Critical knowledge gaps and research priorities in global soil salinity

JW Hopmans, AS Qureshi, I Kisekka, R Munns… - Advances in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Approximately 1 billion ha of the global land surface is currently salt-affected, representing
about 7% of the earth's land surface. Whereas most of it results from natural geochemical …

Aquaporins in plants

C Maurel, Y Boursiac, DT Luu, V Santoni… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Aquaporins are membrane channels that facilitate the transport of water and small neutral
molecules across biological membranes of most living organisms. In plants, aquaporins …

Humidity gradients in the air spaces of leaves

SC Wong, MJ Canny, M Holloway-Phillips… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
Stomata are orifices that connect the drier atmosphere with the interconnected network of
more humid air spaces that surround the cells within a leaf. Accurate values of the humidities …

The roles of aquaporins in plant stress responses

Z Afzal, TC Howton, Y Sun, MS Mukhtar - Journal of developmental …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aquaporins are membrane channel proteins ubiquitously present in all kingdoms of life.
Although aquaporins were originally discovered as water channels, their roles in the …

Regulation of aquaporins in plants under stress

R Kapilan, M Vaziri, JJ Zwiazek - Biological research, 2018 - Springer
Aquaporins (AQP) are channel proteins belonging to the Major Intrinsic Protein (MIP)
superfamily that play an important role in plant water relations. The main role of aquaporins …

Grapevine under deficit irrigation: hints from physiological and molecular data

MM Chaves, O Zarrouk, R Francisco, JM Costa… - Annals of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background A large proportion of vineyards are located in regions with seasonal drought
(eg Mediterranean-type climates) where soil and atmospheric water deficits, together with …

Temperate forest trees and stands under severe drought: a review of ecophysiological responses, adaptation processes and long-term consequences

N Bréda, R Huc, A Granier, E Dreyer - Annals of Forest Science, 2006 - afs-journal.org
The extreme drought event that occurred in Western Europe during 2003 highlighted the
need to understand the key processes that may allow trees and stands to overcome such …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane transport of hydrogen peroxide

GP Bienert, JK Schjoerring, TP Jahn - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2006 - Elsevier
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) belongs to the reactive oxygen species (ROS), known as
oxidants that can react with various cellular targets thereby causing cell damage or even cell …

Plant aquaporins: membrane channels with multiple integrated functions

C Maurel, L Verdoucq, DT Luu… - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Aquaporins are channel proteins present in the plasma and intracellular membranes of plant
cells, where they facilitate the transport of water and/or small neutral solutes (urea, boric …

Salinity tolerance mechanisms in glycophytes: An overview with the central focus on rice plants

T Horie, I Karahara, M Katsuhara - Rice, 2012 - Springer
Elevated Na+ levels in agricultural lands are increasingly becoming a serious threat to the
world agriculture. Plants suffer osmotic and ionic stress under high salinity due to the salts …