Sentences with word «halophyte»

«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.

«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.

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).

That is why I am now in Saudi Arabia developing a research program at KAUST, the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in desert agriculture, with a special emphasis on halophytes.

halophyte species a plant (as saltbush or sea lavender) that grows in salty soil and usually has a physiological resemblance to a true xerophyte

As far as what halophytes could be used for biofuel, Rozema and Flowers point out that Salicornia bigelovii, commonly known as Dwarf Glasswort yields 1.7 times the oil per acre than sunflowers, and that some others produce more than switchgrass.

A halophyte and cryophyte Arabidopsis relative model system and its applicability to molecular genetic analyses of growth and development of extremophiles.

Although mangroves are halophytes, they can also do quite well in fresh water.

There are two adaptive types of interest, some adapted to a harsh salt environment (halophytes) while others are adapted to fresh and brackish (slightly salty) water.

It grows on both sides of the island and is a halophyte (can tolerate salinity changes in the water around its roots).

It seems like it's not quite what we're going to get for the first flight this month: «it will not be an algae or halophyte - derived alternative, second - generation biofuels that come from renewable and sustainable feedstocks.

Glenn has proposed that by using saltwater - loving plants (halophytes) nearly a half a million square miles of land unsuitable for food crop cultivation could be opened up for production of biofuels.

After taking into account environmental protections and other factors, Glenn's report estimates that 480,000 square miles of unused land around the world could be used to grow a special set of salt - tolerant plants — halophytes.

Salicornia, a «halophyte» — a salt - loving plant whose conversion to biofuel is being currently developed.

A shift to «third - generation» biofuels — mainly algae and salt - tolerant «halophytes» irrigated with sea water — leads to 15 % biofuel penetration of the US fuel mix in 2014, with a growth trend of 4 %.