期刊
ANNALS OF BOTANY
卷 119, 期 1, 页码 1-11出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw191
关键词
Assessing salinity tolerance; salt-imposition systems; quantifying physiological traits; analysing salinity data; tolerance indices; salt stress phenotyping; osmotic stress
资金
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Background Because soil salinity is a major abiotic constraint affecting crop yield, much research has been con-ducted to develop plants with improved salinity tolerance. Salinity stress impacts many aspects of a plant's physiol-ogy, making it difficult to study in toto. Instead, it is more tractable to dissect the plant's response into traits that are hypothesized to be involved in the overall tolerance of the plant to salinity. Scope and conclusions We discuss how to quantify the impact of salinity on different traits, such as relative growth rate, water relations, transpiration, transpiration use efficiency, ionic relations, photosynthesis, senescence, yield and yield components. We also suggest some guidelines to assist with the selection of appropriate experimen-tal systems, imposition of salinity stress, and obtaining and analysing relevant physiological data using appropriate indices. We illustrate how these indices can be used to identify relationships amongst the proposed traits to identify which traits are the most important contributors to salinity tolerance. Salinity tolerance is complex and involves many genes, but progress has been made in studying the mechanisms underlying a plant's response to salinity. Nevertheless, several previous studies on salinity tolerance could have benefited from improved experimental de-sign. We hope that this paper will provide pertinent information to researchers on performing proficient assays and interpreting results from salinity tolerance experiments.
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