Potential breeding strategies for improving salt tolerance in crop plants

M Afzal, SES Hindawi, SS Alghamdi… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2023 - Springer
Salinity is one of the significant abiotic stresses that negatively affect plant production
processes, growth, and development, which ultimately reduce yield. Plants adapt specific …

Advances in understanding salt tolerance in rice

SA Ganie, KA Molla, RJ Henry, KV Bhat… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Key message This review presents a comprehensive overview of the recent research on rice
salt tolerance in the areas of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and chemical genomics …

Drought tolerance in wheat

A Nezhadahmadi, ZH Prodhan… - The Scientific World …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is one of the most important phenomena which limit crops' production and yield.
Crops demonstrate various morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular …

Improving crop salt tolerance

TJ Flowers - Journal of Experimental botany, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Salinity is an ever‐present threat to crop yields, especially in countries where irrigation is an
essential aid to agriculture. Although the tolerance of saline conditions by plants is variable …

Root biology and genetic improvement for drought avoidance in rice

VRP Gowda, A Henry, A Yamauchi, HE Shashidhar… - Field crops …, 2011 - Elsevier
Rice root growth encompasses a remarkable genetic diversity in terms of growth patterns,
architecture, and environmental adaptations. In order to harness this valuable diversity for …

Comparative lipid peroxidation, antioxidant defense systems and proline content in roots of two rice cultivars differing in salt tolerance

T Demiral, I Türkan - Environmental and experimental botany, 2005 - Elsevier
The changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD: EC
1.15. 1.1), catalase (CAT: EC 1.11. 1.6), peroxidase (POX: EC 1.11. 1.7), ascorbate …

Abiotic stress responses in plant roots: a proteomics perspective

D Ghosh, J Xu - Frontiers in plant science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Abiotic stress conditions adversely affect plant growth, resulting in significant decline in crop
productivity. To mitigate and recover from the damaging effects of such adverse …

Mechanisms of plant salt response: insights from proteomics

H Zhang, B Han, T Wang, S Chen, H Li… - Journal of proteome …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress that limits plant growth and agriculture productivity. To
cope with salt stress, plants have evolved complex salt-responsive signaling and metabolic …

A large‐effect QTL for grain yield under reproductive‐stage drought stress in upland rice

J Bernier, A Kumar, V Ramaiah, D Spaner… - Crop Science, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic control of yield under reproductive‐stage drought stress was studied in a population
of 436 random F3–derived lines from a cross between the upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) …

Genomics-based approaches to improve drought tolerance of crops

R Tuberosa, S Salvi - Trends in plant science, 2006 - cell.com
The genetic bases of the molecular, cellular and developmental responses to drought
involve many gene functions regulated by water availability. Genomics-based approaches …