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Saline Agriculture: Salt-Tolerant Plants for Developing by National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Office

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By National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Office of International Affairs, Report of a Panel of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development

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Page breaks are true to the original; line lengths, word breaks, heading styles, and other typesetting-specific formatting, however, cannot be retained, and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. html FOOD 23 TABLE 4 Acacia Seed Composition. Species A. aneura A. coriacea A. cowleana A. 9 * Water-free composition SOURCE: Peterson, 1978. Many Acacia seeds are rich in nutrients with higher energy, protein, and fat contents than wheat or rice.

SOURCE: Crane, 1985. Researchers at the Institute of Plant Science Research (Cambridge, England) have succeeded in crossing salt-tolerant sand couch (Thinopyrum bessarabicum) with wheat. Sand couch grows on the sand dunes of the Black Sea and can withstand salt concentrations that would be lethal for wheat. 1 percent. A recent report by Rawson and coworkers (1988) suggests that absolute NaCl tolerance in wheat, barley, and triticale is not so much due to the greater ability to grow in the presence of NaCl, but to grow well per se.

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