“…For example, wheat (Triticum aestivum) exhibited improved drought tolerance after initial drought priming (Wang et al, 2014). Accumulating evidence has revealed that plants can also be primed for salt tolerance after seeds or seedlings are treated with salt (Yan et al, 2015;Pandolfi et al, 2016;Ali et al, 2017;Berhane and Chala, 2017). Although the mechanisms underlying saltinduced priming remain unclear, compared with naive (nonprimed) ones, primed plants show increased levels of organic solutes, such as proline (Pro) and sugars (Sivritepe et al, 2003), a higher photosynthetic rate (Yan et al, 2015), and increased abilities to sequester vacuolar sodium in the leaves and maintain low sodium content in the roots (Sivritepe et al, 2003;Nakaune et al, 2012;Yan et al, 2015;Pandolfi et al, 2016).…”