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Potential Use of Halophytes to Remediate Saline Soils . (Hasanuzzaman, Mirza.)

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Potential Use of Halophytes to Remediate Saline Soils .
Author:	Hasanuzzaman, Mirza. Search Author in Amazon Books
Publisher:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation,

Edition:	2014.
Classification:	T173.8
URL:	http://library.neu.edu.tr:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/589341

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- 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 should be brought under utilization where there are options for removing salinity or using the salt-tolerant crops. Use of salt-tolerant crops does not remove the salt and hence halophytes that have capacity to accumulate and exclude the salt can be an effective way. Methods for salt removal include agronomic practices or phytoremediation. Thefirst is cost-and labor-intensive and needs some developmental strategies for implication; on the contrary, the phytoremediation by halophyte is more suitable as it can be executed very easily without those problems. Several halophyte species including grasses, shrubs, and trees can remove the salt from different kinds of salt-affected problematic soils through salt excluding, excreting, or accumulating by their morphological, anatomical, physiological adaptation in their organelle level and cellular level. Exploiting halophytes for reducing salinity can be good sources formeeting the basic needs of people in salt-affected areas as well. This review focuses on the special adaptive features of halophytic plants under saline condition and the possible ways to utilize these plants to remediate salinity.