Impact of salinity stress on cotton and opportunities for improvement through conventional and biotechnological approaches

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Excess salinity can affect the growth and development of all plants. Salinization jeopardizes agroecosystems, induces oxidative reactions in most cultivated plants and reduces biomass which affects crop yield. Some plants are affected more than others, depending upon their ability to endure the effects of salt stress. Cotton is moderately tolerant to salt stress among cultivated crops. The fundamental tenet of plant breeding is genetic heterogeneity in available germplasm for acquired characteristics. Variation for salinity tolerance enhancing parameters (morphological, physiological and biochemical) is a pre-requisite for the development of salt tolerant cotton germplasm followed by indirect selection or hybridization programs. There has been a limited success in the development of salt tolerant genotypes because this trait depends on several factors, and these factors as well as their interactions are not completely understood. However, advances in biochemical and molecular techniques have made it possible to explore the complexity of salt tolerance through transcriptomic profiling. The focus of this article is to discuss the issue of salt stress in crop plants, how it alters the physiology and morphology of the cotton crop, and breeding strategies for the development of salinity tolerance in cotton germplasm.

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Chaudhary, M. T., Majeed, S., Rana, I. A., Ali, Z., Jia, Y., Du, X., … Azhar, M. T. (2024, December 1). Impact of salinity stress on cotton and opportunities for improvement through conventional and biotechnological approaches. BMC Plant Biology. BioMed Central Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04558-4

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