Recent Advances in Molecular Breeding of Forage Crops For Improved Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance

Zhang, Jiyi; Wang, Zeng‐Yu

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5578-2_32

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“…Different researchers (Dagar 2003;Ashraf et al 2010) have identified many genera with salt tolerance potential; however, their suitability for cultivation depends on the products they contain, such as alkaloids, resins, essential oils, pharmaceutical compounds, feedstock materials, and other unusual compounds (Ashraf et al 2012b). The available literature shows that about 2600 halophytic plant species have been identified, but very few of them have been studied comprehensively for their utility as agricultural and biological resources with economical potential for utilization as food, fodder, oils, flavorings, gums, resins, pharmaceutical compounds, and fibers (Jaradat 2003), or their environmental potential for protection and conservation of ecosystems (Alsharhan et al 2003;Zhang et al 2007;Ashraf et al 2012a). As the world's human population is growing very quickly, the available land and water resources cannot fully sustain it, and prime farmland and freshwater are already fully utilized.…”

Section: Salt-tolerant Plantsmentioning

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Economic Utilization of Salt-Affected Wasteland for Plant Production

Ashraf

Awan

Anwar

et al. 2020

Handbook of Halophytes

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The present world population is over 7.7 billion and is growing by the minute. The need to fulfill demands for food, animal fodder, and industrial raw materials is one of the biggest challenges of this century, as is the increase in global pollution. As limited land and water resources are available, strategies are required to use these resources very carefully. More than 1 billion hectares of land worldwide are salt affected and barren. These lands are poor in fertility and unfit for conventional agricultural crop production. Irrigation without proper drainage arrangements causes waterlogging and secondary salinization. The scientific literature indicates that the groundwater of saline lands is brackish and injurious for plant production. To utilize salt-affected wasteland under a sustainable productive system by using brackish groundwater, the Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) in Faisalabad, Pakistan, has developed "biosaline agriculture technology" for economic utilization of salt-affected wasteland and brackish groundwater for self-sustaining plant production. This chapter describes how salt-affected wasteland can be reclaimed by use of salt-tolerant plants (halophytes) of high economic value. This technology has been demonstrated at the NIAB's Biosaline Research Station located near the village of Pakka Anna in a rural area 50 km away from Faisalabad. At the station, saline agroforestry, cultivation of forage grasses as fodder for grazing animals, fruit trees, medicinal plants and other nonconventional crops, fish aquaculture technology, honeybee culture, charcoal production from waste wood, extraction of essential oil from Eucalyptus, etc. are demonstrated. All of these technologies are discussed briefly in this chapter.

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Section: Salt-tolerant Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Utilization of Salt-Affected Wasteland for Plant Production

Ashraf

Awan

Anwar

et al. 2020

Handbook of Halophytes

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“…seawaterfoundation.org) represents an example of how to convert a decertified region into a useful soil. About 2600 halophytic species are known and only few are extensively studied for their potential in agriculture and as biological resources with economical potential as source of food, oils, flavours, gums, resins, pharmaceuticals, and fibres [8,[14][15][16], or with environmental potential for protection and conservation of ecosystems [17][18][19]. While documenting biodiversity of halophytes, Dagar and Singh [11] reported 1140 salt-tolerant flowering species under 541 genera and 131 flowering families from Indian salt-affected and waterlogged habitats; out of which 988 having economic uses.…”

Section: Potential Salt-tolerant Resourcesmentioning

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Recent trend in climate variability poses a serious threat to sustainability of agriculture, hence food security across the globe especially in developing countries. Land degradation due to salinity and waterlogging, land fragmentation, labour problems and over exploitation of natural resources, further accentuates situation in these countries. Nearly 1 billion hectares of arid and semiarid areas of the world are salt-affected and remain barren due to salinity UPINE PUBLISHERS

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“…The sustainable use of halophytes has multiple purposes as stimulating productive ecosystems and regreening degraded areas. About 2,600 halophytic species are known and only few are extensively studied for their potential in agriculture and as biological resources with economical potential as sources of oils, flavours, gums, resins, oils, pharmaceuticals, and fibbers [5], or with environmental potential for protection and conservation of ecosystems (e.g., improvement of soil structure and fertility, habitat for wildlife, source of biomass for the production of biodiesel) [40,41].…”

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Saline Agriculture in the 21st Century: Using Salt Contaminated Resources to Cope Food Requirements

Ladeiro¹

2012

Journal of Botany

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With the continue increase of the world population the requirements for food, freshwater, and fuel are bigger every day. This way an urgent necessity to develop, create, and practice a new type of agriculture, which has to be environmentally sustainable and adequate to the soils, is arising. Among the stresses in plant agriculture worldwide, the increase of soil salinity is considered the major stress. This is particularly emerging in developing countries that present the highest population growth rates, and often the high rates of soil degradation. Therefore, salt-tolerant plants provide a sensible alternative for many developing countries. These plants have the capacity to grow using land and water unsuitable for conventional crops producing food, fuel, fodder, fibber, resin, essential oils, and pharmaceutical products. In addition to their production capabilities they can be used simultaneously for landscape reintegration and soil rehabilitation. This review will cover important subjects concerning saline agriculture and the crop potential of halophytes to use salt-contaminated resources to manage food requirements.

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Recent Advances in Molecular Breeding of Forage Crops For Improved Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance

Cited by 7 publications

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Economic Utilization of Salt-Affected Wasteland for Plant Production

Economic Utilization of Salt-Affected Wasteland for Plant Production

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Saline Agriculture in the 21st Century: Using Salt Contaminated Resources to Cope Food Requirements

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