Salt Tolerance in Soybean

Soybean is an Important cash crop and its productivity is significantly hampered by salt stress. High salt Imposes negative impacts on growth, nodulation, agronomy traits, seed quality and quantity, and thus reduces the yield of soybean. To cope with salt stress, soybean has developed several tolerance mechanisms, including: (I) maintenance of ion homeostasis; (ii) adjustment in response to osmotic stress; (iii) restoration of osmotic balance; and (iv) other metabolic and structural adaptations. The regulatory network for abiotic stress responses in higher plants has been studied extensively in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana. Some homologous components involved in salt stress responses have been identified in soybean. In this review, we tried to integrate the relevant works on soybean and proposes a working model to descdbe Its salt stress responses at the molecular level.     

Salt Tolerance ofEchinochloa crusgalli

Salt tolerance ofEchinochloa crusgalli was studied using gravel culture with root medium electrical conductivity between 3 to 25 dS m^-1. Salinity depressed germination and shoot yield. A 50 % reduction in shoot yield occurred at 15.9 dS m^-1. The plant was able to maintain its tissue water content and K concentration in the tissue water while Na, Ca and Cl increased and Mg decreased with increasing root zone salinity.     

Salt Tolerance in Soybean

Soybean is an Important cash crop and its productivity is significantly hampered by salt stress. High salt Imposes negative impacts on growth, nodulation, agronomy traits, seed quality and quantity, and thus reduces the yield of soybean. To cope with salt stress, soybean has developed several tolerance mechanisms, including: (I) maintenance of ion homeostasis; (ii) adjustment in response to osmotic stress; (iii) restoration of osmotic balance; and (iv) other metabolic and structural adaptations. The regulatory network for abiotic stress responses in higher plants has been studied extensively in model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana. Some homologous components involved in salt stress responses have been identified in soybean. In this review, we tried to integrate the relevant works on soybean and proposes a working model to descdbe Its salt stress responses at the molecular level.     

大豆耐盐机理及相关基因分子标记

大豆耐盐涉及多种生理代谢途径。耐盐大豆能够通过Cl-排除、控制Na+的吸收和转运、合成渗透调节物质、改变细胞膜膜脂组分及相关酶类的活性等多种形式来适应盐胁迫;野生大豆群体具有盐腺,从形态结构上适应盐逆境;大豆-根瘤菌共生体在盐胁迫下通过互作来提高整体的耐盐性。分子生物学技术应用于大豆耐盐研究,已获得了一些与耐盐相关基因连锁的分子标记。广泛搜集筛选大豆栽培种和野生种资源,利用分子生物学技术和基因工程提高大豆耐盐性,将成为未来大豆耐盐研究的主要内容。     

大豆耐盐机理及相关基因分子标记

大豆耐盐涉及多种生理代谢途径.耐盐大豆能够通过Cl-排除、控制Na 的吸收和转运、合成渗透调节物质、改变细胞膜膜脂组分及相关酶类的活性等多种形式来适应盐胁迫;野生大豆群体具有盐腺,从形态结构上适应盐逆境;大豆-根瘤菌共生体在盐胁迫下通过互作来提高整体的耐盐性.分子生物学技术应用于大豆耐盐研究,已获得了一些与耐盐相关基因连锁的分子标记.广泛搜集筛选大豆栽培种和野生种资源,利用分子生物学技术和基因工程提高大豆耐盐性,将成为未来大豆耐盐研究的主要内容.     

花生萌发期耐盐性综合评价及耐盐种质筛选

为了解江苏花生种质资源的耐盐性,挖掘耐盐种质资源,本试验对47份花生种质材料进行耐盐性综合评价,以发芽势、发芽指数、活力指数、发芽率、鲜重、相对含水量、干重的相对值为鉴定指标,采用主成分分析、隶属函数法以及聚类分析方法,对其进行萌发期耐盐性综合评价及耐盐种质筛选。结果表明,花生种质材料萌发期的耐盐性强弱判定结果受多个指标影响,相对含水量和鲜重可以作为花生种质萌发期耐盐性的最佳鉴定指标,5 g/L Na Cl溶液可以作为花生萌发期耐盐性鉴定的合适浓度,47份花生材料划为5个耐盐级别,筛选出JP42、JP29、JP23、JP43、JP35、JP4等6份耐盐性强的种质,JP27和JP98为高度敏感材料,隶属函数法结合耐盐分级可以作为一种简便快速鉴定花生萌发期耐盐性的方法。     

