Open AccessEffect of foliar spray with sulfosalicylic acid on morphological and yield traits of chickpea under salinity conditions
Author(s) -
J Savita,
Somveer Jakhar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of plant sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2287-688X
DOI - 10.21746/aps.2018.7.4.11
Subject(s) - salinity , arid , agronomy , sulfosalicylic acid , limiting , crop , yield (engineering) , biology , chemistry , ecology , materials science , chromatography , engineering , metallurgy , mechanical engineering
Salinity is one of the limiting environmental factors for crop production. Chickpea has special importance among the legumes especially in arid and semi-arid regions and is sensitive to salinity. Therefore, it becomes necessary to make a plan to mitigate the salinity effect on this plant. For this purpose, an experiment was conducted in the net house of Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra to investigate the role of sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) at different concentrations (10-4, 10-5 and 10-6 M) in overcoming salinity stress imposed on chickpea plants in natural conditions. Different salinity levels (0, 50 mM, 100 mM and 150 mM) were applied and caused a significant reduction in morphological and yield parameters. Our main findings are as follows: (1) Salt stress has detrimental effects on growth and physiology of plants. (2) Application of SSA at 10-5 M was the most significant concentration in modulating the inhibitory effects of salt stress.