Author: Md Khursheed*, Bhavya and Bipul Dhungel
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ABSTRACT: The major ecological concern is the soil salinity in today’s farming practices. Globally it is changing and creating many socio-economic problems. Salinity is mainly resulted from higher accumulation of the salts of SO4-2, NO3-, CO3-2 , Cl- and HCO3- etc. The main objective of the study is to find out the Salinity stress mediated retardation of seed germination and early growth of important food crops cultivated in Gwalior. Standard protocols were used to obtain the results. The results obtained indicated that accumulations of salts results into physiological draught condition by changing the water potential. This condition of soil salinity effects all stages of the crop growth specifically at the seed germination and early stages of the growth and ultimately significantly reduces the yield of the crops. This study will help the researchers in screening and identification salt tolerant varieties of the crops are the first step towards the selection and development toleran
Keywords: Salinity, Varieties, Water potential, Tolerance, Physiological draught, germination
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