Effect of salinity stress on morpho-physiological attributes of kodomillet hybrids during pre-anthesis

Kodomillet (Paspalum scrobiculatum L.) is one of the hardiest crop among all the small millets. It has a capability to stand for the biotic and a biotic stresses. But increased soil salinity majorly limits the plant productivity and quality. Present work was focused on evaluation of Kodomillet genotypes such as IPS 145, IPS 610, IPS 351, IC 382888, IPS 583 and IC 426676 for their salt tolerance efficiency subjected to different salinity levels i.e. 0, 200, 400 and 600 mM NaCl at 45 DAS. The results obtained were revealed that root length, shoot length, number of leaves and root length density found to be insignificant whereas root shoot ratio, root and shoot relative water content and total chlorophyll content were correlated significantly. Among all the test types IC 426676 and IPS 583 showed more salt tolerance efficiency and IPS 145 reported less salt tolerance efficiency.