Salt uptake and salt tolerance by sunflower

✍ Scribed by J. G. Bhatt; K. N. Indirakutty

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 157 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-079X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00014816

✦ Synopsis

A normally grown crop of sunflower on red sandy loam soils was found to remove considerable quantities of chloride and sodium. On heavy May soils with saline patches sunflower plants removed large quantities of sodium followed by chloride and sulphate. In view of its salt tolerance, it is suggested that intercropping or rotation with sunflower might help reduce soil salinity and improve soil conditions where salinity problems are coming up especially in heavy clay soils with low permeability.