title: Response of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) to salinity in the early growth stages for agricultural cultivation in saline environments.
abstract: Salinity is a serious environmental problem. Growing of plants like tomato can be solution for coping with soil salinity. For this purpose, response of tomato to salinity has been tested in the early growth stages. Characteristics of germination (percentage and period; length and fresh-dry weight of radicle and hypcotyl) and seedling (length and fresh-dry weight of root, shoot and whole plant; leaf number and area based on Relative Growth Rate); Na+ and K+ content of leaf; K+/Na+ rate of leaf has been studied at the 0, 50, 100 and 150 mM NaCl levels. Thus, it determined that tomato can be indicator for agricultural cultivation at the salinity environments at the early growth stages.
authors.affiliation: Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Agriculture Faculty, Horticulture Department, Kahramanmaras, Turkey. akinci.s@ksu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Sermin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akinci
authors.forename: Kadir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Irfan Ersin
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Akinci
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D004777:Environment; D018525:Germination / Q000187:drug effects; D018551:Solanum lycopersicum / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development; D018520:Plant Shoots / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development; D011188:Potassium / Q000737:chemistry; D036226:Seedlings / Q000187:drug effects; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000633:toxicity*; D012987:Soil
chemical_list: D012987:Soil; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D011188:Potassium