Salinity and Water Stress Improving Crop Efficiency

Salinity and Water Stress Improving Crop Efficiency / edited by M. Ashraf, M. Ozturk, Habib-ur-Rehman Athar.

Salinity and water stress limit crop productivity worldwide and generate substantial economic losses each year, yet innovative research on crop and natural resource management can reveal cost-effective ways in which farmers can increase both their productivity and their income. Presenting recent res...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ashraf, M. (Editor), Ozturk, M. (Editor), Athar, Habib-ur-Rehman (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Tasks for Vegetation Science, 44
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Plant physiology.
Agriculture.
Soil science.
Soil conservation.
Applied ecology.
Environmental management.
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Table of Contents:
  • Salt and Water Stress
  • Strategies for Crop Improvement Against Salinity and Drought Stress: An Overview
  • Prediction of Salinity Tolerance Based on Biological and Chemical Properties of Acacia Seeds
  • Antioxidant-Enzyme System as Selection Criteria for Salt Tolerance in Forage Sorghum Genotypes (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench)
  • Genetic Variation in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Seedlings for Nutrient Uptake at Different Salinity and Temperature Regimes
  • The Role of Plant Hormones in Plants Under Salinity Stress
  • Effects of Temperature and Salinity on Germination and Seedling Growth of Daucus carota cv. nantes and Capsicum annuum cv. sivri and Flooding on Capsicum annuum cv. sivri
  • Triticeae: The Ultimate Source of Abiotic Stress Tolerance Improvement in Wheat
  • Water Loss and Gene Expression of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Plants Under Dehydration
  • Effect of Different Water Table Treatments on Cabbage in Saline Saemangeum Soil
  • How Does Ammonium Nutrition Influence Salt Tolerance in Spartina alterniflora Loisel?
  • Improving Crop Efficiency
  • Strategies for Crop Improvement in Saline Soils
  • Role of Vetiver Grass and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Improving Crops Against Abiotic Stresses
  • Cell Membrane Stability (CMS): A Simple Technique to Check Salt Stress Alleviation Through Seed Priming with GA3 in Canola
  • Using Resources from the Model Plant Arabidopsis thaliana to Understand Effects of Abiotic Stress
  • Improvement of Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Barley Cultivated Under Salt Stress Using Azospirillum brasilense
  • Genetic Resources for Some Wheat Abiotic Stress Tolerances
  • Survival at Extreme Locations: Life Strategies of Halophytes
  • Adaptive Mechanisms of Halophytes in Desert Regions
  • Is Sustainable Agriculture with Seawater Irrigation Realistic?
  • Enhanced Tolerance of Transgenic Crops Expressing Both Superoxide Dismutase and Ascorbate Peroxidase in Chloroplasts to Multiple Environmental Stress
  • Adaptation to Iron-Deficiency Requires Remodelling of Plant Metabolism: An Insight in Chloroplast Biochemistry and Functionality
  • Boron Deficiency in Rice in Pakistan: A Serious Constraint to Productivity and Grain Quality
  • Potential Role of Sabkhas in Egypt: An Overview.

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