Salinity: Environment - Plants - Molecules Book

Acknowledgements. Introduction. A: Environment. 1. Global impact of salinity and agricultural ecosystems; M.G. Pitman, A. Läuchli. 2. Salinity in the soil environment; K.K. Tanji. 3. Salinity, halophytes and salt affected natural ecosystems; S.-W. Breckle. B: Organisms. 4. Adaptation of halophilic Archaea to life at high salt concentrations; A. Oren. 5. Adaptation of the haloterant alga Dunaliella to high salinity; U. Pick. 6. Mangroves; U. Lüttge. C: Mechanisms. 7. Ultrastructural effects of salinity in higher plants; H.-W. Koyro. 8. Intra- and inter-cellular compartmentation of ions - a study in specificity and plasticity; G. Wyn Jones, J. Gorham. 9. Salinity, osmolytes and compatible solutes; D. Rhodes, et al. 10. Sodium-calcium interactions under salinity stress; G.R. Cramer. 11. Salinity and nitrogen nutrition; W.R. Ullrich. 12. Pressure probe measurements of the driving forces for water transport in intact higher plants: effects of transpiration and salinity; U. Zimmermann, et al. 13. Salinity, growth and phytohormones; R. Munns. 14. The adaptive potential of plant development: evidence from the response to salinity; G.N. Amzallag. D: Photosynthesis. 15. Influence of salinity on photosynthesis of halophytes; C.E. Lovelock, M.C. Ball. 16. Performance of plants with C₄-carboxylation modes of photosynthesis under salinity; U. Lüttge. 17. Induction of Crassulacean acid metabolism by salinity &endash; molecular aspects; H.J. Bohnert. E: Molecules. 18. Function of membrane transport systems under salinity: plasma membrane; L. Reinhold, M. Guy. 19. Function of membrane transport systems under salinity: tonoplast; M. Binzel, R. Ratajczak. 20. Genetics of salinity responses and plant breeding; J. Gorham, G.Wyn Jones. 21. Halotolerance genes in yeast; R. Serrano. 22. The long and winding road to haloterance genes; A. Maggio, et al. Index.