Sentence examples for saline land from inspiring English sources
It has demonstrated improved levels of tolerance to both salinity and drought, and higher yield in saline land than its parent JN177 [ 28, 29]; the tolerance is partially due to the high tolerance to oxidative stress and superior ability of redox homeostasis maintenance [ 28, 30].
Between 1954 and 1964 one-fourth of the saline land between Kaifeng and Zhengzhou reportedly was transformed into fertile farmland; since then, efforts to reclaim saline and alkaline land have continued, though with limited or short-lived success.
Algal flora is also abundant in Pakistan due to diverse water and rich saline land habitats.
In response, technologies are being developed to allow farmers to make productive use of saline land.
Vetiver grass is already widely used for saline land rehabilitation (Datta et al. 2011; Donjadee and Tingsanchali 2012).
The only idle land is found in the mountains and in the saline lands of the northeast.
In one such effort, Dr. Solowey domesticates rare plants, including species with medicinal properties, and works on finding new crops for arid and saline lands.
In the 9th and 10th centuries several tens of thousands of black Zanj slaves were imported from Zanzibar to Lower Iraq, where they constituted more than half the total population and were put to work to clear saline lands for irrigation and to cultivate sugar.
One approach to increase the use of saline lands is to identify new plant species with salt tolerance.
Vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides L). is widely used in more than 120 countries for land management (e.g. rehabilitation of saline lands).
