abstract salinity tolerance is one of the major factor influencing crop productivity in arid and semi-arid areas. the salinity tolerance of fruit trees can be enhanced through the use of tolerant rootstocks. this experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of salinity stress and rootstock on the growth, photosynthetic rate and nutrient concentrations of almond (prunus dulcis miller.) cv...

Objective of this study was to evaluation Changes in proline, catalase and germination characteristics of barley seeds under salinity stress. Salinity stress at osmotic potentials of 0 (as control), 4, -8, -12 and -16 bar were adjusted using NaCl before the start of the experiment. Our results showed that, the effect of salinity levels for all traits was significantly. With, increases of salini...

Salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting alfalfa productivity. Developing salinity tolerant alfalfa genotypes could contribute to sustainable crop production. The functions of microRNA156 (miR156) have been investigated in several plant species, but so far, no studies have been published that explore the role of miR156 in alfalfa response to salinity stress. In this work, we stud...

Salinity stress has significant negative effects on plant biomass production and crop yield. Salinity tolerance is controlled by complex systems of gene expression and ion transport. The relationship between specific features of mild salinity stress adaptation and gene expression was analyzed using four commercial varieties of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) that have different levels of salini...

Among abiotic stresses, high salinity stress is the most severe environmental stress, which impairs crop production on at least 20% of irrigated land worldwide. In response to high salinity stress, various genes get upregulated, the products of which are involved either directly or indirectly in plant protection. Some of the genes encoding osmolytes, ion channels, receptors, components of calci...

Salinity is a major abiotic stress limiting growth and productivity of plants in many areas of the world due to increasing use of poor quality of water for irrigation and soil salinization. Plant adaptation or tolerance to salinity stress involves complex physiological traits, metabolic pathways, and molecular or gene networks. A comprehensive understanding on how plants respond to salinity str...

In this study, the effects of salinity stress (NaCl) on the activity of Catalase (CAT), Guaiacol Peroxidase (POD), and Superoxide dismutase (SOD) were studied in leaves of fifteen oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) cultivars (Champlain, Hayola401, Licord, Modena, NK Aviator, NK Karibik, NK Octan, Okapy, Opera, PF, RGS, RNX 3621, SLM046, Talayeh, Zarfam). Plants were grown in a greenhouse under co...

Salinity stress as a major agricultural limiting factor may influence the chemical composition and bioactivity of Rosmarinus officinallis L. essential oils and leaf extracts. The application of salicylic acid (SA) hormone may alleviate salinity stress by modifying the chemical composition, gene expression and bioactivity of plant secondary metabolites. In this study, SA was applied to enhance s...

Cytosine methylation is a well recognized epigenetic mark. Here, the methylation status of a salinity-tolerant wheat cultivar (cv. SR3, derived from a somatic hybridization event) and its progenitor parent (cv. JN177) was explored both globally and within a set of 24 genes responsive to salinity stress. A further comparison was made between DNA extracted from plants grown under control conditio...

Soil salinity seriously limits plant growth and yield. Strategies have been developed for plants to cope with various environmental stresses during evolution. To screen for the broad-spectrum genes and the molecular mechanism about a hydroxyproline-tolerant mutant of peanut with enhanced salinity resistance under salinity stress, digital gene expression (DGE) sequencing was performed in the lea...