22 Appendix A: Salicornia bigelovii CompArison of seed produCtion And AgronomiC trAits of 20 Wild ACCessions of Salicornia bigelovii torr. groWn under greenhouse Conditions in hAlophytes for food seCurity in dry lAnds m.A. Khan, m. ozturk, B. gul, & m. Z. Ahmed (eds.) DOI: htp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801854-5.00005-4 © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Cylphine Bresdin, Edward P. Glenn, J. Jed Brown ABstrACt Salicornia bigelovii is a succulent annual salt marsh halophyte that produces oilseed on brackish and seawater irrigation. We compared oilseed and biomass production of 20 wild accessions of S. bigelovii grown under greenhouse conditions and irrigated with brackish (10 g L -1 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)) water for two crop cycles while initiating a selection program to develop desirable agronomic traits for ield cultivation in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Best-performing accessions came from the Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. and gave biomass yields of 1200-1800 g/m 2 and seed yields of 188-244 g m -2 , similar to open-ield yields under seawater irrigation. Agronomic traits were more DRAFT