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Plasma membrane permeability as an indicator of salt tolerance in plants

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Biologia Plantarum

Abstract

There is evidence that the plasma membrane (PM) permeability alterations might be involved in plant salt tolerance. This review presents several lines of evidence demonstrating that PM permeability is correlated with salt tolerance in plants. PM injury and hence changes in permeability in salt sensitive plants is brought about by ionic effects as well as oxidative stress induced by salt imposition. It is documented that salinity enhances lipid peroxidation as well as protein oxidative damage, which in turn induces permeability impairment. PM protection, and thus retained permeability, in tolerant plants under salt imposition could be achieved through increasing antioxidative systems and thereby reducing lipid peroxidation and protein oxidative damage of PM. It appears that specific membrane proteins and/or lipids are constitutive or induced under salinity, which may contribute to maintenance of membrane structure and function in salt tolerant plant species. Furthermore, protecting agents (e.g., glycinebetaine, proline, polyamines, trehalose, sorbitol, mannitol) accumulated in salt tolerant species/cultivars may also contribute to PM stabilization and protection under salinity. Based on the presented evidence that PM permeability correlates with plant salt tolerance, we suggest that PM permeability is an easy and useful parameter for selection of genotypes of agriculture crops adapted to salt stress.

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Abbreviations

EC:

electrical conductivity

PA:

phosphatidic acid

PC:

phosphatidylcholine

PE:

phosphatidylethanolamine

PEG:

polyethyleneglycol

PG:

phosphatidylglycerol

PI:

phosphatidylinositol

PM:

plasma membrane

ROS:

reactive oxygen species

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Mansour, M.M.F. Plasma membrane permeability as an indicator of salt tolerance in plants. Biol Plant 57, 1–10 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-012-0144-9

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