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Soil Salinity Management in Fruit Crops: A Review of Options and Challenges

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Title Soil Salinity Management in Fruit Crops: A Review of Options and Challenges
 
Creator Singh, Anshuman, Sharma, D. K., Rajkumar, Kumar, A., Yadav, R. K. and Gupta, S. K.
 
Subject electrolyte leakage, fruit crops, gas exchange, genetic improvement, ionic balance, salt stress, salt tolerance
 
Description 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.
 
Date 2018-08-29T09:34:34Z
2018-08-29T09:34:34Z
2018
 
Type Book chapter
 
Identifier 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
 
Language English
 
Publisher Apple Academic Press Inc.