Cargando…

Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

Halophytes, wild plants adapted to highly saline natural environments, represent extremely useful—and, at present, underutilised—experimental systems with which to investigate the mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants at the anatomical, physiological, biochemical and molecular levels. They can also...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Grigore, Marius-Nicușor, Vicente, Oscar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9863273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36678935
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12020221
_version_ 1784875293966598144
author Grigore, Marius-Nicușor
Vicente, Oscar
author_facet Grigore, Marius-Nicușor
Vicente, Oscar
author_sort Grigore, Marius-Nicușor
collection PubMed
description Halophytes, wild plants adapted to highly saline natural environments, represent extremely useful—and, at present, underutilised—experimental systems with which to investigate the mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants at the anatomical, physiological, biochemical and molecular levels. They can also provide biotechnological tools for the genetic improvement of salt tolerance in our conventional crops, such as salt tolerance genes or salt-induced promoters. Furthermore, halophytes may constitute the basis of sustainable ‘saline agriculture’ through commercial cultivation after some breeding to improve agronomic traits. All these issues are relevant in the present context of climate emergency, as soil salinity is—together with drought—the most critical environmental factor in reducing crop yield worldwide. In fact, climate change represents the most serious challenge for agricultural production and food security in the near future. Several of the topics mentioned above—mainly referring to basic studies on salt tolerance mechanisms—are addressed in the articles published within this Special Issue.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9863273
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2023
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-98632732023-01-22 Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Grigore, Marius-Nicușor Vicente, Oscar Plants (Basel) Editorial Halophytes, wild plants adapted to highly saline natural environments, represent extremely useful—and, at present, underutilised—experimental systems with which to investigate the mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants at the anatomical, physiological, biochemical and molecular levels. They can also provide biotechnological tools for the genetic improvement of salt tolerance in our conventional crops, such as salt tolerance genes or salt-induced promoters. Furthermore, halophytes may constitute the basis of sustainable ‘saline agriculture’ through commercial cultivation after some breeding to improve agronomic traits. All these issues are relevant in the present context of climate emergency, as soil salinity is—together with drought—the most critical environmental factor in reducing crop yield worldwide. In fact, climate change represents the most serious challenge for agricultural production and food security in the near future. Several of the topics mentioned above—mainly referring to basic studies on salt tolerance mechanisms—are addressed in the articles published within this Special Issue. MDPI 2023-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9863273/ /pubmed/36678935 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12020221 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Editorial
Grigore, Marius-Nicușor
Vicente, Oscar
Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
title Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
title_full Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
title_fullStr Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
title_full_unstemmed Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
title_short Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
title_sort wild halophytes: tools for understanding salt tolerance mechanisms of plants and for adapting agriculture to climate change
topic Editorial
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9863273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36678935
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12020221
work_keys_str_mv AT grigoremariusnicusor wildhalophytestoolsforunderstandingsalttolerancemechanismsofplantsandforadaptingagriculturetoclimatechange
AT vicenteoscar wildhalophytestoolsforunderstandingsalttolerancemechanismsofplantsandforadaptingagriculturetoclimatechange