Soil salinity has emerged as a serious issue for global food security. It is estimated that
currently about 62 million hectares or 20 percent of the world's irrigated land is affected by …

Thirty crop species provide 90% of our food, most of which display severe yield losses under
moderate salinity. Securing and augmenting agricultural yield in times of global warming …

Salinity stress is considered the most devastating abiotic stress for crop productivity.
Accumulating different types of soluble proteins has evolved as a vital strategy that plays a …

Soil salinity is one of the most detrimental abiotic stresses affecting plant survival, and light is
a core environmental signal regulating plant growth and responses to abiotic stress …

Cells maintain integrity despite changes in their mechanical properties elicited during
growth and environmental stress. How cells sense their physical state and compensate for …

To control net sodium (Na+) uptake, Arabidopsis plants utilize the plasma membrane (PM)
Na+/H+ antiporter SOS1 to achieve Na+ efflux at the root and Na+ loading into the xylem …

Saline-alkali soils pose an increasingly serious global threat to plant growth and
productivity. Much progress has been made in elucidating how plants adapt to salt stress by …

The environmental stress is a major area of scientific concern because it constraints plant as
well as crop productivity. This situation has been further worsened by anthropogenic …

Salt stress reduces land and water productivity and contributes to poverty and food
insecurity. Increased salinization caused by human practices and climate change is …

Background Soil salinity and drought are an enormous worldwide problem for agriculture,
horticulture and silviculture. The initial responses of plants to drought and salinity are similar; …