Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences

Section 1: Mechanisms of salt tolerance in algae and terrestrial plants.- Adaptation to salinity at the plant cell level.- Some mechanisms of salt tolerance in crop plants.- Physiology of halophytes.- The cost to plants of different strategies of adaptation to stress and the alleviation of stress by increasing assimilation.- Mechanisms of response to salinity in halotolerant microalgae.- The effect of compatible solutes on proteins.- Section 2: Production of micro and macroalgae with saline water.- Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria): prospects and perspectives.- Cyanobacterial biomass production in saline media.- The potential of production of sulfated polysaccharides from Porphyridium.- Problems in developing the biotechnology of algal biomass production.- Macroalgae (seaweeds): industrial resources and their utilization.- Outdoor cultivation of sea vegetables.- Section 3: Crop production with saline water.- Salt-tolerant crops: origins, development and prospects of the concept.- Genetics of salt tolerance in higher plants: theoretical and practical considerations.- Principles and strategies in breeding for higher salt tolerance.- Selection and breeding for salinity tolerance in vitro.- Crop production and management under saline conditions.- Crop tolerance to saline sprinkling water.- Fertilization management of crops irrigated with saline water.- Effect of salinity on quality of various agricultural crops.- Section 4: Seawater agriculture.- Agricultural production of halophytes irrigated with seawater.- Halophytic crops for cultivation at seawater salinity.- Developing the seawater agriculture concept.- Section 5: Mariculture.- The present situation and problems of mariculture in Japan.