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Provedor de dados: 	Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Changes in growth variables and potassium content in leaves of Black Barley in response to NaCl	
Autores: 	Abu-Al-Basal,Mariam A.; Yasseen,Bassam T.	
Data: 	2009-01-01	
Ano: 	2009	
Palavras-chave: 	Black barley; Hordeum distichum L.; Cell division; Growth rate; Growth duration; Leaf growth; Arivat; Hordeum vulgare L.; Potassium; Salt stress.	
Resumo: 	Much attention is being focused on the Black barley (Hordeum distichum L.) as a local cultivar offering good model for a cereal crop has traits of resistance to drought and salinity during vegetative growth stages. Although Black was sensitive to salt stress during germination, it developed gradual tolerance with age and proved very tolerant during growth and development stages. The data of study clearly revealed how this cultivar was superior over Arivat (Hordeum vulgare L.) in many physiological aspects such as leaf growth variables (i.e. rate and duration) and processes (i.e. cell division), tiller production and potassium content. Black barley had more tillers, faster rate and longer duration of growth processes which was accompanied with potassium accumulation, as sodium chloride concentration increased in the growth medium. Thus, the ability of Black cultivar to accumulate K+ could have promoted growth variables (i.e. faster rate and longer duration of growth processes). Arivat, on the other hand, might have suffered from K+ deficiency; which could explain the adverse effect of salt stress on leaf growth variables and processes. Moreover, the relative water content (RWC) and proline can clearly distinguish the two cultivars; RWC was higher and proline concentration was lower in leaves of Black as compared with Arivat. Therefore, Black barley proved efficient in maintaining growth, ion homeostasis, and might sacrifice less in growth under osmotic stress conditions. The possible mechanism of the effect of sodium chloride on potassium accumulation in Black barley is discussed.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1677-04202009000400002	
Editor: 	Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1677-04202009000400002	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology  v.21 n.4 2009	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess