“…This is typically observed during the ionic phase of the salinity response (Munns, 2002;Munns and James, 2003;Munns and Tester, 2008). Plants possess distinct mechanisms to adapt to these osmotic and ionic stresses that are controlled by a suite of genes (Apse et al, 1999;Carvajal et al, 1999;Halfter et al, 2000;Ishitani et al, 2000;Shi et al, 2000;Zeng and Shannon, 2000;Rus et al, 2001;Berthomieu et al, 2003;Martínez-Ballesta et al, 2003;Boursiac et al, 2005Boursiac et al, , 2008Ren et al, 2005;Huang et al, 2006;Davenport et al, 2007;Obata et al, 2007;Székely et al, 2008;Horie et al, 2011;Rivandi et al, 2011;Asano et al, 2012;Munns et al, 2012;Latz et al, 2013;Schmidt et al, 2013;Campo et al, 2014;Choi et al, 2014;Liu et al, 2014). The genetic basis of temporal adaptive responses to salinity stress remains to be explored in rice and other crops.…”