HERITABILITY OF SALT TOLERANCE DURING GERMINATION AND EMERGENCE IN SHORT STAPLE COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.).

Soil salinity is a serious problem for farmers in irrigated agriculture. Soil salts cause reduced stands and yields because of toxic ion and osmotic problems for surviving seedlings. The tolerance to sodium chloride during germination and emergence was studied in three commercial cultivars of short...

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Main Author: LEDBETTER, CRAIG ALLEN.
Other Authors: Dobrenz, Albert
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1986
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183961