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Employment of Seed Priming as a Salt-Stress Mitigating Approach in Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities

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Salinity is one of the several abiotic constraints which prevail under natural and managed ecosystems. The stress drastically affects seed establishment, physiology, and developmental aspects of plants, which are often associated with low yields of economically important crops. To minimize the adverse effects of salt stress on crops, employment of sustainable and cost-effective methods is extensively desired. Seed priming, a technique of pre-germination mediation of seeds which can lead to their ample responses to stresses, has a promising role in the adaptability of plants to salinity stress. Preconditioning with water and several other osmolytes, heat, and irradiation can lead to improved metabolism and post-germination responses of seed when they are encountered by salinity. Selection of appropriate priming agents, understanding of the underlying mechanisms, and economic costs are the leading factors which can lead to the wide adaptability of seed priming in agriculture as a salt-stress mitigating method. The focus of this chapter is to discuss the potential application of different priming methods for reducing the adverse effects of salinity and challenges in agriculture.

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Majeed, A., Muhammad, Z., Siyyar, S. (2021). Employment of Seed Priming as a Salt-Stress Mitigating Approach in Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Rakshit, A., Singh, S., Abhilash, P., Biswas, A. (eds) Soil Science: Fundamentals to Recent Advances. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0917-6_21

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