Mechanisms of Crop Response to Salt Stress
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 962
Special Issue Editors
Interests: salinity tolerance rice; abiotic stress
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Interests: molecular and physiological mechanisms of salt tolerance in rice; use of small molecules to dissect salt tolerance mechanisms in rice
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Salt stress is one of many significant abiotic stresses that limit agricultural production. Salinity influences various aspects of different plant developmental stages, including germination, shoot and root growth at the vegetative stage, and yield-forming processes at the reproductive stage. The molecular mechanisms of crop responses to salt stress are complex, polygenic, and dependent on multiple signaling cascades that govern salt stress responses and tolerance mechanisms. High salt stress affects plants in multiple ways, resulting in ion toxicity, nutritional disorders, alterations in metabolic processes, oxidative stress, etc. More research is still needed to understand the perception of salt stress, the interactions between crop development and salinity, and the signaling of key components of salt sensors toward improving crop salt tolerance under field conditions.
Furthermore, it is still necessary to determine the detailed mechanisms of traits related to salt tolerance, such as salt removal and tissue tolerance, and their contribution to crop production under saline conditions. This Special Issue welcomes recent articles related to all of the above-mentioned areas to showcase current efforts toward understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms of salinity stress and foster advancements in crop tolerance.
Dr. Shiro Mitsuya
Dr. Nicola S. Skoulding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- crop
- wheat
- rice
- maize
- barley
- salt stress
- salinity
- grain yield
- stress-responsive genes
- ion transport
- production
- tolerance mechanisms
- salt-removal ability
- tissue tolerance
