For the purpose of restoring the quality of degraded soils, and agricultural production, I would like to know some plants, whether herbaceous, agricultural or forestry, that have some degree of resistance or tolerance to salinity.
Please see the link below.
http://www.biosalinity.org/salt-tolerant_plants.htm
A good guideline when bioprospecting for plants or microbes is to look for environments with similar physical (soil particle distribution / amount of rain and light) and chemical (pH) characteristics to those you have to work for.
Wet and saline - you could choose mangrove plant species in the tropics.
Dry and saline - desert plant species
Generally weed species are tough. Have a look at what is already growing nearby - use that. Help you plants with probiotics - ie a mixture of nitrogen fixing bacteria and fungi to mobilize phosphorus.
That should do the trick!
Please see the link below.
http://www.biosalinity.org/salt-tolerant_plants.htm
A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores.
FAO Irrigation and Drainage paper No. 48 was summarised the important high tolerant plants, like barly and cotton.
Dear Juan Carlos Torrico
A number of crops such as barley, sugar beet, rye, alfalfa, and the like can be successfully grown in saline soils. The details can be accessed at the link given below:
https://www.agriculture.com/crops/cover-crops/new-life-for-saline-soil#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20most%20salt%2Dtolerant%20crops,corn%2C%20and%20field%20peas.%E2%80%9D
Thanks!
Dear Juan,
in Bolivia or is it a question for the whole world?
The area along the highways and roads in the temperate zone is treated with salts in winter. The soil around traffic routes has long been contaminated with varying amounts of these salts. I would like to draw your attention to the species of plants growing near such motorways and roads. Salt-tolerant species grow in a belt near the asphalt. Maybe it will help you.
Best regards, BS
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