Salt stress is an acute threat to plants, especially to field crops in irrigated and saline areas
of the world. Rice is the second staple crop of the world after wheat, and its production is …

Soils that contain toxic amounts of minerals or are deficient in essential plant nutrients are
widespread globally and seriously constrain rice production. New methods are necessary to …

Salinity tolerance in rice is highly desirable to sustain production in areas rendered saline
due to various reasons. It is a complex quantitative trait having different components, which …

Plants show varied cellular responses to salinity that are partly associated with maintaining
low cytosolic Na+ levels and a high K+/Na+ ratio. Plant metabolites change with elevated …

Salinity critically limits rice metabolism, growth, and productivity worldwide. Improvement of
the salt resistance of locally grown high-yielding cultivars is a slow process. The objective of …

Background Salinity is a major environmental factor limiting productivity of crop plants
including rice in which wide range of natural variability exists. Although recent evidences …

Increases in rice productivity are significantly hampered because of the increase in the
occurrence of abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, and submergence. Developing a …

Abstract Background Cultivated rice species (Oryza sativa L. and O. glaberrima Steud.) are
generally considered among the crop species most sensitive to salt stress. A handful of lines …

One-fifth of irrigated agriculture is negatively affected by high soil salinity. The expected
population growth, over 9 billion by 2050, enhances the pressure for agricultural production …

Salinity has been a key abiotic constraint devastating crop production worldwide. Attempts in
understanding salt tolerance mechanisms has revealed several key enzymes and altered …