Increasing plant vigour and tomato fruit yield under salinity by inducing plant adaptation at the earliest seedling stage

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-85

  Parra, Margarita ^a   Albacete, Alfonso ^a   Martínez Andújar, Cristina ^a   Pérez Alfocea, Francisco ^a  

^a RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation to salinity; Haloconditioning; Horizontal transmission; Ionic regulation; Lycopersicon esculentum; NaCl; Plant vigour; Polyethylene glycol; Potassium selectivity

Indexed keywords

CROP PLANT; CROP YIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRUIT PRODUCTION; HERITABILITY; OSMOREGULATION; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEEDLING; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VIGOR;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 33846533130     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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