Worldwide, more than 60 million hectares of irrigated land (representing 25% of the total irrigated acreage in the world) have been damaged by salt. (Ghassemi, et al. (1995)) Twenty years ago, Epstein argued for the development of salt tolerant crops with truly halophytic responses to salinity, i.e., accumulation of salt, in which the consumable part is botanically a fruit, such as grain or berrie