Soil salinity: A global threat to sustainable development

A Singh - Soil Use and Management, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil is a vital resource for feeding the burgeoning global population, and it is also essential
for realizing most of the 'United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)'. For …

Plant responses to salt stress: adaptive mechanisms

JR Acosta-Motos, MF Ortuño, A Bernal-Vicente… - Agronomy, 2017 - mdpi.com
This review deals with the adaptive mechanisms that plants can implement to cope with the
challenge of salt stress. Plants tolerant to NaCl implement a series of adaptations to …

Research progress and perspective on drought stress in legumes: A review

M Nadeem, J Li, M Yahya, A Sher, C Ma… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate change, food shortage, water scarcity, and population growth are some of the
threatening challenges being faced in today's world. Drought stress (DS) poses a constant …

Mechanistic insights of the interaction of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) with plant roots toward enhancing plant productivity by alleviating salinity stress

MA Bhat, V Kumar, MA Bhat, IA Wani, FL Dar… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Agriculture plays an important role in a country's economy. The sector is challenged by
many stresses, which led to huge loss in plant productivity worldwide. The ever-increasing …

Drought stress in grain legumes during reproduction and grain filling

M Farooq, N Gogoi, S Barthakur… - Journal of Agronomy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity is a major constraint limiting grain legume production particularly in the arid
and semi‐arid tropics. Different climate models have predicted changes in rainfall …

The transcriptional regulatory network in the drought response and its crosstalk in abiotic stress responses including drought, cold, and heat

K Nakashima, K Yamaguchi-Shinozaki… - Frontiers in plant …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Drought negatively impacts plant growth and the productivity of crops around the world.
Understanding the molecular mechanisms in the drought response is important for …

Breeding and domesticating crops adapted to drought and salinity: a new paradigm for increasing food production

A Fita, A Rodríguez-Burruezo, M Boscaiu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
World population is expected to reach 9.2× 109 people by 2050. Feeding them will require a
boost in crop productivity using innovative approaches. Current agricultural production is …

Inducing drought tolerance in plants: recent advances

M Ashraf - Biotechnology advances, 2010 - Elsevier
Undoubtedly, drought is one of the prime abiotic stresses in the world. Crop yield losses due
to drought stress are considerable. Although a variety of approaches have been used to …

Genome-wide analysis of NAC transcription factor family in rice

M Nuruzzaman, R Manimekalai, AM Sharoni, K Satoh… - Gene, 2010 - Elsevier
We investigated 151 non-redundant NAC genes in rice and 117 in Arabidopsis. A complete
overview of this gene family in rice is presented, including gene structures, phylogenies …

Transgenic breeding approaches for improving abiotic stress tolerance: recent progress and future perspectives

A Anwar, JK Kim - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The recent rapid climate changes and increasing global population have led to an increased
incidence of abiotic stress and decreased crop productivity. Environmental stresses, such as …