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Breeding for salt tolerance in cereal and legumes: Status and prospects

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Title Breeding for salt tolerance in cereal and legumes: Status and prospects
 
Creator Vadez, V
Krishnamurthy, L
Hash, C T
et al, .
 
Subject Food legumes
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Soil salinity is an important limiting factor for crop yield improvement, which
affects 5-10% of arable lands - approximately 75-100 million ha worldwide,
depending on estimates (Szabolcs, 1994; Munns, 2002). Most crops are sensitive to
salt stress at all stages of plant development, from seed germination through
vegetative and reproductive growth. Salt originates from marine geological
sediments or from accumulation over time because of excessive irrigation. For the
last reason, salinity affected areas are increasing (Ghassemi et al., 1995), and proper
irrigation management could curb this increase. However, this often contradicts with
the immediate economic choices of concerned farmers, thus crop improvement for
salt tolerance appears to be the only alternative..........
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2007
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5834/1/Breeding_for%20salt%20tolerance_2007.pdf
Vadez, V and Krishnamurthy, L and Hash, C T and et al, . (2007) Breeding for salt tolerance in cereal and legumes: Status and prospects. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India. (Unpublished)