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To assess the potential for developing a salt resistant cultivar of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) 160 genotypes were screened for percent survival after 9 weeks in greenhouse solution cultures, with 50 mM NaCl or 25 mM Na2SO4. All plants grew well in the sulfate treatment but only cv. L-550 survived the chloride treatment. Salt damage appeared and developed slowly.
To check these apparent effects of cultivar and kind of anion, three genotypes including cv. L-550 were then grown in solutions with isoosmotic NaCl or Na2SO4 at three levels (−0.044, −0.088, and −0.132 MPa), and in a separate experiment cv. L-550 was grown with NaCl and Na2SO4 at four levels: 10, 20, 30 and 50 mM Na. Salt composition affected shoot weight less than salt level or cultivar did. Shoot dry weight was only slightly less in chloride treatments than in isoosmotic sulfate, and for the least sensitive cultivar (L-550) this held only at the highest salt level, corresponding to that in the screening trial. Further, sensitivity to sulfate and to chloride was equal when sodium concentrations in shoots were equal, regardless of anion compositions of media. Shoot Na concentration was a useful negative indicator of growth under salt stress regardles of cultivar, and may be a useful tolerance indicator also for other species that neither accumulate nor efficiently exclude Na.
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Lauter, D.J., Munns, D.N. Salt resistance of chickpea genotypes in solutions salinized with NaCl or Na2SO4 . Plant Soil 95, 271–279 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02375078
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