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Screening sorghum germplasm for tolerance to soil salinity

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Title Screening sorghum germplasm for tolerance to soil salinity
 
Creator Krishnamurthy, L
Reddy, B V S
Serraj, R
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is known to be relat ively more tolerant to sal ini ty than other crops, such as maize
(Zea mays) or legumes and thus has the potent ial to
replace maize in saline soils ( Igar tua et al . 1994). The
existence of large interspeci f ic (Yang et al . 1990) and
int ra-speci f ic (Maas 1985, Azhar and McNe i l l y 1988,
De La Rosa-Ibarra and Mai t i 1995) var iat ion for sal ini ty
tolerance of fers a scope for integrat ing these tolerant
crop genotypes wi th appropriate management practices
to better exploi t the saline soils.
 
Date 2003
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1445/1/ISMN44_90-92_2003.pdf
Krishnamurthy, L and Reddy, B V S and Serraj, R (2003) Screening sorghum germplasm for tolerance to soil salinity. International Sorghum and Millets Newsletter, 44. pp. 90-92.