Peanut Response to Uniform and Non‐uniform Soil Salinity1
- 1 May 1969
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Agronomy Journal
- Vol. 61 (3) , 384-387
- https://doi.org/10.2134/agronj1969.00021962006100030015x
Abstract
The yield of peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) grown in artificially salinized plots was reduced to 50% at ECe of 4.7 mmhos/cm and by 20% at ECe of 3.8 mmhos/cm. Yield reduction was the same for equal mean soil salinities regardless of the shape of the soil salinity profile. Reduction in water uptake as a result of increased soil salinities was probably the consequence rather than the cause of the reduced growth. The salt tolerance during germination was much higher than during subsequent growth. A 50% reduction in germination was obtained at ECe of 13 mhos/cm and in seedling development at ECe, of 7.2 mmhos/cm.Keywords
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