method of lowering the salt content of soil, said method comprising:
- a) cultivating in the soil a transgenic plant comprising a recombinant nucleic acid encoding a vacuolar Na+/H+ transporter, wherein the recombinant nucleic acid is the nucleic acid molecule of SEQ ID NO:1 or a nucleic acid molecule encoding SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and the soil has an initial electrical conductivity;
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- b) harvesting the transgenic plant.
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