S. K. Sharma

TL;DR: The region harbouring Saltol, a major quantitative trait loci on chromosome 1 in rice, which is known to control salinity tolerance at seedling stage, was detected as a major association with Na+/K+ ratio measured at reproductive stage in this study.

TL;DR: A large multi-institutional project, "From QTL to variety: marker-assisted breeding of abiotic stress tolerant rice varieties with major QTLs for drought, submergence and salt tolerance" was initiated in 2010 to improve rice productivity in the fragile ecosystems of eastern, northeastern and southern part of the country.

TL;DR: It is suggested that these genotypes could serve as potentially novel germplasm and could be exploited for the development of new breeding lines with high level of salinity tolerance by pyramiding of the Saltol and other QTLs.

TL;DR: Results clearly indicate that selection of high yielding genotypes would be entirely different under normal and saline environments, and grain yield showed positive significant association with biological yield and harvest index under salinity stress.

TL;DR: Seeds treated with rhizobium ameliorated the deleterious effect of salinity at all levels besides improving the fertility of soil and growth of root nodules by nitrogen fixation and maximum number, weight and leghemoglobin content in NDM-17 was higher as compared to cv.