Abstract

HOLGUIN PENA, Ramón Jaime; MEDINA HERNANDEZ, Diana; GHASEMI, Mojtaba  and  RUEDA PUENTE, Edgar Omar. SALT TOLERANT PLANTS AS A VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION IN ARID AND SALINE COASTAL ZONES. Acta biol.Colomb. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.1, pp.116-126.  Epub Mar 18, 2021. ISSN 0120-548X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/abc.v26n1.82412.

This review focuses on the potential of halophytes for food, fodder and biofuels production, as well as their impacts on the environment and societies. Moreover, to open new areas in production systems using novel technologies such as halophytes in a desert agriculture. We are faced with the crisis and the shortage of freshwater in arid, semi-arid and desert regions. For this reason, we have to apply sustainable systems for human food, fodder and biofuels. Halophytes are naturally resistant to salt and develop on the coastal coast and arid-saline areas. We present a complete summary of the current situation of human population growth and food demand, a sustainable alternative such as halophilic crops of agro-industrial importance compared with conventional crops and how they can be incorporated into agriculture sustainable in arid, desert and coastal areas, basing the above on success stories.

Keywords : bioprospecting; halophyte; seawater.

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