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The Structural and Functional Characteristics of Asiatic Desert Halophytes for Phytostabilization of Polluted Sites

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Phytoremediation, the use of plants to extract, sequester, and/or detoxify pollutants through biological processes is an effective, in situ, non-intrusive, low-cost, ecologically friendly, socially accepted technology to remediate polluted soils. Crystalline to fibrillar wax formations, appressed to surfaces of guard cells appear to originate from guard cells in the vicinity of the stomatal aperture. Formations may arise from evaporation of plant water at the interface between stomatal antechambers and substomatal cavities, leaving salt ions behind to precipitate. Many questions remain unanswered regarding their ecological and physiological significance as well as their occurrence and prevalence in both time and space. Such functions would be of considerable adaptive value in the light of their possible relationships to the impact of pollutants. An attempt has been made here to address these questions by analysing the morphology of salt glands and intracellular salt crystals using SEM micrographs of Salsola, Eremopyrum, Aeluropus litoralis, Tamarix and other desert plants.

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  1. Deptartment of Desert Ecology and Water Resources Research, Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    K.N. Toderich

  2. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE

    K.N. Toderich & Shoaib Ismail

  3. K.A. Timiriazeva Plant Physiology Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    E.V. Shuyskaya

  4. Yamanashi University, Kofu, Iwakabucho 180, 1014, Japan

    T.M. Khujanazarov

  5. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshiko Kawabata

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Toderich, K., Shuyskaya, E., Khujanazarov, T., Ismail, S., Kawabata, Y. (2010). The Structural and Functional Characteristics of Asiatic Desert Halophytes for Phytostabilization of Polluted Sites. In: Ashraf, M., Ozturk, M., Ahmad, M. (eds) Plant Adaptation and Phytoremediation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9370-7_12

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