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Biosalinity in Action: Bioproduction with Saline Water

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Dov Pasternak

    1. The Institutes for Applied Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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  2. Anthony San Pietro

    1. Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences (DPSS, volume 17)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Mechanisms of salt tolerance in algae and terrestrial plants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Adaptation to salinity at the plant cell level

      • H. R. Lerner
      Pages 3-14

    3. Some mechanisms of salt tolerance in crop plants

      • J. Gorham, R. G. Wyn Jones, E. McDonnell
      Pages 15-40

    4. Physiology of halophytes

      • T. J. Flowers
      Pages 41-56

    5. The cost to plants of different strategies of adaptation to stress and the alleviation of stress by increasing assimilation

      • J. Gale, M. Zeroni
      Pages 57-67

    6. Mechanisms of response to salinity in halotolerant microalgae

      • Johan A. Hellebust
      Pages 69-81

    7. The effect of compatible solutes on proteins

      • L. G. Paleg, G. R. Stewart, R. Starr
      Pages 83-94

  3. Production of micro and macroalgae with saline water

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria): prospects and perspectives

      • R. H. Reed, S. R. C. Warr, D. L. Richardson, D. J. Moore, W. D. P. Stewart
      Pages 97-106

    3. Cyanobacterial biomass production in saline media

      • Rachel Gabbay, Elisha Tel-Or
      Pages 107-116

    4. The potential of production of sulfated polysaccharides from Porphyridium

      • Shoshana Arad, Michel Adda, Ephraim Cohen
      Pages 117-127

    5. Problems in developing the biotechnology of algal biomass production

      • Avigad Vonshak, Amos Richmond
      Pages 129-135

    6. Macroalgae (seaweeds): industrial resources and their utilization

      • J. McLachlan
      Pages 137-157

    7. Outdoor cultivation of sea vegetables

      • Y. Lipkin
      Pages 159-183
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About this book

Historically, scientists and laymen have regarded salinity as a hazar­ dous, detrimental phenomenon. This negative view was a principal reason for the lack of agricultural development of most arid and semi­ arid zones of the world where the major sources of water for biological production are saline. The late Hugo Boyko was probably the first scientist in recent times to challenge this commonly held, pessimistic view of salinity. His research in Israel indicated that many plants can be irrigated with saline water, even at seawater strength, if they are in sandy soil - a technique that could open much barren land to agriculture. This new, even radical, approach to salinity was clearly enunciated in the book he edited and most appropriately entitled 'Salinity and Aridity: New Approaches to Old Problems' (1966). A decade later, three members of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), Lewis Mayfield, James Aller and Oskar Zaborsky, formulated the 'Biosaline Concept'; namely, that poor soils, high solar insolation and saline water, which prevail in arid lands, should be viewed as useful resources rather than as disadvantages, and that these resources can be used for non-traditional production of food, fuels and chemicals. The First International Workshop on Biosaline Research was con­ vened at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, in 1977 by A. San Pietro.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Institutes for Applied Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Dov Pasternak

  • Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Anthony San Pietro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biosalinity in Action: Bioproduction with Saline Water

  • Editors: Dov Pasternak, Anthony San Pietro

  • Series Title: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5111-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3159-6Published: 30 November 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8759-9Published: 22 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5111-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 369

  • Topics: Plant Physiology, Plant Sciences

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology

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