Molecular and Physiological Mechanism of Rice Response and Tolerance to Salt Stress
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 548
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 the yield-forming processes at the reproductive stage. Rice is a salt-sensitive crop, and the understanding of salt stress responses and tolerance mechanisms are important for the development of salt-resilient rice crops for continued crop productivity in the future. The molecular mechanisms of rice plant responses to salt stress are complex, polygenic, and dependent on multiple signaling cascades that govern the salt stress responses and tolerance mechanisms of rice plants. High-salt stress affects plants in multiple ways, resulting in ion toxicity, nutritional disorders, alteration of metabolic processes, oxidative stress, and so on. More research is still needed to understand the perception of salt stress, differentiation of the interaction between rice development and salinity, and the signaling of key components of salt sensors toward improving rice salt tolerance under field conditions. Furthermore, it is still necessary to determine the detailed physiological and molecular mechanisms of traits related to salt tolerance, such as salt removal and tissue tolerance, and their contribution to rice production under saline conditions. This Special Issue welcomes recent articles related to all of the above mentioned areas. We strongly believe that this Special Issue will showcase the current efforts towards our understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms and foster the development of rice tolerance to salinity stress.
Dr. Shiro Mitsuya
Dr. Nicola S. Skoulding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rice
- salt stress
- grain yield
- stress-responsive genes
- tolerance mechanisms
- salt removal ability
- tissue tolerance
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