| Salt Tolerance in Sugarcane (Saccharum Officinarum L) Contributor(s): Ashraf, Muhammad (Author) |
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ISBN: 3838341309 ISBN-13: 9783838341309 Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing OUR PRICE: $81.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2010 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Biochemistry |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 264 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses, which pose a severe threat to agriculture in arid and semiarid regions of world. Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L) is moderately sensitive to salinity with a threshold value of 1.7 dS m-1. However, wide differences were found in this crop for salinity tolerance. Potassium (K) and silicon (Si) significantly (P |