Effect of salinity stress on growth and carbohydrate. Effect of salinity on germination, seedling growth and. Effects of salt stress on growth, mineral nutrition and. Na, ca, mg, cl, and so4 are the major ions involved. The narrow genetic pool of japonica germplasm for salinity tolerance and the extent of the salinity challenge are common to many ricegrowing regions. High salinity stress induces several nac genes in rice as well. In recent years, the use of recirculating water systems in rice production and the requirement for water holding in the fields without recirculating water systems have increased in areas of the us due to environmental concerns related to the problems caused by drainage into receiving. In low salt environments, plant cells can take up water and nutrients from the soil solution to support higher osmotic pressures compared to that of the soil solution. An overview molecular and physiological traits imparting resistancetolerance and susceptibility to a particular biotic and abiotic stress are important. Effect of salinity on the morphological, physiological and. Modifying sodium transport to improve salinity tolerance.
This work is original and contains no material which has been accepted for the award to the candidate of any other degree or. Modelling the soil plantwater balance of rainfed lowland rice. Improvement of salinity stress tolerance in rice mdpi. Physiological, biochemical and gene expression studies of. Salinity is considered to be a major abiotic stress affecting germination, seedling growth, and crop. Effect of salinity stress on growth, sugar content, pigments and enzyme activity of rice. Pdf rice oryza sativa l is an important staple crop that feeds more than one half of the worlds population and is the model system for.
Evaluating rice for salinity using potculture provides a. Aris hairmansis a thesis submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy school of agriculture, food and wine faculty of sciences the university of adelaide february 2014. An endophyte from saltadapted pokkali rice confers salt. Present report deals with the effect of varying 0 200 mm nacl salt stress on two popular scented non basmati type indica rice cultivars, namely indrayani and. In rice we have shown that sodium must enter into the cytosol before a. Therefore the role of the central stress signal jasmonate for the salt response was analysed in rice comparing the responses to salt stress for two jasmonic acid ja biosynthesis rice mutants cpm2 and hebiba impaired in the function of allene oxide cyclase aoc and their wild. It is a major agronomic problem in arid and semiarid regions of the world. Stress physiology in relation to breeding for drought resistance a case study of rice. Correlation and path coefficients for direct and indirect effects of. Exposure of wildtype rice to salinity upregulated fln2, while a crisprcas9generated fln2.
In the present study, rice seedlings showed growth reduction when exposed salinity. As a result, finding suitable donors of genes and traits for. The consequences of all these can ultimately lead to plant death as result of growth arrest and molecular damage mc cure and hanson, 1990. Rice responses to salinity stress in general, plants that are more salttolerant tend to grow more slowly at low salinity levels than less salttolerant. Varietal characteristics and soil management to reduce drought stress. Salinity stress negatively affects the quality and quantity of crop production. All about salinity nsw environment, energy and science. Crop salinity tolerances can be up to 50% higher than shown below in welldrained soils such as deep sandy loams where percolation and leaching are rapid. Salt stress induces physiochemical alterations in rice grain. Pdf effect of salinity on osmolytes and relative water. This study aimed to explore the changes in morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics of lettuce lactuca sativa l.
In the present study, we cloned and characterized the osmyb6 gene, which was induced by drought and salinity stress. Saltresistant rice cultivars nona bokra and ir 4630 exposed at the seedling stage during one or two weeks to 0, 20, 30, 40 or 50 mm nacl accumulated less na, cl, zn and proline and more k at root and shoot levels than saltsensitive i kong pao and ir 31785. Alleviation of the adverse effects of salinity stress. Rice losses by salinity take place with both highyielding rice in double or triple rice cropping systems and traditional rice in rice shrimp rotational farming system. The rice damage by salinity becomes more severe in case of a drought in the early or late periods of the rainy season.
Genomewide association study of seedling stage salinity. Salt stress, a major plant environmental stress, is a critical constraint for rice productivity. Stress and disease tolerance irri rice knowledge bank. Head rice recovery was reduced by salinity stress whereas it was not affected by alkalinity stress. The impact of river salinity is more costly on high value enterprises. Effect of salinity on chlorophyll concentration, leaf area.
