Journal
FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 7, Pages 592-603Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/FP10012
Keywords
biphasic model; cytokinins; invertases; ion-specific effects; osmotic tolerance; senescence.
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- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FRS-FNRS, Belgium [FRFC-2456308]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (ACC signalling), UK
- Fundacion Seneca de la Region de Murcia [08712/PI/08]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Spain [AGL2008-01733/AGR]
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh010010] Funding Source: researchfish
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Salinity decreases crop yield first by reducing growth of assimilate-consuming sink organs and, second, by decreasing assimilate production in photosynthetically active source tissues. Although much work has focussed on controlling the accumulation of toxic ions (mainly Na+ and Cl-), the search for primary growth limiting factor(s) continues. The root, by sensing environmental constraints of the soil, may influence root-to-shoot signalling to control shoot growth and physiology, and ultimately agricultural productivity. Hormonal signals, such as cytokinins, ABA, the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid and the auxin indole-3-acetic acid may coordinate assimilate production and usage in competing sinks (biomass partitioning). Hormonal regulation of source-sink relations during the osmotic phase of salinity (independent of specific ions) affects whole-plant energy availability to prolong the maintenance of growth, root function and ion homeostasis, and could be critical to delay the accumulation of Na+ or any other ion to toxic levels. This viewpoint emphasises that simultaneously maintaining growth and delaying early leaf senescence is necessary to increase crop yield in salt-affected soils.
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