Variation in salinity tolerance, early shoot mass and shoot ion concentrations within Lotus tenuis: Towards a perennial pasture legume for saline land

Crop and Pasture Science

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 379-388

  Teakle, N L ^a   Snell, A ^a   Real, D ^a,b   Barrett Lennard, E G ^a   Colmer, T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Germination; Medicago sativa; Narrow leaf birdsfoot trefoil; Perennial pasture legume; Salinity; Salt tolerance; Saltland pastures; Shoot Cl ; Shoot Na+

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENETIC VARIATION; GERMINATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; ION; LEGUME; PASTURE; SALINE SOIL; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SHOOT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

DESMODIUM; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; LOTUS TENUIS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM;

EID: 77952512368     PISSN: 18360947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/CP09318     Document Type: Article

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