What are the options to fight salt related problems?
Worldwide, the research to overcome salt related problems is based on two approaches; 1. Change the growing environment (make it normal) suitable for the normal growth of plants; or 2. Select the crop and/or change genetic architecture of the plant so that it could be grown in such areas. The first approach involves major engineering and soil amelioration process which need lot of resources are often out of the reach of small and marginal farmers. The second approach i.e. breeding crop varieties with in-built salt tolerance is realized as the most promising, less resource consuming /economical and socially acceptable approach. So the ability of the plant to tolerate the salt stress up to an extent is of paramount importance to mange the resources optimally and this is the reason to develop the tailored crops with higher salt tolerance suited to salt stress environments. There is a third approach as well which can be termed as hybrid approach as it is the combination of both environment
