Soil salinity has become a major problem in all agriculture especially in the San Joaquin Valley. This has made crops less able to grow and in some cases unable to grow at all. Notice the white soil, cause by excessive salt in the picture below.
Thus we need to research the possibility of using the genes of salt tolerant plants species (eg: mangrove) in our agricultural crops.
Example of such crop:
A gene from the grey mangrove, Avicennia marina, has been genetically implanted into a tobacco plant, making it able to tolerate salt stress as well as showing tolerance to other ionic stresses.