Jiayin Fan

1 Introduction Abiotic stress, including drought and salinity stress, represent major constraints to global crop productivity and pose severe threats to food security (Zhang et al. 2022). Projections indicate that by 2050, these two stress factors alone will be responsible for a worldwide drop in crop yields of 10%–50%, with especially devastating consequences for agriculture in vulnerable regions (FAO 2021).

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