ABA与植物的耐盐性

文章介绍近年来ABA与植物耐盐性的研究进展。     

Salt Tolerance in Selected Vegetable Crops

Ensuring adequate food production is a major issue in the context of an increasing human population, limit to the areas of new land that can be cultivated, and loss of existing cultivated lands to abiotic stresses. Of these stresses, salinity consistently has the greatest impact in reducing the area of cultivated land, often due to inappropriate irrigation techniques. To increase food supply, there is a need to produce salt-tolerant crops, which can grow successfully on salt-affected lands. Among crops, vegetables possess a central position in the human diet because of their nutritional value providing vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, and mineral nutrients. There are many vegetable crops of local importance around the world but others that are very widely cultivated. All of these vegetable crops are affected by salinity more or less severely. Salinity affects every aspect of vegetable crop development including their morphology, physiological function and yield. Although efforts have been made to understand the mechanisms of salt tolerance in vegetable crops, less attention has been paid to these than to the staple crops. Where attempts have been made to improve salt tolerance of vegetables, the strategies have ranged from exogenous application of fertilizers, compatible solutes or plant growth regulators, to use of advanced molecular techniques for genetic modifications. This review focuses on the responses of pea, okra, tomato, eggplant, pepper, carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, and potato to salt stress and the strategies being used to enhance their salt tolerance.     

Drought and Salt Tolerance in Plants

Agricultural productivity worldwide is subject to increasing environmental constraints, particularly to drought and salinity due to their high magnitude of impact and wide distribution. Traditional breeding programs trying to improve abiotic stress tolerance have had some success, but are limited by the multigenic nature of the trait. Tolerant plants such as Craterostigma plantagenium, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, Thellungiella halophila and other hardy plants could be valuable tools to dissect the extreme tolerance nature. In the last decade, Arabidopsis thaliana, a genetic model plant, has been extensively used for unravelling the molecular basis of stress tolerance. Arabidopsis also proved to be extremely important for assessing functions for individual stress-associated genes due to the availability of knock-out mutants and its amenability for genetic transformation. In this review, the responses of plants to salt and water stress are described, the regulatory circuits which allow plants to cope with stress are presented, and how the present knowledge can be applied to obtain tolerant plants is discussed.     

一氧化氮与植物耐盐性

盐胁迫是制约植物生长发育的主要环境因子之一,信号分子一氧化氮（NO）参与调节植物的耐盐性,本文介绍近年来NO合成及其与植物耐盐性关系的研究进展,并讨论了NO可能的作用机制。     

胡杨(Populus euphratica Oliv)的耐盐性

文章对胡杨耐盐性的研究进展进行了介绍。     

异源细胞质小麦耐盐性的研究

以粗厚山羊草（Ａｅｇｉｌｏｐｓ ｃｒａｓｓａ）细胞质小麦为材料,采用组织培养,水培、模拟盐池等方法,研究细胞质对小麦耐盐性的遗传效应,结果表明：粗厚山羊草细胞质可以不同程度地诱发小麦耐盐性产生变异。不同核质组合细胞质效应有一定差异,表现出特定的核质互作关系。部分异质系细胞水平与植株水平的耐盐性表现一致,特别是（Ａｅ．ｃｒａｓｓａ）－鉴２６的愈伤组织和幼苗的耐盐性表现均最突出。返青期和成熟期的鉴定结     

蒲公英研究进展和用生物技术培育耐盐蒲公英展望

蒲公英属(Taraxacum)植物种类多,分布广,是常见的农业杂草,还是重要的中药材.目前,蒲公英作为蔬菜食用得到了人们的充分重视,并逐渐成为时尚.近年来,人们深入研究了蒲公英的化学成分和药理作用,关于蒲公英的组织培养、核型与分子水平的研究也已开展,但蒲公英的生物技术培育工作鲜有报道.在对蒲公英的开发利用和研究现状作概述的同时,结合我们的工作提出生物技术培育抗盐、耐海水蒲公英的努力方向,以期为进一步开发利用蒲公英打下基础.     

蒲公英研究进展和用生物技术培育耐盐蒲公英展望

蒲公英属（Taraxacum）植物种类多,分布广,是常见的农业杂草,还是重要的中药材。目前,蒲公英作为蔬菜食用得到了人们的充分重视,并逐渐成为时尚。近年来,人们深入研究了蒲公英的化学成分和药理作用,关于蒲公英的组织培养、核型与分子水平的研究也已开展,但蒲公英的生物技术培育工作鲜有报道。在对蒲公英的开发利用和研究现状作概述的同时,结合我们的工作提出生物技术培育抗盐、耐海水蒲公英的努力方向,以期为进一步开发利用蒲公英打下基础。     

