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The Effects Of Calcium On The Response Of Snapbean To Sodium-Induced Stress, Masud Ahmad Khan May 1991

The Effects Of Calcium On The Response Of Snapbean To Sodium-Induced Stress, Masud Ahmad Khan

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Soil salinity is a major concern to agriculture in arid and semiarid regions, where evapotranspiration causes salts originating from irrigation water (or sometimes naturally from the soil) to become concentrated in the rooting zone. In some areas, with good management, it has been economically feasible to ameliorate a sodic soil with Ca. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of Ca amelioration of salinity (sodicity) on biomass, number of nodules, number of pods, weight of pods, ion uptake, and photosynthesis of Phaseolus vulgaris L.

Plants were grown in one liter styrofoam pots under greenhouse conditions. In the …