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Plant Hormones: Potent Targets for Engineering Salinity Tolerance in Plants

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Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1

Abstract

Climate change has intensified the frequency and severity of many abiotic stresses. Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress affecting crop productivity worldwide. This leads to significant yield reductions, which have been reported in major cereal species such as wheat, maize, and barley. Meanwhile, the global human population is expected to rise above 9 billion by 2050. Average living standards are also increasing, with impacts on food consumption. Thus, there is an urgent need to further increase crop productivity. To meet these goals, it is imperative to develop new crops that have improved resistance to salt stress. Many plant scientists now believe that modern biotechnological approaches such as molecular breeding and genetic engineering offer the possibility to achieve these goals. Plant hormones play an important physiological role in regulating plant growth and development, and in coordinating plant responses to environmental conditions. These hormones—including abscisic acid, gibberellins, auxins, cytokinins, ethylene, brassinosteroids, and jasmonates—are very important for providing adaptive responses under salt stress. Plant hormones may prove to be important metabolic engineering targets for producing abiotic stress–tolerant crop plants. This chapter discusses the physiological roles of plant hormones in salinity responses and recent success in engineering plant hormones for salinity tolerance in plants.

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Abbreviations

12-OPDA:

12-Oxo phytodienoic acid

13-HPOT:

13-Hydroperoxy-9,11,15-octadecatrienoic acid

α-LeA:

α-Linolenic acid

AAO:

Abscisic acid–aldehyde oxidase

ABA:

Abscisic acid

ACC:

Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid

ACO:

Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase

ACS:

Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase

ADP:

Adenosine diphosphate

AHK:

Arabidopsis histidine kinases receptor

AHP:

Histidine-containing phospho-transfer protein

AO:

Allene oxide

AOC:

Allene oxide cyclase

AOS:

Allene oxide synthase

APX:

Ascorbate peroxidase

ARR:

Arabidopsis response regulator

ATP:

Adenosine triphosphate

BIN2:

Brassinosteroid-insensitive 2

BL:

Brassinolide

BR:

Brassinosteroid

BZR1:

Brassinazole-resistant 1

CAT:

Catalase

CK:

Cytokinin

CKX:

Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase

CRF:

Cytokinin response factor

cZ:

Cis-zeatin

EBR:

24-Epibrassinolide (EBL)

ECe:

Electrical conductivity of a saturated soil extract

ERF:

Ethylene response factor

ET:

ethylene

FMO:

Flavin monooxygenase

GA:

Gibberellin

HSD:

11-b-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase

IAA:

Indole-3-acetic acid.

IAM:

Indole-3-acetamide

IAOx:

Indole-3-acetaldoxime

iPA:

Isopentenyl adenine

IPA:

Indole-3-pyruvic acid

IPP:

Isopentyl diphosphate

IPT:

Adenosine phosphate isopentenyl transferase

JA:

Jasmonate/jasmonic acid

JA-ACC:

Jasmonoyl aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid

JA-Ile:

Jasmonoyl isoleucine

LOX:

13-Lipoxygenase

MAPK:

Mitogen-activated protein kinase

MCSU:

Molybdenum cofactor sulfurase

MDA:

Malondialdehyde

MeJA:

Methyl jasmonate

NCED:

9-Cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase

NR:

Nitrate reductase

RES:

Reactive electrophile species

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

SA:

Salicylic acid

S-AdoMet:

S-adenosyl-methionine

SnRK2.4 :

Serine/threonine protein kinase gene

SOD:

Superoxide dismutase

TAM:

Tryptamine

tZ:

Trans-zeatin

Z:

Zeatin

ZEO:

Zeaxanthin oxidase

ZEP:

Zeaxanthin epoxidase

ZR:

Zeatin riboside

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    Abdallah Atia, Zouhaier Barhoumi, Ahmed Debez, Chedly Abdelly & Abderrazak Smaoui

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Atia, A. et al. (2018). Plant Hormones: Potent Targets for Engineering Salinity Tolerance in Plants. In: Kumar, V., Wani, S., Suprasanna, P., Tran, LS. (eds) Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75671-4_6

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