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An integrated approach to understand the mechanisms underlying salt stress tolerance in Casuarina glauca and its relation with nitrogen-fixing Frankia Thr

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Salinity is one of the most wide spread abiotic stresses affecting agricultural productivity, with an impact on more than 800 million hectares worldwide. A promising solution for the recovery of saline soils encompasses the use of actinorhizal plants, a group of perennial dicotyledonous angiosperms including species highly resilient to extreme environmental conditions. These plants are able to establish root-nodule symbiosis with N2-fixing actinobacteria of the genus Frankia. In this review, we discuss the main physiological and biochemical mechanisms underlying salt tolerance in the model Casuarina glauca supplemented with chemical nitrogen or obtaining it from symbiotic Frankia. In the first part, an overview of the impact of increasing NaCl concentrations in photosynthesis, antioxidative system and membrane integrity is presented. The second part addresses the effect of salt stress in the symbiosis between C. glauca and Frankia strain Thr. Preliminary results from analyses of the branchlets proteome and nodule metabolome are presented as well.

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This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) under the scope of the project PTDC/AGR-FOR/4218/2012 (A.I. Ribeiro-Barros), grant SFRH/BPD/78619/2011 (P. Batista-Santos), FCT Investigator Program IF/00376/2012/CP0165/CT0003 (C. António), ITQB research unit GREEN-it “Bioresources for sustainability” (UID/Multi/04551/2013), and grant PD/BD/113475/2015 (T.F. Jorge).

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  1. PlantStress&Biodiversity Group, Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), School of Agriculture (ISA), University of Lisbon (ULisboa), Av. República, Quinta do Marquês, 2784-505, Oeiras, Portugal

    Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros, Mário da Costa, Nuno Duro, Inês Graça, Paula Batista-Santos & José C. Ramalho

  2. Plant Metabolomics Laboratory, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. República, Quinta do Marquês, 2780-157, Oeiras, Portugal

    Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros, Mário da Costa, Nuno Duro, Inês Graça, Tiago F. Jorge & Carla António

  3. GeoBioTec, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros, Fernando C. Lidon & José C. Ramalho

  4. Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden

    K. Pawlowski

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Presented at the 18th International Meeting on Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants (ACTINO2015), August 24–27, 2015, Montpellier, France

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Ribeiro-Barros, A.I., da Costa, M., Duro, N. et al. An integrated approach to understand the mechanisms underlying salt stress tolerance in Casuarina glauca and its relation with nitrogen-fixing Frankia Thr. Symbiosis 70, 111–116 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-016-0386-y

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