Production of food, fodder and plant vegetation declined rapidly around the world due to
climate change, increase in saline areas and loss of productive lands. A major challenge of …

Land is considered as the life‐sustaining platform for food and water. However, there are
contaminants such as salt, heavy metal, and industrial waste that decrease land fertility …

With the continue increase of the world population the requirements for food, freshwater, and
fuel are bigger every day. This way an urgent necessity to develop, create, and practice a …

Water scarcity has been increasing and the problem is more severe in the arid regions and
cause poverty and other related social and economic issues. An integrated approach …

Salinity is one of the rising problems causing tremendous yield losses in many regions of the
world especially in arid and semiarid regions. To maximize crop productivity, these areas …

Present work deals with the different mechanisms which are present in salt tolerant plants
against high salt concentrations of the soil by combining information from different research …

Halophytes are a diverse group of plants with tolerance to high salinity. While most of our
crops are glycophytes lacking the genetic makeup for salt tolerance, halophytes are …

It is more important to improve the salt tolerance of crops in a salinized world with the
situations of increasing populations, declining crop yields, and a decrease in agricultural …

Although they represent only 2% of terrestrial plant species, halophytes are present in about
half the higher plant families and represent a wide diversity of plant forms. Despite their …

This volume presents new and additional information about the physiology and ecology of
halophytic plant species and saline ecosystems. The halophytes are highly specialized …