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Salts as Potential Environmental Pollutants, Their Types, Effects on Plants and Approaches for Their Phytoremediation

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Demand for food dramatically increases as the world gets populated, and this problem is of central attention all over the world. Under these circumstances, the balance between food production and consumption depends on the agricultural productivity. However, an increase in the world population and decrease in the agricultural areas due to many reasons such as industrializations, global warming, use of marginal water etc. have been forcing us to use arable lands efficiently as well as saline-prone areas. Low fertile agricultural areas or non-agricultural areas have to be included into agricultural areas if the food production is to be increased. For this reason, many breeding and amelioration strategies have been evaluated so far, however, a few of them have been found successfully in achieving the goals. Physiological, genetical and biochemical mechanisms in plants are quite complex, therefore, it is very difficult to breed a resistant or tolerant plant against stress. To date, breeding or amelioration strategies have followed one direction, either chemical or biological, they then concentrated on either soil or plant itself, have been tested on a few plants in a few local research stations, e.g., use of mycorrhiza. An amelioration strategy both on soil and plant, which could possibly increase the crop production in saline or polluted areas, enable us to improve soil conditions for a long period of time with little effort and expenses. Salt concentration in the soil could be reduced via drainage as well as using high quality water. On the other hand, economically important crop plants have been bred for their resistance to disease and non-pathogenic stress agents such as drought and salinity and some of them have been made commercially available. However, this has not solved the problem globally, especially for the many crop plants which have to be grown in moderate saline conditions, therefore, an effective alternative approach must be found. In recent years, a new method called “bio-reclamation” or “phytoremediation” has been introduced in many scientific works and reports. It is one of the efficient methods to improve crop production and quality in saline areas aiming to grow halophytes as companion plants with the crop plants. In this chapter, the effect of salt on plants and plant metabolisms and their phytoremediation strategies have been evaluated so that halophytes could possibly be used as companion plants with crop plants without retarding their growth in saline areas.

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Dikilitas, M., Karakas, S. (2010). Salts as Potential Environmental Pollutants, Their Types, Effects on Plants and Approaches for Their Phytoremediation. In: Ashraf, M., Ozturk, M., Ahmad, M. (eds) Plant Adaptation and Phytoremediation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9370-7_16

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