Plant responses to salt stress: adaptive mechanisms

JR Acosta-Motos, MF Ortuño, A Bernal-Vicente… - Agronomy, 2017 - mdpi.com
This review deals with the adaptive mechanisms that plants can implement to cope with the
challenge of salt stress. Plants tolerant to NaCl implement a series of adaptations to …

Tomato and salinity

J Cuartero, R Fernández-Muñoz - Scientia horticulturae, 1998 - Elsevier
The effects of salinity on tomato plant growth and fruit production, the cultural techniques
which can be applied to alleviate the deleterious effects of salt, and the possibilities of …

The effects of NaCl priming on salt tolerance in melon seedlings grown under saline conditions

N Sivritepe, HO Sivritepe, A Eris - Scientia horticulturae, 2003 - Elsevier
Seeds of melon cultivars “Hasanbey” and “Kirkagac” were primed (P) with 18dSm− 1 NaCl
solution for 3 days at 20° C. After priming, non-primed (NP) and P seeds were sown in …

Differential responses of two maize (Zea mays L.) varieties to salt stress: changes on polyphenols composition of foliage and oxidative damages

H Hichem, D Mounir - Industrial crops and Products, 2009 - Elsevier
The leaf-structural adaptative strategies and the possible involvement of the antioxidative
system in the tolerance to salt stress were investigated in relation to leaf tissue senescence …

Effects of NaCl salinity and water stress on growth and leaf water relations of Asteriscus maritimus plants

P Rodrıguez, A Torrecillas, MA Morales… - Environmental and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Potted plants of Asteriscus maritimus (L.) Less were submitted to water stress (during two
consecutive cycles, irrigation water was withheld for 5 days followed by a recovery period of …

Adaptation strategies and defence mechanisms of plants during environmental stress

E Lamalakshmi Devi, S Kumar, T Basanta Singh… - Medicinal plants and …, 2017 - Springer
Several biotic and abiotic stresses affect plant growth, development and crop productivity. To
cope up all these stresses, plant develops certain efficient strategies to avoid or tolerate the …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of drought and salt stresses on growth, stomatal conductance, leaf water and osmotic potentials of melon genotypes (Cucumis melo L.)

S Kusvuran - African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2012 - academicjournals.org
Drought and salt stress is the major constrains to crop productivity. However, resistant
genotypes improve their physiological mechanisms to cope with these stresses. In this study …

Growing floricultural crops with brackish water

C Cassaniti, D Romano, M Hop, TJ Flowers - … and Experimental Botany, 2013 - Elsevier
In the current review we focus on the opportunity to use brackish water in the cultivation of
floricultural plants, plants for which, due to their high economic value, growers have …

The response of ornamental plants to saline irrigation water

C Cassaniti, D Romano… - … management, pollution and …, 2012 - books.google.com
Salinity affects about one third of irrigated land, causing a significant reduction in crop
productivity (Flowers & Yeo, 1995; Ravindran et al., 2007). For this reason researchers have …

The effects of NaCl pre-treatments on salt tolerance of melons grown under long-term salinity

HÖ Sivritepe, N Sivritepe, A Eriş, E Turhan - Scientia Horticulturae, 2005 - Elsevier
The response of melon (Cucumis melo) plants to long-term salinity was investigated to
determine the availability of the NaCl pre-treatments (seed priming+ seedling conditioning) …