This chapter focuses on how plants respond to salinity and toxic elements (ie, Na+, G, and
B), the various factors that influence plant response to salinity, and the extent to which …

As noted in previous chapters of this manual, the quality of irrigation water is an important
factor in determining sustainability of agriculture on salt-impaired lands. For a number of …

A considerable amount of data is available regarding the effect of soil salinity on crop yield.
Most of the data was obtained under uniform spatial and temporal distribution of salts, at …

Water for irrigation is a major limitation to agricultural production in many parts of the world.
Use of waters with elevated levels of salinity is one likely option to meet the supply of …

Root water uptake is described from the local scale, to the field scale and to the regional and
global scales. Locally, water uptake can be considered at two different Darcian scales …

Corn (Zea mays L.) is an important crop in Brazil and is cultivated in all regions, including
the semi-arid area of Brazil, where the occurrence of irrigation water with high concentration …

No quantitative information is available regarding the salt tolerance of eggplant (Solanum
melongena L.). The present study was conducted over a two-year period in small field plots …

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes
containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the …

Strategies are presented to minimize the detrimental impacts of salinity, sodicity, and toxicity
in irrigated agriculture. The tolerances of major agricultural crops to salinity are given along …

Expected yield losses as a function of quality and quantity of water applied for irrigation are
required to formulate guidelines for the effective utilisation of marginal quality waters. In an …