Salt-tolerant crops: time to deliver

V Melino, M Tester - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Despite the numerous advances made in our understanding of the physiology and
molecular genetics of salinity tolerance, there have been relatively few applications of these …

Salinity tolerance of crops–what is the cost?

R Munns, M Gilliham - New phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Soil salinity reduces crop yield. The extent and severity of salt‐affected agricultural land is
predicted to worsen as a result of inadequate drainage of irrigated land, rising water tables …

Micronutrients

I Cakmak, P Brown, JM Colmenero-Flores… - … mineral nutrition of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The functions of iron, manganese, copper, zinc, nickel, molybdenum, boron, and chlorine in
plants are discussed. Iron (Fe) plays a crucial role in redox systems in cells and various …

Progress in soybean functional genomics over the past decade

M Zhang, S Liu, Z Wang, Y Yuan… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soybean is one of the most important oilseed and fodder crops. Benefiting from the efforts of
soybean breeders and the development of breeding technology, large number of …

Genomics, physiology, and molecular breeding approaches for improving salt tolerance

AM Ismail, T Horie - Annual review of plant biology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Salt stress reduces land and water productivity and contributes to poverty and food
insecurity. Increased salinization caused by human practices and climate change is …

Designing salt stress‐resilient crops: Current progress and future challenges

X Liang, J Li, Y Yang, C Jiang… - Journal of Integrative Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Excess soil salinity affects large regions of land and is a major hindrance to crop production
worldwide. Therefore, understanding the molecular mechanisms of plant salt tolerance has …

Back into the wild—Apply untapped genetic diversity of wild relatives for crop improvement

H Zhang, N Mittal, LJ Leamy, O Barazani… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Engineering salinity tolerance in plants: progress and prospects

SH Wani, V Kumar, T Khare, R Guddimalli, M Parveda… - Planta, 2020 - Springer
Main conclusion There is a need to integrate conceptual framework based on the current
understanding of salt stress responses with different approaches for manipulating and …

A reference-grade wild soybean genome

M **e, CYL Chung, MW Li, FL Wong, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Efficient crop improvement depends on the application of accurate genetic information
contained in diverse germplasm resources. Here we report a reference-grade genome of …

Effects, tolerance mechanisms and management of salt stress in grain legumes

M Farooq, N Gogoi, M Hussain, S Barthakur… - Plant Physiology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Salt stress is an ever-present threat to crop yields, especially in countries with irrigated
agriculture. Efforts to improve salt tolerance in crop plants are vital for sustainable crop …