The challenge of the food sufficiency through salt tolerant crops

Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 3-16

  Galvani, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

2006 Year of Deserts; Agronomic resources; Demography; Genetic manipulation; Halophytes; Saline lands; Saline soils; Salt tolerant crops; Water management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846388132     PISSN: 15691705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11157-006-0010-3     Document Type: Review

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