Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
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. In the current climate change scenario, increasing average temperatur...
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| description | 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. In the current climate change scenario, increasing average temperatures and drought episodes contribute to the accelerated salinisation of irrigated cropland, especially in arid and semiarid regions, by the progressive accumulation in the soil of salts dissolved in irrigation water. This ‘secondary salinisation’ is one of the major causes of reducing crop yields worldwide. In this context, halophytes represent ideal experimental systems to investigate the mechanisms plants use to respond to high-salinity conditions. This knowledge will be essential for the genetic improvement of crop salt tolerance, which represents the most sensible strategy to address the abovementioned problem. Furthermore, halophytes could be the basis of a sustainable, ‘saline’ agriculture, after domestication and some breeding to improve agronomic characteristics. Then, they could be commercially cultivated for food, feed, fibre, or the production of biomolecules of industrial interest. Since they could be grown in saline land and irrigated with brackish water, they will not compete with our conventional crops for these limited resources, fertile land and good-quality water for irrigation. The articles included in this Special Issue address these different aspects of halophytes’ research, although most focus on basic studies on salt-tolerance mechanisms. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-967812024-03-28T03:31:17Z Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Vicente, Oscar Grigore, Marius-Nicusor halophytes Amaranthaceae salinity antioxidant enzymes phenolic compounds salt stress growth responses ion accumulation osmolytes oxidative stress biomarkers antioxidants climate change growth osmolyte accumulation phytohormones polyamines salicylic acid biosaline agriculture salt tolerance osmotic stress pre-conditioning intraspecific variability bioactive compounds flavonoids fatty acids Suaeda physiology oxidative stress potential toxic elements betacyanin carbon nitrogen phytoremediation rice halophyte root microelectrode ion flux MIFE transporters inflorescences ion localization forage legumes ions mineral nutrition salinity tolerance strawberry clover morphology anatomy catalase peroxidase hydrogen peroxide chlorophyll content Sarcocornia fruticosa Salicornia europaea Salicornia veneta drought stress stress recovery ion transport oxidative stress markers salt glands recretohalophytes endemism water deficit osmolytes accumulation drought tolerance conservation programmes climate emergency crops’ wild relatives glycophytes salt tolerance mechanisms thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciences 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. In the current climate change scenario, increasing average temperatures and drought episodes contribute to the accelerated salinisation of irrigated cropland, especially in arid and semiarid regions, by the progressive accumulation in the soil of salts dissolved in irrigation water. This ‘secondary salinisation’ is one of the major causes of reducing crop yields worldwide. In this context, halophytes represent ideal experimental systems to investigate the mechanisms plants use to respond to high-salinity conditions. This knowledge will be essential for the genetic improvement of crop salt tolerance, which represents the most sensible strategy to address the abovementioned problem. Furthermore, halophytes could be the basis of a sustainable, ‘saline’ agriculture, after domestication and some breeding to improve agronomic characteristics. Then, they could be commercially cultivated for food, feed, fibre, or the production of biomolecules of industrial interest. Since they could be grown in saline land and irrigated with brackish water, they will not compete with our conventional crops for these limited resources, fertile land and good-quality water for irrigation. The articles included in this Special Issue address these different aspects of halophytes’ research, although most focus on basic studies on salt-tolerance mechanisms. 2023-02-02T16:51:02Z 2023-02-02T16:51:02Z 2023 book ONIX_20230202_9783036565736_182 9783036565736 9783036565729 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96781 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6727 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6727 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6572-9 10.3390/books978-3-0365-6572-9 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036565736 9783036565729 268 Basel open access |
| spellingShingle | halophytes Amaranthaceae salinity antioxidant enzymes phenolic compounds salt stress growth responses ion accumulation osmolytes oxidative stress biomarkers antioxidants climate change growth osmolyte accumulation phytohormones polyamines salicylic acid biosaline agriculture salt tolerance osmotic stress pre-conditioning intraspecific variability bioactive compounds flavonoids fatty acids Suaeda physiology oxidative stress potential toxic elements betacyanin carbon nitrogen phytoremediation rice halophyte root microelectrode ion flux MIFE transporters inflorescences ion localization forage legumes ions mineral nutrition salinity tolerance strawberry clover morphology anatomy catalase peroxidase hydrogen peroxide chlorophyll content Sarcocornia fruticosa Salicornia europaea Salicornia veneta drought stress stress recovery ion transport oxidative stress markers salt glands recretohalophytes endemism water deficit osmolytes accumulation drought tolerance conservation programmes climate emergency crops’ wild relatives glycophytes salt tolerance mechanisms thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciences Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change |
| title | Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change |
| title_full | Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change |
| title_fullStr | Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change |
| title_short | Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change |
| title_sort | wild halophytes tools for understanding salt tolerance mechanisms of plants and for adapting agriculture to climate change |
| topic | halophytes Amaranthaceae salinity antioxidant enzymes phenolic compounds salt stress growth responses ion accumulation osmolytes oxidative stress biomarkers antioxidants climate change growth osmolyte accumulation phytohormones polyamines salicylic acid biosaline agriculture salt tolerance osmotic stress pre-conditioning intraspecific variability bioactive compounds flavonoids fatty acids Suaeda physiology oxidative stress potential toxic elements betacyanin carbon nitrogen phytoremediation rice halophyte root microelectrode ion flux MIFE transporters inflorescences ion localization forage legumes ions mineral nutrition salinity tolerance strawberry clover morphology anatomy catalase peroxidase hydrogen peroxide chlorophyll content Sarcocornia fruticosa Salicornia europaea Salicornia veneta drought stress stress recovery ion transport oxidative stress markers salt glands recretohalophytes endemism water deficit osmolytes accumulation drought tolerance conservation programmes climate emergency crops’ wild relatives glycophytes salt tolerance mechanisms thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciences |
| topic_facet | halophytes Amaranthaceae salinity antioxidant enzymes phenolic compounds salt stress growth responses ion accumulation osmolytes oxidative stress biomarkers antioxidants climate change growth osmolyte accumulation phytohormones polyamines salicylic acid biosaline agriculture salt tolerance osmotic stress pre-conditioning intraspecific variability bioactive compounds flavonoids fatty acids Suaeda physiology oxidative stress potential toxic elements betacyanin carbon nitrogen phytoremediation rice halophyte root microelectrode ion flux MIFE transporters inflorescences ion localization forage legumes ions mineral nutrition salinity tolerance strawberry clover morphology anatomy catalase peroxidase hydrogen peroxide chlorophyll content Sarcocornia fruticosa Salicornia europaea Salicornia veneta drought stress stress recovery ion transport oxidative stress markers salt glands recretohalophytes endemism water deficit osmolytes accumulation drought tolerance conservation programmes climate emergency crops’ wild relatives glycophytes salt tolerance mechanisms thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciences |
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