Why does salinity pose such a difficult problem for plant breeders

By T. Flowers, R. Ragab. 2005

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Evolution of halophytes: multiple origins of salt tolerance in land plants (2010, background): “So, despite a large amount of effort that has been directed towards increasing the salt tolerance of crops, ranging fromwide-crossing to transgenics, few productive salt-tolerant varieties have been produced (Flowers and Yeo 1995; Flowers 2004; Flowers and Flowers 2005; Witcombe et al. 2008).”
Plasma membrane permeability as an indicator of salt tolerance in plants (2013, background): “In addition, PM permeability has been reported as an effective selection criterion for salt tolerance in various crops (Sairam et al. 2002, Flowers and Flowers 2005, Farooq and Azam 2006, Ashraf and Ali 2008, Tuna et al. 2009, Collado et al. 2010, Munns 2010, Tiwari et al. 2010).”
Transgenic Plants for Abiotic Stress Resistance (2010, background): “According to Flowers and Flowers (2005), conventional breeding programs have rarely delivered enhanced salt tolerance, while wide crossing to achieve salt tolerance generally reduces yield to unacceptably low levels (Flowers and Flowers 2005).”
Growth, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzyme activities as a selection criterion for the salt tolerance of maize cultivars grown under salinity stress. (2009, background): “Thus, increased soil salinity has become an increasingly important topic ( Flowers & Flowers, 2005 ).”
Alleviation of salt stress by arbuscular mycorrhizal in zucchini plants grown at low and high phosphorus concentration (2008, background): “However, commercial success has been very limited due to the complexity of the trait: salt tolerance is complex genetically and physiologically (Flowers and Flowers 2005; Munns 2005).”
Effect of Salinity on Yield, Fruit Quality, Leaf Gas Exchange, and Mineral Composition of Grafted Watermelon Plants (2006, background): “In general, salinity often reduces the yield of vegetable crops, but in many cases it improves the fruit quality in plants grown in both soil and soilless culture (Francois and Maas, 1994).”
Salt tolerance in the halophyte Salicornia dolichostachya Moss: Growth, morphology and physiology (2013, background): “The taxonomic diversity of halophytes prompted Glenn et al. (1999) to predict the prospective of introducing salt tolerance in crops by small changes in the genetic makeup, although this has proved to be fairly difficult thus far (Flowers and Flowers 2005).”
Utilization of genes encoding osmoprotectants in transgenic plants for enhanced abiotic stress tolerance (2015, background): “The total irrigated land that supports agriculture has been reported as 275 million hectares in 2004, and around 20% of this land is salt affected [11].”
The impact of soil salinity on the yield, composition and physiology of the bioenergy grass Miscanthus × giganteus (2017, background): “Many different traits contribute to salinity tolerance, which are species and developmental stage dependent (Munns, 2002; Flowers & Flowers, 2005; Jones et al., 2015).”