Grafting improves tomato salinity tolerance through sodium partitioning within the shoot

HortScience

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 855-862

  Di Gioia, Francesco ^a   Signore, Angelo ^a   Serio, Francesco ^b   Santamaria, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES OF FOOD PRODUCTION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fruit quality; Ionic homeostasis; Rootstock; Salt stress; Sodium compartmentation

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84880772865     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.48.7.855     Document Type: Article

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