Designing salt stress‐resilient crops: Current progress and future challenges

Excess soil salinity affects large regions of land and is a major hindrance to crop production worldwide. Therefore, understanding the molecular mechanisms of plant salt tolerance has scientific importance and practical significance. In recent decades, studies have characterized hundreds of genes associated with plant responses to salt stress in different plant species. These studies have substantially advanced our molecular and genetic understanding of salt tolerance in plants and have introduced an era of molecular design breeding of salt-tolerant crops. This review summarizes our current knowledge of plant salt tolerance, emphasizing advances in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of osmotic stress…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 32201718, 32325037, 32100234
• NS
  National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

  Award: 32325037