Establishing salt-tolerant plants can improve salt discharge rates and improve soil health.
Work on the newly discovered gene could aid development of new human drugs as well as help develop salt-tolerant plants.
A salt-tolerant (normally) coastal plant which is now flourishing along roads and motorways in Europe, especially under the crash barriers in the central reservation.
They were the first salt-tolerant, edible plants ever created.
High levels of soil salinity can be tolerated if salt-tolerant plants are grown.
At the same time he was trying to introduce into the lichen's fungus some phreato-phytic genes from salt-tolerant plants like tamarisk and pickleweed.
Salicornia brachiata and Halosarcia indica are examples of salt-tolerant plants.
It is a halophyte (a salt-tolerant plant) that typically grows in coastal regions and can be irrigated with salt water.
It is dominated by dense stands of salt-tolerant plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs.
It thrives on salty soils, growing with other salt-tolerant plants such as saltbushes.