“…Relationships between model parameters and quantitative trait loci (Yin et al, 1999) or single nucleotide polymorphisms (Cooper et al, 2016) were instead used to predict the performance of genotypes starting from genetic information. Given the relevance of salt stress for agricultural production, different models for crop response to salt stress were developed (Ferrer-Alegre and Stockle, 1999;Karlberg et al, 2006, Radanielson et al, 2018. However, they mainly focus on the effect of the osmotic stress on water uptake, without explicitly considering the ionic effect of Na + , which instead is a key component of salt stress (Munns and Tester 2008;Faiyue et al, 2012), especially in rice (Negrão et al, 2011).…”