Improving crop salt tolerance
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Improving crop salt tolerance.
Salinity is an ever-present threat to crop yields, especially in countries where irrigation is an essential aid to agriculture. Although the tolerance of saline conditions by plants is variable, crop species are generally intolerant of one-third of the concentration of salts found in seawater. Attempts to improve the salt tolerance of crops through conventional breeding programmes have met with...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Botany
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1460-2431,0022-0957
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh003