Salt Tolerance in Sugarcane (Saccharum Officinarum L)

by Muhammad Ashraf

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 0.05) improved growth, yield and juice quality of sugarcane under salt stress. The beneficial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3838341309
• ISBN13: 9783838341309
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"