Overview
- Ecophysiology of plants adapted to saline areas
- Halophytes useful for desalinisation of soil
- Salt tolerant grasses that survive in desert regions
- Seed germination strategies of salt tolerant plants
- Halophytic turfs for golf utilizing saline irrigation up to seawater salinity
- Halophytes for floriculture
Part of the book series: Tasks for Vegetation Science (TAVS, volume 40)
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The halophytes are highly specialized plants, which have greater tolerance to salt. They can germinate, grow and reproduce successfully in saline areas which would cause the death of regular plants. Most halophytic species are found in salt marsh systems along seashores or around landlocked inland lakes and flat plains with high evaporation. The halophytes play very significant role in the saline areas specially in the coast by overcoming the salinity in different ways, viz. with regulating mechanisms in which excess salts are excreted and with out regulating mechanism, which may include succulents or cumulative types. Besides that they protect coast from erosion and cyclones, provide feeding ground and nursery for fish, shrimps and birds. Halophytes get increasing attention today because of the steady increase of the salinity in irrigation systems in the arid and semi-arid regions where the increasing population reaches the limits of freshwater availability. In many countries, halophytes have been successfully grown on saline wasteland to provide animal fodder and have the potential for rehabilitation and even reclamation of these sites. The value of certain salt-tolerant grass species has been recognized by their incorporation in pasture improvement programs in many salt affected regions throughout the world. There have been recent advances in selecting species with high biomass and protein levels in combination with their ability to survive a wide range of environmental conditions, including salinity.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecophysiology of High Salinity Tolerant Plants
Editors: M. Ajmal Khan, Darrell J. Weber
Series Title: Tasks for Vegetation Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4018-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4017-7Published: 09 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9298-5Published: 10 October 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4018-4Published: 16 May 2006
Series ISSN: 0167-9406
Series E-ISSN: 1875-130X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 399
Topics: Ecology, Plant Sciences, Landscape Ecology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology