Soil salinization is a major threat to agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions, where water
scarcity and inadequate drainage of irrigated lands severely reduce crop yield. Salt …

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 a global challenge to agricultural production. Understanding Na+ sensing and
transport in plants under salt stress will be of benefit for breeding robustly salt-tolerant crop …

Salt stress affects large cultivated areas worldwide, thus causing remarkable reductions in
plant growth and yield. To reduce the negative effects of salt stress on plant growth and …

Plant biotechnology is a dynamically develo** science, which comprises many fields of
knowledge. Novel plant genetic engineering findings highly influence the improvement of …

Sessile plants constantly experience environmental stresses in nature. They must have
evolved effective mechanisms to balance growth with stress response. Here we report the …

Solanaceous crops act as a source of food, nutrition and medicine for humans. Soil salinity
is a damaging environmental stress, causing significant reductions in cultivated land area …

Aquaporin (AQP) proteins have been shown to transport water and other small molecules
through biological membranes, which is crucial for plants to combat salt stress. However, the …

About 20% of all irrigated land is adversely affected by salinity hazards and therefore
understanding plant defense mechanisms against salinity will have great impact on plant …

Soil salinity is a major constraint for the global agricultural production. For many decades,
Na+ exclusion from uptake has been the key trait targeted in breeding programs; yet, no …