Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants

SummaryAgriculture is expanding into regions that are affected by salinity. This review considers the energetic costs of salinity tolerance in crop plants and provides a framework for a quantitative assessment of costs. Different sources of energy, and modifications of root system architecture that would maximize water vs ion uptake are addressed. Energy requirements for transport of salt (NaCl) to leaf vacuoles for osmotic adjustment could be small if there are no substantial leaks back across plasma membrane and tonoplast in root and leaf. The coupling ratio of the H+‐ATPase also is a critical component. One proposed leak, that of Na+ influx across the plasma membrane through certain aquaporin channels, might be coupled to water flow, thus conserving energy. For the tonoplast, control of two types of cation channels is required for energy efficiency. Transporters controlling the Na+ and Cl− concentrations in mitochondria and chloroplasts are largely unknown and could be a major energy cost. The complexity of the system will require a sophisticated modelling approach to identify critical transporters, apoplastic barriers and root structures. This modelling approach will inform experimentation and allow a quantitative assessment of the energy costs of NaCl tolerance to guide breeding and engineering of molecular components.

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Published: Jul 11, 2019
Vol/Issue: 225(3)
Pages: 1072-1090
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Authors

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Rana Munns

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, and School of Agriculture and Environment The University of Western Australia Crawley WA 6009 Australia; CSIRO Agriculture and Food Canberra ACT 2601 Australia

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David A. Day

College of Science and Engineering Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide South Australia 5001 Australia

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Wieland Fricke

School of Biology and Environmental Sciences University College Dublin (UCD) Dublin, 4 Ireland

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Michelle Watt

Plant Sciences Institute of Bio and Geosciences Forschungszentrum Juelich Helmholtz Association 52425 Juelich Germany

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Borjana Arsova

Plant Sciences Institute of Bio and Geosciences Forschungszentrum Juelich Helmholtz Association 52425 Juelich Germany

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Bronwyn J. Barkla

Southern Cross Plant Science Southern Cross University Lismore NSW 2481 Australia

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Jayakumar Bose

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology School of Agriculture, Food and Wine University of Adelaide Glen Osmond SA 5064 Australia

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Caitlin S. Byrt

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology School of Agriculture, Food and Wine University of Adelaide Glen Osmond SA 5064 Australia; Research School of Biology Australian National University Canberra ACT 2600 Australia

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Zhong‐Hua Chen

School of Science and Health Western Sydney University Penrith NSW 2751 Australia

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Kylie J. Foster

Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences University of South Australia Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia

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Matthew Gilliham

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology School of Agriculture, Food and Wine University of Adelaide Glen Osmond SA 5064 Australia

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Sam W. Henderson

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Agriculture and Food Urrbrae SA 5064 Australia

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Colin L. D. Jenkins

College of Science and Engineering Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide South Australia 5001 Australia

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Herbert J. Kronzucker

School of Agriculture and Food Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences The University of Melbourne Melbourne VIC 3010 Australia

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Stanley J. Miklavcic

Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences University of South Australia Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia

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Darren Plett

School of Agriculture and Food Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences The University of Melbourne Melbourne VIC 3010 Australia

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Stuart J. Roy

Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Wheat in a Hot and Dry Climate School of Agriculture, Food and Wine University of Adelaide Urrbrae SA 5064 Australia

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Sergey Shabala

Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture University of Tasmania Private Bag 54 Hobart Tas. 7001 Australia; International Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology Foshan University Foshan 528000 China

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Megan C. Shelden

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology School of Agriculture, Food and Wine University of Adelaide Glen Osmond SA 5064 Australia

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Kathleen L. Soole

College of Science and Engineering Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide South Australia 5001 Australia

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Nicolas L. Taylor

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology School of Molecular Sciences and Institute of Agriculture The University of Western Australia Crawley WA 6009 Australia

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Mark Tester

Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division (BESE) King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955‐6900 Saudi Arabia

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Stefanie Wege

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology School of Agriculture, Food and Wine University of Adelaide Glen Osmond SA 5064 Australia

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Lars H. Wegner

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology (IHM) D‐76344 Eggenstein‐Leopoldshafen Germany

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Stephen D. Tyerman

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology School of Agriculture, Food and Wine University of Adelaide Glen Osmond SA 5064 Australia

Funding

Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Australian Research Council Award: CE140100008

Cite This Article

Rana Munns, David A. Day, Wieland Fricke, et al. (2019). Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants. New Phytologist, 225(3), 1072-1090. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15864

Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants

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