The book has been divided into two parts. Part A Deals with the salt tolerance of crops. The crops are grouped into cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, narcotics, fibre crops, sugar and starch crops, forages crops and grasses, vegetables crops, fruit crops, ornamental plants and trees. Part B deals with plant metabolism in saline substrate covering photosynthesis, respiration, enzymes, proteins, amino-acids and chlorophyll. The coverage includes 15 languages with 640 abstracts, covering original research papers, reviews, proceedings, etc, during a period of last 40 years from 1940-1980.