Soil salinity is a major environmental stress that restricts the growth and yield of crops.
Understanding the physiological, metabolic, and biochemical responses of plants to salt …

At low concentrations salts are relatively benign, but anthropogenic activities can drive
concentrations to levels that impact soil quality, microbial, plant, and animal life. Soil and …

Background Global annual losses in agricultural production from salt-affected land are in
excess of US $12 billion and rising. At the same time, a significant amount of arable land is …

Box 9E. 1 Continued FIGURE 2. The C–S–R triangle model (Grime 1979). The strategies at
the three corners are C, competiti-winning species; S, stress-tolerating s-cies; R …

Although they represent only 2% of terrestrial plant species, halophytes are present in about
half the higher plant families and represent a wide diversity of plant forms. Despite their …

Plants are continuously exposed to environmental stimuli that influence development and
growth, and determine productivity. At species-specific thresholds, such stimuli …

Salinity limits plant growth and impairs agricultural productivity. There is a wide spectrum of
plant responses to salinity that are defined by a range of adaptations at the cellular and the …

For a plant to persist in saline soil, osmotic adjustment of all plant cells is essential. The
more salt-tolerant species accumulate Na+ and Cl–to concentrations in leaves and roots that …

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

Completely updated from the successful first edition, this book provides a timely update on
the recent progress in our knowledge of all aspects of plant perception, signalling and …