Our partners from Tuscia University (Ieva Urbanavičiūtė, Luca Bonfiglioli and Mario A. Pagnotta) have published a study about the roots of durum wheat under salt stress. They evaluated the root system of six durum wheat genotypes under control and salt conditions at the seedling stage.

The study revealed that the combination of systems for phenotyping with SSR markers for genotyping is a useful tool to provide important data for the selection of suitable parental lines for salt-tolerance breeding.

The paper Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity of Roots Response to Salt in Durum Wheat Seedlings is published in the new issue of Plants: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12020412