Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

GENETIC IMPROVEMENT OF SALINITY TOLERANCE IN CROP PLANTS 865

TABLE 1 Types of Compatible Solutes That Could Accumulate Under Salinity
Stress in Various Plant Species

Solute Structure Distribution

D-Sorbitol CH 2 OH Plantaginaceae
 Rosaceae
HMCMOH

HOMCMH

HMCMOH

HMCMOH

CH 2 OH
CH 2 OH

HOMCMH Combretaceae

D-Mannitol HOMCMH

Myrsinaceae



HMCMOH

Rublaceae



HMCMOH



CH 2 OH

D-Pinitol Leguminoseae
Rhizophoraceae
Caryophyllaceae

L-Quebrachitol Euphorblaceae

Glycine betaine (CH 3 ) 3 NCH 3 COO Chenopodlaceae
Amaranthaceae
Asteraceae
Solanaceae
Gramineae
Avicenniaceae

-Alanine betaine (CH 3 ) 3 NCH 3 CH 3 COO Plumbaginaceae

Juncaginaceae
Proline Asteraceae
Gramineae

Proline betaine Lablaicae
(stachydrine)
Capparidaceae
Leguminosae

3-Dimethylsulfonio (CH 3 ) 3 SCH 3 CH 3 COO- Asteraceae
propionate
Gramineae

Source:Ref. 39.

J

JJ

N

CH 3 CH 3

COO

M

M

M M

M

OH

OH

OH

OH

HO

CH 3 O

M

M

M

OHOH M

OH

OH

OH

OCH 3

NJ

M

H 3

COO