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Plants in Saline Environments

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  • © 1975

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Editors:
  1. A. Poljakoff-Mayber

    1. Department of Botany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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  2. J. Gale

    1. Department of Botany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 15)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N3-v
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • A. Poljakoff-Mayber, J. Gale
      Pages 1-3

  3. General Review of the Salinity Problem

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. The Salinity Problem in General, Its Importance, and Distribution with Special Reference to Natural Halophytes

      • V. J. Chapman
      Pages 7-24

    3. Problems of Salinity in Agriculture

      • D. L. Carter
      Pages 25-35

  4. Soil, Water and Salinity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Salinity of Soils—Effects of Salinity on the Physics and Chemistry of Soils

      • I. Shainberg
      Pages 39-55

    3. Water Quality for Irrigated Agriculture

      • L. D. Doneen
      Pages 56-76

    4. Effects of Land Use on Salt Distribution in the Soil

      • A. J. Peck
      Pages 77-90

  5. Intermediary Remarks

    1. Intermediary Remarks

      • A. Poljakoff-Mayber, J. Gale
      Pages 91-94

  7. General Discussion

    1. General Discussion

      • A. Poljakoff-Mayber, J. Gale
      Pages 193-199

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 201-216
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About this book

A. POLJAKOFF-MAYBER and J. GALE The response of plants to saline environments is of interest to people of many disciplines. In agriculture the problem of salinity becomes more severe every year as the non-saline soils and the non-saline waters become more intensively and more extensively exploited. Further expansion of agriculture must consider the cultivation of saline soils and the use of water with a relatively high content of soluble, salts. Moreover, industrial development in many countries is causing severe water pollution, especially of rivers, and mismanagement in agriculture often induces secondary salinization of soils and sources of irrigation water. From the point of view of agriculture it is, therefore, of the utmost importance to know the various responses of plants to salinity and to understand the nature of the damage caused by salinity to agricultural crops. Botanists and plant physiologists study plants, their form, growth, metabolism and response to external stimuli. A challenging problem for them is to understand the differences between glycophytes, plants growing in a non-saline environment and halophytes, plants which normally grow in salt marshes, in sea water or in saline soils. This includes the elucidation of structural and functional adaptations which enable halophytes to tolerate the saline environment, and also questions as to whether they only tolerate the saline environment or actually thrive in it. Ecologists and environmentalists are interested in the interrelationships be­ tween the organism, in this case the plant, and its environment, from the climatic, edaphic and biotic points of view.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Botany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    A. Poljakoff-Mayber, J. Gale

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Plants in Saline Environments

  • Editors: A. Poljakoff-Mayber, J. Gale

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80929-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-80931-6Published: 15 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-80929-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Plant Physiology, Biomedicine general

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