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| Title | Navigation System Needed: How Tomato Root Avoids Salt in Soil |
| Group | Plant Physiology, Laboratory of |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 30-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Minnie Leong, Jielin Wang |
| Examiner(s) | Christa Testerink, Rumyana Karlova |
| Contact info | minnie.leong@wur.nl, jielin.wang@wur.nl, thesis.PPH@wur.nl
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| Begin date | 2025/02/17 |
| End date | 2025/08/31 |
| Description | This project mainly concerns the physiological relevance of Halotropism in Tomato, which describes the phenomenon of root growing away from high salt gradient. We will be investigating how Tomato root achieves this with plate and soil assays. In addition, we will be measuring how much salt plant is experiencing during the process to illustrate the effect of halotropism. You can read about a previous work here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213010488?via%3Dihub |
| Used skills | Performing Halotropism assays, ion analysis and soil assays. Student will also conduct data analysis and statistics for the outcome. |
| Requirements | Interest in crop/plant physiology, fulfilled plant-related thesis pre-requisite.
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