“…In spite of these deleterious effects, plants present different degrees of tolerance to salinity, conferred by biochemical pathways, which can alleviate the negative effect of salt toxicity; amongst them: (I) retention and acquisition of water mediated by osmotically-active metabolites (mainly proline, glycinebetaine or sugars) (Singh et al, 2014); (II) maintenance of ion homeostasis (Rivero et al, 2014;Razzaghi et al, 2015); (III) induction of antioxidant systems (Ashraf et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2012;Fini et al, 2014); (IV) over production of hormones (Krasensky and Jonak, 2012;Yoshida et al, 2014) or (V) synthesis of specific stress-associated molecules such as heat-shock proteins (Wang et al, 2004;Krasenski and Jonak, 2012;Pérez-Salamò et al, 2014) and late embryogenesis abundant proteins (Parida andDas, 2005, Radíc et al, 2013). In view of the complexity of salinity tolerance, differences on salt sensitivity occur not only among species, but sometimes even genotypes belonging to the same species perform differently under salinity (Shabala and Munns, 2012).…”