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Plant Responses to Salinity

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Physiology of Cotton

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Cotton is one of the most salt-tolerant of the major annual crops, but the variable nature of both salinity and the plant’s response to it make salinity a far from simple problem. Here we consider the response of cotton to salinity, and possible means of improving cotton yields on saline land or with saline water. This review will cover most of the research published in the last 30 years, but space does not permit a more extensive review of the older literature.

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    John Gorham

  2. University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Andre Läuchli

  3. IRNASE-CSIC, Seville, Spain

    Eduardo O. Leidi

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  1. Dept. Crop, Soil, & Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, 115 Plant Science Building, Fayetteville, AR, 72704, USA

    James McD. Stewart

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  3. Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX, 75429, USA

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Gorham, J., Läuchli, A., Leidi, E.O. (2010). Plant Responses to Salinity. In: Stewart, J.M., Oosterhuis, D.M., Heitholt, J.J., Mauney, J.R. (eds) Physiology of Cotton. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3195-2_13

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