Soil Salinity Management in Fruit Crops: A Review of Options and Challenges
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Soil Salinity Management in Fruit Crops: A Review of Options and Challenges
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Singh, Anshuman, Sharma, D. K., Rajkumar, Kumar, A., Yadav, R. K. and Gupta, S. K.
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electrolyte leakage, fruit crops, gas exchange, genetic improvement, ionic balance, salt stress, salt tolerance
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Salinity is a severe impediment to the sustainable management of over 800 M ha arable land area globally; especially in irrigated arid and semiarid regions. Unsound on-farm irrigation management is the major driver of secondary salinization in irrigated lands where even proven salinity management technologies fail to deliver the expected dividends. Salinity and associated problems like waterlogging alter cell physiology and metabolism in ways that greatly reduce plant growth and economic yields. About two-thirds of the fruit crops grown commercially in world are categorized as salt sensitive. Despite their high sensitivity to salt-induced soil perturbations, fruit crops perform well in salt-affected soils when grown with the aid of improved management practices. The information presented in this chapter leads to the conclusion that agronomic interventions such as selection of salt tolerant scion and rootstock cultivars, refined planting techniques, balanced nutrition, and drip irrigation can be of considerable help in commercial fruit cultivation in salt-affected lands otherwise considered to be unsuitable for high-value crops. |
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2018-08-29T09:34:34Z
2018-08-29T09:34:34Z 2018 |
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Book chapter
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Singh, Anshuman, Sharma, D. K., Rajkumar, Kumar, A., Yadav, R. K. and Gupta, S. K. 2018. Soil Salinity Management in Fruit Crops: A Review of Options and Challenges. In: Engineering Practices for Management of Soil Salinity- Agricultural, Physiological, and Adaptive Approaches, Gupta, S. K., Goyal, M. R. and Singh, Anshuman (Eds.). Apple Academic Press Inc.
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6572 |
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English
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Apple Academic Press Inc.
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