Salt resistant crop plants.

By S. Roy, S. Negrão, Mark A. Tester. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2014

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Soil salinity is a major constraint to agriculture. To improve salinity tolerance of crops, various traits can be incorporated, including ion exclusion, osmotic tolerance and tissue tolerance. We review the roles of a range of genes involved in salt tolerance traits. Different tissues and cells are adapted for specific and often diverse function, so it is important to express the genes in specific cell-types and to pyramid a range of traits. Modern biotechnology (marker-assisted selection or genetic engineering) needs to be increasingly used to introduce the correct combination of genes into elite crop cultivars. Importantly, the effects of introduced genes need to be evaluated in the field to determine their effect on salinity tolerance and yield improvement.

Subfields: Plant Science

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1. M. Ashraf
2. A. Arzani
3. Bingru Huang
4. Bhaskar Gupta
5. S. Negrão
6. Mariama Ngom
7. K. Masmoudi
8. Moez Hanin

Citations in the corpus

• Abiotic Stress in Plants; Stress Perception to Molecular Response and Role of Biotechnological Tools in Stress Resistance (2021, background): “Among these, osmotic tolerance is a rapid response associated with a quick decrease in stomatal conductance to store water which employs fast signaling mechanisms between roots and shoots [39,41,42].”
• Evaluating physiological responses of plants to salinity stress (2016, background): “At a basic level, the response of plants to salinity can be described in two main phases: the shoot ion-independent response occurs first, within minutes to days, and is thought to be related to Naþ sensing and signalling (Gilroy et al., 2014; Roy et al., 2014).”
• New Insights on Plant Salt Tolerance Mechanisms and Their Potential Use for Breeding (2016, background): “However, knowing their role in the removal of Na+ from the xylem sap into the surrounding xylem parenchyma cells, improving salinity tolerance using HKTs can be successful only when its expression is targeted to the stele or driven by salt-inducible promoter (Møller et al., 2009; Roy et al., 2014).”
• Smart Engineering of Genetic Resources for Enhanced Salinity Tolerance in Crop Plants (2016, background): “…response and tolerance, but the field still contains many unexplored avenues (Agarwal et al., 2013; Hasegawa, 2013; Shahbaz and Ashraf, 2013; Yamaguchi et al., 2013; Zhang and Shi, 2013; Deinlein et al., 2014; Roy et al., 2014; Hamamoto et al., 2015; Qiu, 2016a, b; Silveira and Carvalho, 2016).”
• Morphological, Physiological, and Genetic Responses to Salt Stress in Alfalfa: A Review (2020, background): “For example, salt-tolerant species can sequestrate ions in the cell vacuoles in leaves [25,68].”
• Mechanism of Salinity Tolerance in Plants: Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Characterization (2014, background): “[83] in their recent review have argued that there are three main traits in plants, which help them in their adaptation to salinity stress: ion exclusion, tissue tolerance, and salinity tolerance.”