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Soil salinity is an abiotic stressor that severely limits crop yield and agricultural productivity. Currently, comprehensive elucidations of complex networks of cellular salt adaptation provide new opportunities for the breeding and engineering of improved plant tolerance to this environmental cue. Systematic analyses of cellular pathways of salt adaptation have been particularly performed in the glycophytic model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and rice by exploiting current state-of-the-art omics methods as well as a wide range of genetic tools. Despite the wealth of knowledge provided by these studies, detailed understanding of the complex networks of cellular salt adaptation requires, however, systematic analyses of salt-adaptive mechanisms in naturally halotolerant plant species. These studies on the molecular mechanisms of salt adaptation in halophytes are very limited due to the restricted availability of genetic techniques and resources in these species. Only recently, Arabidopsis relative model species (ARMS) and rice relative model species (RRMS) have been introduced into salt stress research allowing direct comparison with the glycophytic models Arabidopsis and rice. Particularly, cross-species transcriptome analyses allowed new insights into differences of stress regulating mechanisms in glycophytes and halophytes. Here, recent discoveries on Arabidopsis and rice relative model species are reviewed focusing on regulatory systems of salt adaptation as well as their biotechnological applicability.
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Golldack, D. (2013). Cellular Mechanisms of Environmental Adaptation: Learning from Non-Arabidopsis Model Species. In: Lüttge, U., Beyschlag, W., Francis, D., Cushman, J. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30967-0_4
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