ISSN:
1573-5036
Keywords:
salt tolerance
;
Trifolium repens
;
white clover
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
Abstract Two divergent populations of T. repens cv. Haifa developed from two generations of recurrent selection for shoot chloride concentration, were grown in the greenhouse at 0 and 40 mol m−3 NaCl. Over two harvest cycles at 40 mol m−3 NaCl, the population selected for a low concentration of chloride in the shoot maintained a significantly lower chloride and sodium concentration compared with those plants selected for a high shoot chloride concentration. The distribution of chloride in the shoots was further examined in a subsample of plants from both populations. In all plants, concentrations of chloride were lower in the expanding and fully expanded leaves than in the older leaf tissue or petioles. While there were no significant differences in the photosynthetic rates between lines, shoot yields and relative leaf expansion rates were higher in the low chloride population. Plant death was greater in plants selected for high shoot chloride. These results suggest that selections based on measurements of low shoot chloride concentrations may be successful in developing a cultivar of T. repens with improved salt tolerance.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00012005
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