▪ Abstract Plant responses to salinity stress are reviewed with emphasis on molecular
mechanisms of signal transduction and on the physiological consequences of altered gene …

Soil salinity is one of the most significant abiotic stresses for plant agriculture. Apart from the
practical goal of genetically improving the salt tolerance of crop plants, salt tolerance …

The halobacteria are the only organisms that are tolerant of salinity at the molecular level. All
other bacteria, all fungi, all plants, and all animals avoid the need for salt tolerance for most …

Plant molecular responses to osmotic stress are complex as evidenced by the isolation of
numerous OR (osmotic stress-regulated) genes. Although functions including osmolyte …

Plant productivity is greatly affected by environmental stress factors. In this review, we give
an overview of molecular approaches that have been taken to study stress tolerance; in …

Drought stress is one of the major factors causing profit loss of the sugar beet crop. The
accumulation of proline, an indicator of water stress, has been reported in response to …

Fig. 1. A hypothetical model of salt stress signal perception, transduction and regulation of
effectors that mediate Na+ homeostasis based upon evidence from plants and yeast19. Salt …

Studying salt stress is an important means to the understanding of plant ion homeostasis
and osmo-balance. Salt stress research also benefits agriculture because soil salinity …

Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni is a little bush, which is cultivated on a large scale in many
countries for medicinal purposes and used as a natural sweetener in food products. The …

Salt is so abundant on our planet that it is a major constraint to global food crop production,
jeopardizing the capacity of agriculture to sustain the burgeoning human population …