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ReviewMetabolites2021

Soil Salinity, a Serious Environmental Issue and Plant Responses: A Metabolomics Perspective.

Kekeletso H Chele, Morena M Tinte, Lizelle A Piater, Ian A Dubery, Fidele Tugizimana

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Review in Metabolites, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Exogenous Melatonin Confers Salt-Alkali Tolerance inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  16. Genome-wide analysis of theFrontiers in plant science · 2026
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  18. Evolutionary analysis ofFrontiers in plant science · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kekeletso H CheleDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa.
Morena M TinteDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-6670-6829
Lizelle A PiaterDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9526-0109
Ian A DuberyDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9079-4769
Fidele TugizimanaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-8172-6599

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effects of global warming have increasingly led to devastating environmental stresses, such as heat, salinity, and drought. Soil salinization is a serious environmental issue and results in detrimental abiotic stress, affecting 7% of land area and 33% of irrigated lands worldwide. The proportion of arable land facing salinity is expected to rise due to increasing climate change fuelled by anthropogenic activities, exacerbating the threat to global food security for the exponentially growing populace. As sessile organisms, plants have evolutionarily developed mechanisms that allow ad hoc responses to salinity stress. The orchestrated mechanisms include signalling cascades involving phytohormones, kinases, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and calcium regulatory networks. As a pillar in a systems biology approach, metabolomics allows for comprehensive interrogation of the biochemistry and a deconvolution of molecular mechanisms involved in plant responses to salinity. Thus, this review highlights soil salinization as a serious environmental issue and points to the negative impacts of salinity on plants. Furthermore, the review summarises mechanisms regulating salinity tolerance on molecular, cellular, and biochemical levels with a focus on metabolomics perspectives. This critical synthesis of current literature is an opportunity to revisit the current models regarding plant responses to salinity, with an invitation to further fundamental research for novel and actionable insights.

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abiotic stressesenvironmental factorsmetabolomicssalinitysalinization

Identifiers

PMID34822381
PMCPMC8620211

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