References
- Bartels , D and Sunkar , R. 2005 . Drought and salt tolerance in plants . Crit Rev Plant Sci. , 241 : 23 – 58 .
- Bates , LS , Waldren , RP and Tears , ID. 1973 . Rapid determination of free proline for water stress studies . Plant Soil. , 39 : 205 – 207 .
- Beyer , WF and Fridovich , I. 1987 . Assaying for superoxide dismutase activity: some large consequences of minor changes in condition . Ann Biochem. , 161 : 559 – 566 .
- Bohnert , HJ and Jensen , RG. 1996 . Strategies for engineering water stress tolerance in plants . Trends Biotech. , 14 : 89 – 97 .
- Bradford , MM. 1976 . A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding . Ann Biochem. , 72 : 248 – 254 .
- Cakmak , I and Marschner , H. 1992 . Magnesium deficiency and high light intensity enhance activities of superoxide dismutase, ascrobate peroxidase, and glutathione reductase in bean leaves . Plant Physiol. , 98 : 1222 – 1227 .
- Chagas , RM , Silveira , JAG , Ribeiro , RV , Vitorello , VA and Carrer , H. 2008 . Photochemical damage and comparative performance of superoxide dismutase and ascorbate peroxidase in sugarcane leaves exposed to paraquat-induced oxidative stress . Pesticide Biochem Physiol. , 90 : 181 – 188 .
- Chazen , O , Hartung , W and Neumann , PM. 1995 . The different effects of PEG 6000 and NaCl on leaf development are associated with different inhibition of root water transport . Plant Cell Environ. , 18 : 727 – 735 .
- Chen , H and Jiang , JG. 2010 . Osmotic adjustment and plant adaptation to environmental changes related to drought and salinity . Environ Rev. , 18 : 309 – 319 .
- Desikan , R , Cheung , MK , Bright , J , Henson , D , Hancock , JT and Neill , SJ. 2004 . ABA, hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide signaling in stomatal guard cells . J Exp Bot. , 55 : 205 – 212 .
- Errabii , T , Gandonou , CB , Essalmani , H , Abrini , J , Idaomar , M and Senhaji , NS. 2007 . Effects of NaCl and mannitol induced stress on sugarcane Saccharum sp. callus cultures . Acta Physiol Plant. , 29 : 95 – 102 .
- Garg , AK , Kim , JK , Owens , TG , Ranwala , AP , Choi , YD , Kochian , LV and Wu , RJ. 2002 . Trehalose accumulation in rice plants confers high tolerance levels to different abiotic stresses . Proc Natl Acad Sci. , 99 : 15898 – 15903 .
- Grieve , CM and Grattan , SR. 1983 . Rapid assay for determination of water soluble quaternary ammonium compounds . Plant Soil. , 70 : 303 – 307 .
- Hasegawa , PM , Bressan , RA , Zhu , JK and Bohnert , HJ. 2000 . Plant cellular and molecular responses to high salinity . Annu Rev Plant Mol Biol. , 51 : 463 – 499 .
- Heath , RL and Packer , L. 1968 . Photoperoxidation in isolated chloroplasts I – kinetics and stoiciometry of fatty acid peroxidation . Arch Biochem Biophys. , 125 : 189 – 198 .
- Hsiao , TC and Xu , LK. 2000 . Sensitivity of growth of roots versus leaves to water stress: biophysical analysis and relation to water transport . J Exp Bot. , 51 : 1595 – 1616 .
- Imlay , JA. 2003 . Pathways of oxidative damage . Annu Rev Microbiol. , 57 : 395 – 418 .
- Jones , A. 2000 . Does the plant mitochondrion integrate cellular stress and regulate programmed cell death? . Trends Plant Sci. , 5 : 273 – 278 .
- Kumar , S , Naidu , KM and Sehtia , HJ. 1994 . Causes of growth reduction in elongating and expanding leaf tissue of sugarcane under saline conditions . Aust J Plant Physiol. , 21 : 79 – 83 .
- Lichtenthaler , HK. 1987 . Chlorophylls and carotenoids: pigments of photosynthetic biomembranes . Methods Enzymol. , 148 : 350 – 382 .
