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Salt Stress Tolerance in Casuarina glauca and Its Relation with Nitrogen-Fixing Frankia Bacteria

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Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interaction

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Salinity is one of the most widespread abiotic stresses. It is estimated that salt stress will cause the loss of more than 50 % of arable land by the year 2050. A promising solution for the recovery of saline soils encompasses the use of actinorhizal plants, a group of perennial dicotyledonous angiosperms highly resilient to extreme environmental conditions. These plants are also able to establish a root nodule symbiosis with N2-fixing actinobacteria of the genus Frankia . Casuarina glauca , the model actinorhizal species, tolerates NaCl concentrations above seawater levels. Such ability seems to be innate and independent of the symbiotic relationship with N2-fixing Frankia. In this work, we present a mini review of the basic mechanisms underlying salt tolerance in C. glauca focusing on the impact of salt on the photosynthesis, redox status, and membrane integrity.

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This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the scope of the project PTDC/AGR-FOR/4218/2012 and grant SFRH/BPD/78619/2011 (P. Batista-Santos).

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  1. Plant Stress and Biodiversity Group, LEAF—Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, School of Agriculture, Universty of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda Lisboa, 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Duro, Mário da Costa, Paula Batista-Santos, Filipe Colwell, Ana P. Rodrigues, José C. Ramalho & Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros

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

    Nuno Duro, Mário da Costa & Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros

  3. Unidade de Biotecnologia e Recursos Genéticos, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P. (INIAV), Av. República, Quinta do Marquês, 2784-505, Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal

    Paula Scotti-Campos, Isabel P. Pais & José N. Semedo

  4. GeoBioTec, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

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

  5. Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    Katharina Pawlowski

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Duro, N. et al. (2016). Salt Stress Tolerance in Casuarina glauca and Its Relation with Nitrogen-Fixing Frankia Bacteria. In: González-Andrés, F., James, E. (eds) Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interaction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32528-6_13

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