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Crop Resilience to Combined Drought and Salinity Stress in Drylands: From Soil Processes to Genomic Solutions.
Plant, Cell & Environment · · Review
Adil, Gul + more
Abstract ↗AI summary
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Drought and soil salinization co-occur in dryland farming, and their interactions can be additive, synergistic, or antagonistic, requiring multiscale frameworks beyond single-stress models.
- Why it matters: Single-stress approaches miss how combined drought–salinity alters plant damage pathways and soil water–salt dynamics, limiting progress toward climate-resilient dryland crops.
- What they did: This review synthesizes multilevel responses—osmotic shock, ionic toxicity, and oxidative damage—alongside ion homeostasis, osmotic adjustment, antioxidant responses, epigenetic stress memory, and rhizosphere microbiome engineering.
- The result: It argues that integrating multiomics (genomics through metabolomics) with genomic selection and CRISPR-Cas editing, plus field validation and breeding-pipeline integration of microbes, can accelerate cultivar development.
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