Climate change-friendly species
Amaranths are highly valuable in challenging growing conditions, especially in respect of the consequences of climate change (Alemayehu et al., 2015).
Soil cover and soil remediation
In China, amaranths make valuable vegetative cover in mountainous regions with low soil fertility (Brenner et al., 2000). Foxtail amaranth could be cultivated and used as a hyperaccumulator in the uptake of cadmium from cadmium-contaminated soils (Cay, 2016).