Protocols for Pre-Field Screening of Mutants for Salt Tolerance in Rice, Wheat and Barley

This book offers effective, low-costand user-friendly protocols for the pre-field selection of salt-tolerant mutants in cereal crops. It presents simple methods for measuring soil salinity, includingsoil sampling and the analysis of water-soluble salts, and describes adetailed, but simple, screening test for salt tolerance in rice, wheat andbarley seedlings, which uses hydroponics. The protocols are devised for use byplant breeders and can be easily accommodated into breeding practice. 

List of contents

Introduction.- Objectives.- Protocol for measuring soil salinity.- Protocol for screening for salt tolerance in rice.- Protocol for screening for salt tolerance in barley and wheat.

Summary

This book offers effective, low-cost
and user-friendly protocols for the pre-field selection of salt-tolerant mutants in cereal crops. It presents simple methods for measuring soil salinity, including
soil sampling and the analysis of water-soluble salts, and describes a
detailed, but simple, screening test for salt tolerance in rice, wheat and
barley seedlings, which uses hydroponics. The protocols are devised for use by
plant breeders and can be easily accommodated into breeding practice. 

Product details

• Authors: Souleyman Bado, Souleymane Bado, Günter Berthold, Brian Forster, Brian P Forster, Brian P. Forster, Abdelbag Ghanim, Abdelbagi Ghanim, Abdelbagi M. A. Ghanim, Berthold Günter, Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, Liu Luxiang
• Assisted by: Souleymane Bado (Editor), Brian P. Forster (Editor), Abdelbagi Ghanim (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319265889
• ISBN: 978-3-31-926588-9
• No. of pages: 37
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 214 g
• Illustrations: X, 37 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Biotechnologie, C, Pflanzenbiologie, Agrarwissenschaften, biotechnology, Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Plant Physiology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Agricultural science, Plant breeding, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology, Chemical Bioengineering