Potential Use of Halophytes to Remediate Saline Soils

Table 2

Plant species commonly found in halophytic environments and their salt tolerance limit. Adapted from Ventura and Sagi [49] with permission from Elsevier.

Plant species	Salt tolerance limit	References
Aster tripolium	40 mM	Ventura and Sagi [49]
Atriplex lentiformis	500 mM	O’Leary et al. [50]
Atriplex triangularis	150 mM	Gallagher [51]
Batis maritima	500 mM	O’Leary et al. [50]
Salicornia europaea	500 mM	O’Leary et al. [50]
Salicornia persica	100 mM	Ventura et al. [52]
Sarcocornia fruticosa	100 mM	Ventura et al. [52]
Aster tripolium	300 mM	Koyro et al. [35]
Atriplex hortensis	>250 mM	Wilson et al. [53]
Batis maritima	200 mM	Debez et al. [54]
Cochlearia officinalis	100 mM	de Vos [55]
Crambe maritima	>100 mM	de Vos et al. [56]
Crithmum maritimum	150 mM	Hamed et al. [57], Ben Amor et al. [58]
Diplotaxis tenuifolia	~150 mM	de Vos [55]
Inula crithmoides	400 mM	Tardío et al. [59], Zurayk and Baalbaki [60]
Mesemyranthenum crystallinum	400 mM	Herppich et al. [61], Agarie et al. [62]
Plantago coronopus	250 mM	Koyro [63]
Portulaca oleracea	<140 mM	Simopoulos [64], Yazici et al. [65]
Salicornia sp.	>500 mM	Ventura et al. [66]
Sarcocornia sp.	>500 mM	Ventura et al. [66]
Tetragonia tetragonioides	174 mM	Wilson et al. [53], Słupski et al. [67]