Abstract
Salt excess in the rhizosphere induces osmotic, nutritional and metabolic disturbances that bring about crop growth reduction and yield losses. While largely documented in the literature, these disturbances are separately analyzed in term of anatomy and time course that are usually limited by experiment conditions. It is of necessity to establish a chronology of changes involved during salt stress at different anatomical levels of plant. In the present review, we attempted to dissect and locate physiological and molecular events that occurred upon exposure of higher plants to salt stress. This analysis integrated various experimental approaches to give further understanding on salt stress response and to highlight valuable traits of salt sensitivity/tolerance of plants.