Due to the high market demand for off-season vegetables and the limited availability of
arable land, vegetable seedlings are cultivated under changing environmental conditions …

In this paper, a number of strategies to overcome the deleterious effects of salinity on plants
will be reviewed; these strategies include using molecular markers and genetic …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses that reduce plant growth and crop productivity in
many vegetable production areas of the world. Grafting can represent an interesting tool to …

Grafting is a centuries-old technique used in plants to obtain economic benefits. Grafting
increases nutrient uptake and utilization efficiency in a number of plant species, including …

Abstract Kochia sieversiana (Pall.) CAM, a naturally alkali-resistant halophyte, was chosen
as the test organism for our research. The seedlings of K. sieversiana were treated with …

The possibility of applying grafting to improve fruit quality has been scarcely investigated.
Different shoot tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) genotypes were grafted onto distinctly …

Salinity in soil or water is a serious threat to global agriculture; the expected acreage
affected by salinity is about 20% of the global irrigated lands. Improving salt tolerance of …

With the aim of determining whether grafting could improve salinity tolerance of tomato
(Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.), and what characteristics of the rootstock were required to …

A greenhouse experiment was carried out to determine growth, yield, fruit quality, gas
exchange and mineral composition of watermelon plants (Citrullus Lanatus L.'Tex'), either …