Hybridization has many and varied impacts on the process of speciation. Hybridization may
slow or reverse differentiation by allowing gene flow and recombination. It may accelerate …

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 …

Soil and water salinity substantially constrain crop and biomass production. Research over
the last two plus decades, facilitated by advances in molecular genetics and biotechnology …

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the few crops native to the United States. The
current USDA–ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) crop wild relatives sunflower …

This paper argues that soil salinity needs to be more broadly acknowledged as a driving
factor in plant ecology—not only in the ecology of halophytes—in order to understand and …

The effective development of salt tolerant crops requires an understanding that the evolution
of halophytes, glycophytes and our major grain crops has involved significantly different …

Halophytes of the lower coastal salt marsh show increased salt tolerance, and under high
salinity they grow faster than upper marsh species. We could not show reduced growth rate …

Abstract Background and Aims The activity of H+-ATPase is essential for energizing the
plasma membrane. It provides the driving force for potassium retention and uptake through …

Ecology affects each of the three principal processes leading to speciation: genetic
differentiation among populations within species, acquisition of reproductive isolation …

Plants adapted to special soil types are ideal for investigating evolutionary processes,
including maintenance of intraspecific variation, adaptation, reproductive isolation, ecotypic …