“…In recent years, RNA-seq analysis based DEGs and candidate gene identification has been used to study salt tolerance in numerous plants, including Arabidopsis ( Sako et al, 2021 ), rice ( Chandran et al, 2019 ), bread wheat ( Amirbakhtiar et al, 2021 ), Chinese cabbage ( Li et al, 2021 ), drought/salt-tolerant Caragana korshinskii ( Li et al, 2016 ), a model halophytic Chenopodium quinoa ( Ruiz et al, 2019 ), Cenostigma pyramidale ( Frosi et al, 2021 ), and Ricinus communis ( Lei et al, 2021 ). These studies have identified abundant DEGs, candidate upregulated genes, and the functional enrichment of GO terms and pathways related to salt stress responses in plants.…”