“…The presence of Na + in the environment and its uptake by plants can reduce the amount of K + required to meet basic metabolic requirements (Benito et al, 2014), since Na + can partially replace K + in some non-specific functions (Wakeel et al, 2010(Wakeel et al, , 2011(Wakeel et al, , 2013Silva et al, 2014;Krishnasamy et al, 2014) such as: enzymatic activation of ATPase, osmoregulation, macronutrient uptake, cell permeability, carbohydrate synthesis, conversion of fructose to glucose, stomatal opening and closing, plant vigor and carbon dioxide transport (CO 2 ) for C4 plant cells (Inocencio et al, 2014;Krishnasamy et al, 2014), especially when plants have the ability to absorb, translocate and compartmentalize Na + in their vacuoles (Krishnasamy et al, 2014).…”