Sodium Selenate Treatment Using a Combination of Seed Priming and Foliar Spray Alleviates Salinity Stress in Rice.

ABSTRACT: Soil salinity is one of the important abiotic stress factors that affect rice productivity and quality. Research with several dicotyledonous plants indicated that the detrimental effects associated with salinity stress can (partly) be overcome by the external application of antioxidative substances. For instance, sodium selenate (Na₂SeO₄) significantly improved the growth and productivity of several crops under various abiotic stress conditions. At present there is no report describing the impact of Na₂SeO₄ on salinity stressed cereals such as rice. Rice cultivation is threatened by increasing salinity stress, and in future this problem will further be aggravated by global warming and sea level rise, impacting coastal areas. The current study rep

SUBMITTER: Subramanyam K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6378292 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature