Advances in Earth Science ›› 2018, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 361-372. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2018.04.0361

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Effects of Salt Stress on Plant and the Mechanism of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Enhancing Salt Tolerance of Plants

Jing Pan 1, 2( ), Cuihua Huang 1, Jun Luo 1, 2, Fei Peng 1, Xian Xue 1   

  1. 1.Minqin Salinization Research Station,Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
    2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2017-10-30 Revised:2018-02-05 Online:2018-04-20 Published:2018-05-24
  • About author:

    First author:Pan Jing (1988-), female, Minqin County, Gansu Province, Ph. D student. Research areas include degraded land improvement.E-mail:panjing@lzb.ac.cn

  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the Program of Domestic Cooperation for Chinese Academy of Sciences “Experimental study and demonstration on the use of Lycium ruthenicum/Saline-alkali soil”(No.43800312-6);The National Key Research and Development Program of China “Key techniques and demonstration of desertification on control in semiarid area in North China”(No.2016YFC0500909).

Jing Pan, Cuihua Huang, Jun Luo, Fei Peng, Xian Xue. Effects of Salt Stress on Plant and the Mechanism of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Enhancing Salt Tolerance of Plants[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2018, 33(4): 361-372.

Soil salinization is one of the global land degradation problems due to the impacts of climatic variations and human activities. As a beneficial soil microorganism, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) are abundant in saline-alkaline land and form a mutual symbiosis with plants, which can improve salt tolerance of plant and reduce salt stress from the soil. Based on the mechanism of salt stress on the plant, the effects of AMF on plant physiological characteristics were introduced. Three main aspects of the AMF effects were summarized as follows: reconstructing the ion balance in plants to alleviate the toxic effects of specific ions; expanding the absorption range of plant roots and improving the osmotic regulation ability to alleviate the water deficit in plant; maintaining the integrity of cell membrane system and photosynthetic system to resist the damage caused by oxidative stress. Also, the future research direction in this field was evaluated, then a reference for the reconstruction of the saline-alkaline environment was provided.

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