Combined Boron Toxicity and Salinity Stress—An Insight into Its Interaction in Plants
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Combined Stress on Plants—A Major Problem of Today’s World
3. Prevalence of BorSal as a Combined Stress Condition
4. BorSal Interaction in Plants in Terms of Membrane Bound Activities
5. BorSal Interaction in Plants in Terms of Ion Mobility and Exclusion Mechanism
6. BorSal Interaction in Plants in Terms of Water Transport, Transpirational Movement, Photosynthetic Activity, and Changes in Stomatal Resistance
7. BorSal Interaction in Plants in Terms of Antioxidant Activity
8. BorSal Interaction in Plants in Terms of pH Changes
9. Molecular Mechanism Involved in B Stress as an Individual Stress Condition
10. Molecular Mechanism Involved in Salinity Stress as an Individual Stress Condition
11. Common Transporters Involved in BorSal Stress Condition
12. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Pandey, A.; Khan, M.K.; Hakki, E.E.; Gezgin, S.; Hamurcu, M. Combined Boron Toxicity and Salinity Stress—An Insight into Its Interaction in Plants. Plants 2019, 8, 364. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8100364
Pandey A, Khan MK, Hakki EE, Gezgin S, Hamurcu M. Combined Boron Toxicity and Salinity Stress—An Insight into Its Interaction in Plants. Plants. 2019; 8(10):364. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8100364
Chicago/Turabian StylePandey, Anamika, Mohd Kamran Khan, Erdogan Esref Hakki, Sait Gezgin, and Mehmet Hamurcu. 2019. "Combined Boron Toxicity and Salinity Stress—An Insight into Its Interaction in Plants" Plants 8, no. 10: 364. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8100364