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Do Halophytes Really Require Salts for Their Growth and Development? An Experimental Approach

AutorGrigore, Marius Nicusor; Villanueva, Marta; Boscaiu, Mónica; Vicente, Óscar CSIC ORCID
Palabras claveInula crithmoides
Medicago marina
Plantago crassifolia
Sand dunes
Fecha de publicaciónabr-2012
EditorAcademic Press
CitaciónNot.Sci.Biol. 4/2: 23-29 (2012)
ResumenHalophytes are salt-tolerant plants found exclusively in habitats with high levels of soil salinity. It is generally assumed that salt stress is the most important limiting factor for plant growth in natural saline environments, and that halophytes have developed specific adaptations to elevated salinity which make them unfitted to grow in the absence of salt, thus explaining their distribution in nature. To address experimentally this question, two halophytic species (Inula crithmoides L. and Plantago crassifolia Forssk.) and a maritime dune species (Medicago marina L.) were grown in the greenhouse for several weeks in different substrates: peat, vegetable garden soil, saline soil and sand from maritime dunes. Measurements of growth parameters number of leaves, plant length, fresh and dry weights showed that all three species grew much better on the salt-free and nutrient-rich substrates, peat and garden soil, than on saline soil and dune sand. These results indicate that salts are not compulsorily required for development of halophytic species, and suggest that limitation of water and nutrients, rather than soil salinity per se, are the most important restrictive factors for plant growth in saline habitats. The distribution of halophytes in nature is probably dependent on their limited ability to compete with glycophytes in non-saline areas, while remaining highly competitive under environmental conditions stressful for non-tolerant species.
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/77739
ISSN2067-3205
E-ISSN2067-3264
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