Mechanisms of salinity tolerance

R Munns, M Tester - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The physiological and molecular mechanisms of tolerance to osmotic and ionic components
of salinity stress are reviewed at the cellular, organ, and whole-plant level. Plant growth …

Salinity tolerance in halophytes

TJ Flowers, TD Colmer - New phytologist, 2008 - JSTOR
Halophytes, plants that survive to reproduce in environments where the salt concentration is
around 200 mM NaCl or more, constitute about 1% of the world's flora. Some halophytes …

Multiple roles of proline in plant stress tolerance and development

M Trovato, R Mattioli, P Costantino - Rendiconti Lincei, 2008 - Springer
The recent progresses in the research on proline will be described, focusing on plants and
covering proline metabolism and signal transduction as well as the role of this imino acid in …

Comparative salt tolerance analysis between Arabidopsis thaliana and Thellungiella halophila, with special emphasis on K+/Na+ selectivity and proline accumulation

MA Ghars, E Parre, A Debez, M Bordenave… - Journal of plant …, 2008 - Elsevier
The eco-physiology of salt tolerance, with an emphasis on K+ nutrition and proline
accumulation, was investigated in the halophyte Thellungiella halophila and in both wild …

Functional‐genomics‐based identification of genes that regulate Arabidopsis responses to multiple abiotic stresses

P Kant, M Gordon, S Kant, G Zolla… - Plant, Cell & …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abiotic stresses are a primary cause of crop loss worldwide. The convergence of stress
signalling pathways to a common set of transcription factors suggests the existence of …

The Arabidopsis Halophytic Relative Thellungiella halophila Tolerates Nitrogen-Limiting Conditions by Maintaining Growth, Nitrogen Uptake, and Assimilation

S Kant, YM Bi, E Weretilnyk, S Barak… - Plant …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
A comprehensive knowledge of mechanisms regulating nitrogen (N) use efficiency is
required to reduce excessive input of N fertilizers while maintaining acceptable crop yields …

Role of antioxidant systems in wild plant adaptation to salt stress

AV Kartashov, NL Radyukina, YV Ivanov… - Russian Journal of Plant …, 2008 - Springer
Wild plants differing in the strategies of adaptation to salinity were grown for six weeks in the
phytotron and then subjected to salt stress (100 mM NaCl, 24 h). The activities of principal …

Large-scale collection and annotation of full-length enriched cDNAs from a model halophyte, Thellungiella halophila

T Taji, T Sakurai, K Mochida, A Ishiwata, A Kurotani… - BMC plant biology, 2008 - Springer
Background Thellungiella halophila (also known as Thellungiella salsuginea) is a model
halophyte with a small plant size, short life cycle, and small genome. It easily undergoes …

Роль систем антиоксидантной защиты при адаптации дикорастущих видов растений к солевому стрессу

АВ Карташов, НЛ Радюкина, ЮВ Иванов… - Физиология …, 2008 - elibrary.ru
Растения дикорастущих видов с разными “стратегиями” адаптации к засолению
выращивали в условиях фитотрона до 6-недельного возраста, подвергали солевому …

Cloning and characterization of TsMT3, a type 3 metallothionein gene from salt cress (Thellungiella salsuginea) Full Length Research Paper

XQ Quan, ZL Wang, H Zhang, YP Bi - DNA Sequence, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
A full-length type 3 plant metallothionein cDNA was isolated from 200 mM NaCl stressed
shoots of the salt cress (Thellungiella salsuginea). The 447 bp TsMT3 cDNA sequence has …