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Salt-Loving Plants

  • December 30, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Halophytes are plants that thrive in salty soil, such as rice grass or glasswort. Because these plants don’t take up space on fertile land needed for food crops, alternative-energy scientists say they’re ideal candidates for developing into biofuel.

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