Preface Sergey Shabala 1. Stomatal regulation and adaptation to salinity in glycophytes and halophytes Guang Chen, Hanna Amoanimaa-Dede, Fanrong Zeng, Fenglin Deng, Shengchun Xu and Zhong-Hua Chen 2. Water use efficiency in mangroves: Conservation of water use efficiency determined by stomatal behavior across leaves, plants, and forests Jie Liang, Graham D. Farquhar and Marilyn C. Ball 3. Salty or sweet? Guard cell signaling and osmotic control under saline conditions Yotam Zait and Sarah M. Assmann 4. Modulation of abscisic acid signaling for stomatal operation under salt stress conditions Jong-Joo Cheong 5. Impact of nutritional imbalance on guard cell metabolism and stomata regulation under saline hyperosmotic conditions Christian Zörb, Bastian L. Franzisky, Patrick P. Lehr, Robin Kosch, Michael Altenbuchinger and Christoph-Martin Geilfus 6. Stomata under salt stress: What can mechanistic modeling tell us? Nguyen B. A. Thu, Anna Amtmann, Michael R. Blatt and Thanh-Hao Nguyen 7. Signaling molecules and transcriptional reprogramming for stomata operation under salt stress Jahanzeb Jafar, Heba Hassan, Sergey Shabala and Bo Ouyang 8. Root-borne signals and their control of guard cell operation under saline conditions: The role of root signals in stomata regulation Mengliang Niu, Zhilong Bie and Yuan Huang 9. Salinity and night-time transpiration under current climate scenarios Wieland Fricke 10. Application of omics technologies in single-type guard cell studies for understanding the mechanistic basis of plant adaptation to saline conditions Fatemeh Rasouli, Ali Kiani-Pouya, Yuan Wang, Ali Movahedi, Min Yu, Ayesha Tahir and Sergey Shabala
Sergey Shabala is a Professor in Plant Physiology and a Head of the Stress Physiology Laboratory at the University of Tasmania; he also holds a title of a Distinguished Professor and a Director of the International Research Centre for Environmental Membrane Biology at Foshan University in China. His area of expertise is plant stress physiology and mechanisms of their adaptation to harsh environmental conditions such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, extreme temperatures, and soil acidity. Over his research career, Sergey has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers and successfully supervised to completion 42 PhD students. He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher for the last five consecutive years and in 2019 was ranked as most cited researcher in the field of Botany in the world. His H-index is 90, and his work has been cited over 27,000 times. He is a current Editor in Chief for Functional Plant Biology and a member of editorial boards of 10 international journals. He is a former president of the Australian Society of Plant Scientists and holds a title of the Visiting or Distinguished Professor in several overseas universities.