Effect of Calcium on The Growth and Ion Uptake in NaCl-Stressed Plants

Abstract

Peanut and kidney bean give similiar reponses to salt stress showing a more severe growth reduction, as compared to spinach, leaf beet, barley cultivars and wild barley. Calcium showed the protective effect on salt injury in all plants, the effect of which was more pronounced in spinach, leaf beet and both types of barley plant than taht in bean and peanut.