Environmental and Experimental Botany
Editors-in-Chief: Jean-Claude Kader and Kari Taulavuori

Virtual special issue on: Salt Tolerance of Plants
Compiled by Jean-Claude Kader

Salinity is one of the major issues in agriculture. Understanding the tolerance of plants to salt stress will thus contribute to the selection of salt resistant crops. The Journal Environmental and Experimental Botany (EEB)  aims to develop knowledge about the mechanisms of resistance of plants to environmental factors, including salinity.

EEB has published numerous papers in recent years devoted to the study of salt responses of plants with the objective of providing significant advances in this domain. This virtual special issue presents some papers related to this field of research with the hope of encouraging discussion among experts in this field and of attracting novel and exciting papers to EEB in the future.

Other EEB virtual special issues:

Light Responses in Plants

Temperature Responses in Plants

EEB recently published special issues:

  Responses, Acclimations and Adaptations of Northern Plants to Global Change - Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 349-464 (October 2011)

  Metal(loid) tolerance in plants and lichens - Volume 72, Issue 1, Pages 1-106 (August 2011)

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Recently published papers in EEB related to the field of research of Salt Tolerance of Plants *

  Salt sensitivity of the vegetative and reproductive stages in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): Podding is a particularly sensitive stage  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 71, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 260-268
Srinivasan Samineni, Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Pooran M. Gaur, Timothy David Colmer

  Salt-induced oxidative stress in rosemary plants: Damage or protection?  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 71, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 298-305
Taieb Tounekti, Ahmedou M. Vadel, Marta Oñate, Habib Khemira, Sergi Munné-Bosch

  Temporal variations and spatial patterns in saline and waterlogged peat fields: II. Ion accumulation in transplanted salt marsh graminoids  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 69, Issue 2, November 2010, Pages 87-94
Marilou B. Montemayor, Jonathan S. Price, Line Rochefort, Stephanie Boudreau

  Recent developments in understanding salinity tolerance  Review Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 67, Issue 1, November 2009, Pages 2-9
Ismail Türkan, Tijen Demiral

  Fragrance in rice (Oryza sativa) is associated with reduced yield under salt treatment  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 68, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 292-300
Timothy Liam Fitzgerald, Daniel Lex Ean Waters, Lyndon Owen Brooks, Robert James Henry

  Soil salinity and drought alter wood density and vulnerability to xylem cavitation of baldcypress (Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich.) seedlings  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 67, Issue 1, November 2009, Pages 164-171
Volker Stiller

  Leaf morphological plasticity and stomatal conductance in three Populus alba L. genotypes subjected to salt stress  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 66, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 381-388
Grazia Abbruzzese, Isacco Beritognolo, Rosario Muleo, Moica Piazzai, Maurizio Sabatti, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Elena Kuzminsky

  The impact of salt stress on the water status of barley plants is partially mitigated by elevated CO2  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 66, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 463-470
Usue Pérez-López, Anabel Robredo, Maite Lacuesta, Amaia Mena-Petite, Alberto Muñoz-Rueda

  Roots and leaves display contrasting osmotic adjustment mechanisms in response to NaCl-salinity in Atriplex nummularia  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 66, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 1-8
Joaquim Albenisio Gomes Silveira, Sandro Alexandre Marinho Araújo, João Paulo Matos Santos Lima, Ricardo Almeida Viégas

  Effects of salinity levels and seed mass on germination in Australian species of Frankenia L. (Frankeniaceae)  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 65, Issues 2-3, March 2009, Pages 345-352
Lyndlee C. Easton, Sonia Kleindorfer

  On the mechanism of salt tolerance in olive (Olea europaea L.) under low- or high-Ca2+ supply  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 72-81
Massimiliano Tattini, Maria Laura Traversi

  Chloride salinity reduces cadmium accumulation by the Mediterranean halophyte species Atriplex halimus L.  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 142-152
Isabelle Lefèvre, Geoffrey Marchal, Pierre Meerts, Enrique Corréal, Stanley Lutts

  Plant uptake of NaCl in relation to enzyme kinetics and toxic effects  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 64, Issue 1, September 2008, Pages 1-7
Stefan Trapp, Dagmar Feificova, Nikolaj Feldbech Rasmussen, Peter Bauer-Gottwein

  Insights on the role of tillering in salt tolerance of spring wheat from detillering  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 64, Issue 1, September 2008, Pages 33-42
Yuefeng Ruan, Yuncai Hu, Urs Schmidhalter

  Heme oxygenase up-regulation under salt stress protects nitrogen metabolism in nodules of soybean plants  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 64, Issue 1, September 2008, Pages 83-89
Carla G. Zilli, Karina B. Balestrasse, Gustavo G. Yannarelli, Ariel H. Polizio, Diego M. Santa-Cruz, María L. Tomaro

  Relative membrane permeability and activities of some antioxidant enzymes as the key determinants of salt tolerance in canola (Brassica napus L.)  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 63, Issues 1-3, May 2008, Pages 266-273
M. Ashraf, Q. Ali

  Relationship between salt tolerance and photosynthetic machinery performance in citrus  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 62, Issue 2, March 2008, Pages 176-184
María F. López-Climent, Vicent Arbona, Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente, Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas

  Salinity tolerance of purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) is achieved by enhanced antioxidative system, lower level of lipid peroxidation and proline accumulation  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 61, Issue 1, September 2007, Pages 49-57
Isin Yazici, Ismail Türkan, Askim Hediye Sekmen, Tijen Demiral

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