What's the difference between halophyte and saltbush?
Halophyte
Definition:
(n.) A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (common ice plant), a facultative halophyte with a genome size of 393,000 kb, was used to estimate the magnitude of changes in gene expression in response to environmental stress by excess salt.
(2) The glutamate dehydrogenase and glutamine synthetase activities of an obligate halophyte, Suaeda maritima var.
(3) Molecular mechanisms of osmotic stress tolerance were studied in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (ice plant), a facultative halophyte capable of adjusting to and surviving in highly saline conditions.
(4) The stress-initiated transcriptional induction of IMT1 expression in a facultative halophyte provides strong support for the importance of sugar alcohols in establishing tolerance to osmotic stress in higher plants.
(5) The facultative halophyte and crassulacean acid-metabolism plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallium shifts from C3 photosynthesis to crassulacean acid metabolism when exposed to high-salt or drought conditions.
(6) The common ice plant is a facultative halophyte in which Crassulacean acid metabolism, a metabolic adaptation to arid environments, can be induced by irrigating plants with high levels of NaCl or by drought.
Saltbush
Definition:
(n.) An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carbon dioxide traps were spaced along a 450 m transect perpendicular to Poso Creek to determine female attraction to traps placed in 5 different vegetation substrates: 1) open hilltop with sparse growth of grasses and saltbush, 2) open pasture with sparse growth of saltbush, 3) peripheral understory of mule fat, 4) shaded understory of mule fat, and 5) open canopy 5 m above ground in willow and cottonwood trees.