Overproduction of ABA in rootstocks alleviates salinity stress in tomato shoots

Cristina Martínez-Andújar^a, Ascensión Martínez-Pérez^a, Alfonso Albacete^a, Purificación A. Martínez-Melgarejo^a, Ian C. Dodd^b, Andrew J. Thompson^c, Almudena Ferrández-Ayela^d, José Manuel Pérez-Pérez^d , Miriam L. Gifford^eand Francisco Pérez-Alfocea^a*

^a Department of Plant Nutrition, CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain

^b The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

^c Cranfield Soil and AgriFood Institute, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, MK43 0AL, UK

^d Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain

^e School of Life Sciences and Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre, Gibbet Hill Road, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

*Corresponding author:alfocea@cebas.csic.es, +34968396342