Salinity Tolerance in Plants

• Main Author: Antonio Hernández Cortés, Jose (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; soluble nutrients; transcription factor; n/a; CDPK; salicylic acid; antioxidant enzymes; light saturation point; phytohormone; ion homeostasis; antioxidant systems; photosynthesis; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; high salinity; nitric oxide; poplars (Populus); root activity; abiotic stresses; transcriptional activator; germination; ABA; transcriptome; mandelonitrile; redox homeostasis; association mapping.; redox signalling; osmotic stress; flax; strigolactones; salt tolerance; nucleolin; CaDHN5; photosystem; EST-SSR; NMT; Sapium sebiferum; Gossypium arboretum; SOS; Brassica napus; SnRK2; HKT1; grapevine; transcription factors; cucumber; underpinnings of salt stress responses; abiotic stress; Arabidopsis thaliana; RNA-seq; halophytes; single nucleotide polymorphisms; dehydrin; J8-1 plum line; chlorophyll fluorescence; natural variation; hydrogen peroxide; salt stress; lipid peroxidation; ROS detoxification; ROP; molecular mechanisms; cell membrane injury; booting stage; ascorbate cycle; banana (Musa acuminata L.); iTRAQ quantification; ROS; Na+; Capsicum annuum L.; bZIP transcription factors; multiple bioactive constituents; NaCl stress; physiological changes; VOZ; transcriptional regulation; genome-wide identification; Apocyni Veneti Folium; impairment of photosynthesis; salt-stress; Oryza sativa; reactive oxygen species; lipid accumulation; polyamines; multivariate statistical analysis; DEUs; salinity; TGase; Salt stress; Prunus domestica; proteomics; Arabidopsis; RNA binding protein; rice; glycophytes; SsMAX2; drought; genome-wide association study; transcriptome analysis; signal pathway; melatonin; MaROP5g
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Salt stress is one of the most damaging abiotic stresses because most crop plants are susceptible to salinity to different degrees. According to the FAO, about 800 million Has of land are affected by salinity worldwide. Unfortunately, this situation will worsen in the context of climate change, where there will be an overall increase in temperature and a decrease in average annual rainfall worldwide. This Special Issue presents different research works and reviews on the response of plants to salinity, focused from different points of view: physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. Although an important part of the studies on the response to salinity have been carried out with Arabidopsis plants, the use of other species with agronomic interest is also notable, including woody plants. Most of the conducted studies in this Special Issue were focused on the identification and characterization of candidate genes for salt tolerance in higher plants. This identification would provide valuable information about the molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in the salt tolerance response, and it also supplies important resources to breeding programs for salt tolerance in plants.