Salinity–alkalinity stress is one of the major abiotic stresses that limit rice production in the world. The salinity–alkalinity tolerance of rice at the germination stage has a direct effect on the survival and final yield of seedlings i...
Alkalinity stress is a major hindrance to enhancing rice production globally due to its damaging effect on plants’ growth and development compared with salinity stress. However, understanding of the physiological and molecular mechanisms of alk...
The increasing discharge of wastewater containing inorganic salts, sometimes accompanied by high pH, has been a worldwide environmental problem. Constructed wetlands (CWs) are considered a viable technology for treating saline and/or alkaline wastewa...
Current indices of saline-alkaline (SA) tolerance are mainly based on the traditional growth and physiological indices for salinity tolerance and likely affect the accuracy of alfalfa tolerance predictions. We determined whether the inclusion of soil...
Soil alkalization triggers ion toxicity and osmotic and alkaline (high pH) stresses in plants, damaging their growth and productivity. Therefore, we investigated whether priming with abscisic acid (ABA) increases the tolerance of alfalfa seedlings to...
The improvement and development of saline–alkali land is of great significance for promoting food production and sustainable development. It is necessary to study the mechanism of saline–alkaline tolerance and breed saline–alkaline...
Alkaline stress is one of the major abiotic constraints that limits plant growth and development. However, the genetic basis underlying alkaline tolerance in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] remains largely unexplored. In this study, an integrated ge...
The Oxidative Stress 3 (OXS3) gene family encodes plant-specific proteins that play crucial roles in abiotic stress tolerance and chromatin remodeling. However, genome-wide identification and characterization of the OXS3 gene family in soybean have n...
Lupinus angustifolius is an important ornamental plant; however, its poor tolerance to alkaline soils limits its cultivation and production. Based on the alkaline-tolerance-related Gshdz4-GsNAC019-GsEXPA8 regulatory module previously screened and ide...
The mining of favorable SNP loci and haplotypes is of great significance for the further cloning and molecular-assisted breeding of alkalinity-tolerance genes in rice. To improve the utilization rate of saline–alkaline lands and the yield of ri...
Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon), a salt-tolerant species surviving in environments with pH up to 9.3, and it exhibits variable germination responses under salt and alkaline stress. This study evaluates the impact of neutral and alkali salts with vary...
Alkaline soil limits soybean production. This study elucidates the molecular mechanism by which the Gshdz4-GmU2AFb-GmCML27 module regulates soybean alkaline tolerance. Transcriptome analysis, yeast one-hybrid and dual-luciferase assays confirm that t...
The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) regulates the plant response to environmental stress; therefore, ABA priming is an effective strategy for enhancing stress tolerance in rice. In this study, we investigated the priming effects of 1 and 5 µM...
Alkaline stress with high pH levels could significantly influence plant growth and survival. The enzyme 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED) serves as a critical bottleneck in the biosynthesis of abscisic acid (ABA), making it essential for regul...
Investigating the microbial community structure and stress-tolerance mechanisms in the rhizospheres of salt-adapted plants along saline lakes is critical for understanding plant–microbe interactions in extreme environments and developing effect...
Although both salinity and alkalinity result from accumulation of soluble salts in soil, high pH and ionic imbalance make alkaline stress more harmful to plants. This study aimed to provide molecular insights into the alkalinity tolerance using a rec...
Soil salinization represents a significant abiotic constraint to global agricultural sustainability. The potential of extremophile plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) to alleviate such stress in maize was investigated in this study. Siderophore-pr...
Soil alkalinity is an important stressor that impairs crop growth and development, resulting in reduced crop productivity. Unlike salinity stress, research efforts to understand the mechanism of plant adaptation to alkaline stress is limited in rice,...
Salinity and alkalinity are two of the main causes for productivity losses in agriculture. Quinoa represents a better alternative for global food products such as rice and wheat flour due to its high nutritional value and abiotic stress tolerance. Th...
Soil salinization and alkalinization are pervasive environmental issues that severely restrict plant growth and crop yield. Utilizing plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) is an effective strategy to enhance plant tolerance to saline–alka...
Sodic-alkalinity is a more seriously limiting factor in agricultural productivity than salinity. Oat (Avena nuda) is a salt-tolerant crop species and is therefore useful in studying the physiological responses of cereals to alkalinity. We evaluated t...
Salt-alkali is the main threat to global crop production. The functioning of phosphorus (P) in alleviating damage to crops from saline-alkaline stress may be dependent on the variety of crop but there is little published research on the topic. This p...
The NAC gene family has transcription factors specific to plants, which are involved in development and stress response and adaptation. In this study, ZmNAC89, an NAC gene in maize that plays a role in saline–alkaline tolerance, was isolated an...
Soil salinity is a severe constraint on crop productivity that triggers plant salt stress response pathways. The salt stress responses are controlled by transcriptional regulatory networks that enhance plant stress tolerance by manipulating the expre...
CO poisoning remains a major challenge for hydrogen fuel cells, and rotating disk electrode (RDE) measurements are widely used for preliminary screening of CO-tolerant catalysts. However, variations in key testing parameters, including catalyst loadi...
Lupinus angustifolius is an ornamental species with high horticultural value, but its poor alkaline tolerance limits broader cultivation. Wild soybean (Glycine soja) is a legume plant with strong alkali tolerance. Gshdz4-GmRSZ22 was identified as a p...
