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Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils

Secondary salinization caused by climate change is a growing global problem. Searching for plants that can survive in areas with high salt content and even have decorative value was the focus of our research. Thirty plants of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum were planted in clear river sand; anot...

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Autores principales: Honfi, Péter, Eisa, Eman Abdelhakim, Tilly-Mándy, Andrea, Kohut, Ildikó, Ecseri, Károly, Mosonyi, István Dániel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10181086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37176868
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12091807
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author Honfi, Péter
Eisa, Eman Abdelhakim
Tilly-Mándy, Andrea
Kohut, Ildikó
Ecseri, Károly
Mosonyi, István Dániel
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Eisa, Eman Abdelhakim
Tilly-Mándy, Andrea
Kohut, Ildikó
Ecseri, Károly
Mosonyi, István Dániel
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description Secondary salinization caused by climate change is a growing global problem. Searching for plants that can survive in areas with high salt content and even have decorative value was the focus of our research. Thirty plants of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum were planted in clear river sand; another thirty plants were planted in Pindstrup, a growing substrate enriched with 40% clay. With the latter, we modeled the natural soil. In addition to the control tap-water treatment, plants received 50, 125, 250, 375, and 500 mM NaCl solution irrigation twice a week. The leaf sizes of plants planted in sand decreased proportionally with the increasing NaCl concentration, and their dry matter content increased. In the clay-containing medium, leaf sizes increased, even at a concentration of 375 mM, although the dry matter content increased only at high concentrations. Carotene content in both media became higher, due to the higher NaCl concentrations, while proline content in the plants grown in sandy media increased, even with the 125 mM concentration. With our present experiment we proved the salt tolerance of the taxon, and even the soil’s great importance in supporting the plant’s salt tolerance.
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spelling pubmed-101810862023-05-13 Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils Honfi, Péter Eisa, Eman Abdelhakim Tilly-Mándy, Andrea Kohut, Ildikó Ecseri, Károly Mosonyi, István Dániel Plants (Basel) Article Secondary salinization caused by climate change is a growing global problem. Searching for plants that can survive in areas with high salt content and even have decorative value was the focus of our research. Thirty plants of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum were planted in clear river sand; another thirty plants were planted in Pindstrup, a growing substrate enriched with 40% clay. With the latter, we modeled the natural soil. In addition to the control tap-water treatment, plants received 50, 125, 250, 375, and 500 mM NaCl solution irrigation twice a week. The leaf sizes of plants planted in sand decreased proportionally with the increasing NaCl concentration, and their dry matter content increased. In the clay-containing medium, leaf sizes increased, even at a concentration of 375 mM, although the dry matter content increased only at high concentrations. Carotene content in both media became higher, due to the higher NaCl concentrations, while proline content in the plants grown in sandy media increased, even with the 125 mM concentration. With our present experiment we proved the salt tolerance of the taxon, and even the soil’s great importance in supporting the plant’s salt tolerance. MDPI 2023-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10181086/ /pubmed/37176868 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12091807 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Honfi, Péter
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Tilly-Mándy, Andrea
Kohut, Ildikó
Ecseri, Károly
Mosonyi, István Dániel
Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils
title Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils
title_full Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils
title_fullStr Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils
title_full_unstemmed Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils
title_short Salt Tolerance of Limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a Potential Ornamental Plant for Secondary Salinized Soils
title_sort salt tolerance of limonium gmelinii subsp. hungaricum as a potential ornamental plant for secondary salinized soils
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10181086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37176868
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12091807
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