Abstract: | A thorough knowledge of the anatomical structure of salt marsh plants the halophytes - is especially important from both a theoretical (if considering the mechanisms that assure halophytes survival in conditions of increased salinity) and a practical point of view (finding out of the most efficient methods for a complex upgrading of the salty soils and, implicitly, of the species that might be cultivated on such soils).
The representatives of the Chenopodiaceae family have been subjected to anatomical investigations, mainly because of an interesting phenomenon occurring in the structure of such plant’s roots and stems: the phenomenon of supranumerar cambium. Out of the contributions devoted to such a phenomenon, special mention should be made of the synthesis studies of Solereder (1899), Metcalfe and Chalk (1972), as well as those of Toma et al. (1991, 1994) and Niþã (1992), who analyzed the structure of the vegetative organs in the Chenopodiaceae family representatives.
Having all these in view, the opinion of the authors of the present study is that, although having been approached by several researchers, the species of the Chenopodiaceae family are still to be analyzed from various perspectives, especially on considering the influence of the environmental factors (substrate’s salinity, firstly) on their anatomical structure. |
