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The deleterious effects owing to the presence of salt in the plants’ environment could be resumed in three points: (i) a water stress, resulting from the decrease of the water availability, following to the lowering of water potential in the medium with regard to the plant’s tissues, (ii) a toxic action which disrupts the metabolic activity of the cell and (iii) a nutritional stress generated by high-salt concentrations (Bajji et al., 1998). For example, Na+ competes for the absorption sites with K+ and Ca++, and Cl− with nitrates and phosphate. On the other hand, salinity affects several and important metabolic processes in the plant, as the absorption of water and nutrients, the osmotic adjustment, photosynthesis, but also the protein synthesis and enzyme activity (Levigneron et al., 1995).
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Debez, A., Chaibi, W., Bouzid, S. (2003). Physiological responses and structural modifications in Atriplex halimus L. plants exposed to salinity. In: Lieth, H., Mochtchenko, M. (eds) Cash Crop Halophytes: Recent Studies. Tasks for Vegetation Science, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0211-9_2
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