Breeding and domesticating crops adapted to drought and salinity: a new paradigm for increasing food production

A Fita, A Rodríguez-Burruezo, M Boscaiu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
World population is expected to reach 9.2× 109 people by 2050. Feeding them will require a
boost in crop productivity using innovative approaches. Current agricultural production is …

Halophyte agriculture: Success stories

S Panta, T Flowers, P Lane, R Doyle, G Haros… - … and experimental botany, 2014 - Elsevier
The world's food production will need to increase by up to 70% by 2050 to match the
predicted population growth. Achieving this goal will be challenging due to the decreased …

Sustainable biochar and/or melatonin improve salinity tolerance in borage plants by modulating osmotic adjustment, antioxidants, and ion homeostasis

S Farouk, AA Al-Huqail - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salinity is persistently a decisive feature confining agricultural sustainability and food
security in arid and semi-arid regions. Biochar (Bi) has been advocated as a means of …

Using euhalophytes to understand salt tolerance and to develop saline agriculture: Suaeda salsa as a promising model

J Song, B Wang - Annals of Botany, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background As important components in saline agriculture, halophytes can help to provide
food for a growing world population. In addition to being potential crops in their own right …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the emerging trends of the Salicornia L. genus as a sustainable crop

S Cárdenas-Pérez, A Piernik, JJ Chanona-Pérez… - Environmental and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Salicornia is a genus of plants that are able to grow in saline conditions and that are known
as “halophytes”. Moreover, this species has plenty of other industrial and ecological …

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 …

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 …

Phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated saline soils using halophytes: current progress and future perspectives

L Liang, W Liu, Y Sun, X Huo, S Li… - Environmental …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Soil salinity is a destructive environmental stressor that greatly reduces plant growth and
productivity. In recent years, large tracts of farmland in arid and semiarid regions have been …

Antioxidant activity and phenol content of Crithmum maritimum L. leaves

L Meot-Duros, C Magné - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Sea fennel (Crithmum maritimum L.) is an edible halophyte with various economical
interests because of its high secondary metabolite content. However, little is known about …

Sea fennel (Crithmum maritimum L.) under salinity conditions: a comparison of leaf and root antioxidant responses

K Ben Hamed, A Castagna, E Salem, A Ranieri… - Plant Growth …, 2007 - Springer
The present study was carried out to compare the effect of NaCl on growth, cell membrane
damage, and antioxidant defences in the halophyte Crithmum maritimum L.(sea fennel) …