Salinity: Environment — Plants — Molecules

• Environment.- Global Impact of Salinity and Agricultural Ecosystems.- Salinity in the Soil Environment.- Salinity, Halophytes and Salt Affected Natural Ecosystems.- Organisms.- Adaptation of Halophilic Archaea to Life at High Salt Concentrations.- Adaptation of the Halotolerant Alga Dunaliella to High Salinity.- Mangroves.- Mechanisms.- Ultrastructural Effects of Salinity in Higher Plants.- Intra- and Inter-Cellular Compartmentation of Ions.- Salinity, Osmolytes and Compatible Solutes.- Sodium-Calcium Interactions Under Salinity Stress.- Salinity and Nitrogen Nutrition.- Pressure Probe Measurements of the Driving Forces for Water Transport in Intact Higher Plants: Effects of Transpiration and Salinity.- Salinity, Growth and Phytohormones.- The Adaptive Potential of Plant Development: Evidence from the Response to Salinity.- Photosynthesis.- Influence of Salinity on Photosynthesis of Halophytes.- Performance of Plants with C4-carboxylation Modes of Photosynthesis under Salinity.- Induction of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism by Salinity - Molecular Aspects.- Molecules.- Function of Membrane Transport Systems under Salinity: Plasma Membrane.- Function of Membrane Transport Systems under Salinity: Tonoplast.- Genetics of Salinity Responses and Plant Breeding.- Halotolerance Genes in Yeast.- The Long and Winding Road to Halotolerance Genes.

"This book is highly recommended for students and also researchers interested in the molecular ecophysiology of plants." (Journal of Plant Physiology, 160:5 (2003)