As freshwater supplies shrink and saltwater spreads into agricultural land, farmers face a growing challenge: how to grow crops in soil that is becoming too salty to sustain them? Part of the answer may already exist in nature. Across coastal marshes, deserts, and other extreme environments, wild plants thrive where soybean, rice, and canola would quickly fail. These resilient species have spent millions of years adapting to harsh conditions, but until now, scientists had onl
