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Cross-tolerance to abiotic stresses in halophytes: application for phytoremediation of organic pollutants

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Halophytes are plants able to tolerate high salt concentrations but no clear definition was retained for them. In literature, there are more studies that showed salt-enhanced tolerance to other abiotic stresses compared to investigations that found enhanced salt tolerance by other abiotic stresses in halophytes. The phenomenon by which a plant resistance to a stress induces resistance to another is referred to as cross-tolerance. In this work, we reviewed cross-tolerance in halophytes at the physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. A special attention was accorded to the cross-tolerance between salinity and organic pollutants that could allow halophytes a higher potential of xenobiotic phytoremediation in comparison with glycophytes.

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Shiri, M., Rabhi, M., El Amrani, A. et al. Cross-tolerance to abiotic stresses in halophytes: application for phytoremediation of organic pollutants. Acta Physiol Plant 37, 209 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-015-1954-0

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