title: [Hydrous and photosynthetic adaptations of common and durum wheat to saline stress].
abstract: Seven varieties of bred wheat and seven varieties of durum wheat were cultivated in three different sites from the area of Errachidia (southeastern Morocco). These sites differ by the degree of salinity in the irrigation water. Results obtained showed that the reduction in leaf area is the principal strategy that makes it possible to attenuate the effects of the reduction in the availability of water under saline stress. Bread wheat, which limited the reduction in the leaf area, with the risk to undergo some hydrous problems, seems to better preserve its photosynthetic potentialities and grain productivity.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de biologie moléculaire, Programme des céréales, Inra, Rabat, Maroc. Alem04@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Chakib
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alem
authors.forename: Mustapha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Labhilili
authors.forename: Kouider
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brahmi
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jlibene
authors.forename: Nasralhaq
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nasrallah
authors.forename: Abdelkarim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Filali-Maltouf
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods; D001939:Bread; D005843:Geography; D009018:Morocco; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D010788:Photosynthesis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014908:Triticum / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D012965:Sodium Chloride