Soil salinity is becoming a growing issue nowadays, severely affecting the world's most
productive agricultural landscapes. With intersecting and competitive challenges of …

Salt tolerance is an important economic trait for crops growing in both irrigated fields and
marginal lands. The plant kingdom contains plant species that possess highly distinctive …

Salinity is an important abiotic environmental stress factor threatening agricultural
productivity throughout the world. The detrimental effects of salinity stress are observed at …

Crop productivity strongly depends on several biotic and abiotic factors. Salinity is one of the
most important abiotic factors, besides drought, extreme temperatures, light and metal …

Soil salinization affects 1–10 billion ha worldwide, threatening the agricultural production
needed to feed the ever increasing world population. Phytoremediation may be a cost …

Genetic engineering of plants for abiotic stress tolerance is a challenging task because of its
multifarious nature. Comprehensive studies for develo** abiotic stress tolerance are in …

Halophytes of the lower coastal salt marsh show increased salt tolerance, and under high
salinity they grow faster than upper marsh species. We could not show reduced growth rate …

Euhalophyte Salicornia europaea L., one of the most salt-tolerant plant species in the world,
can tolerate more than 1000 mM NaCl. To study the salt tolerance mechanism of this plant …

Tau class glutathione transferases (GSTU) genes are plant specific, induced by different
abiotic stress, and important for protecting plants against oxidative damage. GST gene was …

Plants are considered the backbone of life on earth. The colorful life on this planet has
emerged as a consequence of over 3.5 billion years of unceasing evolution. Life on earth …