Under climate change, both rising sea levels and increasing drought and temperature, increase soil salinity. This is a problem affecting more and more areas all over the world. The salt-contaminated soils, degraded and marginalized regions should be valorized and put to use as promising areas for valuable resources. This could be achieved using halophytes plants, exploiting their ability to respond to salt stress factors in the short-term by complex acclimation processes and in the long-term by developing adaptation strategies. Consequently, exploring halophytes for breeding purposes, and developing a halophyte-based agriculture requires
1) An understanding of halophytes’ salt tolerance mechanisms,
2) The identification of pertinent traits that could be used for improving crop salt tolerance and productivity
3) An exploration of the potential use of halophytes
In this Research Topic, we welcome high-quality original research articles, reviews and all article types covering potential topics related to halophytes including but not limited to the following:
• Salt stress mechanisms from cell to the whole plant;
• Physiological adaptations, ion homeostasis and water relations traits in halophytes;
• Vascular system plasticity and morpho-anatomical adaptations supported by histochemical and omics investigations under salt stress;
• Biochemical adaptations, histochemical/cellular analysis, secondary metabolites and antioxidative defense under salinity conditions;
•Omic based approaches such as proteomics, metabolomic, and transcriptomics for understanding mechanisms adaptations of halophytes;
• Use of halophyte plants in food and feed;
• Restoration and rehabilitation of salt-contaminated soils.
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses .
Under climate change, both rising sea levels and increasing drought and temperature, increase soil salinity. This is a problem affecting more and more areas all over the world. The salt-contaminated soils, degraded and marginalized regions should be valorized and put to use as promising areas for valuable resources. This could be achieved using halophytes plants, exploiting their ability to respond to salt stress factors in the short-term by complex acclimation processes and in the long-term by developing adaptation strategies. Consequently, exploring halophytes for breeding purposes, and developing a halophyte-based agriculture requires
1) An understanding of halophytes’ salt tolerance mechanisms,
2) The identification of pertinent traits that could be used for improving crop salt tolerance and productivity
3) An exploration of the potential use of halophytes
In this Research Topic, we welcome high-quality original research articles, reviews and all article types covering potential topics related to halophytes including but not limited to the following:
• Salt stress mechanisms from cell to the whole plant;
• Physiological adaptations, ion homeostasis and water relations traits in halophytes;
• Vascular system plasticity and morpho-anatomical adaptations supported by histochemical and omics investigations under salt stress;
• Biochemical adaptations, histochemical/cellular analysis, secondary metabolites and antioxidative defense under salinity conditions;
•Omic based approaches such as proteomics, metabolomic, and transcriptomics for understanding mechanisms adaptations of halophytes;
• Use of halophyte plants in food and feed;
• Restoration and rehabilitation of salt-contaminated soils.
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses .
