Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security

Liu, Minmin; Pan, Ting; Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I.; Yu, Min; Shabala, Sergey

Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security

2020

Liu, Minmin | Pan, Ting | Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I. | Yu, Min | Shabala, Sergey

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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