Salt & SodiumEvidence & Dosage
Individual salt sensitivity, blood pressure, electrolyte balance.
Evidence at a glance
- Total studies
- 388
- With abstract
- 48
- Meta / Systematic / RCT
- 1
- Highly cited
- 26
- Publication years
- 1978–2026
Salt & Sodium in the context of Methods
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Go to MethodsTop studies on Salt & Sodium
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Comparative physiology of salt and water stress.
Plant, cell & environment2002480 influential citationsPlant responses to salt and water stress have much in common. Salinity reduces the ability of plants to take up water, and this quickly causes reductions in growth rate, along with a suite of metabolic changes identical to those caused by…
Plant salt tolerance.
Trends in plant science2001200 influential citationsSoil salinity is a major abiotic stress in plant agriculture worldwide. This has led to research into salt tolerance with the aim of improving crop plants. However, salt tolerance might have much wider implications because transgenic…
Salt tolerance conferred by overexpression of a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport in Arabidopsis.
Science (New York, N.Y.)1999200 influential citationsAgricultural productivity is severely affected by soil salinity. One possible mechanism by which plants could survive salt stress is to compartmentalize sodium ions away from the cytosol. Overexpression of a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport from…
Regulation of SOS1, a plasma membrane Na+/H+ exchanger in Arabidopsis thaliana, by SOS2 and SOS3.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2002181 influential citationsMaintaining low levels of sodium ions in the cell cytosol is critical for plant growth and development. Biochemical studies suggest that Na(+)/H(+) exchangers in the plasma membrane of plant cells contribute to cellular sodium homeostasis…
The putative plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) antiporter SOS1 controls long-distance Na(+) transport in plants.
The Plant cell2002178 influential citationsThe salt tolerance locus SOS1 from Arabidopsis has been shown to encode a putative plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) antiporter. In this study, we examined the tissue-specific pattern of gene expression as well as the Na(+) transport activity and…
A rice quantitative trait locus for salt tolerance encodes a sodium transporter
Nature Genetics2005138 influential citationsMany important agronomic traits in crop plants, including stress tolerance, are complex traits controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Isolation of these QTLs holds great promise to improve world agriculture but is a challenging…
The Arabidopsis thaliana SOS2 gene encodes a protein kinase that is required for salt tolerance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2000110 influential citationsIn Arabidopsis thaliana, the Salt Overly Sensitive 2 (SOS2) gene is required for intracellular Na(+) and K(+) homeostasis. Mutations in SOS2 cause Na(+) and K(+) imbalance and render plants more sensitive toward growth inhibition by high…
Sodium transport and salt tolerance in plants.
Current opinion in cell biology2000105 influential citationsThe ability of plant cells to maintain low cytosolic sodium concentrations is an essential process associated with the ability of plants to grow in high salt concentrations. Recent results have identified pathways for Na(+) entry, and the…
SOS1, a Genetic Locus Essential for Salt Tolerance and Potassium Acquisition.
The Plant cell199648 influential citationsTo begin to determine which genes are essential for salt tolerance in higher plants, we identified four salt-hypersensitive mutants of Arabidopsis by using a root-bending assay on NaCl-containing agar plates. These mutants (sos1-1, sos1-2,…
ZxNHX1 from a xerophyte outperforms AtNHX1 in sequestering Na + into vacuoles to enhance plant stress resistance and yield.
Plant biotechnology journal202541 influential citationsUncovering the mechanisms underlying stress-resistant traits in xerophytes thriving in harsh environments can aid the genetic improvement of crops. The xerophyte Zygophyllum xanthoxylum features high Na<sup>+</sup> accumulation in leaves,…
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