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Molecular Responses of Halophytes to High Salinity

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Progress in Botany

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Excess amounts of salt (NaCl) occur as an abiotic environmental factor in certain habitats, e.g. as salt deserts in arid and semiarid areas, in coastal salt marshes, and along inland saline lakes. Next to the natural occurrence of salinity, salinization of soils has increasingly become a crucial problem for agriculture during the last decades. Salinization affects soils in particular in arid and semi-arid regions as well as in irrigated agronomic areas. For irrigation, availability of high-quality freshwater is often limited and water-containing traces of salt is used instead. Besides, salts are dissolved by irrigation within soil profiles, leading to increased accumulation in the soil surface layers.

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Golldack, D. (2004). Molecular Responses of Halophytes to High Salinity. In: Esser, K., Lüttge, U., Beyschlag, W., Murata, J. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18819-0_9

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