“…The physiological disorder of blossom-end rot can be attributed to irradiation, temperature, low water availability, soil composition, soil cationic balance, air humidity, salinity, NH4 + toxicity, etc. (Barickman et al, 2014;Hayashi et al, 2014;Ho et al, 1993;Morales et al, 2015;Prazeres et al, 2014;Rubio et al, 2009;Saure, 2001). However, the increased incidence of yield with physiological disorder of blossom-end rot is one of the key drawbacks when salin-ity conditions are used (Martinez et al, 1987), resulting from the reduced uptake of Ca 2+ (Adams and Ho, 1992;Dorais et al, 2001).…”