Salt tolerance mechanisms in Salt Tolerant Grasses (STGs) and their prospects in cereal crop improvement.

ABSTRACT: Increasing soil salinity in the agricultural fields all over the world is a matter of concern. Salinity poses a serious threat to the normal growth and development of crop plants. What adds to the concern is that all the cereal crops are sensitive to increasing soil salinity. So it is implacable to either search for salinity resistant varieties of crop plants or transform them genetically to sustain growth and reproducibility at increasing salinity stress. For the second perspective, mining the salt tolerant genes in the close relatives of cereal crops apparently becomes important, and most specifically in the salt tolerant grasses (STGs). STGs include the halophytes, facultative halophytes and salt-tolerant glycophytes of the family Poaceae. In this review the potentiality of STGs has bee

SUBMITTER: Roy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5432819 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature