Salinity is a consistent factor of crop productivity loss in the world and in particular arid and
semi-arid areas where the soil salinity and saline water are major problems. Plants employ …

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 …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

The increasing problem of global land salinisation and associated multibillion dollar losses
in crop production require a better understanding of key physiological mechanisms …

We have identified a plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter gene from tomato (Solanum
lycopersicum), SlSOS1, and used heterologous expression in yeast to confirm that SlSOS1 …

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 …

The negative impact of soil salinity on agricultural yields is significant. For agricultural plants,
sensitivity to salinity is commonly (but not exclusively) due to the abundance of Na+ in the …

Ion transport is the fundamental factor determining salinity tolerance in plants. The Review
starts from differences in ion transport between salt tolerant halophytes and salt-sensitive …

The contribution of SOS1 (for Salt Overly Sensitive 1), encoding a sodium/proton antiporter,
to plant salinity tolerance was analyzed in wild-type and RNA interference (RNAi) lines of …

Background Soil salinity adversely affects plant growth and development and disturbs
intracellular ion homeostasis resulting cellular toxicity. The Salt Overly Sensitive 1 (SOS1) …