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Soil salinity decreases the growth rate of plants and can severely limit the productivity of crop plants. The ability to tolerate salinity stress differs widely between species of plants as well as within species. As an important component of salinity tolerance, a better understanding of the mechani...
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PMID: 19968828
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Our results suggest that salinity tolerance in creeping bentgrass could be in part controlled by an alteration of ion transport through vacuolar H(+)-ATPase in roots, maintenance of the functionality and integrity of thylakoid membranes, sustained polyamine biosynthesis, and by the activation of cel...
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PMID: 20361191
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We report the characterization of a novel aquaporin gene TaNIP (Triticum asetivum L. nodulin 26-like intrinsic protein), which was involved in salt tolerance pathways in plants. TaNIP was identified and cloned through the gene chip expression analysis of a salt-tolerant wheat mutant RH8706-49 under...
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PMID: 20360019
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We discuss the specific roles of enzymatic and non enzymatic antioxidants in relation to the oxidative load in the context of whole plant salt tolerance. The possible preventive antioxidative mechanisms are also discussed....
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PMID: 20118663
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High salinity stress adversely affects plant growth and limits agricultural production worldwide. To minimize these losses it is essential to develop stress-tolerant plants. Several genes, including the genes encoding for helicases, are induced in response to salinity stress. Helicases are ubiquitou...
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PMID: 20225163
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We suggest that the pectic polysaccharide could be involved in Na(+) fixation, though only a minor fraction of accumulated sodium appeared to be firmly bound to mucilage.
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PMID: 19962213
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Beside a direct toxicity, cadmium impact on plants involves both a secondary-induced water stress and an oxidative stress. Proliferating cell lines of Atriplex halimus were selected for their sensitivity or resistance to polyethylene glycol (PEG 10,000, 20%) and then exposed to 100 microM CdCl2 in t...
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PMID: 20031255
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Although glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI) plays an important role in glycolysis of both the prokaryotes and eukaryotes, studies on the GPI have not been involved in the halotolerant, unicellular green alga Dunaliella salina (D. salina). In this study, a 2,338 bp of full-length cDNA cloned using r...
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PMID: 19688275
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We demonstrated that the primary effects of BOA are related to the expression of genes involved in detoxification and stress responses, which might serve to simultaneously alleviate biotic and abiotic stresses. Through analysis of the same physiological and biochemical parameters previously studied...
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PMID: 19538396
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Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates the plant's adaptive responses to abiotic stresses. Over-expression of the 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase gene (SgNCED1) in the transgenic tobaccos increased ABA content and tolerance to drought and salt stresses. H2O2 and nitric oxide (NO) contents were enhanced in...
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PMID: 19183289
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Puccinellia tenuiflora is a useful monocotyledonous halophyte that might be used for improving salt tolerance of cereals. This current work has shown that P. tenuiflora has stronger selectivity for K+ over Na+ allowing it to maintain significantly lower tissue Na+ and higher K+ concentration than th...
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PMID: 19183292
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Our data reveal a previously uncharacterized connection between ABA, Na(+) homeostasis, oxidative stress and pathogen response, and shed light on the genetic control of crosstalk between plant responses to pathogens and abiotic stress. Together, our data suggest SlAIM1 integrates plant responses to...
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PMID: 19143995
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With the reclaimed tidal wetland of Chongming Dongtan in Shanghai as a case, and based on the landscape pattern analysis of colored infrared aerial photographs and field survey, this paper studied the invasion of xerarch halophytes and its effects on the original reed community in the wetland after...
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PMID: 19449562
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The rootstock effect on the fruit yield of a grafted tomato variety was genetically analyzed under salinity using as rootstock two populations of F(9) lines developed from a salt sensitive genotype of Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme, as female parent, and two salt tolerant lines, as male paren...
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PMID: 18846361
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Forward and reverse SSH cDNA libraries were constructed after exposing the young plants to 425 mM NaCl for 24 h. From the forward SSH cDNA library, 429 high quality ESTs were obtained. BLASTX search and TIGR assembler programme revealed overexpression of 167 unigenes comprising 89 singletons and 78...
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PMID: 19497134
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A hierarchical clustering approach identified several interesting expression trajectories among rice and barley genotypes. There were no major conserved expression patterns between the two species in response to salt stress. A wheat salt-stress dataset was queried for comparison with rice and barley...
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PMID: 19706179
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Cultivation of salt-tolerant crops can help address the threats of irreversible global salinization of fresh water and soils. 1Department of Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-mail: jelte.rozema{at}falw.vu.nl
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Membrane-associated basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors that reside in the endoplasmic reticulum represent a newly described class of plant stress sensor/transducers. The bZIP factors are anchored in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes with their C-terminal tails facing the ER lumen a...
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PMID: 18721266
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Yanjie Xie,
Tengfang Ling,
Yi Han,
Kaili Liu,
Qingsong Zheng,
Liqin Huang,
Xingxing Yuan,
Ziyi He,
Bing Hu,
Lei Fang,
Zhenguo Shen,
Qing Yang and
Wenbiao Shen
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Salt stress induced an increase in endogenous carbon monoxide (CO) production and the activity of the CO synthetic enzyme haem oxygenase (HO) in wheat seedling roots. In addition, a 50% CO aqueous solution, applied daily, not only resulted in the enhancement of CO release, but led to a significant r...
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PMID: 18811735
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The two seed morphs of S. aralocaspica exhibit distinct differences in dormancy and germination characteristics. Suaeda aralocaspica is the first cold desert halophyte for which non-deep Type 2 PD has been documented....
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PMID: 18772148
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We report on a functional gene-mining method developed to isolate stress tolerance genes without any prior knowledge of the genome or genetic mapping of the source germplasms. The feasibility of this approach was demonstrated by isolating novel salt stress tolerance genes from salt cress (Thellungie...
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PMID: 18643972
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We have previously reported that overexpression of the salinity-responsive DWARF AND DELAYED FLOWERING 1 (DDF1) gene, encoding an AP2 transcription factor of the DREB1/CBF subfamily, causes dwarfism mainly by levels of reducing bioactive gibberellin (GA) in transgenic Arabidopsis. Here, we found tha...
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PMID: 18643985
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A field experiment was carried out to determine the growth characteristics and mineral composition of two local halophytes (Atriplex halimus and Salvadora persica) under saline irrigation at Kind Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Research Station Al-Muzahmyia, Riyadh. The experiment...
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PMID: 19266925
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In order to obtain salt-tolerant calli of Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber), calli were induced from leaf explants of Dandelion on Murashige and Skoog's medium supplemented with 2.0 mg/L 6-benzyladenine and 0.5 mg/L 2,4-dichlorophen oxyacetic acid With 1.5% NaCl as selection pressure, most call...
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PMID: 18837396
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In order to obtain salt-tolerant variant plants of Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber), the leaf discs were excised from 20 to 30-day old seedlings to produce callus, then the induced calli were transferred to selection mediums containing 1.5% NaCl. After regenerating and rooting, these salt-tole...
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PMID: 18464611
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We constructed a full-length enriched Thellungiella (Shan Dong ecotype) cDNA library from various tissues and whole plants subjected to environmental stresses, including high salinity, chilling, freezing, and abscisic acid treatment. We randomly selected about 20,000 clones and sequenced them from b...
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PMID: 19014467
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The Tagsk1 (Triticum asetium L. glycogen synthase kinase 1) gene derived from the genome of wheat salt-tolerance mutant RH8706-49 was cloned by PCR. The special primers designed according to full length cDNA sequence of Tagsk1 (AF525086). A binary expression vector pBI121-gsk1 containing Gus and Tag...
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PMID: 16607945
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