Recent Advances in Halophytes Plants
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecology Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 18332
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Plant Biodiversity and ethnobotany ;Ecology and physiology of halophytic plants; Environmental Education
Interests: organic chemistry; medicinal chemistry; biotransformations; natural products; plant chemical profile; sustainable chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Halophytes are plants that can be developed and reproduce with repeated exposure to seawater or salinized lands. Although they represent less than 1% of the plant species on the Earth, in the last 20 years much has been published in order to understand the ecophysiological mechanisms of these plants mostly (a) as crucial players in salt marshes ecosystems preservation in face of climate changes; (b) as promising candidates for alternative crops to face the increasing of salinized and arid soils.
Moreover, improved knowledge concerning halophytes remains of crucial interest in many subjects of the applied sciences so that the potential of these plants can be explored in an sustainable manner, as: (1) consolidation of the agroecological practices concerning new solutions for degraded lands; (2) the use of the halophytes and its associated rhizosphere microbiomes as “model” plants for the adaptation of the non-halophytes species crops in face of the increasing of salinized soils; (3) the unexplored metabolome produced by halophytes and its economic potential in food and medicine like as nutraceuticals, functional food proposes or its biological activities; (4) biomass residues of halophytes for production of bioenergy.
Thus, this Special Issue is devoted to the many potential applications of halophytes in the scope of the applied sciences, so the combined approaches between plants and other complementary research areas are welcome, such as phytochemistry, microbiology, among others.
Dr. Helena Silva
Dr. Diana Cláudia Pinto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- saline crops
- salinized crops
- rhizosphere microbiome
- biological activities
- phytochemistry
- plant metabolites
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