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Calcium Application Enhances Plant Salt Tolerance: A Review

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Environmental stressors such as drought and soil salinity limit crop production especially in arid and semiarid areas. Improvement of crop production with chemical applications was largely used to enhance salt tolerance of plant species. Calcium (Ca) is an essential element for plant nutrition, and it’s indispensable to regulating many biochemical functions in plants subjected to salt stress. Exogenous application of this element can play an important role in enhancing plant stress tolerance. In spite of its acclaimed protective role, unfortunately, limited research has been focused to review the effectiveness of Ca to improve plant salt tolerance. In this review chapter, some knowledge of successful application of Ca to improve plant stress tolerance was presented.

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Abbreviations

APX:

Ascorbate peroxidase

CAT:

Catalase

DHAR:

Dehydroascorbate reductase

EL:

Electrolyte leakage

GA:

Gibberellic acid

GB:

Glycine betaine

GR:

Glutathione reductase

L o :

Root hydraulic conductivity

POX:

Peroxidase

P5CS:

Pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase

SOD:

Superoxide dismutase

RWC:

Relative water content

Ψπ:

Osmotic potential

Ψω:

Water potential

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by internal funds of the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (CNEPRU Project no. D04N01UN170120140017).

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  1. Laboratory of Exploration and Valorization of Steppe Ecosystem, Faculty of Science of Nature and Life, University of Djelfa, Cité Aîn Chih, P.O. Box 3117, Djelfa, 17000, Algeria

    Bouzid Nedjimi

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  1. Department of Botany Plant Physiology Section, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

    M. Naeem

  2. Department of Biology Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

    Abid A. Ansari

  3. Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Sarvajeet Singh Gill

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Nedjimi, B. (2017). Calcium Application Enhances Plant Salt Tolerance: A Review. In: Naeem, M., Ansari, A., Gill, S. (eds) Essential Plant Nutrients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58841-4_15

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