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Agriculture · Q328

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 328

Q328

Plants which grow in salt water is known as

A.
Halophites
Answer
B.
Mesophites
C.
Xerophytes
D.
Terophytes

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Plants that grow in salt water are known as Halophytes.
A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt sprays, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores.
Plants that avoid the effects of high salt even though they live in a saline environment may be referred to as facultative halophytes rather than 'true', or obligatory, halophytes.