Seedling emergence, growth, and leaf mineral nutrition of Ricinus communis L. cultivars irrigated with saline solution

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 75-80

  Sun, Youping ^a   Niu, Genhua ^a   Osuna, Pedro ^b   Ganjegunte, Girisha ^a   Auld, Dick ^a   Zhao, Lijuan ^c   Peralta Videa, Jose R ^c   Gardea Torresdey, Jorge L ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Castor; Gas exchange; Mineral nutrition; Salinity tolerance

Indexed keywords

CASTOR; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GAS EXCHANGE; GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTS; MINERAL NUTRITION; REDUCTION IN HEIGHT; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SALT-SENSITIVE CROPS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTS; FRUITS; NUTRIENTS; NUTRITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

SALINE WATER;

CULTIVAR; FRUIT; GAS EXCHANGE; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; LEAF; MINERAL; OSMOSIS; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SUBSTRATE;

RICINUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 84878379316     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.04.025     Document Type: Article

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