Soil salinization is an environmental problem that adversely affects plant growth and crop productivity worldwide. As alternative to the conventional approach of breeding salt-tolerant cultivars, we explored use plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) from halophytic plants enhance under saline conditions. Here, report effect five PGPR consortia halophytes on eight (alfalfa, flax, maize, mi...

Risk assessment provides the possibility of planning and management to prevent and reduce the risk of desertification. The present study is aimed to assess the hazard and risk of desertification and to develop management programs in the semi-arid western regions of Golestan Province in Iran. Desertification rate was obtained using the Iranian model of desertification potential assessment. Since...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Atriplex (Halimione) portulacoides is a halophytic, C(3) shrub. It is virtually confined to coastal salt marshes, where it often dominates the vegetation. The aim of this study was to investigate its growth responses to salinity and the extent to which these could be explained by photosynthetic physiology. METHODS The responses of young plants to salinity in the range 0-70...

Cortesia is a halophytic and monotypic genus endemic to Argentina that belongs Ehretiaceae (Boraginales). It morphologically distinct from the other members of family in having cuneate leaves with 3-dentate apex, an involucrum fused bracts, spatulate calyx lobes, white drupes two-parted endocarp. Its single species, cuneifolia, here treated illustrated based on study numerous herbarium collecti...

Understanding the mechanisms used by halophytic members of the Poaceae to cope with salt stress will contribute to the knowledge necessary to genetically engineer salt-tolerant crops. In this study, we identified a genotype of Sporobolus virginicus, a halophytic turf grass collected in Japan, and investigated its growth rate, ion concentration and secretion, and proline concentration in compari...