- Lokhande , VH , Nikam , TD and Penna , S. 2010 . Differential osmotic adjustment to iso-osmotic NaCl and PEG stress in the in vitro cultures of Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L . J Crop Sci Biotech. , 13 ( 4 ) : 251 – 256 .
- Lokhande , VH , Srivastava , S , Patade , VY , Dwivedi , S , Tripathi , RD , Nikam , TD and Suprasanna , P. 2011 . Investigation of arsenic accumulation and tolerance potential of Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L . Chemosphere. , 82 : 529 – 534 .
- Lutts , S , Kinet , JM and Bouharmont , J. 1995 . Changes in plant response to NaCl during development of rice Oryza sativa L. varieties differing in salinity resistance . J Exp Bot. , 46 : 1843 – 1852 .
- Munns , R. 2005 . Genes and salt tolerance: bringing them together . New Phytologist. , 167 : 645 – 663 .
- Munns , R and Tester , M. 2008 . Mechanisms of salinity tolerance . Annu Rev Plant Biol. , 59 : 651 – 681 .
- Murashige , T and Skoog , F. 1962 . A revised medium for rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue culture . Physiol Plant. , 15 : 473 – 479 .
- Nakano , Y and Asada , K. 1981 . Hydrogen peroxide is scavenged by ascorbate-specific peroxidase in spinach chloroplasts . Plant Cell Physiol. , 22 : 867 – 880 .
- Neill , S , Desikan , R and Hancock , J. 2002 . Hydrogen peroxide signaling . Curr Opin Plant Biol. , 5 : 388 – 395 .
- Patade , VY , Suprasanna , P and Bapat , VA. 2008 . Effects of salt stress in relation to osmotic adjustment on sugarcane Saccharum officinarum L. callus cultures . Plant Growth Regul. , 55 : 169 – 173 .
- Raven , JA. 1985 . Regulation of pH and generation of osmolarity in vascular plants: a cost benefit analysis in relation to efficiency of use of energy, nitrogen and water . New Phytol. , 101 : 25 – 77 .
- Rodriquez-Rosales , MP , Kerkeb , L , Bueno , B and Donaire , JP. 1999 . Changes induced by NaCl in lipid content and composition, lipoxygenase, plasma membrane H+ ATPase enzyme activities of tomato Lycopersicon esculentum Mill calli . Plant Sci. , 143 : 143 – 150 .
- Sharma , P and Dubey , RS. 2005 . Drought induces oxidative stress and enhances the activities of antioxidant enzymes in growing rice seedlings . Plant Growth Regul. , 46 : 209 – 221 .
- Van der Weele , CM , Spollen , WG , Sharp , RE and Baskin , TI. 2000 . Growth of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings under water deficit studies by control of water potential in nutrient agar media . J Exp Bot. , 51 : 1555 – 1562 .
- Verslues , PE , Agarwal , M , Katiyar-Agarwal , S , Zhu , J and Zhu , JK. 2006 . Methods and concepts in quantifying resistance to drought, salt and freezing, abiotic stresses that affect plant water status . Plant J. , 45 : 523 – 539 .
- Wahid , A. 2004 . Analysis of toxic and osmotic effects of sodium chloride on leaf growth and economic yield of sugarcane . Bot Bull Acad Sin. , 45 : 133 – 141 .
- Wahid , A , Altaf-ur-Rehman , R and Ejaz , R. 1997 . Identification of salt tolerance traits in sugarcane lines . Field Crops Res. , 541 : 9 – 17 .
- Wahid , A and Ghazanfar , A. 2006 . Possible involvement of some secondary metabolites in salt tolerance of sugarcane . J Plant Physiol. , 163 : 723 – 730 .
- Watanabe , S , Kojima , K , Ide , Y and Sasaki , S. 2000 . Effects of saline and osmotic stress on proline and sugar accumulation in Populus euphratica in vitro . Plant Cell Tiss Org Cult. , 63 : 199 – 206 .
- Yancey , PH , Clark , MB , Hands , SC , Bowlus , RD and Somero , GN. 1982 . Living with water stress: evaluation of osmolytes systems . Science. , 217 : 1214 – 1222 .
- Yeo , A. 1998 . Molecular biology of salt tolerance in the context of the whole-plant physiology . J Exp Bot. , 49 : 915 – 929 .