Uncovering the Mechanisms of Plant Salinity Stress Response and Tolerance
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2025 | Viewed by 3947
Special Issue Editor
Interests: abscisic acid; aquaporins; drought, ethylene; jasmonic acid; mycorrhizal fungi; salinity; soil bacteria; water relations
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil salinity is one of the main causes of crop yield reduction and plant species distribution around the world. Plants have developed a wide range of mechanisms to cope with soil salinity, ranging from physiological to molecular ones. Salinity effects on plants can be divided into osmotic and toxic ones. Therefore, responses of plants to salinity resemble that against drought stress, but there are other specific responses to salt stress such as toxic ion detoxification. Although the responses of plants to salinity have been extensively studied in the last decades, more research is still needed to understand how plants respond and tolerate salt stress.
We are pleased to invite you to submit primary research, reviews or methodological manuscripts dealing with the response of plants to salt stress. Ideally, manuscripts should deal with physiological (water relations, photosynthesis, nutrient uptake and assimilation, etc.), biochemical (antioxidant systems, primary and secondary metabolism, hormonal changes, etc.) and molecular (gene expression, genetic resources, transgenic plants, molecular signaling, etc.) responses. Manuscripts that combine different levels of research are encouraged, along with those including different organism levels (from the whole plant to the cell). Additionally, studies dealing with the interaction between plants and beneficial microorganisms are welcomed, with the focus on plant responses. These subjects are in complete accordance with the scope of the journal Biology. Hence, this Special Issue aims to advance the knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the response and tolerance of plants to salt stress.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ricardo Aroca
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genetic resources
- ion toxicity
- molecular signalling
- nutrient uptake
- plant hormones
- soil beneficial microorganisms
- water relations
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