Soybean is an important cash crop and its productivity is significantly hampered by salt stress. High salt imposes negative impacts on growth, nodulation, agronomy traits, seed quality and quantity, and thus reduces t...Soybean is an important cash crop and its productivity is significantly hampered by salt stress. High salt imposes negative impacts on growth, nodulation, agronomy traits, seed quality and quantity, and thus reduces the yield of soybean. To cope with salt stress, soybean has developed several tolerance mechanisms, including： （i） maintenance of ion homeostasis; （ii） adjustment in response to osmotic stress; （iii） restoration of osmotic balance; and （iv） other metabolic and structural adaptations. The regulatory network for abiotic stress responses in higher plants has been studied extensively in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana. Some homologous components involved in salt stress responses have been identified in soybean. In this review, we tried to integrate the relevant works on soybean and proposes a working model to describe its salt stress responses at the molecular level.展开更多
Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting plant growth and crop production.In the present study,salt tolerance at rice seedling stage was evaluated using 87 introgression lines（ILs）,which were der...Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting plant growth and crop production.In the present study,salt tolerance at rice seedling stage was evaluated using 87 introgression lines（ILs）,which were derived from a cross between an elite indica cultivar Teqing and an accession of common wild rice（Oryza rufipogon Griff.）.Substantial variation was observed for four traits including salt tolerance score（STS）, relative root dry weight（RRW）,relative shoot dry weight（RSW） and relative total dry weight（RTW）.STS was significantly positively correlated with all other three traits.A total of 15 putative quantitative trait loci（QTLs） associated with these four traits were detected using single-point analysis,which were located on chromosomes 1,2,3,6,7,9 and 10 with 8%-26%explaining the phenotypic variance.The O. rufipogon-derived alleles at 13 QTLs（86.7%） could improve the salt tolerance in the Teqing background.Four QTL clusters affecting RRW, RSW and RTW were found on chromosomes 6,7,9 and 10,respectively.Among these four QTL clusters,a major cluster including three QTLs （qRRWIO,qRSWIO and qRTWIO） was found near the maker RM271 on the long arm of chromosome 10,and the O.rufipogon-derived alleles at these three loci increased RRW,RSW and RTW with additive effects of 22.7%,17.3%and 18.5%,respectively,while the phenotypic variance explained by these three individual QTLs for the three traits varied from 19%to 26%.In addition,several salt tolerant ILs were selected and could be used for identifying and utilizing favorable salt tolerant genes from common wild rice and used in the salt tolerant rice breeding program.展开更多
Salinity is a global challenge to agricultural production. Understanding Na^+ sensing and transport in plants under salt stress will be of benefit for breeding robustly salt-tolerant crop species. In this review, firs...Salinity is a global challenge to agricultural production. Understanding Na^+ sensing and transport in plants under salt stress will be of benefit for breeding robustly salt-tolerant crop species. In this review, first, possible salt stress sensor candidates and the root meristem zone as a tissue harboring salt stress-sensing components are proposed. Then,the importance of Na^+ exclusion and vacuolar Na^+ sequestration in plant overall salt tolerance is highlighted. Other Na^+ regulation processes, including xylem Na^+ loading and unloading, phloem Na^+ recirculation, and Na^+ secretion, are discussed and summarized.Along with a summary of Na^+ transporters and channels, the molecular regulation of Na^+ transporters and channels in response to salt stress is discussed. Finally, some largely neglected issues in plant salt stress tolerance, including Na^+ concentration in cytosol and the role of Na^+ as a nutrient, are reviewed and discussed.展开更多
基金Supported by the Hong Kong RGC Earmarked Grant CUHK4434/04Mthe Hong Kong UGC AoE Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology Project AoE-B-07/09 (to H.M. Lam).
文摘Soybean is an important cash crop and its productivity is significantly hampered by salt stress. High salt imposes negative impacts on growth, nodulation, agronomy traits, seed quality and quantity, and thus reduces the yield of soybean. To cope with salt stress, soybean has developed several tolerance mechanisms, including： （i） maintenance of ion homeostasis; （ii） adjustment in response to osmotic stress; （iii） restoration of osmotic balance; and （iv） other metabolic and structural adaptations. The regulatory network for abiotic stress responses in higher plants has been studied extensively in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana. Some homologous components involved in salt stress responses have been identified in soybean. In this review, we tried to integrate the relevant works on soybean and proposes a working model to describe its salt stress responses at the molecular level.
基金supported by the Project of Conservation and Utilization of Agro-Wild Plants of the Ministry of Agriculture of China and Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest(No.201003021)
文摘Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting plant growth and crop production.In the present study,salt tolerance at rice seedling stage was evaluated using 87 introgression lines（ILs）,which were derived from a cross between an elite indica cultivar Teqing and an accession of common wild rice（Oryza rufipogon Griff.）.Substantial variation was observed for four traits including salt tolerance score（STS）, relative root dry weight（RRW）,relative shoot dry weight（RSW） and relative total dry weight（RTW）.STS was significantly positively correlated with all other three traits.A total of 15 putative quantitative trait loci（QTLs） associated with these four traits were detected using single-point analysis,which were located on chromosomes 1,2,3,6,7,9 and 10 with 8%-26%explaining the phenotypic variance.The O. rufipogon-derived alleles at 13 QTLs（86.7%） could improve the salt tolerance in the Teqing background.Four QTL clusters affecting RRW, RSW and RTW were found on chromosomes 6,7,9 and 10,respectively.Among these four QTL clusters,a major cluster including three QTLs （qRRWIO,qRSWIO and qRTWIO） was found near the maker RM271 on the long arm of chromosome 10,and the O.rufipogon-derived alleles at these three loci increased RRW,RSW and RTW with additive effects of 22.7%,17.3%and 18.5%,respectively,while the phenotypic variance explained by these three individual QTLs for the three traits varied from 19%to 26%.In addition,several salt tolerant ILs were selected and could be used for identifying and utilizing favorable salt tolerant genes from common wild rice and used in the salt tolerant rice breeding program.
基金supported by a Ph.D. scholarship provided by University of Tasmania (185466S9A),Australiathe Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Biology Utilization at Anhui Agricultural University (SKLTOF20170112)
文摘Salinity is a global challenge to agricultural production. Understanding Na^+ sensing and transport in plants under salt stress will be of benefit for breeding robustly salt-tolerant crop species. In this review, first, possible salt stress sensor candidates and the root meristem zone as a tissue harboring salt stress-sensing components are proposed. Then,the importance of Na^+ exclusion and vacuolar Na^+ sequestration in plant overall salt tolerance is highlighted. Other Na^+ regulation processes, including xylem Na^+ loading and unloading, phloem Na^+ recirculation, and Na^+ secretion, are discussed and summarized.Along with a summary of Na^+ transporters and channels, the molecular regulation of Na^+ transporters and channels in response to salt stress is discussed. Finally, some largely neglected issues in plant salt stress tolerance, including Na^+ concentration in cytosol and the role of Na^+ as a nutrient, are reviewed and discussed.
