Dear colleagues,
I'm trying to remediate the soil salinity using bioremediation technique, so I wonder if you could help me with suggestions or recommend some halophyte species that have the ability to accumulate salts in its different parts from the soil and probably with high biomass?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Eman Elbadry ,
According to the EC, it can be thought of growing forage plants and organic vegetables and produced forage, with high protein content, which provides food for animals. For phytoextraction, the cultivation of halophyte species is recommended because that has shown high phytoremediation power in saline soils, high biomass production, in addition to tolerating water deficit, common in semiarid areas.
Example:
- salt grass (Atriplex nummularia) -
Some halophytes are:
Anemopsis californica (yerba mansa, lizard tail)
Atriplex (saltbush, orache, orach)
Attalea speciosa (babassu)
Panicum virgatum (switchgrass)
Salicornia bigelovii (dwarf glasswort, pickleweed)
Spartina alterniflora (smooth cordgrass)
Tetragonia tetragonoides (warrigal greens, kōkihi, sea spinach)
(a) Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, (b) Suaeda australis, (c) Chenopodium album, (d) Salsola vermiculata, (e) Sarcocornia quinqueflora, (f) Portulaca oleracea, (g) Atriplex spp., (h) Allenrolfea occidentalis, (i) Tetragonia tetragonioides, (j) Salicornia europaea, (k) Sesuvium portulacastrum, (l) Crambe maritima, (m) Glycyrrhiza glabra, (n) Distichlis spicata, (o) Sporobolus virginicus, (p) Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, (q) Aegiceras corniculatum, (r) Sonneratia apetala, (s) Avicennia marina, (t) Rhizophora mucronata, (u) Plantago media, and (v) Suaeda maritima.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/589341/
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