African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12487

Full Length Research Paper

Responses of Cymbopogon schoenanthus to salt stress

  Ayda Khadhri1*, Ridha El Mokni2, Khaled Mguis3, Mohamed Neffati4 and Samira Smiti1      
  1Research Unit of Plant Ecology, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, El Manar University, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia. 2Laboratory of Botany and Plant Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Carthage, Jarzouna7021, Bizerta, Tunisia. 3Unit of Agrosylvopastrolism, INERGREF, Hedi karray Street, 2080 Ariana, Tunisia. 4 Range Ecology Laboratory, Institute of Arid Regions, 4119 Mednine, Tunisia.
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  •  Accepted: 08 January 2012
  •  Published: 27 March 2012

Abstract

 

Cymbopogon schoenanthus is an aromatic and medicinal plant rich in essential oil. The physiological behavior of this species, related with growth production, the photosynthetic pigments, the nutritional status and the osmotic adjustment were studied. Saline treatments varied from 0 to 150 mM NaCl. The results show that the growth of C. schoenanthus was affected by the salinity and the effect increased with more stress at 100 mM of NaCl. Besides the response of C. schoenanthus to the salt stress, this study has allowed us to conclude that this plant is excluder glycophyte and less tolerant to salt stress.

 

Key words: Cymbopogon schoenanthus, NaCl, growth, mineral nutrition, osmotic adjustment.

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