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Salinity stress in cotton: effects, mechanism of tolerance and its management strategies

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Cotton is classified as moderately salt tolerant crop with salinity threshold level of 7.7 dS m−1. Salinity is a serious threat for cotton growth, yield and fiber quality. The sensitivity to salt stress depends upon growth stage and type of salt. Understanding of cotton response to salinity, its resistance mechanism and looking into management techniques may assist in formulating strategies to improve cotton performance under saline condition. The studies have showed that germination, emergence and seedling stages are more sensitive to salinity stress as compared to later stages. Salt stress results in delayed flowering, less fruiting positions, fruit shedding and reduced boll weight which ultimately affect seed cotton yield. Depressed activities of metabolic enzymes viz: acidic invertase, alkaline invertase and sucrose phophate synthase lead to fiber quality deterioration in salinity. Excessive sodium exclusion or its compartmentation is the main adaptive mechanism in cotton under salt stress. Up regulation of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants genes offer important adaptive potential to develop salt tolerant cotton varieties. Seed priming is also an effective approach for improving cotton germination in saline soils. Intra and inter variation in cotton germplasm could be used to develop salt tolerant varieties with the aid of marker assisted selection. Furthermore, transgenic approach could be the promising option for enhancing cotton production under saline condition. It is suggested that future research may be carried out with the combination of conventional and advance molecular technology to develop salt tolerant cultivars.

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    Iram Sharif, Jehanzeb Farooq, Muhammad Rizwan, Abia Younas, Ghulam Sarwar & Shahid Munir Chohan

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Sharif, I., Aleem, S., Farooq, J. et al. Salinity stress in cotton: effects, mechanism of tolerance and its management strategies. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 25, 807–820 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12298-019-00676-2

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