ICRISAT is headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, with two regional hubs and six country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. CGIAR is a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future. Its science is carried out by the 15 research cen...
Crop plants experience many biotic and abiotic stresses at different stages during their life cycle. Like other major abiotic stresses (drought and heat), soil salinity threatens global food security, affecting one-quarter to one-third of global crop production (Munns2002; Abbasi et al.2015). Soi...