North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel@voyager.net>]

Lon Rombough:

What ever happened to the U California initiative to find V. vinifera 
with resistance to selenium, sodium, chlorine ions, etc?

The plan was to poison grape shoots with high levels of dissolved salts 
and excise and clone islands of living tissue.  The thinking was that 
these islands may have resisted poisoning due to some ion transport 
scheme.  Ultimately, they hoped to produce rootstocks and Cabernet that 
could grow in land so salty that only cotton and alfalfa could currently 
survive.