Sensitivity of chickpea and faba bean to root-zone hypoxia, elevated ethylene, and carbon dioxide.

During soil waterlogging, plants experience O deficits, elevated ethylene, and high CO in the root-zone. The effects on chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and faba bean (Vicia faba L.

Salt sensitivity in chickpea: Growth, photosynthesis, seed yield components and tissue ion regulation in contrasting genotypes.

Chickpea is a relatively salt sensitive species but shows genotypic variation for salt tolerance, measured as grain yield per plant in mild-to-moderately saline soil. This experiment was designed to evaluate some physiological responses to salinity in three contrasting genotypes. One tolerant (Genesis836), one moderately tolerant (JG11) and one sensitive (Rupali) genotype were grown for 108d in non-saline nutrient solution (controls) and two levels of salinity treatment (30 and 60mM NaCl).