Prospects for Saline Agriculture
Saline land is a resource capable of significant production. Recent advances in research in breeding for salt tolerance in wheat, biotechnology in rice, and selection and rehabilitation of salt-tolerant plants are of economic importance in arid/saline con
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Tasks for vegetation science 37 SERIES EDITORS A. Kratochwil, University of OsnabrUck, Germany H. Lieth, University of OsnabrUck, Germany
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Prospects for Saline Agriculture
Edited by
R.AHMAD Department ojBotany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan
and
K.A. MALIK Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-90-481-6019-8 ISBN 978-94-017-0067-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-0067-2
Acacia ampliceps grown at coastal sandy belt using highly saline water for irrigation. Photograph taken by Dr. Shoaib Ismail.
Printed on acid~free paper
All Rights Reserved © 2002 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.
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Table of contents
Foreword
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Introduction by Series Editor
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Preface
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Concept Papers 1- Prospects for saline agriculture in Pakistan: Today and Tomorrow. Kauser A. Malik 2- Salt of the earth: time to take it seriously. E.G. Barrett-Lennard
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Regional Papers 3- Ecological conservation and reclamation of arid/saline lands under agricultural system development in Kyzylkum deserts of Uzbekistan K.N.Toderich, T. Tsukatani, R.I. Goldshtein, V.B. Aparin and A.A .Ashurmetov 4- Biogeocenotic principles and methods of degraded pastures phytomelioration in
Central Asia and Russia. Z.Sh. Shamsutdinov and N.Z. Shamsutdinov 5- A study on salt pollution cycle of cultivated land between drainage and irrigation in the main stream of Tarim River, Xinjiang, China. Ji Fang, Ma Yingjie and Fan Zili 6- Desert forages of the Arabian Peninsula - the sustainable use of salt affected soils through conservation and evaluation. A. Dakheel, M. E. Ferguson, G. Al-Hadram, A. Saleh, I. R. McCann and J. M. Peacock 7- Use of saline drainage water for irrigation, reclamation and cultivation of new land areas in Sinai Peninsula. Mohamed Talaat El-Saidi
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Cereals Wheat 8- Conventional and alien genetic diversity for salt tolerant wheats: Focus on current status and new gerrnplasm development. Abdul Mujeeb-Kazi and Jose Luis Diaz De Leon
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9- Recent advances in the development of salinity and waterlogging tolerant bread wheats. P.A. Hollington, J. Akhtar, R. Aragties, Z. Hussain, A.R. Mahar, S.A. Quarrie, R.H. Qureshi, A. Royo and M. Saqib.
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10- Development/selection of salinity and waterlogging tolerant wheat genotypes. J. Akhtar, S. Nawaz, R.H. Qureshi, M. Aslam and M
