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Quinoa may hold key to salt-tolerant crops
Due to special bladders on its leaves that can store salt from saline soils, the quinoa plant might serve as a model for breeding other salt-tolerant crops. The ability for crops to tolerate salinity may become a necessity in certain regions of the globe where global warming may lead to more frequent and more severe droughts, which will force farmers to irrigate their fields.

“All approaches so far to breed salt-tolerant plants must be considered m…