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Vegetative bioremediation of sodic and saline-sodic soils for productivity enhancement and environment conservation

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Biosaline Agriculture and Salinity Tolerance in Plants

Abstract

Salt-affected soils occupy nearly 20% of irrigated area worldwide [1]. As a major category of salt-affected soils, sodic and saline-sodic soils are characterized by the occurrence of sodium (Na+) at levels that result in poor physical properties and fertility problems, thereby threatening agricultural productivity in many arid and semi-arid regions. Amelioration of these soils is driven by providing a soluble source of calcium (Ca2+) to replace excess Na+ on the cation exchange complex [2]. The displaced Na+ is either leached from the root zone by excess irrigation, a process that requires soil permeability and provision of a natural or artificial drainage system, or is taken up by crops.

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  1. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria

    Manzoor Qadir

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, USA

    Jim D. Oster

  3. Institute of Plant Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

    Sven Schubert

  4. Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Ghulam Murtaza

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  1. Center for Environmental Studies, Science Faculty Building A-Blok, Ege University, 35100, Bornova, Izmir-Turkey

    MĂĽnir Ă–ztĂĽrk

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Yoav Waisel

  3. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan

    M. Ajmal Khan

  4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Mugla University, Mugla-Turkey

    Güven Görk

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Qadir, M., Oster, J.D., Schubert, S., Murtaza, G. (2006). Vegetative bioremediation of sodic and saline-sodic soils for productivity enhancement and environment conservation. In: Öztürk, M., Waisel, Y., Khan, M.A., Görk, G. (eds) Biosaline Agriculture and Salinity Tolerance in Plants. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7610-4_15

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