Acquired salinity tolerance in rice: Plant growth dataset

Karthika Sriskantharajah; Shota Osumi; Sumana Chuamnakthong; Mami Nampei; Junrey C Amas; Glenn B Gregorio; Akihiro Ueda

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.106023

Acquired salinity tolerance in rice: Plant growth dataset

Data Brief. 2020 Jul 15:31:106023. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106023. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Karthika Sriskantharajah¹, Shota Osumi¹, Sumana Chuamnakthong¹, Mami Nampei², Junrey C Amas³, Glenn B Gregorio^{4

5}, Akihiro Ueda^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan.
² Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan.
³ School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
⁴ Institute of Crop Science, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna, Philippines.
⁵ International Rice Research Institute, DAPO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Abstract

This article describes the growth of 18 acclimatized and 11 non-acclimatized rice varieties grown in a hydroponic nutrient solution in a glasshouse. Four plants from each variety were grown under control conditions, salinity stress following control conditions (salinity), and salinity stress following acclimation (salinity/acclimation) conditions. Sampling was performed at the end of the salinity treatment (36 days of growth). Growth traits such as shoot and root biomass accumulation and lengths were measured for each variety, and the average was calculated using four replicates. This dataset may aid interested researchers in making comparisons with their data and further advance the research on the salinity acclimation process in rice.

Keywords: Dry weight; Plant growth; Rice; Salinity; Salt acclimation.