1Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
2Soil Resources Development Institute, Farmgate, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh
Plant Breeding Division, Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture Bangladesh Agricultural University Campus, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
*Corresponding author e-mail: makazad_binapbd@yahoo.com
Online published on 29 November, 2012.
A pot experiment was conducted under glass house condition to study the mechanism of salt tolerance in peanut at Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Mymensingh, during February to July 2006. Two Spanish type varieties, Dacca-l and Binacmnabadam-3, and 1 Valencia type variety, Zhingabadam with unknown tolerance were exposed to 0.4 (unstressed), 3,5, 7 and 9 dS/m doses of salinity at vegetative and flowering stages. The experiment was laid out in a factorial completely randomized design. It appeared that Binacmnabadam-3 allocated higher assimilate to kernel at both vegetative and flowering stages through maintaining total sugar and chlorophyll ‘a’ contents close to unstressed treatment, particularly at 3–5 dS/m salinity doses.
Peanut, Salinity tolerance, Growth stage, Assimilate translocation, Osmotic adjustment, Chloroplast
