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Engineering salinity tolerance in plants: progress and prospects

Wani, Shabir Hussain, Kumar, Vinay, Khare, Tushar, Guddimalli, Rajasheker, Parveda, Maheshwari, Solymosi, Katalin, Suprasanna, Penna, Kavi Kishor, P. B.·2020·Planta

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Main conclusion There is a need to integrate conceptual framework based on the current understanding of salt stress responses with different approaches for manipulating and improving salt tolerance in crop plants. Soil salinity exerts significant constraints on global crop production, posing a serious challenge for plant breeders and biotechnologists. The classical transgenic approach for enhancing salinity tolerance in plants revolves by boosting endogenous defence mechanisms, often via a single-gene approach, and usually involves the enhanced synthesis of compatible osmolytes, antioxidants, polyamines, maintenance of hormone homeostasis, modification of transporters and/or regulatory proteins, including transcription factors and alternative splicing events. Occasionally, genetic manipulation of regulatory proteins or phytohormone levels confers salinity tolerance, but all these may cause undesired reduction in plant growth and/or yields. In this review, we present and evaluate novel and cutting-edge approaches for engineering salt tolerance in crop plants. First, we cover recent findings regarding the importance of regulatory proteins and transporters, and how they can be used to enhance salt tolerance in crop plants. We also evaluate the importance of halobiomes as a reservoir of genes that can be used for engineering salt tolerance in glycophytic crops. Additionally, the role of microRNAs as critical post-transcriptional regulators in plant adaptive responses to salt stress is reviewed and their use for engineering salt-tolerant crop plants is critically assessed. The potentials of alternative splicing mechanisms and targeted gene-editing technologies in understanding plant salt stress responses and developing salt-tolerant crop plants are also discussed.

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  • Editing genes involved in ion homeostasis and ROS scavenging significantly improves salt tolerance in various crops.

    “Additionally, editing genes involved in ion homeostasis and ROS scavenging has significantly improved salt tolerance in various crops (Leawtrakun et al., 2024; Wani et al., 2020).”

    From Emerging applications of gene editing technologies for the development of climate-resilient crops (2025) · cites this paper as Wani et al., 2020

    Section 3.1.4 reports that genetic modification of ion-transport components has improved salt tolerance. But Section 8 says there have been few studies using genome editing to develop salt-tolerant plants and presents its crop examples largely as potential applications, not demonstrated improvements. The paper does not establish that editing genes for both ion homeostasis and ROS scavenging has significantly improved tolerance across various crops. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Salinity is one of the leading causes of crop losses worldwide, affecting an estimated 32 million ha of dryland agriculture.

    “Salinity is one of the leading causes of crop losses worldwide, affecting an estimated 32 million ha of dryland agriculture (Wani et al., 2020).”

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Authors
Wani, S. H., Kumar, V., Khare, T., Guddimalli, R., Parveda, M., Solymosi, K., Suprasanna, P., & Kavi Kishor, P. B.
Affiliations
  • Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (IN)
  • Savitribai Phule Pune University (IN)
  • Osmania University (IN)
  • Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (IN)
Corresponding author
Wani, Shabir Hussain
Venue
Planta
Published
2020-03-09
Volume
251
Issue
4
Pages
76-76
ISSN
  • 0032-0935 (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-2048
OpenAlex
W3010616591
Cited by
233
References
331
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 16
FWCI
2.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Planta (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (acceptedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
Keywords
salt tolerance, salt stress, cultivated plants, transgenic plants, osmolytes, antioxidants, polyamines, phytohormone homeostasis, ion transporters, transcription factors, microRNA, alternative splicing, genome editing
MeSH terms
Gene Editing, Chloroplasts, Plant Growth Regulators, Alternative Splicing, Crops, Agricultural, Genome, Plant, Potassium-Hydrogen Antiporters, Arabidopsis Proteins, Plants, Genetically Modified, RNA Interference, Quantitative Trait Loci, Salinity, Salt Tolerance, Salt-Tolerant Plants, Plant Development

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