Contents: Foreword/Emanuel Epstein. 1. Strategies for managing crop production in saline environments: an overview/D.W. Rains and S.S. Goyal. 2. Enhancing salt tolerance in crops through molecular breeding: a new strategy/John Bennett and Gurdev S. Khush. 3. Molecular approaches to improve salt resistance in crops: facts and perspectives/Guillermo E. Santa-Marfia. 4. Can the quest for drought tolerant crops avoid arabidopsis any longer?/Albino Maggio, Robert J. Joly, Paul M. Hasegawa and Ray A. Bressan. 5. Use and reuse of saline-sodic waters for irrigation of crops/S.R. Grattan and J.D. Oster. 6. Comprehensive reclamation of salt-affected soils in China's Huang-Huai-Hai Plain/Shi Yuanchun. 7. Management of soil salinity and alkalinity problems in India/P.S. Minhas and O.P. Sharma. 8. Modelling pumped water salinity and salt water upconing/D.K Singh and T.J. Kelleners. 9. Soil salinity in South India: problems and solutions/G. Swarajyalakshmi, P. Gurumurthy and G.V. Subbaiah. 10. Productivity enhancement in the salt-affected lands of joint satiana pilot project area of Pakistan/Riaz H. Qureshi, M. Aslam and Javaid Akhtar. 11. The use of saline water in agriculture in the near East and North Africa region: present and future/Ayman F. Abou-Hadid. 12. Salt, water, and groundwater management models to determine sustainable cropping patterns in Shallow Saline groundwater regions of Australia/S. Khan, E. Xevi and W.S. Meyer. 13. Crop production on Saline soils of Southwestern Siberia/Tamara Bykovskaya and Marya Malinina. 14. Field crop production in areas with saline soils and Shallow Saline groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley of California/James E. Ayars. 15. Progress in plant salinity resistance research: need for an integrative paradigm/Surinder K. Sharma and Sham S. Goyal. Index.

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