Will salty wheat solve the food crisis?

Scientists believe that hard wheat with a 'like' salt gene that tends to grow rapidly in saline soil will solve the problem of food crisis in the future.

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The situation of population is increasing rapidly, water is scarce and climate change is not favorable for agriculture. Along with the problem of saltwater intrusion, or in high salinity water in developing countries is gradually becoming a problem for scientists.

To solve that, scientists have given salt-tolerant genes to rice by the classical method. The results were quite positive in Japan when they applied this method last year after the tsunami.

Based on a salt field test, scientists at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, said: 'The yield of hard wheat with the' like 'salt gene, TmHKT1 gene; 5-A, 25% higher than normal wheat. '

Gene TmHKT1; 5-A has helped remove sodium from the water taken from plant roots to leaves. At the same time, this gene is taken in the traditional way, not through genetic technology.