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ReviewPlant communications2023

Chasing the mechanisms of ecologically adaptive salinity tolerance.

Silvia Busoms, Sina Fischer, Levi Yant

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Review in Plant communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Trait-based evidence of salinity-induced functional diversity loss in mangroves: Implications for ecosystem resilience.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026
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  13. Local cryptic diversity in salinity adaptation mechanisms in the wild outcrossingProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  15. Endophytic fungi are able to induce tolerance to salt stress in date palm seedlings (Phoenix dactylifera L.).Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Silvia BusomsPlant Physiology Laboratory, Bioscience Faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona E-08193, Spain.
Sina FischerFuture Food Beacon of Excellence, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
Levi YantFuture Food Beacon of Excellence, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Electronic address: levi.yant@nottingham.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants adapted to challenging environments offer fascinating models of evolutionary change. Importantly, they also give information to meet our pressing need to develop resilient, low-input crops. With mounting environmental fluctuation-including temperature, rainfall, and soil salinity and degradation-this is more urgent than ever. Happily, solutions are hiding in plain sight: the adaptive mechanisms from natural adapted populations, once understood, can then be leveraged. Much recent insight has come from the study of salinity, a widespread factor limiting productivity, with estimates of 20% of all cultivated lands affected. This is an expanding problem, given increasing climate volatility, rising sea levels, and poor irrigation practices. We therefore highlight recent benchmark studies of ecologically adaptive salt tolerance in plants, assessing macro- and microevolutionary mechanisms, and the recently recognized role of ploidy and the microbiome on salinity adaptation. We synthesize insight specifically on naturally evolved adaptive salt-tolerance mechanisms, as these works move substantially beyond traditional mutant or knockout studies, to show how evolution can nimbly "tweak" plant physiology to optimize function. We then point to future directions to advance this field that intersect evolutionary biology, abiotic-stress tolerance, breeding, and molecular plant physiology.

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Salt ToleranceSoilCrops, AgriculturalSoiladaptationecologyevolutionmicrobiomepolyploidysalinity

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PMID36883005
PMCPMC10721451

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