title: Potential use of halophytes to remediate saline soils.
abstract: Salinity is one of the rising problems causing tremendous yield losses in many regions of the world especially in arid and semiarid regions. To maximize crop productivity, these areas should be brought under utilization where there are options for removing salinity or using the salt-tolerant crops. Use of salt-tolerant crops does not remove the salt and hence halophytes that have capacity to accumulate and exclude the salt can be an effective way. Methods for salt removal include agronomic practices or phytoremediation. The first is cost- and labor-intensive and needs some developmental strategies for implication; on the contrary, the phytoremediation by halophyte is more suitable as it can be executed very easily without those problems. Several halophyte species including grasses, shrubs, and trees can remove the salt from different kinds of salt-affected problematic soils through salt excluding, excreting, or accumulating by their morphological, anatomical, physiological adaptation in their organelle level and cellular level. Exploiting halophytes for reducing salinity can be good sources for meeting the basic needs of people in salt-affected areas as well. This review focuses on the special adaptive features of halophytic plants under saline condition and the possible ways to utilize these plants to remediate salinity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Mirza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasanuzzaman
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, 2393 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan ; Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Kamrun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nahar
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, 2393 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan.
authors.forename: Md Mahabub
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-7245, USA.
authors.forename: Prasanta C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Bhowmik
authors.affiliation: Subtropical Field Science Center, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara City, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan.
authors.forename: Md Amzad
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hossain
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Motior M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500 046, India.
authors.forename: Majeti Narasimha Vara
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Munir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozturk
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, 2393 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan.
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujita
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D054712:Salinity; D055051:Salt-Tolerant Plants / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012987:Soil
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