Salsola soda as selenium biofortification crop under high saline and boron growing conditions.

ABSTRACT: In California, there is a shortage of good quality water available for irrigated agriculture due to severe drought. Consequently, saline groundwaters and drainage waters containing natural-occurring selenium (Se) and boron (B) salts are being considered as alternative sources of water for irrigation on salt and B tolerant crops like the edible halophyte-agretti (Salsola soda L.). In this multi-year field study, we evaluated agretti grown as a Se-biofortification crop in typical saline/B-laden soils (10 dS m^-1 and 12 mg B/L) and irrigated with saline (3-8 dS m^-1) and low-saline water (<1 d/S m) containing B (3-6 mg B/L) and Se (0.02-0.25 mg Se/L) at different evaporation transpiration (Et _o ) rates (100, 75, and 50 %, respectively). During the

SUBMITTER: Banuelos GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9549694 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature