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Plant salt tolerance: adaptations in halophytes by Flowers, Timothy J., Colmer, Timothy D.

“…Most of the water on Earth is seawater, each kilogram of which contains about 35 g of salts, and yet most plants cannot grow in this solution; less than 0·2%…”
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Sodium chloride toxicity and the cellular basis of salt tolerance in halophytes by Flowers, Timothy J., Munns, Rana, Colmer, Timothy D.

“…Halophytes are the flora of saline soils. They adjust osmotically to soil salinity by accumulating ions and sequestering the vast majority of these (generally…”
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Salt tolerance in rice: seedling and reproductive stage QTL mapping come of age by Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Kota, Suneetha, Flowers, Timothy J.

“…Key message Reproductive stage salinity tolerance is most critical for rice as it determines the yield under stress. Few studies have been undertaken for this…”
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Salinity tolerance in halophytes by Flowers, Timothy J., Colmer, Timothy D.

“…Halophytes, plants that survive to reproduce in environments where the salt concentration is around 200 mM NaCl or more, constitute about 1% of the world's…”
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eHALOPH a Database of Salt-Tolerant Plants: Helping put Halophytes to Work by Santos, Joaquim, Al-Azzawi, Mohammed, Aronson, James, Flowers, Timothy J

“…eHALOPH (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/affiliates/halophytes/) is a database of salt-tolerant plants-halophytes. Records of plant species tolerant of salt…”
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Flooding tolerance in halophytes by Colmer, Timothy D., Flowers, Timothy J.

“…Flooding is a common environmental variable with salinity. Submerged organs can suffer from O₂ deprivation and the resulting energy deficits can compromise ion…”
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Mechanisms of sodium uptake by roots of higher plants by Zhang, Jin-Lin, Flowers, Timothy J., Wang, Suo-Min

“…The negative impact of soil salinity on agricultural yields is significant. For agricultural plants, sensitivity to salinity is commonly (but not exclusively)…”
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Use of wild relatives to improve salt tolerance in wheat by Colmer, Timothy D, Flowers, Timothy J, Munns, Rana

“…There is considerable variability in salt tolerance amongst members of the Triticeae, with the tribe even containing a number of halophytes. This is a review…”
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The effects of sodium chloride on ornamental shrubs by Cassaniti, Carla, Leonardi, Cherubino, Flowers, Timothy J.

“…The use of saline waters is an option for the irrigation of salt tolerant ornamentals as competition for high quality water increases. However, despite the…”
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Potential use of saline resources for biofuel production using halophytes and marine algae: prospects and pitfalls by Abideen, Zainul, Ansari, Raziuddin, Hasnain, Maria, Flowers, Timothy J, Koyro, Hans-Werner, El-Keblawy, Ali, Abouleish, Mohamed, Khan, Muhammed Ajmal

“…There exists a global challenge of feeding the growing human population of the world and supplying its energy needs without exhausting global resources. This…”
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Salt sensitivity in chickpea by FLOWERS, TIMOTHY J., GAUR, POORAN M., GOWDA, C. L. LAXMIPATHI, KRISHNAMURTHY, L., SAMINENI, SRINIVASAN, SIDDIQUE, KADAMBOT H. M., TURNER, NEIL C., VADEZ, VINCENT, VARSHNEY, RAJEEV K., COLMER, TIMOTHY D.

“…ABSTRACT The growth of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is very sensitive to salinity, with the most susceptible genotypes dying in just 25 mm NaCl and resistant…”
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Economic Uses of Salt-Tolerant Plants by Garcia-Caparros, Pedro, Al-Azzawi, Mohammed J, Flowers, Timothy J

“…Climate change is likely to affect the ability of world agricultural systems to provide food, fibre, and fuel for the growing world population, especially…”
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Distribution and Potential Uses of Halophytes within the Gulf Cooperation Council States by Al-Azzawi, Mohammed J., Flowers, Timothy J.

“…The continued growth in the human population of the world will generate an increased demand for food that will be hard to meet with existing agricultural…”
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An accurate and reproducible method for proteome profiling of the effects of salt stress in the rice leaf lamina by Parker, Robert, Flowers, Timothy J., Moore, Anthony L., Harpham, Nicholas V. J.

“…Proteomic analysis of any biological system by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) requires high resolution and high reproducibility. The results…”
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Consortia of Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Isolated from Halophytes Improve Response of Eight Crops to Soil Salinization and Climate Change Conditions by Redondo-Gómez, Susana, Mesa-Marín, Jennifer, Pérez-Romero, Jesús A., López-Jurado, Javier, García-López, Jesús V., Mariscal, Vicente, Molina-Heredia, Fernando P., Pajuelo, Eloisa, Rodríguez-Llorente, Ignacio D., Flowers, Timothy J., Mateos-Naranjo, Enrique

“…Soil salinization is an environmental problem that adversely affects plant growth and crop productivity worldwide. As an alternative to the conventional…”
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A new screening technique for salinity resistance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings using bypass flow by FAIYUE, BUALUANG, AL-AZZAWI, MOHAMMED J., FLOWERS, TIMOTHY J.

“…ABSTRACT A lack of screening techniques delays progress in research on salinity resistance in rice. In this study, we report our test of the hypothesis that an…”
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role of lateral roots in bypass flow in rice (Oryza sativa L.) by FAIYUE, BUALUANG, AL-AZZAWI, MOHAMMED J, FLOWERS, TIMOTHY J

“…Although an apoplastic pathway (the so-called bypass flow) is implicated in the uptake of Na⁺ by rice growing in saline conditions, the point of entry of this…”
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Puccinellia tenuiflora maintains a low Na⁺ level under salinity by limiting unidirectional Na⁺ influx resulting in a high selectivity for K⁺ over Na by WANG, CHUN-MEI, ZHANG, JIN-LIN, LIU, XUE-SONG, LI, ZHAN, WU, GUO-QIANG, CAI, JIAN-YI, FLOWERS, TIMOTHY J, WANG, SUO-MIN

“…Puccinellia tenuiflora is a useful monocotyledonous halophyte that might be used for improving salt tolerance of cereals. This current work has shown that P…”
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Single-Cell Measurements of the Contributions of Cytosolic Na⁺ and K⁺ to Salt Tolerance by David E. Carden, Walker, David J., Timothy J. Flowers, Miller, Anthony J.

“…Ion concentrations in the roots of two barley (Hordeum vulgare) varieties that differed in NaCl tolerance were compared after exposure to NaCl. Triple-barreled…”
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Studies on sodium bypass flow in lateral rootless mutants lrt1 and lrt2, and crown rootless mutant crl1 of rice (Oryza sativa L.) by FAIYUE, BUALUANG, VIJAYALAKSHMI, CHENNIAPPAN, NAWAZ, SHAFQAT, NAGATO, YASUO, TAKETA, SHIN, ICHII, MASAHIKO, AL‐AZZAWI, MOHAMMED J., FLOWERS, TIMOTHY J.

“…ABSTRACT An apoplastic pathway, the so‐called bypass flow, is important for Na+ uptake in rice (Oryza sativa L.) under saline conditions; however, the precise…”
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