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Targeting vacuolar sodium sequestration in plant breeding for salinity tolerance
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Adem, GD and Bose, J and Zhou, M and Shabala, S, Targeting vacuolar sodium sequestration in plant breeding for salinity tolerance, Managing Salt Tolerance in Plants: Molecular and Genomic Perspectives, CRC Press, SH Wani, MA Hossain (ed), Florida, USA, pp. 35-50. ISBN 9781482245134 (2016) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
Salinity is a major environmental issue affecting crop production around the globe, and creating a salt-tolerant germplasm is absolutely essential meeting the 2050 challenge of feeding a 9.3 billion population. While most efforts of plant breeders were focused around genes and mechanisms responsible for exclusion of cytotoxic Na+ from uptake, this is not the strategy naturally salt-tolerant halophyte species use. One of the hallmarks of halophytes is their ability to safely deposit large volumes of salt in their vacuoles, in the process termed vacuolar sodium sequestration. This chapter reviews molecular and physiological mechanisms mediating this process and prospects of their targeting in breeding programs.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | salinity, sodium, vacuolar sequestration, NHX, Na+ sequestration, SV and FV channels, vacuolar H+-ATPase, vacuolar H+-PPiase |
Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Plant biology |
Research Field: | Plant physiology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences |
UTAS Author: | Adem, GD (Mr Getnet Adem) |
UTAS Author: | Bose, J (Dr Jayakumar Bose) |
UTAS Author: | Zhou, M (Professor Meixue Zhou) |
UTAS Author: | Shabala, S (Professor Sergey Shabala) |
ID Code: | 105158 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Deposited By: | Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture |
Deposited On: | 2015-12-11 |
Last Modified: | 2018-04-05 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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