Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 4
P
HYSIOLOGICAL
A
DAPTIVE
M
ECHANISMS
OF
P
LANTS
G
ROWN IN
S
ALINE
S
OIL
AND
I
MPLICATIONS FOR
S
USTAINABLE
E
NVIRONMENTAL
D
EVELOPMENT
IN A
C
OASTAL
Z
ONE
Kun Yan
1
, Hong-Bo Shao
1,3,
, Chuyang Shao
2
,
Shijie Zhao
2
and Marian Brestic
1,4
1
Key Laboratory of Coastal Biology & Bioresources Utilization, Yantai Institute of
Coastal Zone Research (YIC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),
Yantai, China
2
State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong
Agriculture University, Tai'an, China
3
Institute of Life Sciences, Qingdao University of Science
& Technology, Qingdao, China
4
Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra,
Nitra, Slovakia
A
BSTRACT
There is a large area of saline abandoned and low-yielding land distributed in coastal
zone in the world. Soil salinity which inhibits plant growth and decreases crop yield is a
serious and chronic problem for agricultural production. Improving plant salt tolerance is
a feasible way to solve this problem. Plant physiological and biochemical responses
under salinity stress has become a hot issue because it can provide insights into how
plants may be modified to become more tolerant. It is generally known that the negative
effects of soil salinity on plants are ascribed to ion toxicity, oxidative stress and osmotic
stress, and great progress has been made in the study on molecular and physiological
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