Trichoderma species are filamentous fungi that support plant health and confer improved growth, disease resistance, and abiotic stress tolerance. The objective of this study is to describe the physiological characteristics of the abundance and struct...
Sweet clover (Melilotus albus) is a high-quality leguminous forage grass with salinity tolerance, drought tolerance, and cold hardiness. We selected four varieties of sweet clover with different sensitivities (061898, 061930, No. 55 white flower, and...
Saline-alkali soil has become an important environmental problem for crop productivity. One of the most effective approaches is to cultivate new stress-tolerant plants through genetic engineering. Through RNA-seq analysis and RT-PCR validation, a nov...
This study was conducted to determine the responses to saline-alkaline (SA) stress with regard to nutrient accumulation in two rice varieties having different tolerances to salt-stress. A salinity-tolerant landrace, Pokkali, and a salinity-sensitive...
Tall wheatgrass, a perennial forage grass renowned for its salt–alkali tolerance, has recently been proposed as a key species for planting in coastal saline–alkaline lands to establish a “Coastal Grass Belt”. Highly salt-toler...
Cultivated beets (sugar beets, fodder beets, leaf beets, and garden beets) belonging to the species Beta vulgaris L. are important sources for many products such as sugar, bioethanol, animal feed, human nutrition, pulp residue, pectin extract, and mo...
SCR still represents the most widely applied technique to remove nitrogen oxides from flue gas from both stationary and mobile sources. The catalyst lifetime is greatly affected by the presence of poisoning compounds in the exhaust gas that deactivat...
Inoculation with Rhizobium can improve not only host yield and quality but also host adaptability to stress. The match between inoculated strains and hosts and resistance to stress are the key factors determining the inoculation effect. Four types of...
Seed germination in response to fire-related cues has been widely studied in species from fire-prone ecosystems. However, the germination characteristics of species from non-fire-prone ecosystems, such as the saline-alkaline grassland, where fire occ...
In this study, Ag-MnxOy/C composite catalysts deposited on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and, for the first time on N-doped graphene oxide (NGO), were prepared via a facile synthesis method. The influence of the carbon support material on the activity...
Dryland river ecosystems are among the most susceptible freshwater environments, with climate change, hydrological shifts, salinization and anthropogenic disturbance posing increasing threats to aquatic biodiversity. Endemic fishes in these regions a...
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Bacillus subtilis A-5 has the capabilities of high-molecular-weight γ-PGA production, antagonism to plant pathogenic fungi, and salt/alkaline tolerance. This multifunctional bacterium has great potential for enhancing soil fertility and plant s...
Endoglucanase B (EGLB) derived from Aspergillus niger BCRC31494 has been used in the food fermentation industry because of its thermal and alkaline tolerance. It was cloned and expressed in Pichia pastoris. According to sequence analysis, the gene op...
Soil alkalinization and salinization have increased worldwide due to extreme and/or prolonged drought periods as well as insufficient irrigation. Since crops generally react to soil salinity and high pH with decreased yield, the cultivation of tolera...
Alkaline environments such as alkaline lands, lakes, and industrial wastewater are not conducive to the growth of plants and microorganisms due to high pH and salinity. ChbZIP1 is a bZIP family transcription factor isolated from an alkaliphilic micro...
Wolfberry (Lycium barbarum L.) is an important economic crop widely grown in China. The effects of salt-alkaline stress on metabolites accumulation in the salt-tolerant Ningqi1 wolfberry fruits were evaluated across 12 salt-alkaline stress gradients....
Strain robustness and titer improvement are major challenges faced in the industrial development of natural products from Streptomyces. Tiancimycins (TNMs) produced by Streptomyces sp. CB03234 are promising anticancer payloads for antibody-drug conju...
Soil salt alkalization is one major abiotic factor reducing the productivity of crops, including rapeseed, an indispensable oil crop and vegetable. The mechanism studies of alkali salt tolerance can help breed highly resistant varieties. In the curre...
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merri.] is an important oilseed and food crop. In recent years, environmental degradation has accelerated soil alkalization, salinization, and water deficit, which have seriously threatened the soybean quality and yield. Cha...
Soil salinization severely threatens global crop production. Understanding the relationship between crop saline–alkaline tolerance physiology and the rhizosphere microbiome, and leveraging beneficial microorganisms to enhance crop stress resist...
Saline–alkaline stress is one of the major damages that severely affects rice (Oryza sativa L.) growth and grain yield; however, the mechanism of the tolerance remains largely unknown in rice. Herein, we comparatively investigated the transcrip...
Salt–alkaline stress is one of the most stressful occurrences, causing negative effects on plant development and agricultural yield. Identifying and utilizing genes that affect alkaline tolerance is an excellent approach to accelerate breeding...
Crucian carp (Carassius auratus) is widely distributed in the world and has become an economically freshwater fish. The population in Lake Dali Nur can tolerate the extreme alkaline environment with alkalinity over 50 mmol/L (pH 9.6), thus providing...
Alkaline stress is one of the most critical limiting factors affecting high and stable rice yields. Therefore, analyzing the impact of alkaline stress on rice productivity and identifying salt- and alkali-tolerant genes are crucial for breeding rice...
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