Evolution of halophytes: multiple origins of salt tolerance in land plants
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Salt Tolerance and Crop Potential of Halophytes
Although they represent only 2% of terrestrial plant species, halophytes are present in about half the higher plant families and represent a wide diversity of plant forms. Despite their polyphyletic origins, halophytes appear to have evolved the same basic method of osmotic adjustment: accumulation of inorganic salts, mainly NaCl, in the vacuole and accumulation of organic solutes in the cytopl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Functional Plant Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1445-4408
DOI: 10.1071/fp09269