Engineering salinity tolerance in plants: progress and prospects

Planta
Shabir Hussain WaniP B Kavi Kishor

Abstract

There is a need to integrate conceptual framework based on the current understanding of salt stress responses with different approaches for manipulating and improving salt tolerance in crop plants. Soil salinity exerts significant constraints on global crop production, posing a serious challenge for plant breeders and biotechnologists. The classical transgenic approach for enhancing salinity tolerance in plants revolves by boosting endogenous defence mechanisms, often via a single-gene approach, and usually involves the enhanced synthesis of compatible osmolytes, antioxidants, polyamines, maintenance of hormone homeostasis, modification of transporters and/or regulatory proteins, including transcription factors and alternative splicing events. Occasionally, genetic manipulation of regulatory proteins or phytohormone levels confers salinity tolerance, but all these may cause undesired reduction in plant growth and/or yields. In this review, we present and evaluate novel and cutting-edge approaches for engineering salt tolerance in crop plants. First, we cover recent findings regarding the importance of regulatory proteins and transporters, and how they can be used to enhance salt tolerance in crop plants. We also evaluate the im...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
transgenic
genetic modification
transgenics
salt stress
environmental stresses
hairy
RNA-seq
sRNA-seq
MDA

Software Mentioned

mirEX
miRPlant
miRge Tool
plantDARIO
PmiRExAt
miRPursuit
miRDeep

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