Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security

Minmin Liu, Ting Pan, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev, Min Yu, Sergey Shabala

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Abstract

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 wild relatives but lost during domestication.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)630-634
Number of pages5
JournalTrends in Plant Science
Volume25
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2020
Externally publishedYes

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