Drought and salt tolerance in plants

D Bartels, R Sunkar - Critical reviews in plant sciences, 2005‏ - Taylor & Francis
Agricultural productivity worldwide is subject to increasing environmental constraints,
particularly to drought and salinity due to their high magnitude of impact and wide …

Molecular pieces to the puzzle of the interaction between potassium and sodium uptake in plants

D Schachtman, W Liu - Trends in plant science, 1999‏ - cell.com
Potassium uptake is vital for plant growth but in saline soils sodium competes with
potassium for uptake across the plasma membrane of plant cells. This can result in high …

Salt Tolerance Conferred by Overexpression of a Vacuolar Na+/H+ Antiport in Arabidopsis

MP Apse, GS Aharon, WA Snedden, E Blumwald - Science, 1999‏ - science.org
Agricultural productivity is severely affected by soil salinity. One possible mechanism by
which plants could survive salt stress is to compartmentalize sodium ions away from the …

Transgenic salt-tolerant tomato plants accumulate salt in foliage but not in fruit

HX Zhang, E Blumwald - Nature biotechnology, 2001‏ - nature.com
Transgenic tomato plants overexpressing a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport were able to grow,
flower and produce fruit in the presence of 200 mM sodium chloride. Although the leaves …

Cell-mediated crystallization of calcium oxalate in plants

MA Webb - The plant cell, 1999‏ - academic.oup.com
Plants make crystals of calcium oxalate in an intriguing variety of defined shapes. Figure 1
illustrates a commercial preparation of calcium oxalate, which consists of a mix of crystals …

Mechanisms of Na+ uptake by plant cells

A Amtmann, D Sanders - Advances in botanical research, 1998‏ - Elsevier
Soil salinity affects vast areas of land globally, with a particularly high impact in some
agricultural intensively used soils due to irrigation practice. A diverse range of plants is able …

Overexpression of the Arabidopsis H+-PPase enhanced resistance to salt and drought stress in transgenic alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

AK Bao, SM Wang, GQ Wu, JJ ** pyrophosphatase in acidocalcisomes of Trypanosoma cruzi
DA Scott, W de Souza, M Benchimol, L Zhong… - Journal of Biological …, 1998‏ - jbc.org
The vacuolar-type proton-translocating pyrophosphatase (VH+-PPase) is an enzyme
previously described in detail only in plants. This paper demonstrates its presence in the …