Adaptation Mechanism of Salt Excluders under Saline Conditions and Its Applications

Chen, Min; Yang, Zhen; Liu, Jing; Zhu, Tingting; Wei, Xiaocen; Fan, Hai; Wang, Baoshan

doi:10.3390/ijms19113668

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Adaptation Mechanism of Salt Excluders under Saline Conditions and Its Applications

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Min Chen

^1,*,†,

Zhen Yang

^2,†,

Jing Liu

¹,

Tingting Zhu

¹,

Xiaocen Wei

¹,

Hai Fan

¹ and

Baoshan Wang

^1,*

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Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Research, College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, Shandong, China

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Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Engineering, School of Biologic Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250300, Shandong, China

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^†

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2018, 19(11), 3668; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19113668

Submission received: 25 October 2018 / Revised: 14 November 2018 / Accepted: 15 November 2018 / Published: 20 November 2018

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regulation of Mineral Nutrients Homeostasis and Their Crosstalk in Plants)

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Global soil salinization is increasingly a serious threat to agriculture worldwide. Therefore, it is imperative to improve crop salt tolerance as a means of adaptation to saline habitats. Some halophytes and most monocotyledonous crops are salt-excluders. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of salt exclusion at the molecular level in salt-exclusion plants is critical for improving the salt tolerance of monocotyledonous crops such as maize, wheat, rice, and sorghum. In this review, we summarize recent research into salt-exclusion mechanisms and the genes that underlie them. Findings related to salt exclusion may accelerate the process of breeding tolerant cultivars by using genomic and molecular tools.

Keywords: salt-excluders; molecular mechanism; salt exclusion; soil salinization

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Chen, M.; Yang, Z.; Liu, J.; Zhu, T.; Wei, X.; Fan, H.; Wang, B. Adaptation Mechanism of Salt Excluders under Saline Conditions and Its Applications. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2018, 19, 3668. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19113668

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Chen M, Yang Z, Liu J, Zhu T, Wei X, Fan H, Wang B. Adaptation Mechanism of Salt Excluders under Saline Conditions and Its Applications. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2018; 19(11):3668. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19113668

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Chen, Min, Zhen Yang, Jing Liu, Tingting Zhu, Xiaocen Wei, Hai Fan, and Baoshan Wang. 2018. "Adaptation Mechanism of Salt Excluders under Saline Conditions and Its Applications" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 19, no. 11: 3668. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19113668

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Chen, M., Yang, Z., Liu, J., Zhu, T., Wei, X., Fan, H., & Wang, B. (2018). Adaptation Mechanism of Salt Excluders under Saline Conditions and Its Applications. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19(11), 3668. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms19113668

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