By André Läuchli, Ulrich Lüttge
This publication addresses the responses of vegetation to salinity. even though salinity is a typical environmental issue for marine organisms, for almost all of land crops excessive soil salinity is an environmental constraint that limits progress, productiveness, and general plant services. Salinity is especially common in arid/semiarid climates the place crop construction is determined by irrigation. A accomplished technique is taken during this publication. After discussing salinity as an environmental soil issue and its worldwide impression on ecosystems, plant responses are coated from the whole-plant point via metabolic adjustments to the underlying molecular and genetic mechanisms. unlike different books during this topic quarter, which specialise in yes facets of plant responses to salinity or are convention lawsuits, this is often the single complete new booklet in this topic, written through specialists within the box. The meant point of readership is graduate scholars and complex researchers attracted to environmental biology and in particular within the zone of mechanisms of environment-plant interactions.
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