“We are happy to see this on quinoa, just one variety of halophyte plants which can substitute for the over-use of fresh water (only 3% of the water on Planet Earth) and of glycophytes (freshwater plants). See our TV show with NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell on halophytes
” Investing in Desert-Greening” and our Green Transition Scoreboard® “PLENTY OF WATER” (2014). ~Hazel Henderson, Editor”
Breeding salt-tolerant plants
- Date:
- October 10, 2017
- Source:
- University of Würzburg
- Summary:
- The quinoa plant might serve as a model for making other crops salt-tolerant. It grows well on saline soils because the excess salt is simply dumped into special bladders on its leaves.