Plant salt tolerance: adaptations in halophytes

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Authors

T. J. Flowers · University of Western Australia

Timothy D. Colmer · University of Western Australia

Abstract

Halophytes will play increasingly important roles as models for understanding plant salt tolerance, as genetic resources contributing towards the goal of improvement of salt tolerance in some crops, for re-vegetation of saline lands, and as 'niche crops' in their own right for landscapes with saline soils.

Topics & Keywords

Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance Plant responses to water stress Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life below water

Publication Details

Published in: Annals of Botany

Volume 115, Issue 3, pp. 327-331

DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu267

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