Salinity Tolerance in Plants: Mechanisms and Regulation of Ion Transport

• Main Author: Mary J. Beilby (auth)
• Other Authors: Vadim Volkov (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; systems biology; synthetic biology; halotropism; salinity tolerance; halophytes; salt glands; ion transporters; ion channels
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Life presumably arose in the primeval oceans with similar or even greater salinity than the present ocean, so the ancient cells were designed to withstand salinity. However, the immediate ancestors of land plants most likely lived in fresh, or slightly brackish, water. The fresh/brackish water origi...