Biodiversity, utilization and management of grasslands of salt affected soils in Serbia

Dajić-Stevanović, Zora; Pećinar, Ilinka; Kresovic, Mirjana; Vrbničanin, Sava; Tomovic, Lj.

doi:10.1556/comec.9.2008.s.15

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“…10,000 km 2 in the Carpathian Basin. The major part, up to 95%, is located in the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld), in Central and SE Hungary (Molnár et al 2008;Tóth et al 2015), and also in adjacent regions: in the Pannonian plain, in the Vojvodina Province, N Serbia (1530 km 2 ), and in the Transylvania Province in W Romania (200 km 2 ) (Dajić-Stevanović et al 2008;Dumitru et al 2009). The second, much smaller area is the Little Hungarian Plain situated in the NW part of the basin: around the Neusiedler See in E Austria (25 km 2 ), in SE Moravia (today only very small fragments), and in the Podunajská nížina Lowland in SW Slovakia (80 km 2 ) (Sádovský et al 2004;Chytrý 2012).…”

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Halophytic Vegetation in the Pannonian Basin: Origin, Syntaxonomy, Threat, and Conservation

Eliáš¹,

Dítě²,

Dítě³

2020

Handbook of Halophytes

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After the Pannonian Sea has dried up, the Pannonian Basin has become a major depression in Central Europe. The continental climate and intensive groundwater evaporation from the upper layers of the soil caused the accumulation of salts and the formation of Solonchak and Solonetz soil. A mosaic of very specific halophytic vegetation has developed on these soils. Pioneer, species-poor vegetation of annual succulents of the Therosalicornietea class occupy the exposed bottoms of salt marshes and inland salt lakes. Very similar vegetation of the class Crypsietea aculeatae is developed in periodically flooded bare shores and bottoms of salt lakes, dead oxbows, ponds, and terrain depressions. Typical vegetation of inland salt steppes is included in the class Festuco-Puccinellietea, while

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Section: Origin and Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Halophytic Vegetation in the Pannonian Basin: Origin, Syntaxonomy, Threat, and Conservation

Eliáš¹,

Dítě²,

Dítě³

2020

Handbook of Halophytes

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“…Some of plants successfully grow on low soil pH, while other prefer neutral or slightly-alkaline environment. The same situation is with the species that naturally inhabit the saline habitats, including chamomile, yarrow, pennyroyal and some others (Dajic-Stevanovic et al 2008, being able for cultivation on slightly salt effected soils.…”

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Challenges and Decision Making in Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Dajić-Stevanović

Pljevljakušić

2015

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World

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Cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAP) today is not only a promising alternative and counterpoint to wild collection, enabling preservation of natural genetic variability and survival of rare, endemic, vulnerable and endangered species, but also represents a powerful economy branch providing the high class quality raw material for pharmaceutical, cosmetic and the food industry. Domestication and cultivation of most of medicinal plants, usually conceived as a minor crops, face with many challenges on small, medium and large scale production, relating both cultivation technologies and market and prices fluctuations. Cultivated MAP material is increasingly preferred by the herbal industry, because it is easier to predict plant yield, quality and drug composition, especially when compared with wild harvested raw materials. In case of cultivated MAP material, the possibility of plant misidentification and adulteration is excluded. The profitability of cultivation of medicinal plants compete with profit achievable for standard field crops for which already exist a specialized machinery and a standard procedure for application of fertilizers and agrochemicals to control weeds, pests and diseases. For successful large scale cultivation of MAP, the high quality raw material should be produced using low input cultivation methods to be competitive at the international market and with plants collected from the wild. The most common issues with which the producers of medicinal plants encountered are the market, abundance and accessibility of wild populations, agro-environmental conditions, labor availability and costs, investments in machinery, post-harvest processing, and profitability of production. Superior genotypes are very important for profitable production of the high quality medicinal plants' row material. Out of all cultivated medicinal plant species, only a small percentage is clearly genetically defined and represented on the seed market in term of variety. Similarly to the other crops, traditional breeding methods, as well as biotechnological procedures and selection assisted by molecular markers are applied in development of new varieties and Mapping of genes and specific DNA sequences involved in biosynthesis of particular metabolite classes seems to be a future challenge in MAP breeding programs. Most of actual research is focused on genetic variability among different taxa of medicinal plants using several types of DNA markers, including restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), amplified fragment length polymorphic DNA (AFLP), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), cleavage amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS), simple sequence repeat (SSR), and sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers. Although the primary target for trait manipulation in medicinal plants is the content of active compounds, for development as crops, basic agronomic characters related to uniformity, stability, growth and development, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, must also be impro...

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“…The quality of biomass from saline ecosystems used for grazing is determined by presence of grass species such as Puccinellia limosa, Festuca pseudovina, Agrostis stolonifera, etc. and the legume species (e.g., Trifolium fragiferum, Trifolium angulatum, Trifolium striatum) which are evaluated as species of good pastoral quality (Dajic Stevanovic et al 2008). It was shown that for salt-tolerant grassland plants, pastoral value mostly ranged between non-significant ("useless") and good; some moderately tolerant species (e.g., Achillea millefolium subsp.…”

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“…Salinity and moisture are key factors in distribution of halophytic vegetation. However, there are different human influences concerning the patterns and distribution of saline habitats, in first the soil amelioration, drainage, and irrigation, which significantly change the water regime, salinity level, and salt composition in the soil (Dajic Stevanovic et al 2008).…”

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Management and Ecosystem Services of Halophytic Vegetation

Luković

Aćić

Šoštarić

et al. 2020

Handbook of Halophytes

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Saline habitats as primary type of ecologically valuable ecosystems play an important role in the range of ecosystem services from supporting and regulating to provisioning and cultural. The aim of this chapter is to overview the main groups of ecosystem services relevant to saline ecosystems. Main characteristics of saline habitats include the presence of salt-tolerant plants and halophytic vegetation occurring on different salt-affected soils. Halophytes have certain commercial use and value, as food, fodder, and source of fiber, highly nutritious oilseeds, biomass, etc. Of particular interest is potential of halophytes to produce bioactive metabolites, which can be used in production of pharmaceuticals and food additives and natural herbal remedies and similar products. Although some

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Biodiversity, utilization and management of grasslands of salt affected soils in Serbia

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

Halophytic Vegetation in the Pannonian Basin: Origin, Syntaxonomy, Threat, and Conservation

Halophytic Vegetation in the Pannonian Basin: Origin, Syntaxonomy, Threat, and Conservation

Challenges and Decision Making in Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

Management and Ecosystem Services of Halophytic Vegetation

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