The use of soil and irrigation water with a high content of soluble salts is a major limiting
factor for crop productivity in the semi-arid areas of the world. While important physiological …

Ensuring adequate food production is a major issue in the context of an increasing human
population, limit to the areas of new land that can be cultivated, and loss of existing …

Plant responses to abiotic stress include various modifications in amino acid metabolism. By
using a hydroponic culture system, we systematically investigate modification in amino acid …

Abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity are major environmental factors that influence
crop productivity worldwide. These adverse conditions induce osmotic stresses in plant cells …

Plant responses to salt and water stress have much in common. Salinity reduces the ability
of plants to take up water, and this quickly causes reductions in growth rate, along with a …

Growth and water uptake both decreases when tomato plants are irrigated with saline water.
To determine the relative contribution of physiological traits to these decreases plant fresh …

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Counter) plants were grown in 12L polyethylene
containers in aerated nutrient solutions containing equal nutrient ratios at increasing …

We examined combined effects of biochar, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and salinity on
plant growth and physiology to test whether and how biochar influences AM fungi mediated …

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 …

Despite the intensive management practices available to modern agriculture, drought and
salinity are still major constraints on crop production and food security. Yield losses to …