REVIEW article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Plant Abiotic Stress
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1644412
This article is part of the Research TopicPlant Stress Resistance: Unraveling the Mechanisms and Strategies for ResilienceView all 14 articles
Integrative dynamics of cell wall architecture and plant growth under salt stress
Provisionally accepted
- Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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Salt stress is a major challenge to agricultural productivity and can adversely affect plant growth and development. This review examines the interaction between cell wall architecture and plant tolerance to salt stress, focusing on the mechanisms underlying growth, remodeling, and anisotropic morphogenesis. It further elucidates how the cell wall's composition, structure, and mechanical properties affect osmotic balance, ion transport, and physiological responses to salinity in plants. Key strategies for adaptation to stress, including the synthesis of osmoprotectants and alterations in cell wall polysaccharides, are discussed to understand their role in cell integrity and expansion under salt conditions. In addition, the review emphasizes the dynamic remodeling of the cell wall, which promotes anisotropic growth patterns necessary to maintain plant structure and function under environmental stresses. Based on the current research, this review highlights potential pathways to enhance plant adaptation to salinity through targeted manipulation of cell wall properties, providing insights for future biotechnological applications to improve crop performance in a saline environment.
Keywords: salt stress, cell wall composition, plant cell anisotropy, cell wall integrity, cell growth
Received: 10 Jun 2025; Accepted: 09 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhao, Tariq and Ma. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Shuangshuang Zhao, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
Changle Ma, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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