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    A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt...
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    Soda inermis (category Halophytes)
    annual, succulent shrub that is native to the Mediterranean Basin. It is a halophyte (a salt-tolerant plant) that typically grows in coastal regions and can...
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    Australia, North and South America, and Eurasia. Many Atriplex species are halophytes and are adapted to dry environments with salty soils. The genus Chenopodium...
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    ago. Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees, shrubs and ferns also called halophytes, and are adapted to live in harsh coastal conditions. They contain a complex...
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    groundwater). A plant adapted to saline conditions is called a halophyte. A halophyte which is tolerant to residual sodium carbonate salinity are called...
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    Soda oppositifolia (category Halophytes)
    Soda oppositifolia is a species of halophyte shrub native to the Mediterranean Basin. This annual, woody plant can grow into shrubs up to 2 m tall. It...
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    Coconut (category Halophytes)
    The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. The term "coconut" (or...
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  • halotolerance and is a portion of many words: Halobacteria Haloclasty Halophile Halophyte Halo (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    CO2 and O2) used in respiration and photosynthesis. Salt water plants (halophytes) have additional specialized adaptations, such as the development of special...
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  • conditions, but do not require elevated concentrations of salt for growth. Halophytes are salt-tolerant higher plants. Halotolerant microorganisms are of considerable...
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    of the most successful plants in salt water agriculture is the halophyte. The halophyte is a salt tolerant plant whose cells are resistant to the typically...
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  • halieutic, halite, halochromic, halochromism, halogen, halomancy, halophile, halophyte, oxohalide, thermohaline hal-, -hel- breathe Latin halare, halatus anhelation...
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    Biosaline agriculture (category Halophytes)
    Salt-tolerant plants that flourish in high-salinity conditions are called halophytes. Halophyte implementation has the potential to restore salt-rich environments...
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    wetland plants (e.g., Isoetes, Crassula (Tillaea), Lobelia); and in one halophyte, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum; one non-succulent terrestrial plant, (Dodonaea...
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  • [citation needed] Some of the results are shown in the following table: Halophytes, or salt-loving plants, can be irrigated with pure seawater with the aim...
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  • Eutrema salsugineum (category Halophytes)
    Colorado in the United States, and Nuevo León in Mexico. An extremophile halophyte, it is a close relative of the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and...
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    maintains that barilla (an impure form of sodium carbonate obtained from halophyte plant ashes that were high in sodium) was boiled with locally available...
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    also be stored in old plant tissue, limiting the damage to new growth. Halophytes have adapted to be able to flourish in sodium rich environments. Sodium...
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    Limonium (category Halophytes)
    Limonium is a genus of about 600 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common...
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    Crithmum (category Halophytes)
    The name "samphire" is also used for several other unrelated succulent halophyte species of coastal plant. Crithmum is an edible wild plant. It is found...
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    soda ash have been extracted from the reserves near Ankara. Several "halophyte" (salt-tolerant) plant species and seaweed species can be processed to...
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    Phragmites australis (category Halophytes)
    Phragmites australis, known as the common reed, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae. It is a wetland grass that can grow up to...
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    without displacing land currently used for food production. Oil from halophytes such as Salicornia bigelovii, which can be grown using saltwater in coastal...
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    common inundation of marshlands. These types of plants are called halophytes. Halophytes are a crucial part of salt marsh biodiversity and their potential...
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    pannes and pools are unique microhabitats dominated by various species of halophytes, benthic plants and varying estuarine marine life that vary considerably...
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  • damaging. Halophytes and xerophytes evolved to survive in such environments. Some xerophytes may also be considered halophytes; however, halophytes are not...
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  • halonate Having a transparent coating, or being of a spore's outer layer. halophyte A plant adapted to living in highly saline habitats; a plant that accumulates...
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    Chrysobalanus icaco (category Halophytes)
    Chrysobalanus icaco, the cocoplum, paradise plum, abajeru or icaco, is a low shrub or bushy tree found near sea beaches and inland throughout tropical...
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  • properties, and development of naturally salt-tolerant plant species (halophytes) into useful agricultural crops. See also halophile bacteria, which thrive...
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    propelargonidins responsible for the strong antioxidant activity of the edible halophyte Mesembryanthemum edule L. Hanen Falleh, Samia Oueslati, Sylvain Guyot...
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