Present study was carried out to assess the effects of soil salinity/sodicity on mineral nutrient status Urochondra setulosa, Leptochloa fusca and Sporobolus marginatus at ICAR- Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana during 2016–19. Treatments (pH ~ 9.5, pH 10, ECe 30 dS/m, 40 dS/m 50 dS/m) were created in microplots (2.5 m × 1.5 0.5 m) using saline/sodic water. Na+ Cl– conte...

Salinity is a major abiotic stress that affects plant growth and productivity. To cope with salt stress, plants express large number of responsive genes proteins are involved in wide range cellular functions. In the present study, halophytic Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort. were hydroponically exposed to NaCl for understanding molecular mechanisms behind salinity tolerance using PCR-based Suppressi...

1. The International context 1.1. Potential and Actual Carbon Storage Densities of the Drylands 1.2. Rationale for Sequestering Carbon in Drylands 1.3. Dryland Soils as a Carbon Sink 1.4. Creating an Economic Linkage between Dryland Restoration and Carbon Sequestration 1.5. Carbon Offsets: What are They and How do They Help? 1.6. Validation and Verification of Carbon Stores 2. Increasing Carbon...

Salinity adversely affects plant growth and development, and disturbs intracellular ion homeostasis, resulting in cellular toxicity. Plants that tolerate salinity, halophytes, do so by manifesting numerous physiological and biochemical processes in coordination to alleviate cellular ionic imbalance. The present study was undertaken to analyse the salt tolerance mechanism in Aeluropus lagopoides...

The growth of the aquaculture industry has been associated with negative environmental impacts through the discharge of raw effluents into the adjacent receiving water bodies. Macrophytes from natural saline lakes, which have adaptability to the high salinity, can be suitable for saline effluent treatment. Eight emergent species from natural saline area were planted in an experimental gravel be...

Three closely related Salsola taxa (Salsola boissieri Botsch. subsp. serpentinicola (Freitag & Özhatay) Freitag Uotila, boissieri, turcica Yıldırımlı (halophytic ecotype), (gypsicole ecotype)) from different edaphic conditions were studied according to changing light and salinity conditions. Seeds of target collected in 2017 their weights determined. The perianth segments removed before...