supported by IISER Tirupati and by an Early Career Research award from the Science and Engineering Research Board,Department of Science and Technology,Govt.of India(ECR/2016/001071)to E.R.K.K.D.acknowledges the CSIR-JRF fellowship and Bi-nationally supervised doctoral degree scholarship from DAAD(91730390)for her PhD.A.M.and A.P.G.acknowledge funding from IISER Tirupati for graduate studies.S.C.acknowledges funding from IISER Tirupati and the Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship(BT/RLF/Re-entry/05/2018)Department of Biotechnology,Government of India.
Rapid climate change has led to enhanced soil salinity,one of the major determinants of land degradation,resulting in low agricultural productivity.This has a strong negative impact on food security and environmental ...