Stomata Regulation and Water Use Efficiency in Plants under Saline Soil Conditions

Sergey Shabala is a Professor in Plant Physiology and a Head of the Stress Physiology Laboratory at the University of Tasmania; he also holds a title of a Distinguished Professor and a Director of the International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology at Foshan University in China. His area of expertise is plant stress physiology and mechanisms of their adaptation to harsh environmental conditions such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, extreme temperatures, and soil acidity. Over his research career, Sergey has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers and successfully supervised to completion 42 PhD students. He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher for the last five consecutive years and in 2019 was ranked as most cited researcher in the field of Botany in the world. His H-index is 90, and his work has been cited over 27,000 times. He is a current Editor in Chief for Functional Plant Biology and a member of editorial boards of 10 international journals. He is a former president of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists and holds a title of the Visiting or Distinguished Professor in several overseas universities.

• PrefaceSergey Shabala1. Stomatal regulation and adaptation to salinity in glycophytes and halophytesGuang Chen, Hanna Amoanimaa-Dede, Fanrong Zeng, Fenglin Deng, Shengchun Xu and Zhong-Hua Chen2. Water use efficiency in mangroves: Conservation of water use efficiency determined by stomatal behavior across leaves, plants, and forestsJie Liang, Graham D. Farquhar and Marilyn C. Ball3. Salty or sweet? Guard cell signaling and osmotic control under saline conditionsYotam Zait and Sarah M. Assmann4. Modulation of abscisic acid signaling for stomatal operation under salt stress conditionsJong-Joo Cheong5. Impact of nutritional imbalance on guard cell metabolism and stomata regulation under saline hyperosmotic conditionsChristian Zörb, Bastian L. Franzisky, Patrick P. Lehr, Robin Kosch, Michael Altenbuchinger and Christoph-Martin Geilfus6. Stomata under salt stress: What can mechanistic modeling tell us?Nguyen B. A. Thu, Anna Amtmann, Michael R. Blatt and Thanh-Hao Nguyen7. Signaling molecules and transcriptional reprogramming for stomata operation under salt stressJahanzeb Jafar, Heba Hassan, Sergey Shabala and Bo Ouyang 8. Root-borne signals and their control of guard cell operation under saline conditions: The role of root signals in stomata regulationMengliang Niu, Zhilong Bie and Yuan Huang9. Salinity and night-time transpiration under current climate scenariosWieland Fricke10. Application of omics technologies in single-type guard cell studies for understanding the mechanistic basis of plant adaptation to saline conditionsFatemeh Rasouli, Ali Kiani-Pouya, Yuan Wang, Ali Movahedi, Min Yu, Ayesha Tahir and Sergey Shabala