Highlights • Three main traits are involved in salt tolerance: ion exclusion, tissue tolerance
and osmotic tolerance. • Numerous genes encoding salt tolerance traits are likely to contribute …

Soil salinity affects large areas of cultivated land, causing significant reductions in crop yield
globally. The Na + toxicity of many crop plants is correlated with overaccumulation of Na + in …

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 …

Agriculture is expanding into regions that are affected by salinity. This review considers the
energetic costs of salinity tolerance in crop plants and provides a framework for a quantitative …

With the establishment of advanced technology facilities for high throughput plant phenotyping,
the problem of estimating plant biomass of individual plants from their two dimensional …

Abiotic stress tolerance is complex, but as phenotyping technologies improve, components
that contribute to abiotic stress tolerance can be quantified with increasing ease. In parallel …

Background Salinity tolerance is a physiologically multi-faceted trait attributed to multiple
mechanisms. Three barley (Hordeum vulgare) varieties contrasting in their salinity tolerance …

Background Soil salinity is an abiotic stress wide spread in rice producing areas, limiting
both plant growth and yield. The development of salt-tolerant rice requires efficient and high-…

Plant breeding and improvements in agronomic practice are making a consistent
contribution to increasing global crop production year upon year. However, the rate of yield …

Cereal varieties with improved salinity tolerance are needed to achieve profitable grain yields
in saline soils. The expression of AVP 1, an A rabidopsis gene encoding a vacuolar proton …