Yasin Ozgen obtained an MSc in 2015 with a thesis on the determination of chemical and morphological properties of different basil lines. He completed his Ph.D. in 2019 with a thesis on yield and agronomic characters of morphine and noscapine-type opium poppy hybrids. He is now working as a research assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops, Ankara University, Turkey. Dr. Ozgen is currently researching industrial, medicinal, aromatic, and bulbous plants.
Salt stress is one of the harmful abiotic stress factors. It makes agricultural lands especially in arid and semi-arid regions useless despite the efforts. More than six percent of total world agricultural lands are on the edge of vanishing due to salt stress. Salinity in soil occurs as a result of the factors such as lack of drainage, improper irrigation, excessive accumulation of soluble salts. Salinity limits the growth of plants. Despite the main results, some results of plants due to these limitations vary from species to species. The negative effects get morphological, biochemical and physiological reactions from plants. Slowed or stopped growth of roots and shoots, closuring of stomata, germination slowing, decreased or stopped development of seedling, deterioration of photosynthetic activity are the main reactions of plants to stress. On the other hand, plants also develop tolerance mechanisms as a result of some auxiliaries for surviving under adverse conditions. Plants have tendency to protect themselves from salinity with osmotic protectants synthesized by them such as sugars, proline, amino acids, glycine betaine. In this review, the responses of plants to salt stress were investigated and gathered.
Part of the book: Plant Breeding