Abstract
The salinity tolerance of loquat grafted onto anger or onto loquat was studied. The plants were irrigated using solutions containing 5, 25, 35, 50, or 70 mM sodium chloride (NaCl) for five months. Different parameters of vegetative growth were studied, all of them showing that plants grafted onto loquat are much less salinity-tolerant than those grafted onto anger. Thus, the concentration of NaCl that produced a growth reduction of 50% (C50) for the growth parameters of the shoot was around 35 mM for loquat plants grafted onto loquat. With the NaCl levels employed, loquat-anger plants did not reach the C50. Lower chloride (Cl−) and sodium (Na+) uptake, higher potassium (K+)-Na+ selectivity and a lower reduction in the leaf magnesium (Mg2+) concentration for the loquat-anger combination can explain the higher salinity tolerance compared to loquat-loquat.
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