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Halophytes as Bioenergy Crops [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Shrinking arable land due to soil salinization and, depleting fresh water resources pose serious worldwide constraints to crop productivity. A vision of using plant feedstock for biofuel production can only be realized if we can identify alternate ...
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Coping With Metal Toxicity – Cues From Halophytes
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Being the native flora of saline soil, halophytes are well studied for their salt tolerance and adaptation mechanism at the physiological, biochemical, molecular and metabolomic levels.
Ganesh C. Nikalje, Penna Suprasanna
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Flooding tolerance in halophytes [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2008 SummaryFlooding is a common environmental variable with salinity. Submerged organs can suffer from O2deprivation and the resulting energy deficits can compromise ion transport processes essential for salinity tolerance. Tolerance of soil waterlogging in halophytes, as in glycophytes, is often associated with the production of adventitious roots ...
Timothy D, Colmer, Timothy J, Flowers
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Proteomics, metabolomics and ionomics perspectives of salinity tolerance in halophytes [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015 Halophytes are plants which naturally survive in saline environment. They account for approximately 1% of the total flora of the world. They include both dicots and monocots and are distributed mainly in arid, semi-arid inlands and saline wet lands along
ASHA KUMARI YADAV +3 more
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, 2021 The halophytes are a specialized group of plants among which there are some representatives that have been cultivated for millenia. Domesticated or wild lineages are also consumed as food, being chard and dates fruits a good example of it.
MARTINEZ-FRANCES, VANESSA +5 more
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The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1986 Halophytes are plants adapted to live in a saline environment, be it seawater, a salt-water marsh, or a salt-desert; nearly all are angiosperms.
T. J. Flowers +2 more
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Polyamines in Halophytes [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 Polyamines (PAs) are related to many aspects of the plant’s life cycle, including responses to biotic and abiotic stress. On the other hand, halophytic plants are useful models for studying salt tolerance mechanisms related to the adaptive strategies ...
Milagros Bueno, María-Pilar Cordovilla
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Reproductive Physiology of Halophytes: Current Standing [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 Background: Halophytes possess efficient salt-tolerance mechanisms and can complete their life cycles in naturally saline soils with NaCl contents exceeding 200 mM. While a significant progress have been made in recent decades elucidating underlying salt-
Fang Yuan +4 more
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Salinity tolerance in halophytes*
New Phytologist, 2008 Contents Summary 945 I. Introduction 946 II. Growth and osmotic adjustment 946 III. Uptake and transport of monovalent ions 950 IV. Conclusions and perspectives 956 Acknowledgements 957 References 959
Timothy J, Flowers, Timothy D, Colmer
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, 2023 Halophytes are a fascinating group of wild plants adapted to highly saline natural habitats, where most plant species and all our conventional crops would not survive. In fact, some halophytes can withstand even seawater salinity.
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