«We suggest that we should learn from nature and do what halophytes, or naturally salt - loving plants, are doing: taking up salt but depositing it in a safe place — external balloon - like structures called salt bladders,» says co-senior author Prof. Sergey Shabala, of the University of Tasmania, in Australia. (sciencedaily.com)
«If Jatropha is consuming a lot of water, that's exactly what you want it to do because that prevents further soil erosion,» he says, noting that a «best practices» lifecycle analysis for Jatropha will be available from Yale University in 2010, along with a study of halophytes — plants that can tolerate salt, which have not been used to make biofuel to date. (scientificamerican.com)
Red Mangrove: local name «mangle», Mayan name «tap - che»: Rhizophora mangle: Family Rhizophoraceae The red mangrove can tolerate normal marine sea water, hypersaline water (seawater concentrated by evaporation) or fresh to brackish water and is known as a facultative halophyte (it can live in saline water but is not limited to it). (AmbergrisCaye.com)