Abstract
Increasing salinity levels in soils and/or irrigation water constitute a significant environmental problem that can lead to a loss of agricultural production in arid and semi-arid lands in the world (Kennedy and De Filippis, 1999). At the Mediterranean basin scale, salt-affected lands amount to about 15 × 106 ha and are mainly located in Northern Africa and the Near and Middle East (Le Houérou, 1986). Salinity can affect plant survival, biomass, plant height and plant form. Such changes in morphology affect the capacity of a plant to collect light, water and nutrients (Locy et al., 1996). In fact, salt interaction with physiological and metabolic processes in the plant is complex, depending on salt type and dose, plant genotype and developmental stage (Meneguzzo et al., 1999).
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Debez, A., Hamed, K.B., Abdelly, C. (2003). Some physiological and biochemical aspects of salt tolerance in two oleaginous halophytes: Cakile maritima and Crithmum maritimum . 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_3
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