Saline Soil-based Agriculture by Halotolerant Microorganisms
This book discusses the role of salt in current agricultural approaches, including the low salt tolerance of agricultural crops and trees, impact of saline soils, and salt-resistant plants. Halophytes are extremely salt tolerant plants, which are abl
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ne Soilbased Agriculture by Halotolerant Microorganisms
Saline Soil-based Agriculture by Halotolerant Microorganisms
Manoj Kumar • Hassan Etesami Vivek Kumar Editors
Saline Soil-based Agriculture by Halotolerant Microorganisms
Editors Manoj Kumar Department of Life Sciences Central University of Jharkhand Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Hassan Etesami Department of Soil Science University of Tehran Tehran, Iran
Vivek Kumar Himalayan School of Biosciences Swami Rama Himalayan University, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
ISBN 978-981-13-8334-2 ISBN 978-981-13-8335-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8335-9
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Preface
Food security is one of the fundamental needs that cannot be compromised by any healthy society. The widespread increases in environmental damage and human populations have an adverse effect on global food production, which may soon be mixed with insufficient food before the global swelling population. To meet the additional food demand, a significant increase (an estimated 50%) in yields of major food crops is required for the projected population (around ten billion people) by the next 50 years. The world’s population is constantly increasing, while agricultural soils are constantly decreasing due to soil salinity. The costs associated with this stress are potentially enormous (US$12 billion per annum globally) and rising. Due to the decrease in the level of fertile land, saline soil-based agriculture has been developing rapidly in recent years. A restriction to this agricultural approach is low salt tolerance of agricultural crops and trees. In su
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