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Dov Pasternak
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The Institutes for Applied Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Anthony San Pietro
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Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
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Historically, scientists and laymen have regarded salinity as a hazar dous, detrimental phenomenon. This negative view was a principal reason for the lack of agricultural development of most arid and semi arid zones of the world where the major sources of water for biological production are saline. The late Hugo Boyko was probably the first scientist in recent times to challenge this commonly held, pessimistic view of salinity. His research in Israel indicated that many plants can be irrigated with saline water, even at seawater strength, if they are in sandy soil - a technique that could open much barren land to agriculture. This new, even radical, approach to salinity was clearly enunciated in the book he edited and most appropriately entitled 'Salinity and Aridity: New Approaches to Old Problems' (1966). A decade later, three members of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), Lewis Mayfield, James Aller and Oskar Zaborsky, formulated the 'Biosaline Concept'; namely, that poor soils, high solar insolation and saline water, which prevail in arid lands, should be viewed as useful resources rather than as disadvantages, and that these resources can be used for non-traditional production of food, fuels and chemicals. The First International Workshop on Biosaline Research was con vened at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, in 1977 by A. San Pietro.
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Mechanisms of salt tolerance in algae and terrestrial plants
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- J. Gorham, R. G. Wyn Jones, E. McDonnell
Pages 15-40
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- L. G. Paleg, G. R. Stewart, R. Starr
Pages 83-94
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Production of micro and macroalgae with saline water
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- R. H. Reed, S. R. C. Warr, D. L. Richardson, D. J. Moore, W. D. P. Stewart
Pages 97-106
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- Rachel Gabbay, Elisha Tel-Or
Pages 107-116
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- Shoshana Arad, Michel Adda, Ephraim Cohen
Pages 117-127
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- Avigad Vonshak, Amos Richmond
Pages 129-135
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Crop production with saline water
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Front Matter
Pages 185-185
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- P. Spiegel-Roy, Gozal Ben-Hayyim
Pages 243-252
Editors and Affiliations
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The Institutes for Applied Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Dov Pasternak
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Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Anthony San Pietro