Crop Production in Saline Environments

Scientists draw on experience in countries around the world to explore how to grow crops in a world where urbanites and industry increasingly outbid agriculture for scarce fresh water, and where the rising sea level will inexorably increase the salinity of many coastal areas. Among the topics are enhancing salt tolerance in crops through molecular breeding, using and reusing saline-sodic waters for irrigating crops, managing soil salinity and alkalinity problems in India, determining sustainable cropping patterns in shallow saline groundwater regions of Australia, and saline soil in San Joaquin Valley in California. The 15 articles are also published in the Journal of Crop Production , vol. 7, nos. 1/2 (