Salinity

by Lauchli, Andre; Luttge, Ulrich

• ISBN13: 9781402004926
• ISBN10: 1402004923
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book 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/semiarid climates where crop production depends on irrigation. A comprehensive approach is taken in this book. 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. In contrast to other books in this subject area, which focus on certain aspects of plant responses to salinity or are conference proceedings, this is the only comprehensive new book on this subject, written by experts in the field. The intended level of readership is graduate students and advanced researchers interested in environmental biology and specifically in the area of mechanisms of environment-plant interactions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	ix
Color Section	xi
A. ENVIRONMENT	1	(78)
Global impact of salinity and agricultural ecosystems	3	(18)
M.G. Pitman
A Lauchli
Salinity in the soil environment	21	(32)
K.K. Tanji
Salinity, halophytes and salt affected natural ecosystems	53	(26)
S.-W. Breckle
B. ORGANISMS	79	(58)
Adaptation of halophilic Archaea to life at high salt concentrations	81	(16)
A. Oren
Adaptation of the haloterant alga Dunaliella to high salinity	97	(16)
U. Pick
Mangroves	113	(24)
U. Luttge
C. MECHANISMS	137	(176)
Ultrastructural effects of salinity in higher plants	139	(20)
H.-W. Koyro
Intra- and inter-cellular compartmentation of ions -- a study in specificity and plasticity	159	(22)
G. Wyn Jones
J. Gorham
Salinity, osmolytes and compatible solutes	181	(24)
D. Rhodes
A. Nadolska-Orczyk
P.J. Rich
Sodium-calcium interactions under salinity stress	205	(24)
G.R. Cramer
Salinity and nitrogen nutrition	229	(20)
W.R. Ullrich
Pressure probe measurements of the driving forces for water transport in intact higher plants: effects of transpiration and salinity	249	(22)
U. Zimmermann
H. Schneider
F. Thurmer
L.H. Wegner
Salinity, growth and phytohoromones	271	(20)
R. Munns
The adaptive potential of plant development: evidence from the response to salinity	291	(22)
G.N. Amzallag
D. PHOTOSYNTHESIS	313	(82)
Influence of salinity on photosynthesis of halophytes	315	(26)
C.E. Lovelock
M.C. Ball
Performance of plants with C4-carboxylation modes of photosynthesis under salinity	341	(20)
U. Luttge
Induction of Crassulacean acid metabolism by salinity-molecular aspects	361	(34)
J.C. Cushman
H.J. Bohnert
E. MOLECULES	395	(140)
Function of membrane transport systems under salinity: plasma membrane	397	(26)
L. Reinhold
M. Guy
Function of membrane transport systems under salinity: tonoplast	423	(28)
M. Binzel
R. Ratajczak
Genetics of salinity responses and plant breeding	451	(40)
J. Gorham
G. Wyn Jones
Halotolerance genes in yeast	491	(14)
R. Serrano
The long and winding road to haloterance genes	505	(30)
A. Maggio
T.K. Matsumoto
P.M. Hawegawa
J.M. Pardo
R.A. Bressan
Index	535