Plant salinity stress: many unanswered questions remain

SV Isayenkov, FJM Maathuis - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Salinity is a major threat to modern agriculture causing inhibition and impairment of crop
growth and development. Here, we not only review recent advances in salinity stress …

Biofortified crops generated by breeding, agronomy, and transgenic approaches are improving lives of millions of people around the world

M Garg, N Sharma, S Sharma, P Kapoor… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Biofortification is an upcoming, promising, cost-effective, and sustainable technique of
delivering micronutrients to a population that has limited access to diverse diets and other …

[PDF][PDF] Salinity stress in wheat: effects, mechanisms and management strategies.

MF Seleiman, MT Aslam, BA Alhammad… - Phyton (0031 …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Salinity stress is a major threat to global food production and its intensity is continuously
increasing because of anthropogenic activities. Wheat is a staple food and a source of …

Salt-tolerant crops: time to deliver

V Melino, M Tester - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Despite the numerous advances made in our understanding of the physiology and
molecular genetics of salinity tolerance, there have been relatively few applications of these …

Genomics, physiology, and molecular breeding approaches for improving salt tolerance

AM Ismail, T Horie - Annual review of plant biology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Salt stress reduces land and water productivity and contributes to poverty and food
insecurity. Increased salinization caused by human practices and climate change is …

Advances and challenges in the breeding of salt-tolerant rice

H Qin, Y Li, R Huang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soil salinization and a degraded ecological environment are challenging agricultural
productivity and food security. Rice (Oryza sativa), the staple food of much of the world's …

Abiotic stress in plants; stress perception to molecular response and role of biotechnological tools in stress resistance

QM Imran, N Falak, A Hussain, BG Mun, BW Yun - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plants, due to their sessile nature, face several environmental adversities. Abiotic stresses
such as heat, cold, drought, heavy metals, and salinity are serious threats to plant production …

Biofortification of pulse crops: Status and future perspectives

AB Jha, TD Warkentin - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Biofortification through plant breeding is a sustainable approach to improve the nutritional
profile of food crops. The majority of the world's population depends on staple food crops; …

Biofortification of crops with seven mineral elements often lacking in human diets–iron, zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, selenium and iodine

PJ White, MR Broadley - New phytologist, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The diets of over two‐thirds of the world's population lack one or more essential mineral
elements. This can be remedied through dietary diversification, mineral supplementation …

Application of genomics-assisted breeding for generation of climate resilient crops: progress and prospects

C Kole, M Muthamilarasan, R Henry… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Climate change affects agricultural productivity worldwide. Increased prices of food
commodities are the initial indication of drastic edible yield loss, which is expected to …