If an area has saline soil, which plants will survive better instead of ordinary plants?

Correct answer: Salt-tolerant plants

Saline soil contains a high amount of dissolved salts. This makes water absorption difficult for ordinary plants, so they may wilt. Salt-tolerant plants have adaptations to tolerate, exclude, or isolate excess salt and therefore survive better in such soil. Mangrove vegetation is a familiar example, though not every salt-tolerant plant is a mangrove. Exam tip: for saline soil, look for ‘salt-tolerant plants’ or ‘halophytes’.