Biosaline Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

One of the greatest and most urgent challenges of agriculture today is providing enough food for the ever-increasing population worldwide, a mission that is complicated by the current threat of climate changes. Among the different factors affecting the yield and quality of produce, soil salinity and water deficiency are the two main limiting environmental constraints in arid and semi-arid regions. The increasingly frequent extreme climatic events will lead to an increment of drought- and/or salt-affected areas worldwide, inevitably resulting in a reduction in crop yield. Moreover, soil salinization is exacerbated by incorrect agricultural practices, such as irrigation with highly salty water and excessive use of fertilizers. There is therefore a great need to move towards more sustainable production systems.

This Topical Collection on “Biosaline agriculture” welcomes research articles, reviews, short notes and opinion articles related to any useful and smart management strategy to allow better production and enhance yield under such unfavourable conditions, including the restoration of marginal lands, use of salt-tolerant genotypes, employment of halophytes as desalting species but also as valuable new cash crops, aquaponics and wetlands production systems, molecular and non-molecular tools to improve salt resistance, use of plant growth regulators, etc. Contributions dealing with updates on physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms at the base of plant tolerance to drought and salinity are also welcomed.

Dr. Antonella Castagna
Dr. Marco Santin
Collection Editors

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