Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models

Summary: Salt stress has a detrimental impact on crop yield and survival rates, which salt-tolerant cultivars can resist through numerous adaptive mechanisms. Most models of salt stress impacts on productivity and water use employ empirical or simplified schemes to represent salt-adaptive traits. Ho...

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Main Authors: Josh Gottlieb, Dvir Ochman, Cheng-Wei Huang, Jean-Christophe Domec, Nimrod Schwartz, Samantha Hartzell
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Published: Elsevier 2025-08-01
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description Summary: Salt stress has a detrimental impact on crop yield and survival rates, which salt-tolerant cultivars can resist through numerous adaptive mechanisms. Most models of salt stress impacts on productivity and water use employ empirical or simplified schemes to represent salt-adaptive traits. However, with an increased understanding of these physiological tolerance mechanisms and emergent measurement techniques for monitoring key salinity dynamics, the potential for developing mechanistic agrohydrological models of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum has grown. This perspective highlights strategies for modeling salt tolerance mechanisms, including root system architecture adaptation, salt filtration, adaptation of plant hydraulics, ion compartmentalization, and stomatal responses, to improve model representation and prediction. Incorporating these mechanisms into dynamic models can help inform management strategies and biotechnological cultivation, increasing long-term salt stress resilience within salt-affected agricultural systems.
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spelling doaj-art-6f621f3a69924b8ca87df97aa8d1a0832025-08-20T03:32:04ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422025-08-0128811313910.1016/j.isci.2025.113139Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic modelsJosh Gottlieb0Dvir Ochman1Cheng-Wei Huang2Jean-Christophe Domec3Nimrod Schwartz4Samantha Hartzell5Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USAThe Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, IsraelDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USADepartment of Forestry, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, INRA UMR 1391, 33195 Gradignan, France; Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USAThe Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, IsraelDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA; Corresponding authorSummary: Salt stress has a detrimental impact on crop yield and survival rates, which salt-tolerant cultivars can resist through numerous adaptive mechanisms. Most models of salt stress impacts on productivity and water use employ empirical or simplified schemes to represent salt-adaptive traits. However, with an increased understanding of these physiological tolerance mechanisms and emergent measurement techniques for monitoring key salinity dynamics, the potential for developing mechanistic agrohydrological models of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum has grown. This perspective highlights strategies for modeling salt tolerance mechanisms, including root system architecture adaptation, salt filtration, adaptation of plant hydraulics, ion compartmentalization, and stomatal responses, to improve model representation and prediction. Incorporating these mechanisms into dynamic models can help inform management strategies and biotechnological cultivation, increasing long-term salt stress resilience within salt-affected agricultural systems.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225014002Agricultural scienceEarth sciencesProcess in plantSoil hydrologySoil science
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Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models
iScience
Agricultural science
Earth sciences
Process in plant
Soil hydrology
Soil science
title Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models
title_full Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models
title_fullStr Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models
title_full_unstemmed Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models
title_short Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models
title_sort translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress key salt tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models
topic Agricultural science
Earth sciences
Process in plant
Soil hydrology
Soil science
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225014002
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