Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2004, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (01): 113-120.

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Salt Tolerance Mechanism and Molecular Markers of Genes Associated with Salt Tolerance in Soybean

GUO Bao-Sheng, WENG Yue-Jin   

  1. (Institute of Crop Germplasm Resource, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural sciences, Beijing 100081)
  • Received:2002-12-02 Revised:2003-09-10 Online:2004-02-20 Published:2004-02-20
  • Contact: WENG Yue-Jin

Abstract: The salt tolerance in soybean involves various physiological mechanisms or metabolic pathways. The salt-tolerant soybean cultivars can grow better under high salt stress by regulating the intake and transportation of Na+, chloride exclusion, osmotic adjustment, changes of membrane lipids and enhancing activities of some enzymes, such as glutathion reductase, SOD and so on. A population of wild soybean expressed higher level of salt tolerance for its salt glands. Under salt stress, soybean and Bradyrhizobium can affect each other, so soybean-Bradyrhizobium system can respond to salinity as a whole. With the technology of molecular biology applied to salt-tolerant soybean, a few molecular markers associated with salt tolerant genes have been identified.