Genetic mapping of the early responses to salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

We thank King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for funding this work, and Photon Systems Instruments (PSI) for their scientific and technical support. Special thanks to Dr. Xavier Sirault (CSIRO, Australia) for suggesting the use of the saturation method for salt imposition, Radka Mezulanikova and Jaromir Pytela (PSI, Czech Republic) for assisting with the phenotyping and Prof. Christa Testerink (UVA, Netherlands) for providing the HapMap seeds. We also thank the KAUST Greenhouse Core-lab personnel: Dr. Richard Soppe, Mr. Mupalla Reddy, Mr. Gomerito Sagun, Mr. John Rahmer, Mr. Thomas Hoover and Mr. Johnard Balangue for their help in propagating the plant material that was used in this study and for running the highthroughput phenotyping facility at KAUST.