Halophytes vis-à-vis Saline Agriculture: Perspectives and Opportunities for Food Security

This edited book deals with the distribution, classification and diversity of halophytic ecosystems, ecology of mangroves, coastal agroforestry, adaptations and mechanisms of salt tolerance in glycophytes verses halophytes, scope of biosaline agriculture, and potential utilization of halophytes in abiotic stressed environments in arid and semiarid regions and coastal areas.

In this era of global population increase and global environmental change, there is need to provide food to the ever-g...