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SUBMITTER: Bui EN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4126621 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bui Elisabeth N EN Thornhill Andrew A Miller Joseph T JT
Biology letters 20140701 7
Saline or alkaline soils present a strong stress on plants that together may be even more deleterious than alone. Australia's soils are old and contain large, sometimes overlapping, areas of high salt and alkalinity. Acacia and other Australian plant lineages have evolved in this stressful soil environment and present an opportunity to understand the evolution of salt and alkalinity tolerance. We investigate this evolution by predicting the average soil salinity and pH for 503 Acacia species and ...[more]