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Soil management for drylands

Silvertooth: Table 2: Salinity tolerances for selected crops

Crop EC (dS m-1, 25°C) at which yield will be decreased by:
10% 25% 50%
Lettuce ( Latuca sativa L.) 2 3 5
Broccoli ( Brassica oleracea L.) 4 6 8
Cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) 10 12 16
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) 12 16 18

EC= Electrical conductivity, expressed in deciSiemens per meter (dS m-1), at 25°C
Source: Adapted from Bernstein (1964) and Maas (1984).

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