Economic Uses of Salt-Tolerant Plants

Climate change is likely to affect the ability of world agricultural systems provide food, fibre, and fuel for growing population, especially since area salinised land will increase. However, as few species plants (less than 1% all plant species) can tolerate saline soils, we believe it important evaluate their potential crops soils. We have analysed economic uses that are listed in database eHALOPH, including most tolerant species, halophytes. For nine main categories value, found a total 1365 amongst eHALOPH July 2022; this number reduced 918 did not find any obvious differences rankings between more halophytes whole group salt-tolerant plants, where order use was medical, followed by forage, traditional medicine, food drink, fuel, fuelwood, bioenergy. While many potentially crops, effects salt concentration on much less well documented. Increasing increase, decrease, or no effect antioxidants different but there little evidence salinity yield (the product biomass). The forage quality again varies with often being reduced, overall consequences livestock production rarely been evaluated. Salt-tolerant bioremediation degraded (including revegetation, phytoremediation, extraction NaCl) sources biofuels, although water sustainable irrigation must be viewed extreme caution.