Susceptibility and tolerance of rice crop to salt threat plos. Rice is considered to be a saltsensitive crop, and excess salt levels adversely affect all the major metabolic activities, causing cell wall damage, cytoplasmic lysis or genomic instability. Development of varieties with improved salt tolerance in major field crops is an urgent need to maintain crop productivity in different parts of the world. Using affymetrix rice genomic arrays, salinityinduced transcript profiles were documented recently in shoot tissues of ir29, a saltsensitive indica cultivar, and the. Breeding for salt tolerance is a major goal for rice breeders for which screens are required to select out tolerant lines for breeding. Tfiiiatype zfp252ox rice also showed enhanced salt and drought tolerance with the elevated level of stress defense genes, as compared with zfp252 antisense and nontransgenic plants xu et. Massive parallel sequencing of mrna in identification of. Salinity tolerance in irrigated crops nsw department of. Evaluating rice for salinity using potculture provides a systematic. Here, mrnaseq an illumina cdna sequencing application was used to monitor whole mrnas of salinity stress. Computationally annotated genes have not fully been validated, because ests and fulllength cdnas cannot cover entire transcribed regions. The dry matter production and the concentration of nutrients in rice oryza sativa l. However, at high salinity stress, ph was reduced significantly for all rice genotypes, ranging from 19. Growth reduction is generally observed in plants exposed to salinity stress.
Gene expression analysis associated with salt stress in a. The ratios of lengthwidth grain dimension were significantly reduced in t genotypes even at low electrical conductivity ec, 4 mscm. For rice, soil salinity beyond ece 4 dsm is considered moderate salinity while more than 8 dsm becomes high. Assessing trait contribution and mapping novel qtl for. Effects of salt stress on rice growth, development characteristics, and. To test the usefulness of microsatellite ssr markers associated with saltol qtl, a collection of 150 diverse rice genotypes were used. Drought response of dry seeded rice and its modelling. A highly nontolerant selection proved to harbor a mutation in fln2, a gene which encodes fructokinaselike protein2. The results demonstrated that, response of root length to salt stress was more severe than shoot length figure 2. Rice has been reported to be relatively tolerant to salinity stress during germination, active tillering and towards maturity, but sensitive during.
Recently, the complete genomes of 3000 rice accessions were sequenced through the 3 k rice genome project, and this set included 203 temperate japonica rice accessions. Tarom azmoon was exposed to 200 mm nacl for 14 days. It is the duty of plant physiologists to comprehend the growth, development, and physiological processes of rice plants under stress. Increased tolerance to salt stress in opdadeficient rice. Rice production is limited by soil salinity problems in many tropical. Aiwu, a moderately resistant genotype, exhibited an intermediate behaviour. Salinity is a major abiotic stress limiting yield in many parts of the world. Salinity stress represents a global constraint for rice, the most important staple food worldwide.
The panel was exposed to mild salt stress 50 mm nacl. We evaluated the salinity tolerance of a panel of 235 temperate japonica rice accessions genotyped with 30,000 snp markers. Salinity stress affects global food producing areas by limiting both crop growth and yield. A project on physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of plants to salinity stress started in 2003.
The r eduction in leaf area table 1 of all 18 rice genotypes under salinity stress plants has been attributed to suppressed cell division. In very slowdraining soils, such as the medium to heavy clays of the rice growing regions, tolerances can be down to about half the levels shown. However, knowledge concerning the involvement of rice myb genes in salinity and drought stress resistance are largely unknown. It has been reported that overexpression of bifunctional fusion of the tps and tpp genes of e. Gupta2, khalid anwar1, ashutosh sharan1, govindjee3, sneh l. Salinity is defined as the presence of excessive amounts of soluble salts in the soil usually measured as electrical conductivity, ec. It is suggested that partitioning sugars into starch may involve in salinity tolerance by avoiding metabolic alterations.
Reduction in relative water content rwc and photosynthesis dry matter is a common effect of salinity stress. Genomewide association study for salinity tolerance at. Soaking rice seeds with 25 mm of trehalose tre could alleviate the harmful effects of salinity stress. Computing and science, hereby declare that my project work titled physiological, biochemical and gene expression studies of salinity stress response and tolerance in local rice varieties of sarawak, malaysia. Salinity caused a significant reduction on root length and shoot length. This may be partly due to lower water potential in the cells which, in turn, causes stomatal closure and limits co 2 assimilation. Effect of salinity stress on growth, sugar content. A good solution would be the development of an efficient screening methodology to identify genotypes possessing genes for salt tolerance. In the present study, 7 days old rice plants were exposed to 0 control and 100 mm. In order to cope with salt stress, plants have evolved high degrees of developmental plasticity, including adaptation via. The implications of river salinity are also costly for agriculture. Tolerance to mild salinity stress in japonica rice. Myb transcription factors have been demonstrated to play key regulatory roles in plant growth, development and abiotic stress response.
