Quantifying the three main components of salinity tolerance in cereals

• Published in: Plant, cell and environment Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 237 - 249
• Main Authors: RAJENDRAN, KARTHIKA, TESTER, MARK, ROY, STUART J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2009; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Blackwell
• Subjects: Adaptation, Physiological; Biological and medical sciences; Biological Transport; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; grains; growth & development; image analysis; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; LemnaTec Scanalyzer; metabolism; Models, Biological; Na+ exclusion; Na+ tissue tolerance; Osmotic Pressure; osmotic tolerance; physiology; Plant Shoots; Plant Shoots - growth & development; Plant Shoots - physiology; salt stress; salt tolerance; Salt-Tolerant Plants; Salt-Tolerant Plants - physiology; Sodium; Sodium - metabolism; stress tolerance; Triticum; Triticum - growth & development; Triticum - physiology; Triticum monococcum; Halotolerance; Monocotyledones; Na+ tissue tolerance; osmotic tolerance; Plant ecology; Tolerance; Osmosis; Cereal crop; Salinity; Triticum monococcum; LemnaTec Scanalyzer; Gramineae; Angiospermae; Sodium ion; Spermatophyta; Na+ exclusion; Quantitative analysis

Salinity stress is a major factor inhibiting cereal yield throughout the world. Tolerance to salinity stress can be considered to contain three main components: Na⁺ exclusion, tolerance to Na⁺ in the tissues and osmotic tolerance. To date, most experimental work on salinity tolerance in cereals has...