College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Diyala discussed a master dissertation on the effect of soaking with citric acid in reducing the harmful effects of salt stress on the plant and the growth of yellow maize seedlings by postgraduate student, Mrs. Zainab Jaafar Sultan.
The dissertation aimed at highlighting the effect of soaking treatments for yellow maize seeds under conditions of salt stress.
The dissertation reviewed that the seed soaking treatments differed significantly from each other in the studied traits, and that the increase in the level of salinity of the irrigation water led to a significant decrease in most of the traits, the soaking treatments with citric acid and irrigation with distilled water also excelled in giving them the highest averages for the traits under study by reducing the negative effects of salt stress on maize plants from soaking in distilled water.
