Resistance of barley plants to saline stress

The authors estimated the reaction on saline stress in 103 barley specimens from world genofond of different ecologo-geographic and systematic origin. The inheritance of saline tolerance in bare-grained and papery scale form was determined. Considerable intraspecific variability in cultured barley forms on saline tolerance was revealed. It was shown, that bare-grained forms have more high resistance to saline as compared with papery scale forms. The investigation of F1 hybrids and their parents contrasting on saline tolerance suggests about presence of heterosis on this determinant.