Salt stress imposes serious limitation to the plant growth and productivity and is considered a major threat to global food security. Rnai mediated drought and salinity stress tolerance in plants. Effects of salinity stress on growth and phenolics of rice. Salinity tolerance is an important quality for european rice grown in river deltas. A soil is termed saline if its osmotic pressure is approximately 0. The seedlings were subjected to five different concentrations 0 mm, 50 mm, 100 mm, 150 mm, and 200 mm of nacl for three weeks. Salinity has a significant impact on rice production in coastal, arid and semiarid areas in many countries, including countries growing temperate rice, such as kazakhstan. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise cambridge core to connect with your account. Evaluating rice for salinity using potculture provides a systematic tolerance assessment at the seedling stage naqeebullah kakar1, salah h. Enhancing trehalose biosynthesis improves yield potential. Pdf improvement of salinity stress tolerance in rice.
Modifying sodium transport to improve salinity tolerance of commercial rice cultivars oryza sativa l. A panel of ethanemethylsulfonatemutagenized japonica rice lines was grown in the presence of salinity in order to identify genes required for the expression of salinity tolerance. P transport from root to shoot was inhibited in the most. Timing of salinity stress affects rice growth and yield. Despite many attempts using different strategies to improve salinity tolerance in rice, the achievements so far are quite modest.
From rice, salt stress responsive osisap1ox conferred tolerance to salt, cold and dehydration stress in transgenic tobacco mukhopadhyay et al. Similarly, mirna involved in salinity stress was 5. The mechanisms of salinity tolerance in plants are regulated by a set of inherent multigenes and. Overexpression of salt stress inducible snac1 hu et al. Attempts to develop salinitytolerant rice varieties have had limited success due to the complexity of the salinity tolerance trait, high variation in the stress response and a lack of available donors for candidate genes for cultivated rice. The effect of salt stress on the germination of maize zea. Salinity is a major yieldreducing factor in coastal and arid, irrigated rice production systems. Microarray technology is limited to monitoring the expression of previously annotated genes that have corresponding probes on the array. The threshold for salt stress in rice is 3 dsm, with a 12% reduction in yield for each unit increase in dsm beyond this value 3. Result of phenotypic response of rice genotypes to salinity stress at seedling stage indicated varied genotypic response. Eight different root and shoot growth parameters were measured for both the control. Singh, plant breeder at the international rice research institute, discusses the latest progress in salinty tolerance research in rice.
An understanding of the specific response of rice to ion accumulation at the toxic level can aid in identifying the key factors responsible for retarded. Insights into genomics of salt stress response in rice. In this project the sodium uptake mechanisms in salttolerant and saltsensitive species were studied by use of a new fluorescent dye, specific for sodium, sbfi. However, rice is very sensitive to salinity and is the most salt sensitive cereal crop with a threshold of 3 dsm. Under salinity stress, changes of chemical contents also differed among phenolic compounds and rice cultivars. Excess salinity in soil is one of the major environmental factors that limit plant growth and yield of a wide variety of crops including rice. Molecular characterization and identification of new sources of tolerance to submergence and salinity from rice landraces of. It was observed that salinity stress caused a significant decrease in shoot lengths, fresh and dry weights of all rice varieties. Rootspecific transcript profiling of contrasting rice. Rice intermediate lament, osif, stabilizes photosynthetic machinery and yield under salinity and heat stress neelam soda1, brijesh k.
Salinity is an agricultural problem which decreases or restricts crop production worldwide. Salinity effects on seedling growth and yield components. Salinity stress is one of the most devastating abiotic stresses that affect growth, development and productivity of major crops. The tolerance of salinity in rice requires the presence of. This study was conducted to determine the correlation between of salinity stress on growth and phenolic compounds in rice. The need for salt tolerant rice varieties able to cope with several other stress conditions obviously puts a lot of pressure on breeders who must better comprehend the physiology and genetic control of salt tolerance. Here we present the most recent data on the salinity effect on rice physiology and stress adaptation, including implications on growth regulation and reproductive development. The yields of some particularly sensitive plants, such as rice and horticultural crops, are affected by saline water at levels as low as 700 ec8. To identify salinitytolerant germplasm and related. Carbohydrate metabolism, rice, salinity stress, salt tolerant salinity is a major environmental stress affecting plant. Genetic dissection of salt tolerance in rice louisiana. Moreover, a higher solute concentration contributing to osmotic adjustment and the higher antioxidant enzymes activity were observed in shoots of salinity treated giza 178 than those of giza 177.
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