Halophytes are salt-tolerant plants, and they have been utilised as healthy, nutritious vegetables medicinal herbs. Various studies shown halophytes to be rich in health-beneficial compounds with antioxidant activity, anti-inflammatory antimicrobial effects, cytotoxic properties. Despite their potential, these plants still underutilised agriculture industrial applications. This review includes ...

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Urbanization and related anthropogenic modifications cause extent of habitat fragmentation and directly lead to decline of local biodiversity. Conservation biologists advocate corridor creation as one approach to rescue biodiversity. Here we examine the utility of roads as corridors in preserving plant diversity by investigating roadside vegetation in Yellow River Delta (YRD), China. We examine...

We have compared rnetabolic effects of high salinity between plants and cell suspension cultures frorn the facultative halophyte Mlesembt:yanthemum castallinum (common ice plant). This plant shows developrnentally-programmed inducibility for a switch from C3-photosynthesis to CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism). The metabolic switch is enhanced by environrnental factors such as drought, low temp...

A recently-published paper on Tripleurospermum (Asteraceae) gave the impetus to examine a small population of this genus waste ground in Bradford (v.c.63). few plants appeared be T. inodorum (L.) Sch. Bip. (Scentless Mayweed) but others had features both species and maritimum W.D.J. Koch (Sea Mayweed), suggesting hybrid x maritimum. This supports occurrence at inland sites, where any backcrossi...

The comparative effect of the uptake of fresh and degraded detritus of halophytic plants, harvested from salt marches of the Mont Saint-Michel Bay (France), on the growth of a juvenile population of the annelid polychaete N. diversicolor (L.) was studied under experimental conditions in summer 1993. Fresh and degraded detritus of Spartina anglica, Halimione portulacoides and Salicornia europeae...

CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) mediate many plant responses to abiotic stress. However, their functions are poorly understood in halophytes. In this study, we isolated a CIPK gene, NtCIPK2, from the halophyte Nitraria tangutorum. By sequence alignment and the construction of a phylogenetic tree, we found that NtCIPK2 is similar to CIPK2 proteins from other plants, and contains conserve...

To date, no gene expression comparisons have been conducted between highly salt tolerant halophytes and related glycophytes. Therefore, I investigated the effects of salinity on ion accumulation and expression of candidate salt tolerance genes in the highly tolerant salt accumulating halophyte Salicornia dolichostachya and the taxonomically related glycophytic Spinacia oleracea. S. dolichostach...

Atriplex halimus (L.) is a xero-halophyte shrub adapted to extreme drought and salinity stresses. Ability of local A. halimus to tolerate salinity stress was investigated. Two-month-old A. halimus plants were exposed to salt stress (0, 150, 300 and 600 mM NaCl) in properly aerated liquid medium. Differential gene expression of stressed plants was investigated using real-time PCR analysis. Furth...