Breeding for Salinity Tolerance in Plants
Breeding for Salinity Tolerance in Plants
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DOI：
10.1080/07352689409701906
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发表时间：
1994
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
M. Ashraf
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作者：
M. Ashraf
Abstract Accumulation of high levels of salts in the soil is characteristic of arid and semi-arid regions. Although different curative and management measures are being used to render salt-affected soils fit for agriculture, they are extremely expensive and do not provide permanent solutions to overcome the salinity problem. In contrast, a biotic approach for overcoming salinity stress has gained considerable recognition within the past few decades in view of the vast experimental evidence from what has happened in nature concerning the evolution of highly salt-tolerant ecotypes of different plant species, and also from the remarkable achievements that have been made in improveing different agronomic traits through artificial selection. Considerable improvements in salt tolerance of important crop species have been achieved in the past 2 decades using barley, rice, pearl millet, maize, sorghum, alfalfa, and many grass species. Such achievements relied solely on assessment of the phenotypic expression of t...
