E. Mcdonnell

TL;DR: The hypothesis of intracellular compartmentation of solutes is used as a basis for models of tolerance mechanisms operating in roots and in leaves and the implications of the various mechanisms for the yield potential of salt-tolerant crop plants are considered.

TL;DR: Both slower shoot initiation and reduced leaf length contributed to the reduced growth rates at higher salinities, and increasing salinity resulted in increases in leaf concentrations of phosphate, glycinebetaine, sucrose and proline, and in decreases in the concentrations of nitrate, sulphate, magnesium, calcium, total amino acids and organic acids.

TL;DR: Elymus dahuricus differed from the Leymus species in its ion-uptake characteristics, showing a greater uptake of CI and Na and a greater loss of K from the shoots.

TL;DR: In this article, a method for the estimation of fully N-methylated amino acids (Betaines) in plant extracts is described, where partial purification of aqueous extracts with ion exchange resins, a crown ether and potassium phosphate buffer are used to facilitate the esterification of betaines with α, dibromoacetophenone, p-nitrobenzyl bromide or α-bromo-p-tolunitrile.