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http://www.healthqas.org The research on land use and afforestation technology in saline soils has achieved a lot of important results both in China and abroad. Nowadays, a number of effective measures were put forward and applied in practice, but it was far from the needs in view of land greening and landscape constructing in saline-alkaline land reclamation. Under the situation, to meet the challenge of the big gap, the study was performed by taking the saline land in Yellow River Delta region as experimental site, and planting techniques such as tree species adaptability and physiological indicators of randomized block and multi-factor orthogonal. All the measured data were treated based on statistical analysis by Excel and SPSS program. Among them, multiple indicators of salt-tolerance were evaluated by cluster analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process. The results were achieved and reported as following:1. The soil in Yellow River Delta is characterized with heavy clay, poor permeability and low content of organic matter & nutrients. The soil type is heavy loam and light clay in the experimental sites, total soil porosity is among 38% and 50%; the maximum of non-capillary porosity reaches 6%. Soil salt contents are from 2 g.kg-1 to 6 g.kg-1, and organic matter content is only 4.68 g.kg-1; alkali-hydrolyzable nitrogen, available phosphorus and potassium contents are 0.74mg.kg-1,13.14 mg.kg-1 and 168mg.kg-1 respectively.While soil salinity of surface soil can be changed under the base of the impact of soil salinity over time. Horizontal distribution of soil salinity is negatively correlated with soil moisture. The vertical distribution of soil salinity patterns is impacted by soil moisture change. It changes significantly when soil moisture falls to 5%.2. Three different treatments of alien soil (plus 10cm riversand,10cm rice bran,5cm riversand+5cm rice bran) are tested and the result shows that comparing with control group, the survival rates of Fraxinus velutina with alien soils are 135%134% and 127%. For Robinia pseudoacacia, they are 190%176% and 149% respectively. And for Platycladus orientalis, survival rates all are 181%. Moreover for plantlet height and basal diameter of F. velutina and P. orientalis,,they are also significantly higher than the ones in control. In terms of F. velutina, the result shows that the higher of soil salinity, the much more obvious effects to alien soil afforestation. And its survival rate, height and basal diameter reach to 200.6%224.3%196.0% compared with the value in control. For soil treatment, plus rice bran is better with other approaches. The best formulations of seed-base are various among specific species, i.e. peat content of 30% and 50% are better for F. velutina and P. orientalis, the peat content of 70% is the best for R. pseudoacacia. But there is little effect on the growth of lower for F. velutina and P. orientalis. Plantation results in three different plots with light, moderate and heavy salt, the survival rates of F. velutina are 94.1%,83.3%,22.2%, and 88.9%72.2%,11.1% for P. orientalis. Besides soil salt survival rates are 33.3%,16.7% and 77.8% respectively. All the tested trees can grow well in the soils with light and moderate salt content, and the growth of trees are restricted significantly in soils with heavy salt.4. The physiological indicators including activities of SOD, POD and CAT, contents of chlorophyll, soluble sugar, soluble protein, praline and MDA, and cell membrane permeability of 16 tested species have been determined. The results indicate that the contents of chlorophyll, soluble sugar, and SOD activities are positively correlated and correlation coefficients are 0.662 and 0.657 respectively. The relationship between SOD activity and CAT is positive, and correlation coefficient is 0.412. While the relationship between POD activity and cell conductance is negative, and correlation coefficient is-0.431.5. Through the physiological indicators analysis and afforestation experiment, the following conclusions could be presented. The trees such as Broussonetia papyifera,

Fraxinus velutina, Amorpha fruticosa, Salix psammophila Platycladus orientalis, Lycium chinense are with high salt tolerance under the test conditions. These trees can be And Hibiscus syriacus, Albizia julibrissin, Diospyros lotus, Lonicera japonica, Morus alba and Robinia pseudoacacia are the moderately recommended species, while Ulmus pumila, Ailanthus altissima, Amygdalus persica and Armeniaca sibirica are not recommended species for afforestation in the region. Reference: Medical information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ medical questions answered: http://www.healthqas.org health news: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com