Research article

DETERMINATION OF SALINITY TOLERANCE IN TOMATO CULTIVARS GROWN IN BASRAH, IRAQ

Abdul Baset Muhammad Mahdi Almathi1, Nawal Mahdi Hammood1 and Aphrodite Abdul Razzaq Salih2

Online First: December 06, 2022


The development of salt-tolerant tomato genotypes is a basic necessity to defeat the challenges of tomato production under salinity in the field or soil-free farming. Two types of salinity tolerance genes were used SOD and GPX using real time PCR technique under different concentration of NaCl (3, 6 and 9 decimals ), for different groups of tomato plants.

Keywords

Solanum Spp.; SOD; GPX ; tomato; salt stress; salt-stress related genes