Salt Tolerance and Crop Potential of Halophytes

Although they represent only 2% of terrestrial plant species, halophytes are present in about half the higher plant families and represent a wide diversity of plant forms. Despite their polyphyletic origins, halophytes appear to have evolved the same basic method of osmotic adjustment: accumulation of inorganic salts, mainly NaCl, in the vacuole and accumulation of organic solutes in the cytoplasm. Differences between halophyte and gly-cophyte ion transport systems are becoming apparent. The pathways by which Na⁺ and Cl^? enters halophyte cells are not well understood but may involve ion channels and pinocytosis, in addition to Na⁺ and Cl^? transporters. Na⁺ uptake into vacuoles requires Na⁺/H⁺ antiporters in the tonoplast and H⁺ ATPases and perhaps PP_i ases to provide the proton motive force. Tonoplast antiporters are constitutive in halophytes, whereas they must be activated by NaCl in salt-tolerant glycophytes, and they may be absent from salt-sensitive glycophytes. Halophyte vacuoles may have a modified lipid composition to prevent leakage of Na⁺ back to the cytoplasm. Becuase of their diversity, halophytes have been regarded as a rich source of potential new crops. Halophytes have been tested as vegetable, forage, and oilseed crops in agronomic field trials. The most productive species yield 10 to 20 ton/ha of biomass on seawater irrigation, equivalent to conventional crops. The oilseed halophyte, Sali-cornia bigelovii, yields 2?t/ha of seed containing 28% oil and 31% protein, similar to soybean yield and seed quality. Halophytes grown on seawater require a leaching fraction to control soil salts, but at lower salinities they outperform conventional crops in yield and water use efficiency. Halophyte forage and seed products can replace conventional ingredients in animal feeding systems, with some restrictions on their use due to high salt content and antinutritional compounds present in some species. Halophytes have applications in recycling saline agricultural wastewater and reclaiming salt-affected soil in arid-zone irrigation districts.     

小麦品种资源耐盐性鉴定

按照农业部行业标准NY/PZT001-2002,对882份小麦品种资源进行耐盐性初步鉴定,筛选出芽期耐盐性为一级的品种328份,苗期和芽期都达到中度耐盐的品种43份。这些品种中很多既具有中度或中度以上耐盐性且具有高产优质等优异特性,如小偃22、新曙光1号等,为小麦耐盐育种提供重要信息。相关分析表明,不同耐盐级别的小麦品种其芽期和苗期耐盐性并没有一致的相关关系,二者并没有可比性,在耐盐种质筛选过程中,都有其本身的意义。     

二色补血草的耐盐性研究

通过NaCl胁迫发芽试验、盆栽浇灌NaCl盐水试验、不同含盐量土壤的种植试验,研究二色补血草（Limoniumbicolor）3个时期的耐盐能力。结果表明：高浓度NaCl对二色补血草种子的萌发有明显的抑制作用,种子的发芽率与盐浓度之间呈显著的负相关,种子萌发时盐胁迫的适宜值、临界值、极限值分别是0.49%、1.30%、2.11%;盆栽试验结果表明,二色补血草在2.0%以下的NaCl盐水胁迫下没有表现明显的盐害症状,只表现高浓度NaCl胁迫下,生长量低于低浓度处理的,当处理浓度达到2.4%时,多数植株濒临死亡;不同含盐量土壤的种植试验结果表明,在自然条件下,二色补血草成株耐盐临界值为1.7%～1.8%。试验结果说明二色补血草具有较强的耐盐能力,适合在滩涂盐碱地推广种植。     

小麦耐盐突变体盐胁迫下的蛋白质组分析

首次采用双向电泳的方法分析1％NaCl胁迫72h的一对小麦耐盐(RH8706-49)及敏盐突变体(H8706-34)的蛋白质组。经过MALDI-TOF分析和数据库检索发现两者在H^ -ATP酶β亚基、谷氨酰胺合成酶前体、OEC33和RuBP羧化酶小亚基等5个候选蛋白存在质或量的差异。这5种蛋白均为叶绿体蛋白,它们很可能在盐胁迫下对维持叶绿体及整个细胞的功能起到重要作用。     

转基因杨树的抗盐性分析

以转1磷酸甘露糖醇脱氢酶基因的八里庄杨为试材,对获得的杨树转化体进行了不同NaCl梯度的组织培养、水培和盆栽试验。抗盐试验中,转基因八里庄杨比对照的始分化天、分化率、芽头密度、苗高、生长势、生根率明显得到提高;主根数、侧根数、根长的发生数量均较多。结果表明在4‰含盐量的基质上,转基因苗木比对照有更好的抗性。      

SOS基因家族与植物耐盐性

介绍了模式植物--以南芥SOS(Salt overly sensitve)基因家族(SOS1、SOS2、SOS3、SOS4和SOS5)的发现及其遗传学和分子生物学的研究新进展.