Transcriptome analysis of upland cotton revealed novel pathways to scavenge reactive oxygen species (ROS) responding to Na₂SO₄ tolerance.

ABSTRACT: Salinity is an extensive and adverse environmental stress to crop plants across the globe, and a major abiotic constraint responsible for limited crop production threatening the crop security. Soil salinization is a widespread problem across the globe, threatening the crop production and food security. Salinity impairs plant growth and development via reduction in osmotic potential, cytotoxicity due to excessive uptake of ions such as sodium (Na⁺) and chloride (Cl^-), and nutritional imbalance. Cotton, being the most cultivated crop on saline-alkaline soils, it is of great importance to elucidate the mechanisms involved in Na₂SO₄ tolerance which is still lacking in upland cotton. Zhong 9835, a Na₂SO₄ resistant cultivar was sc

SUBMITTER: Wang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8060397 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature