Medicinal halophytes: potent source of health promoting biomolecules with medical, nutraceutical and food applications

R Ksouri, WM Ksouri, I Jallali, A Debez… - Critical reviews in …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Salt-tolerant plants grow in a wide variety of saline habitats, from coastal regions, salt
marshes and mudflats to inland deserts, salt flats and steppes. Halophytes living in these …

Halophytes as source of bioactive phenolic compounds and their potential applications

M Lopes, A Sanches-Silva, M Castilho… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Halophytes are salt-tolerant plants that inhabit environments in which they are exposed to
extreme stress, wherefore they exhibit conserved and divergent metabolic responses …

Edible halophytes of the Mediterranean basin: Potential candidates for novel food products

SA Petropoulos, A Karkanis, N Martins… - Trends in food science & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Recent trends in the food science industry and consumers' preferences for
diversified diets suggest the consumption of wild greens not only as diet complements but …

Halophytic herbs of the Mediterranean basin: An alternative approach to health

SA Petropoulos, A Karkanis, N Martins… - Food and Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wild native species are usually grown under severe and stressful conditions, while a special
category includes halophytic species that are tolerant to high salinity levels. Native …

[PDF][PDF] A critical review on halophytes: salt tolerant plants

R Aslam¹, N Bostan… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2011 - academicjournals.org
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 …

Strategies in improving plant salinity resistance and use of salinity resistant plants for economic sustainability

N Munir, M Hasnain, U Roessner… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

An economic point of view of secondary compounds in halophytes

A Buhmann, J Papenbrock - Functional Plant Biology, 2013 - CSIRO Publishing
Salt tolerance of halophytes relies on several strategies, among them, the production of
species-specific secondary metabolites. Chemically, a broad variety of secondary …

Radical scavenging, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of halophytic species

L Meot-Duros, G Le Floch, C Magné - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2008 - Elsevier
For the first time, both antioxidant and antimicrobial activities are simultaneously reported in
halophytic plants, particularly on polar fractions. Chloroformic and methanolic extracts of the …

Halophyte uses for the twenty-first century

NP Yensen - Ecophysiology of high salinity tolerant plants, 2006 - Springer
There are about a billion hectares of salt-affected land world wide, which may be resource
opportunities for halotechnologies, such as halophyte crops and landscape plants, which …

Potential use of halophytes to remediate saline soils

M Hasanuzzaman, K Nahar, MM Alam… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …