This book offers an overview of salt stress, which has a devastating effect on the yields of various agricultural crops around the globe. Excessive salts in soil reduce the availability of water, inhibit metabolic processes, and affect nutrient composition, osmotic balance, and hydraulic conductivity. Plants have developed a number of tolerance mechanisms, such as various compatible solutes, polyamines, reactive oxygen species and antioxidant defense mechanisms, ion transport...
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Chapter 1. Microbial management of crop salinity stress: mechanisms, applications and prospects.- Chapter 2. Adaptive Mechanisms of Plants Against Salt Stress an...
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Dr. Mohd Sayeed Akhtar (Ph D) is working as an Assistant Professor in Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, U.P., India. He has received his Ph D degree from...