PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTIVE MECHANISMS OF PLANTS GROWN IN SALINE SOIL AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN A COASTAL ZONE - Salt Marshes - page 62

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was jointly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.
41201292; 41171216; 41001137; 31100313), One Hundred-Talent Plan of Chinese Academy
of Sciences (CAS), the Opening Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology,
Shandong Agriculture University (2011KF02), the Project of Shandong Provincial
Technology Development plan (2010GSF10208), the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership
Program for Creative Research Teams, the Science and Technology Development Plan of
Yantai City (2011016), CAS VISITING PROFESSORSHIP (2012T1Z0010, The Strategic
Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA01020304), Yantai
Double hundred High-end Talent Plan (XY-003-02)and 135 Development Plan of YIC-CAS.
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