Screening of Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) Accessions for High Salt Tolerance

• Main Authors: Md. Amirul Alam, Abdul Shukor Juraimi, M. Y. Rafii, Azizah Abdul Hamid, Farzad Aslani
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
• Subjects: QK1-989 Botany; SB1-1110 Plant culture
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34924/1/Abstract.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34924/2/Full%20text.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34924/; https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/627916/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/627916

Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) is an herbaceous leafy vegetable crop, comparatively more salt-tolerant than any other vegetables with high antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins. Salt-tolerant crop variety development is of importance due to inadequate cultivable land and escalating salinity togethe...