Abstract:
The pot experiment was conducted at the Horticulture Farm of Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka during the period from November 2013 to April
2014.BARI Tomato-5was used as planting material. The two factors experiment
was laid out in RCBD with four replications. The factors are: Factor A: Five levels
of sodium (
0
: control (ii)
vi
1
: 2, (iii)
2
: 4, (iv)
:
8 dS/m and Factor B: Three concentration of calcium
2+
0
: Control
1
: 5 and
2
: 10 mM Ca
2+
respectively. The
results of this experiment showed that, the salt stress reduced the morphological
parameters and yield
and highest value was observed
at control. The present results also showed that, Ca
4
2+
significantly increased the
growth contributing characters as well as yield of tomato in both saline and nonsaline
conditions. For combined effect, tallest plant
This result suggests that, exogenous Ca
2+
0
M
2
3
: 6 and (v
; whereas the lowest from L
can effectively mitigate the deleterious
effect of salt stress in tomato.
