Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security

This work analyzes the current trends in land salinization and its impact on the global food security. It is argued that reliance on salt-excluding crops is counterproductive and environmentally unsustainable. New breeding paradigms are required to incorporate halophytic traits that were present in...

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Published in:	Trends in plant science Vol. 25; no. 7; pp. 630 - 634
Main Authors:	Liu, Minmin, Pan, Ting, Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I., Yu, Min, Shabala, Sergey
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2020 Elsevier BV
Subjects:	crops Domestication Food security halophytes Salinization soil salinization wild relatives
ISSN:	1360-1385, 1878-4372, 1878-4372
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