Economic Utilization and Potential of Halophytes

Devi, Sarita; Arya, S.; Kumari, Anita; Kumar, Neeraj; Chand, Gurdev; Mann, Anita; Goyal, Vinod; Pooja, .

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-3762-8_9

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“…Besides their use as fodder [79], halophytes can also be used to produce a variety of food products, including vegetables and grains [7]. Many halophytes such as quinoa, Purslane, and Salicornia have already gained popularity as alternative food crops [7,63,147,148]. In fact, quinoa grains are now widely sold and considered a super-food with multiple benefits [149,150].…”

Section: Potential Uses and Importance Of Halophytes For Human Welfarementioning

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Exploring the Potentials of Halophytes in Addressing Climate Change-Related Issues: A Synthesis of Their Biological, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Aspects

Hameed,

Hussain,

Rasheed

et al. 2024

World

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Halophytes are naturally salt-tolerant plants with immense potential to become alternate crops for saline lands. While their economic benefits have gained increasing attention, often, the roles of halophytes in addressing different climate change-related issues are overlooked. Halophytes can be a renewable resource for clean ‘carbon-neutral’ energy by serving as biofuel or biogas feedstock, help in the sequestration of rising CO2 as well as the phytoremediation of various pollutants, can be a good source of food and fodder thereby help in achieving food security in arid/saline areas, can help in protection and biodiversity conservation in various ecosystems, and can provide livelihood to poor local communities inhabiting barren lands. This review also attempts to highlight various usages of halophytes in connection with a global change perspective. However, there are still many challenges such as economic viability, customer preferences, environmental impacts, and scale-up challenges, which need further research, innovation, effective policies, and collaboration. In general, this review provides a synthesis of various biological, environmental, and socioeconomic aspects of halophytes to fully exploit the potential of halophytes for human welfare and combating global climate changes.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Potentials of Halophytes in Addressing Climate Change-Related Issues: A Synthesis of Their Biological, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Aspects

Hameed,

Hussain,

Rasheed

et al. 2024

World

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“…Many of these are even cultivated, Salicornia cultivation is considered to be economically profitable since it is harvested as selenium-rich animal feed. Pulp from Phragmites karka, Juncus rigidus, and Suaeda maritima has been used in western part of the country to make paper (Joshi 2011;Devi et al 2019). In order to cope with stress conditions, halophytes naturally synthesize several imperative metabolites like amino acids, proteins, sugars, polyphenols, and antioxidants that could provide several nutritional and health-promoting benefits for the human beings.…”

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“…Halophytes coincidentally are the only plants, which can successfully perpetuate and survive in such type of hypersaline habitats in nature. It is widely accepted that large number of halophytes can be used to increase the productivity of hypersaline lands and provide several economic benefits to the local inhabitants (Hasanuzzaman et al 2014;Devi et al 2019). In India, salt flats are frequently occurring in both the coastal and inland saline regions.…”

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Halophytic Plant Existence in Indian Salt Flats: Biodiversity, Biology, and Uses

Joshi

Kanthaliya

Arora

2020

Handbook of Halophytes

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Halophytes constitute a fascinating group of higher plants which exhibits unique morphological, anatomical, and physiological adaption in order to perpetuate and survive in highly saline conditions. India has significantly large extend of saline land under coastal and inland regions where both the natural and anthropogenic practices resulted in extensive salt flats. The coastal salt flats are distributed irregularly over the East and West coast. Salinity is due to abundance of NaCl and Na 2 SO 4 salts and reaches up to 70 dS m À1 EC values during the summer. The dominant vegetation cover includes true halophytes (Sesuvium spp., Suaeda spp.), seagrasses (Ruppia spp.), and mangroves (Avicennia spp., Rhizophora spp.). Such halophytic life forms are imperative for the estuarine food web and typically used by the local inhabitant for food, fodder, fuel and fiber production.

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