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SUSTAINABLE HALOPHYTE UTILISATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND SUBTROPICAL
DRY REGIONS
EU-sponsored Concerted Action
coordinated by Prof. Dr. Helmut Lieth
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The Concerted action has the following objectives:
- demonstration of the feasibility of seawater irrigation cropping systems
- Collection and disseminate all information needed to maintain and utilise halophytic plants and ecosystems in ecologically different environments.
- Developing a quick check for the salinity tolerance of halophytic plants.
- Testing seawater irrigated systems in different climates
- demonstration of the feasibility of seawater irrigated ecosystems for landscape management, agriculture, horticulture,
- greenification of housing areas, wasteland and roadsides, roof greenification, sand dune stabilisation.
Ecophysiological Research on Halophytes (PI: M.Forstreuter)
Plantation of halophytes for ecophysiological studies:
- to install plant growth containers for salt tolerant species
in a greenhouse
- to investigate plant growth at various salinity levels
- to study the main parameters of photosynthesis on different
halophytes at various salinity
- to measure stomatal conductance at various salinity
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