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The ISHU conducts its biological research under the guidance of faculty investigators, employing a scientific staff, including visiting scientists, and graduate students.

Major areas of study focus within four areas:

1.	Ecology
		Soil-plant relations
		Population biology - Productivity
		Distribution
2.	Ecophysiology
		Seed germination
		Salt tolerance
		Water relations
		Ion homoeostasis
		Photosynthesis and Fluorescence
3.	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
		Antioxidant enzymes and substrate
		Genomics - Transcriptomics
		Proteomics
4.	Halophyte Utilization
		Nutritive value as forage/fodder and anti-nutritive factors
		Oil seeds - fatty acid profile
		Medicinal plants - anti-oxidant capacity and phenolics
		Halo-fuel