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Effect of nitrogen deficiency, salinity and drought on proline metabolism in Sesuvium portulacastrum

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Drought and high salinity are responsible for large decreases in crop productivity all over theworld [1]. These losses of crop yield result from limitations of plant development through excessive ion accumulation, water deficit and mineral deficiencies [2]. Under these prevalent stresses, tolerant plants adopt various strategies with a wide range of biochemical to physiological and morphological adaptations [3]. Morphological ones include modifications in growth and allocation of assimilates towards roots for an efficient exploitation of soil nutrients [4]. The physiological strategy is represented by a higher selectivity for K+ over Na+ [5], an increase in K+-use efficiency [6], and the synthesis of organic osmolytes, with low molecular weight, for osmo-protection [7]. These osmolytes are sugars, polyols, amino acids, tertiary and quarternary ammonium, and tertiary sulphonium compounds [8].

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  1. Laboratoire d’Adaptation des Plantes aux Stress Abiotiques, INRST, BP 95, Hammam-Lif, 2050, Tunisia

    Dorsaf Messedi, Ines Slama, Nahla Laabidi, Tahar Ghnaya, Abdelaziz Soltani & Chedly Abdelly

  2. Unité Physiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS-UMR 7632, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, France

    Arnould Savoure

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  1. Center for Environmental Studies, Science Faculty Building A-Blok, Ege University, 35100, Bornova, Izmir-Turkey

    Münir Öztürk

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Yoav Waisel

  3. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan

    M. Ajmal Khan

  4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Mugla University, Mugla-Turkey

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Messedi, D. et al. (2006). Effect of nitrogen deficiency, salinity and drought on proline metabolism in Sesuvium portulacastrum . In: Öztürk, M., Waisel, Y., Khan, M.A., Görk, G. (eds) Biosaline Agriculture and Salinity Tolerance in Plants. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7610-4_7

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