Effect of salinity stress on plants and its tolerance strategies: a review

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 4056-4075

  Parihar, Parul ^a   Singh, Samiksha ^b   Singh, Rachana ^a   Singh, Vijay Pratap ^c   Prasad, Sheo Mohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^c Govt Ramanuj Pratap Singhdev Post Graduate College   (India)

Author keywords

Genomics; Metabolomics; Plant productivity; Proteomics; Salinity stress; Salinity tolerance; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CROP; DROUGHT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMINATION; METABOLOMICS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DROUGHTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GERMINATION; METABOLOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84925491094     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3739-1     Document Type: Article

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