Effect of salt stress on seed and seedling characters of tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum) genotypes

M Kumar; K Vanitha

doi:10.48165/

Authors

M Kumar Horticultural College & Research Institute
K Vanitha Department of Crop Physiology, TNAU, Coimbatore-641 003, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Abstract

To alleviate the deleterious effects of salinity, reclamation of salinized lands, improvement of irrigation with saline water and the cultivation of salt tolerant variety have been applied. The positive changes as crop cultivars, local climate, soil nutrients, type of salt, salinity levels, irrigation methods and water management practices (Datta et al., 2015). However, information on effect of salinity on seed germination, shoot length, root length, seedling length, vigour index etc. is limited. Therefore, experiment was conducted to evaluate tomato genotypes with different concentration of NaCl.

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