Development and optimization of halophyte-based farming systems in salt-affected Mediterranean soils

Sobre o projeto

HaloFarMs will develop and optimize new sustainable farming systems for the Mediterranean region based on the smart use of halophyte plants to value degraded and unexploited salt-affected lands. These systems will ultimately cope with soil and water salinization. The project involves a multidisciplinary and intersectorial R&D team, including agronomists, biologists, engineers, chemists, environment experts, biotechnologists, veterinarians economists and social actors and stakeholders from Tunisia, Spain, Egypt, Portugal, France and Italy. HaloFarMs will optimize 1) desalination of saline soils by halophytes prior to crop cultivation, 2) intercropping halophytes on salt-affected soils, with important commercial cultivated crops, and 2) in vitro cultivation of halophytes. The produced halophytes will be biochemically characterized for nutritional profile and functional properties; these high added-value products can be used in the cosmetic, food and veterinary industries. HaloFarMs is particularly relevant to this call since it aims to leverage the challenges of the Mediterranean agriculture by offering Naure Based Solutions to stop the soil degradation or convert poorly valued lands, diversify the cultures with a set of traditional food crops, traditional cash crops and new high-value crops, and contribute to preserve biodiversity and natural resources in the Mediterranean area. The adoption by farmers of HaloFarMs findings, thanks to our NGO and governmental advisors partners, will decrease soil salinization, increase yields without depleting fresh water resources and diversify the sources of income. This will thus reduce environmental risk on farming ecosystems, increase the viability of farms and secure the incomes of workers in a socially and ecologically acceptable way.
(Development and optimization of halophyte-based farming systems in salt-affected Mediterranean soils — ERA-LEARN)

Development and optimization of halophyte-based farming systems in salt-affected Mediterranean soils

Datas

01.10.2020 - 30.09.2024

Grupos de Investigação

XtremeBio

Organic Reactivity and Medicinal Chemistry

Coordenação do CCMAR

Luísa Custódio

Referência

2019-SECTION2-16

Orçamento Total

647091.00 €

Orçamento do CCMAR

100000.00€

Publicações

1. Marta Oliveira, Hervé Hoste, Luisa Custodio (2021) A systemic review on the ethnoveterinary uses of Mediterranean salt-tolerant plants: Exploring its potential use as fodder, nutraceuticals or phytotherapeutics in ruminant production. Journal of Ethnophaprmacology 267: 113464. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2020.113464.

2. Marta Oliveira, Caroline Sprengel Lima, Setha Ketavong, Eulogio J. Llorent‐Martínez, Hervé Hoste, Luísa Custódio (2021) Disclosing the bioactive metabolites involved in the in vitro anthelmintic effects of salt-tolerant plants through a combined approach using PVPP and HPLC-ESI-MSn. Scientific Reports 11: 24303 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03472-9

3. Ben Hamed K., Castagna A., Ranieri A., García-Caparrós P., Santin M., Hernandez J.A., Barba Espin G. (2021). Halophyte based Mediterranean agriculture in the contexts of food insecurity and global climate change. Environmental and Experimental Botany 191: 104601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2021.104601.

4. Zammali I, Dabbous A., Seria Y., Ben Hamed K. (2022) Effects of Chemical Priming on the Germination of the Ornamental Halophyte Lobularia maritima under NaCl Salinity. Seeds 1: 99-109. https://doi.org/10.3390/seeds1020009

5. Castagna A., Mariottini G., Gabriele M., Longo V., Souid A., Dauvergne X., Magné C., Foggi G., Conte G., Santin M. & Ranieri A. (2022) Nutritional composition and bioactivity of Salicornia europaea plants grown in monoculture or intercropped with tomato plants in salt-affected soils. Horticulturae 8(9), 828. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8090828

6. Oliveira M, Lima CS, Llorent-Martínez EJ, Hoste H, Custódio L. (2022). Impact of seasonal and organ-related fluctuations on the anthelmintic properties and chemical profile of Cladium mariscus (L.) Pohl extracts. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 934644. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.934644

7. Custódio L, Ślusarczyk S, Matkowski A, Castañeda- Loaiza V, Fernandes E, Pereira CG, Rodrigues MJ. (2022). A first approach for the micropropagation of the medicinal halophyte Polygonum maritimum L. and phenolic profile of acclimatized plants. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 13: 960306. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.960306

8. Rodrigues MJ, Jekő J, Cziáky Z, Pereira CG, Custódio L. (2022) The medicinal halophyte Frankenia laevis L. (sea heath) has in vitro antioxidant activity, α-glucosidase inhibition, and cytotoxicity towards hepatocarcinoma cells. Plants (Basel) 11: 1353. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11101353.

9. Youssef S., Custodio L., Rodriguee MJ, Pereira C-G, Calhelha RC, Pinela J, Barros L, Jekő J, Cziáky Z, Ben Hamed K. (2022) Nutritional, anti-nutritional, chemical composition and antioxidant activities of the leaves of the sea cliff dewelling species Limonium spathulatum (Desf.) Kuntze. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 97934. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.979343

10. Custódio L, Charles G, Magné C, Barba-Espín G, Piqueras A, Hernández JA, Ben Hamed K, Castañeda-Loaiza V, Fernandes E, Rodrigues MJ. (2023) Application of in vitro plant tissue culture techniques to halophyte species: a review. Plants 12, 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12010126.

11. Custodio L, Castagna A, Hernandez JA, Magné C, Ben Hamed K. (2023) Harnessing the Sustainable Valorization and Exploitation of Salt Tolerant Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1132119

12. Custodio L, Castagna A, Hernandez JA, Magné C, Ben Hamed K. (2023) Harnessing the Sustainable Valorization and Exploitation of Salt Tolerant Plants. Front. Plant Sci. Sec. Plant Abiotic Stress 14, 1132119.

13. Carmen Jurado-Mañogil, Gregorio Barba-Espín, José A. Hernández, Pedro Diaz-Vivancos. (2023) Comparative metabolomic analysis between tomato and halophyte plants under intercropping conditions. Physiologia Plantarum 175:e13971. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13971

14. Youssef, S.; Custódio, L.; Rodrigues, M.J.; Pereira, C.G.; Calhelha, R.C.; Jek˝o, J.; Cziáky, Z.; Ben Hamed, K. (2023) Harnessing the Bioactive Potential of Limonium spathulatum (Desf.) Kuntze: Insights into Enzyme Inhibition and Phytochemical Profile. Plants 12, 3391. https://doi.org/10.3390/ plants12193391