Mechanisms of plant responses and adaptation to soil salinity

C Zhao, H Zhang, C Song, JK Zhu, S Shabala - The innovation, 2020 - cell.com
Soil salinity is a major environmental stress that restricts the growth and yield of crops.
Understanding the physiological, metabolic, and biochemical responses of plants to salt …

Progress in studying salt secretion from the salt glands in recretohalophytes: how do plants secrete salt?

F Yuan, B Leng, B Wang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
To survive in a saline environment, halophytes have evolved many strategies to resist salt
stress. The salt glands of recretohalophytes are exceptional features for directly secreting …

Alleviation of drought and salt stress in vegetables: crop responses and mitigation strategies

MF Khalid, S Huda, M Yong, L Li, L Li, ZH Chen… - Plant Growth …, 2023 - Springer
In recent decades, the demand for vegetables has increased significantly due to the
blooming global population. Climate change has affected vegetable production by …

Salt-tolerant genes from halophytes are potential key players of salt tolerance in glycophytes

Y Himabindu, T Chakradhar, MC Reddy… - Environmental and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Crop productivity strongly depends on several biotic and abiotic factors. Salinity is one of the
most important abiotic factors, besides drought, extreme temperatures, light and metal …

Salt stress sensing and early signalling events in plant roots: Current knowledge and hypothesis

S Shabala, H Wu, J Bose - Plant Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil salinity is a major environmental constraint to crop production. While the molecular
identity and functional expression of Na+ transport systems mediating Na+ exclusion from …

Making plants break a sweat: the structure, function, and evolution of plant salt glands

M Dassanayake, JC Larkin - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Salt stress is a complex trait that poses a grand challenge in developing new crops better
adapted to saline environments. Some plants, called recretohalophytes, that have naturally …

Reproductive physiology of halophytes: current standing

F Yuan, J Guo, S Shabala, B Wang - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Halophytes possess efficient salt-tolerance mechanisms and can complete
their life cycles in naturally saline soils with NaCl contents exceeding 200 mM. While a …

Salt stress alters membrane lipid content and lipid biosynthesis pathways in the plasma membrane and tonoplast

Q Guo, L Liu, TWT Rupasinghe, U Roessner… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Plant cell membranes are the sites of sensing and initiation of rapid responses to changing
environmental factors including salinity stress. Understanding the mechanisms involved in …

Biotechnological advances to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops

MA Villalobos-López, A Arroyo-Becerra… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The major challenges that agriculture is facing in the twenty-first century are increasing
droughts, water scarcity, flooding, poorer soils, and extreme temperatures due to climate …

Understanding the molecular basis of salt sequestration in epidermal bladder cells of Chenopodium quinoa

J Böhm, M Messerer, HM Müller, J Scholz-Starke… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Soil salinity is destroying arable land and is considered to be one of the major threats to
global food security in the 21st century. Therefore, the ability of naturally salt-tolerant …