Romanian Biotechnological Letters Copyright © 2016 University of Bucharest
Vol. 21, No. 2, 2016 Printed in Romania. All rights reserved ORIGINAL PAPER
Salinity Tolerance in Bread Wheat Cultivars from Turkey Received for publication, December 13, 2015 Accepted, January 31, 2016
YUKSEL KAYA1*, RIFAT ZAFER ARISOY1 Bahri Dagdas International Agricultural Research Institute, Konya, TURKEY *Corresponding author: BahriDagdas International Agricultural Research Institute POBox: 125, Karatay/Konya, Turkey, Office Phone: +90 332 355 12 90, Office Fax: +90 332 355 15 88, e-mail:
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Abstract Salinity is one of the major constraints to wheat production particularly in rain-fed areas, especially Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP), of Turkey. However, salt tolerance levels in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars currently growing in CAP have not been well documented yet. For this purpose, a total of 20 bread wheat cultivars, consisting of 10 rain-fed and 10 irrigated ones, were tested for vegetative stage tolerance to salinity at three different (0, 100 and 200 mM) NaCl concentrations in hydroponic culture. Significant differences (P
