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This chapter reveals Jatropha's remarkable resilience as a harsh-condition biofuel plant. Rock, gravel, sandy, saline, dryland, flooded, and marginal soils with high salinity, low fertility, and limited water supply support jatropha. It grows well on marginal ground, making it a suitable commercial crop. Jatropha survives prolonged drought and low humidity. Under stress, osmotic adjustment preserves water intake and cell turgor, improving resilience. Biofuel production has grown in industrialized and emerging countries due to its rapid growth and adaptability to different agro-climatic conditions, making it a viable fossil fuel alternative. Plants may withstand 7–14 days of flooding on damp soils. Saline and saline-sodic soils support jatropha. Plants prevent ion toxicity and maintain water intake during drought by osmotic adjustment. In conclusion, Jatropha's biofuel potential and ability to grow on dry, saline, wet, and degraded soils make it a viable marginal crop. It can meet worldwide energy and environmental needs because of its abiotic stress resilience. Jatropha is a sustainable biomass feedstock to produce biofuel as the plant can grow under abiotic stresses including different types of soil (Nahar in Cultivation of Jatropha curcas L. in Bangladesh: a sustainable solution to the energy, environmental and socioeconomic crisis. VDM Publisher, 2011). It also thrives on any growing medium including stony, gravelly, sandy as well as under saline conditions (Dagar in Land Degrad Dev 17(3):285–299, 2006). In addition, the plant can be grown in dryland areas as well as in flooded lands, shallow fields, and rocky terrains including marginal, degraded, abandoned, and boundary lands. Marginal lands are generally characterized by high soil salinity, low fertility, and limited supply of water. Jatropha is such a plant that could be cultivated for commercial production in marginal land as the plant can survive and grow well under stressful environments. Thus, the plant is characterized by its high drought, flood, and salinity tolerance, rapid growth, and adaptability to different agroclimatic conditions (Silva et al. in Environ Exp Bot 69(3):279–285, 2010; Divakara et al. in Rev Appl Energy 87(3):732–742, 2010).

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Sustainability Under Abiotic Stresses and Degraded Medium

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    2025年

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  • Kamrun Nahar

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This chapter reveals Jatropha's remarkable resilience as a harsh-condition biofuel plant. Rock, gravel, sandy, saline, dryland, flooded, and marginal soils with high salinity, low fertility, and limited water supply support jatropha. It grows well on marginal ground, making it a suitable commercial crop. Jatropha survives prolonged drought and low humidity. Under stress, osmotic adjustment preserves water intake and cell turgor, improving resilience. Biofuel production has grown in industrialized and emerging countries due to its rapid growth and adaptability to different agro-climatic conditions, making it a viable fossil fuel alternative. Plants may withstand 7–14 days of flooding on damp soils. Saline and saline-sodic soils support jatropha. Plants prevent ion toxicity and maintain water intake during drought by osmotic adjustment. In conclusion, Jatropha's biofuel potential and ability to grow on dry, saline, wet, and degraded soils make it a viable marginal crop. It can meet worldwide energy and environmental needs because of its abiotic stress resilience. Jatropha is a sustainable biomass feedstock to produce biofuel as the plant can grow under abiotic stresses including different types of soil (Nahar in Cultivation of Jatropha curcas L. in Bangladesh: a sustainable solution to the energy, environmental and socioeconomic crisis. VDM Publisher, 2011). It also thrives on any growing medium including stony, gravelly, sandy as well as under saline conditions (Dagar in Land Degrad Dev 17(3):285–299, 2006). In addition, the plant can be grown in dryland areas as well as in flooded lands, shallow fields, and rocky terrains including marginal, degraded, abandoned, and boundary lands. Marginal lands are generally characterized by high soil salinity, low fertility, and limited supply of water. Jatropha is such a plant that could be cultivated for commercial production in marginal land as the plant can survive and grow well under stressful environments. Thus, the plant is characterized by its high drought, flood, and salinity tolerance, rapid growth, and adaptability to different agroclimatic conditions (Silva et al. in Environ Exp Bot 69(3):279–285, 2010; Divakara et al. in Rev Appl Energy 87(3):732–742, 2010).