Salicornia as a crop plant in temperate regions: selection of genetically characterized ecotypes and optimization of their cultivation conditions

Singh, Devesh; Buhmann, Anne K.; Flowers, T. J.; Seal, Charlotte E.; Papenbrock, Jutta

doi:10.1093/aobpla/plu071

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“…Salicornia is a halophyte genus belonging to the Amaranthaceae family. It is known as pickleweed, glasswort, sea beans, sea asparagus, or crow's foot greens [6]. Besides Salicornia europaea, several other species of Salicornia are well known, such as S. bigelovii, S. brachiata, S. virginica, S. maritima, S. ramosissima, S. herbacea, and S. persica.…”

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Assessing Salicornia europaea Tolerance to Salinity at Seed Germination Stage

Calone¹,

Sanoubar²,

Noli³

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Agriculture

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Salicornia europaea, a halophytic species, was investigated to assess its ability to withstand salinity during seed germination, and to identify suitable indices to interpret salt tolerance at this delicate stage. Seed germination indices (germination percentage (GP), germination energy (GE), germination value (GV), coefficient of germination velocity (CVG), germination rate index (GRI), germination peak value (GPV), mean germination time (MGT), and time to 50% germination (T50)) were calculated under increasing salinity (0, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 600 mM NaCl). Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to describe the relationships involving the variables that account for data variance. Two salinity thresholds were identified (100 and 600 mM NaCl) determining significant decreases in all the indices, except for T50 and MGT. In fact, PCA based on generated correlation circle showed significant negative correlations (r close to −1) between salt stress and GP, GE, GRI, PV, GV, and CVG, whereas no correlation was observed with T50 and MGT (r close to zero). Based on this, GP, GE, GRI, PV, GV, and CVG can be considered useful traits to assess salt tolerance during germination in S. europaea, while T50 and MGT, that were not affected by the range of salinity levels investigated, should not be used for this purpose.

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“…These plants are commonly found at the edges of wetlands, marshes, seashores, and mudflats. They have been reported to be able to tolerate up to 500 mM salinity, as in the case of Salicornia europea [7], and are considered good candidates for reclamation of barren lands, salt flats, and seashores [6].…”

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Assessing Salicornia europaea Tolerance to Salinity at Seed Germination Stage

Calone¹,

Sanoubar²,

Noli³

et al. 2020

Agriculture

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“…Because of their nutritional value, organoleptic properties and palatability, a variety of halophytes are currently used as fodder, food or gourmet vegetables (Ventura, Eshel, Pasternak, & Sagi, ). Being widespread and versatile, in terms of applications, Salicornia species are among the most promising candidates for halophyte crop cultivation (Singh, Buhmann, Flowers, Seal, & Papenbrock, ; Ventura & Sagi, ). S. ramosissima is widely distributed in northwest Europe and can be found in many salt marshes of the Iberian Peninsula (Castroviejo et al, ).…”

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Improved germination efficiency of Salicornia ramosissima seeds inoculated with Bacillus aryabhattai SP1016‐20

Figueira

Ferreira

Silva

2019

Annals of Applied Biology

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Funding information CESAMSaline agriculture and the crop cultivation of halophytes represent an alternative for the reclamation of salinized soils and for the management of irrigation water. Halotolerant plant growth promoting bacteria with biocontrol effect, as an alternative to commercial fungicides, may contribute to improve crop productivity while mitigating saline stress effects. The objective of this work was to isolate autochthonous rhizobacteria with biocontrol features, to be used as germination enhancers and plant-growth promoting agents in the crop cultivation of Salicornia ramosissima. A set of isolates obtained from the rhizosphere of S. ramosissima was characterised in terms of Gram, motility, salt tolerance and biocontrol traits (hydrogen cyanide production, antifungal activity and production of extracellular lipases and proteases). One Gram-positive motile isolate that tested positive for all biocontrol traits was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Bacillus aryabhattai. The inoculation of S. ramosissima seeds with B. aryabhattai SP1016-20 reduced the negative effect of salinity on the germination efficiency. At the highest tested salinity (30 g/L NaCl) the final germination efficiency of inoculated seeds doubled in relation to noninoculated controls. Although the mechanisms involved in the biocontrol effect were not defined in the current work, the results highlight the potential of Bacillus aryabhattai SP1016-20 as a plant-growth promoting agent for the crop cultivation of Salicornia and contribute to the strengthening of the scientific basis of biosaline agriculture and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria-assisted crop cultivation of halophytes in saline soils and estuarine sediments. K E Y W O R D S

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“…Food products prepared from this mangrove associate species can be a new source of income of the people in the community. Salicornia is also a mangrove associate species, which is commonly known as pickleweed, glasswort, sea beans, sea asparagus, crow's foot greens, and samphire and is a halophyte, belonging to Amaranthaceae family (Singh et al, 2014). In fact, Salicornia name has originated from the Latin word meaning 'salt'.…”

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Samosa and Kachuri from Mangrove Associate Species: An Innovative Utilization of Coastal Flora

Biswas¹

2019

IJRASET

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Indian Sundarbans, at the apex of Bay of Bengal sustains a wide variety of mangrove associate species. Salicornia brachiata and Suaeda maritima are two such species found in the supra-littoral zone of Sundarban estuarine mudflats. These two species are used in the present research to prepare common Indian snacks namely samosa and kachuri. The proximate and elemental analyses were carried out with the final products and compared with the control. We observed significant variations in protein, carbohydrate, fat, total fibre, Ca, Na and K between the control samples (in which the mangrove associate species have not been mixed) and final products (in which the mangrove associate species are mixed separately in the ratio 1:1). The increase of Ca, Na and K in the final products clearly depicts the upgradation of samosa and kachuri in terms of essential elements needed for the benefit of human body.

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Salicornia as a crop plant in temperate regions: selection of genetically characterized ecotypes and optimization of their cultivation conditions

Cited by 78 publications

References 39 publications

Assessing Salicornia europaea Tolerance to Salinity at Seed Germination Stage

Assessing Salicornia europaea Tolerance to Salinity at Seed Germination Stage

Improved germination efficiency of Salicornia ramosissima seeds inoculated with Bacillus aryabhattai SP1016‐20

Samosa and Kachuri from Mangrove Associate Species: An Innovative Utilization of Coastal Flora

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