Assessing salt-stress tolerance in barley

Identifying naturally existing abiotic-stress tolerant accessions in cereal crops is central to understanding plant responses towards stress. Salinity is an abiotic stressor that limits crop yields. Salt stress triggers major physiological changes in plants, but individual plants may perform diff...

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Main Author: Rajeswari Somasundaram, Neeru Sood, Gokhale Trupti Swarup, Ramachandran Subramanian
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Published: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2019-03-01
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Online Access:https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/20938
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description Identifying naturally existing abiotic-stress tolerant accessions in cereal crops is central to understanding plant responses towards stress. Salinity is an abiotic stressor that limits crop yields. Salt stress triggers major physiological changes in plants, but individual plants may perform differently under salt stress. In the present study, 112 barley accessions were grown under controlled salt stress conditions (1 Sm−1 salinity) until harvest. The accessions were then analyzed for set of agronomic and physiological traits. Under salt stress, less than 5 % of the assessed accessions (CIHO6969, PI63926, PI295960, and PI531867) displayed early flowering. Only two (< 2 %) of the accessions (PI327671 and PI383011) attained higher fresh and dry weight, and a better yield under salt stress. Higher K+/Na+ ratios were maintained by four accessions PI531999, PI356780, PI452343, and PI532041. These top-performing accessions constitute naturally existing variants within barley’s gene pool that will be instrumental to deepen our understanding of abiotic-stress tolerance in crops.
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spelling doaj-art-6b097dea7cdf43ecbad529b8960bd43f2025-08-20T03:18:16ZengPontificia Universidad JaverianaUniversitas Scientiarum0122-74832027-13522019-03-012419110910.11144/Javeriana.SC24-1.asstAssessing salt-stress tolerance in barleyRajeswari Somasundaram, Neeru Sood, Gokhale Trupti Swarup, Ramachandran Subramanian0Birla In itute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, Department of Biotechnology, Dubai Campus.Identifying naturally existing abiotic-stress tolerant accessions in cereal crops is central to understanding plant responses towards stress. Salinity is an abiotic stressor that limits crop yields. Salt stress triggers major physiological changes in plants, but individual plants may perform differently under salt stress. In the present study, 112 barley accessions were grown under controlled salt stress conditions (1 Sm−1 salinity) until harvest. The accessions were then analyzed for set of agronomic and physiological traits. Under salt stress, less than 5 % of the assessed accessions (CIHO6969, PI63926, PI295960, and PI531867) displayed early flowering. Only two (< 2 %) of the accessions (PI327671 and PI383011) attained higher fresh and dry weight, and a better yield under salt stress. Higher K+/Na+ ratios were maintained by four accessions PI531999, PI356780, PI452343, and PI532041. These top-performing accessions constitute naturally existing variants within barley’s gene pool that will be instrumental to deepen our understanding of abiotic-stress tolerance in crops.https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/20938agronomic trait; barley; salt stress; yield parameters
spellingShingle Rajeswari Somasundaram, Neeru Sood, Gokhale Trupti Swarup, Ramachandran Subramanian
Assessing salt-stress tolerance in barley
Universitas Scientiarum
agronomic trait; barley; salt stress; yield parameters
title Assessing salt-stress tolerance in barley
title_full Assessing salt-stress tolerance in barley
title_fullStr Assessing salt-stress tolerance in barley
title_full_unstemmed Assessing salt-stress tolerance in barley
title_short Assessing salt-stress tolerance in barley
title_sort assessing salt stress tolerance in barley
topic agronomic trait; barley; salt stress; yield parameters
url https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/20938
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