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Special Anatomical Features of Halophytes: Implication for Salt Tolerance

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Soil salinity has become a key factor restricting agricultural production. Thus, plants, especially salt-tolerant crops, will have important economic significance. The adaptation or tolerance of plants to salinity stress involves a series of physiological, metabolic, and molecular mechanisms. Halophyte organisms acquire special salt-tolerant mechanisms to cope with a lock of salt and ensure normal growth and development under saline conditions during their long evolutionary adaptation, so understanding halophyte salinity pressure will provide us with methods and means to cultivate and develop salt-tolerant crop varieties. In physiological and molecular strategies adopted by halophytes are various including photosynthetic and transpiration rate of change, the sequestration of Na+ to cells or vacuole, the regulation of stomatal density and stomatal aperture, accumulation and hormone synthesis and gene expression related to the potential of these physical characteristics, like stress signal transduction, regulation of transcription factor transporter gene activation and expression of synthetase activation or inhibition, etc. This chapter reviews the research progress on physiological and molecular regulation mechanisms and special anatomical features of halophytes and reveals the tolerance and adaptability of halophytes to salt stress.

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Nawaz, R., Ali, Z., Andleeb, T., Qureshi, U.M. (2020). Special Anatomical Features of Halophytes: Implication for Salt Tolerance. In: Hasanuzzaman, M., Tanveer, M. (eds) Salt and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40277-8_5

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