Salinity is one of the oldest and most serious environmental problems in world. The increasingly widespread salinization soils water resources represents a growing threat to agriculture around A strategy cope with this problem cultivate salt-tolerant crops and, therefore, it necessary identify plant species that are naturally adapted high-salinity conditions. In review, we focus our attention o...

Cultivated beets, including leaf garden fodder and sugar which belong to the species Beta vulgaris L., are economically important edible crops that have been originated from a halophytic wild ancestor, maritima L. (sea beet or beet). Salt drought major abiotic stresses, limit crop growth production most studied in beets compared other environmental stresses. Characteristically, salt- drought-to...

Australia, the flattest, driest, and geologically oldest vegetated continent, has a uniquely high proportion of nutrient-poor soils. We develop a "Nutrient-Poverty/Intense-Fire Theory," which postulates that most anomalous features of organisms and ecosystems of Australia are the evolutionary consequences of adaptations to nutrient poverty, compounded by intense fire that tends to occur as a re...

Salicornia is a wild and annual (biennial, in some species) halophytic plant from Chenopodiaceae family that grows near salt marshes salted wetlands or the vicinity of coastal areas Asia, North America, Middle East. It also grown semi-arid Iran such as Isfahan, Fars, Yazd provinces. Genetic variability populations, structure were studied 10 geographical populations persica. diversity parameters...

The interaction between roots and bacterial communities in halophytic species is poorly understood. Here, we used Jerusalem artichoke cultivar Nanyu 1 (NY-1) to characterise root distribution patterns and determine diversity and abundance of bacteria in the rhizosphere soil under variable salinity. Root growth was not inhibited within the salinity range 1.2 to 1.9 g salt/kg, but roots were main...