article · Frontiers in Agronomy
Salinity stress, caused by rising soil and water salinity, presents a major global challenge to wheat production and food security. This stress negatively impacts wheat's growth, development, grain yield, and nutritional quality. Wheat plants naturally employ a range of physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms to adapt to saline conditions at various levels. The research reviews and synthesises these detrimental effects of salinity on wheat, alongside highlighting various adaptation and management strategies that have been developed. The ultimate goal is to support sustainable wheat production and ensure food security for the increasing global population in the face of a changing climate.
Ensuring global food security is critical, and wheat is a staple crop. Understanding how salinity, exacerbated by climate change, impacts wheat and identifying effective strategies to manage this stress is vital for maintaining agricultural productivity and feeding a growing world population.
This review identifies and synthesises existing adaptation and management strategies for salinity stress in wheat. It provides valuable information for agricultural researchers, policymakers, and farmers seeking to implement sustainable practices. The abstract does not detail specific commercial products or their market readiness, but rather outlines broad approaches for improving wheat resilience.
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Wheat constitutes pivotal position for ensuring food and nutritional security; however, rapidly rising soil and water salinity pose a serious threat to its production globally. Salinity stress negatively affects the growth and development of wheat leading to diminished grain yield and quality. Wheat plants utilize a range of physiological biochemical and molecular mechanisms to adapt under salinity stress at the cell, tissue as well as whole plant levels to optimize the growth, and yield by off-setting the adverse effects of saline environment. Recently, various adaptation and management strategies have been developed to reduce the deleterious effects of salinity stress to maximize the production and nutritional quality of wheat. This review emphasizes and synthesizes the deleterious effects of salinity stress on wheat yield and quality along with highlighting the adaptation and mitigation strategies for sustainable wheat production to ensure food security of skyrocketing population under changing climate.
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DOI: 10.3389/fagro.2021.661932
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