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Breeding Salinity Tolerance in Citrus Using Rootstocks

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Salt Stress in Plants

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Citrus is a salt-sensitive crop and is influences at low concentrations of salt. Soil and/or water salinity can severely affect the growth and normal physiological processes in citrus trees. In citrus, rootstock is the most important component of the tree to assess salt tolerance or sensitivity. Hence, the choice of the appropriate rootstock plays a crucial role in yield. Numerous experiments have shown that exclusion of Cl− and Na+ is a hereditary/genetic function. Thus, selection of suitable parental genotypes would restrict the translocation of Cl− or Na+ in the grafted variety or developed hybrids.

In countries such as Spain, Australia, USA and France, one of the main goals of the citrus breeding programs is to obtain new rootstocks tolerant to salinity. In Spain during 1974, a program began at the Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA) to breed citrus rootstocks by hybridizations, in which more than 500 hybrids were evaluated to determine their agronomic performances including tolerance to salinity. Several new commercial rootstocks have been produced in this breeding program.

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This work was financed by the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (RTA2008-0060) and Generalitat Valenciana. G. Ancillo and M.A. Forner-Giner are recipient of a contract from Conselleria de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (Generalitat Valenciana, Spain) under Proy_IVIA09/03 and Proy_IVIA09/04, respectively.

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    Maria Angeles Forner-Giner & Gema Ancillo

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  1. Department of Botany A.S. College, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India

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    M. M. Azooz

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    M. N. V. Prasad

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Forner-Giner, M.A., Ancillo, G. (2013). Breeding Salinity Tolerance in Citrus Using Rootstocks. In: Ahmad, P., Azooz, M.M., Prasad, M.N.V. (eds) Salt Stress in Plants. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6108-1_14

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