Towards the rational use of high salinity tolerant plants: Vol. 2 Agriculture and forestry under marginal soil water conditions

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Physiological responses of crops to sea water: Minimizing constraints that limit yield....Pages 3-12
Plant responses to drought and salinity stresses....Pages 13-26
Utilization of Triticeae for improving salt tolerance in wheat....Pages 27-33
A practical approach to improving salinity tolerance in winter cereals....Pages 35-44
Control of wheat leaf growth under saline conditions....Pages 45-52
Salt tolerant Rhizobia from wild legumes and nitrogen fixation in groundnut in semiarid tropics....Pages 53-57
Growing different field crops under high salinity levels and utilization of genetically engineered Rhizobia and Azotobacter salt drought tolerant strains....Pages 59-65
Effects of salinity on plant diseases development....Pages 67-74
Isozymes in population genetic studies....Pages 75-82
Improvement of salt tolerance in plants by in vitro selection at the cellular level....Pages 83-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Possibilities of using brackish water for crop production....Pages 91-106
Effect of irrigation water quality on wheat grown on a calcareous soil....Pages 107-114
Effect of some nitrogen forms and levels on barley tolerance to salinity....Pages 115-120
Interactive effects of salinity and both forms and levels of nitrogen fertility on growth and yield of barley....Pages 121-128
Root temperature and salinity: Interacting effects on tillering, growth, and sodium content of barley....Pages 129-133
Mechanisms of salinity tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.)....Pages 135-138
Effect of soil management on the NPK uptake and rice production in saline-alkali soil at Sharkia Governorate....Pages 139-146
Salt tolerance of rice and cotton crops grown in salt affected soils....Pages 147-151
Salt tolerance of grain sorghum....Pages 153-156
Use of saline water for crop production....Pages 157-169
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Performance of selected tropical food legumes in a dry environment....Pages 171-175
Salt tolerance in the Edkawy tomato....Pages 177-184
Salt tolerance of tomato cultivars as affected by irrigation time....Pages 185-192
Salt tolerance of Beta vulgaris L.: A comparison of the growth of seabeet and fodderbeet in response to salinity....Pages 193-197
Response of some sugar beet varieties to potassic fertilizers under salinity conditions....Pages 199-207
Productivity of fodder beet grown under saline conditions in Sinai....Pages 209-212
Studies of salt-tolerance and chemical analysis of fodder shrubs in Egypt and Utah (USA)....Pages 213-220
Performance of date palm in saline alkali soils of Thar desert in Western Rajasthan....Pages 221-223
Tolerance range of Populus pruinosa on saline soils of South Tadjikistan....Pages 225-237
High salinity tolerance of Eucalyptus and interactions with soil and plant nematodes of pathogenic significance....Pages 239-245
Utilization of salt tolerant plants from arid wastelands of Northwest India as fuel and fodder....Pages 247-257
Performance of selected tree species under saline-sodic field conditions in Pakistan....Pages 259-269
Reclamation potentials of saline degraded lands in Abu Dhabi eastern region using high salinity-tolerant woody plants and some salt marsh species....Pages 271-274
Trials on energy plantation on waste land....Pages 275-283
Salt resistance of bald cypress....Pages 285-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Studies on selection of salt-tolerant plants for food, fodder and fuel from world flora....Pages 295-304
Considerations for the selection, adaptation, and application of halophyte crops to highly saline desert environments as exemplified by the long-term development of cereal and forage cultivars of Distichlis spp. (Poaceae)....Pages 305-313
Response of four species of Atriplex to irrigation with highly saline water in Upper Egypt....Pages 315-317
Preliminary evaluation of Salicornia production and utilization in Kuwait....Pages 319-329
On the ecology of Juncus acutus and J. rigidus as fiber producing halophytes in arid regions....Pages 331-342
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Rubber Rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus) a multi-use desert shrub....Pages 343-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Saline irrigation practices and management....Pages 353-370
Water management strategies for salinity control....Pages 371-377
Practices to control salinity in irrigated soils....Pages 379-387
Water quality criteria for irrigation with highly saline water....Pages 389-397
Effect of soil management on some physical and chemical properties of salt-affected soil....Pages 399-405
Potentially beneficial uses of inland saline waters in the Southwestern USA....Pages 407-422
Using high salinity and SAR waters for crop production-some Indian experiences....Pages 423-432
Long term use of sodic waters in North India and the reliability of empirical equations for predicting their sodium hazard....Pages 433-438
Soil characteristics and irrigation management for use in highly saline waters....Pages 439-443
Back Matter....Pages 445-447