saline soils. The Salsola soda extracts enough sodium from the soil to improve the growth of the crop plant, and better crop yields result despite the competition of the two plants for the remaining minerals from the soil. See also Phytoremediation plants Hyperaccumulators table – 3 References External links "PLANTS Profile for Salsola soda." Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 3 November 2006. Excellent gallery of photographs of Salsola soda (soude commune) from Bouches du Rhône region of France. From Banque de données Botaniques et Ecologiques, Universite Aix-Marseille, France. Retrieved 30 November 2006. Salsola soda listing at website Plants for a Future (http://www.pfaf.org). Retrieved 7 December 2006. Leaf vegetables Amaranthaceae Halophytes Industrial history Phytoremediation plants Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Barilla plants Flora of Malta