Wild Halophytes: Tools for Understanding Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants and for Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

• Other Authors: Vicente, Oscar (Editor), Grigore‬, Marius-Nicusor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Botany & plant sciences; 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
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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...