Open AccessSalinity Stress – A Threat to Rice Production Breeding Strategies to Develop Salinity Tolerance in Plants
Author(s) -
Umed Ali,
Tahmina Shar,
Rafiq Ahmad,
Mahpara Khatoon,
Maqsood Ahmed Khaskheli,
Abdul Hafeez Laghari,
Abdul Jalil Leghari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mehrgarh journal of sciences and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2788-4562
pISSN - 2788-4554
DOI - 10.52861/mhjst.2021.1.1.5
Subject(s) - salinity , soil salinity , agriculture , staple food , world population , crop , agronomy , population , agroforestry , environmental science , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , geography , ecology , developing country , demography , sociology
Rice is a most staple and demandable food crop of the world which feeds more than half of the world’s overallpopulation. Soil salinity has become a serious problem of the world nowadays which is a common threat to allagricultural crops specially rice because rice is categorized as a typical glycophyte. Salinity is one of the majorconstraints especially in the coastal areas of the world. This salinity problem can be overcome by conventional andmodern breeding technologies. We have focused on the breeding techniques to be adopted to cope with this issue.Salt tolerant varieties can be produced by screening already existing varieties, marker-assisted selection or geneticengineering by introducing salt-tolerance genes. In this review, we have focused salinity problems at global level andits impact on rice as well as other crops plants.