
Media of date Palm Research Center / Wafa Al-Taghalabi
Assistant professor from the Date Palm Research Center, Ansam Mahdi Salih, in cooperation with researchers from the Marine Sciences center, completed a scientific study entitled (Efficiency of plant tissue culture technology in propagating and increasing the salt tolerance of endangered aquatic plants) to the Basra Agriculture Directorate within the frameworks of cooperation and scientific communication with state institutions and for Upgrading the agricultural reality.
The study touched on the most important setbacks that aquatic plants have experienced in Iraq, which negatively affected most of them and the extinction of others.
The study dealt with the propagation of some of these plants using plant tissue culture technology and an attempt to obtain plants resistant to salt as a preventive measure for emergency environmental conditions.
The Agriculture Directorate appreciated the efforts made by researchers in preparing the study that would contribute to solving natural plant problems on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab and many rivers.