SALINITY AND SEED GERMINATION OF SOME VEGETABLE CROPS

G. Cucci, A. De Caro, L. Ciciretti, B. Leoni
This note reports on the results of a climatic chamber trial aimed at testing the influence of salinity on seed germination in the following vegetable crops: chicory, tomato, bean, egg-plant, spinach and cow-pea. The results obtained show that the salinity threshold beyond which significant germinability reductions were observed, ranged from 6 to 16 dS m-1, with bean and egg-plant as the most sensitive, and chicory and spinach as the most resistant.
Cucci, G., De Caro, A., Ciciretti, L. and Leoni, B. (1994). SALINITY AND SEED GERMINATION OF SOME VEGETABLE CROPS. Acta Hortic. 362, 305-310
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1994.362.37
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1994.362.37
salinity, vegetable crop germination

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