Abstract
Salicornia plants, a member of the family Chenopodiaceae, are annual halophytes, which are widespread in salt marshes on the Eurasia Continent, North America, Middle East and South Africa. This plant species can grow in the presence 1000 mM NaCl. To analyze the mechanisms of salt tolerance in this plant, screening of genes for the salt tolerance was done using E. coli as a host organism. In this screening, fasciclin-like arabinogalactan protein (FLA) cDNA was isolated. In this study, the role of FLA in the salt resistant mechanisms was investigated using transgenic tobacco expressing Salicornia FLA. This study was supported in part by Industrial Research Grant Program in 03 from New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan.
