Salinity: Environment — Plants — Molecules

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

This text addresses the responses of plants to salinity. Although salinity is a common environmental factor for marine organisms, for the majority of land plants high soil salinity is an environmental constraint that limits growth, productivity, and normal plant functions. Salinity is particularly widespread in arid/semi-arid climates where crop production depends on irrigation. After discussing salinity as an environmental soil factor and its global impact on ecosystems, plant responses are covered from the whole-plant level through metabolic changes to the underlying molecular and genetic mechanisms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-03-31
Mått:155 x 235 x 40 mm
Vikt:1 120 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:552
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN:9781402004926

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"This book is highly recommended for students and also researchers interested in the molecular ecophysiology of plants." (Journal of Plant Physiology, 160:5 (2003)

Innehållsförteckning

Environment.- Global Impact of Salinity and Agricultural Ecosystems.- Salinity in the Soil Environment.- Salinity, Halophytes and Salt Affected Natural Ecosystems.- Organisms.- Adaptation of Halophilic Archaea to Life at High Salt Concentrations.- Adaptation of the Halotolerant Alga Dunaliella to High Salinity.- Mangroves.- Mechanisms.- Ultrastructural Effects of Salinity in Higher Plants.- Intra- and Inter-Cellular Compartmentation of Ions.- Salinity, Osmolytes and Compatible Solutes.- Sodium-Calcium Interactions Under Salinity Stress.- Salinity and Nitrogen Nutrition.- Pressure Probe Measurements of the Driving Forces for Water Transport in Intact Higher Plants: Effects of Transpiration and Salinity.- Salinity, Growth and Phytohormones.- The Adaptive Potential of Plant Development: Evidence from the Response to Salinity.- Photosynthesis.- Influence of Salinity on Photosynthesis of Halophytes.- Performance of Plants with C4-carboxylation Modes of Photosynthesis under Salinity.- Induction of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism by Salinity - Molecular Aspects.- Molecules.- Function of Membrane Transport Systems under Salinity: Plasma Membrane.- Function of Membrane Transport Systems under Salinity: Tonoplast.- Genetics of Salinity Responses and Plant Breeding.- Halotolerance Genes in Yeast.- The Long and Winding Road to Halotolerance Genes.