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Phytoremediation of Salt-Affected Soils Using Halophytes

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Increases in environmental pollution along with the increase of rapid population growth have now resulted in significant reduction in the agricultural areas and seriously threatened the proposed crop production. Salinization of lands, in particular, has become a major environmental problem and has been considered as one of the most significant issues to be tackled in arid or semi-arid regions of the world. Salinity not only reduces the agricultural crop production but also negatively affects the physicochemical properties of the soil. Achievements in terms of increases in crop production via molecular and biochemical approaches are thought to have reached its proposed plateau; therefore, new alternative methods have to be investigated. One of the most promising and cost-effective approaches to increase the crop productivity is the use of salt-tolerant halophyte plants to remove toxic salt ions from the saline soils. Via this approach, pressure on generating salt-tolerant crop plants would be reduced, and much healthier crop plants would be cultivated in less stressed saline soils. This chapter focused on the potential use of halophytes and their mechanisms to reveal the phytoremediation characteristics, under saline conditions.

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    Murat Dikilitas

  3. Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

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Karakas, S., Dikilitas, M., Tıpırdamaz, R. (2020). Phytoremediation of Salt-Affected Soils Using Halophytes. In: Grigore, MN. (eds) Handbook of Halophytes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17854-3_93-1

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