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Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security.
Trends in plant science - 1 Jul 2020
Liu Minmin, Pan Ting, Allakhverdiev Suleyman I, Yu Min, Shabala Sergey
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This work analyzes the current trends in land salinization and its impact on the global food security. It is argued that reliance on salt-excluding crops is counterproductive and environmentally unsustainable. New breeding paradigms are required to incorporate halophytic traits that were present in wild relatives but lost during domestication.
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