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Improving the Germination Salt Tolerance of Alfalfa

The development of alfalfa that can germinate at extremely high NaC1 levels will improve early emergence and establishment of this important forage crop in saline soils. We have identified plants in the eighth cycle of selection that germinated at -3.0 MPa (30,000 ppm). Seed from these plants displayed a 40% better germination at -2.1 MPa (21,000 ppm) than the previous cycle. Germination at higher salt concentrations were not different between the two germplasm sources.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/200482
Date09 1900
CreatorsDobrenz, Albert, Robinson, David, Smith, Steve
ContributorsOttman, Mike
PublisherCollege of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Article
Relation370067, Series P-67

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