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To increase rice yields on adverse soils without costly soil amendments and reclamation, rice cultivars are needed that tolerate the various associated mineral stresses. In South and Southeast Asia, salinity, alkalinity, strong acidity and excess iron hamper rice growth on about 5 million ha. Because of soil problems 23 million ha of land suited to rice lie idle. Screening methods for the various chemical soil stresses have enabled the development of higher yielding cultivars with increased tolerance to adverse soil conditions. Yield advantage of up to 3 t/ha over traditional varieties have been demonstrated in farmers’ fields. The multiple soil stress tolerance of the cultivar IR36 has contributed to its cultivation on almost 11 million ha worldwide.
However, lack of knowledge on the mechanism and genetics of tolerance constrains a more rapid and consistent development of adverse soil tolerant rice cultivars.
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Neue, H.U., Lantin, R.S., Cayton, M.T.C., Autor, N.U. (1990). Screening of rices for adverse soil tolerance. In: El Bassam, N., Dambroth, M., Loughman, B.C. (eds) Genetic Aspects of Plant Mineral Nutrition. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2053-8_72
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