Biosaline Agriculture and High Salinity Tolerance (eBook)

Survival at extreme locations: Life strategies of halophytes – the long way from system ecology, whole plant physiology, cell biochemistry and molecular aspects back to sustainable utilisation at field sites.- Growth enhancement in two potential cereal crops, maize and wheat, by exogenous application of glycinebetaine.- In vitro tissue culture approaches for the study of salt stress in citrus.- Sea water effects on antioxidant production in berries of three cultivars of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.).- Identification of morphological, biochemical and physiological parameters useful to characterize nutritional stress status in Arboreous species differently tolerant to chlorosis.- Sea water irrigation: effects on growth and nutrient uptake of sunflower plants.- Diversity in the response of two potential halophytes (Batis maritima and Crithmum maritimum) to salt stress.- Differential effects of sodium salts on the germination of a native halophytic species from South America: Prosopis strombulifera (Lam.) Benth.- Growth and nitrogen-fixing performances of Medicago truncatula-Sinorhizobium meliloti symbioses under salt (NaCl) stress: Micro- and macro-symbiont contribution into symbiosis tolerance.- Physiological responses of two Arabidopsis thaliana isolates, N1438 and Col, to different salts.- Physiology of salt tolerance in Atriplex halimus L.- Comparison of salinity tolerance of two related subspecies of Beta vulgaris: The sea beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima) and the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris).- Salinity influence on soil microbial population metabolism and enzymatic activities in lysimeter-grown Olea europaea and Nicotiana glauca.- Halophyte plant diversity from Irano-Turanian phytogeographical region of Turkey.- Potential use of halophytes with emphasis on fodder production in coastal areas of Pakistan.- Role of seed bank in the dynamics of desert communities.- Study of kochia (Kochia Scoparia) as a forage crop.- Biodiversity of plantspecies and adaptation to drought and salt conditions. Selection of species for sustainable reforestation activity to combat desertification.- Potentiality of salt marshes in mediterranean coastal zone of Egypt.- Studies on the halophyte desert vegetation in the Nothern Caspian Region (Caspian Lowland and Mangyshlak).- Halophyte utilization for biodiversity and productivity of degraded pasture restoration in arid regions of Central Asia and Russia.- Selection of a halophyte that could be used in the bioreclamation of salt-affected soils in arid and semi-arid regions.- New approaches for biosaline agriculture development, management and conservation of sandy desert ecosystems.- Computer supported system for the risk assessment and action recommendation for the water objects in Uzbekistan based on the already developed databank.- Functional genomics to discover genes for salt tolerance in annual and perennial plants.- Molecular analyses of a dehydration related gene from the dreb family in durum, wheat and triticale.- Expression analysis of salt stress responsive genes in grapevines.- Molecular biology and transport properties of grapevine Na+/H+ antiporter.- Opposite lipid signalling pathways tightly control proline accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana and Thellungiella halophila.- Cadmium and copper genotoxicity in plants.- Effect of salinity on growth, leaf-phenolic content and antioxidant scavenging activity in Cynara cardunculus L.- Contributions to the 2006 sustainable utilisation of cash crop halophytes meeting in Tunis