“…Salinity has been reported to affect many physiological processes such as seed germination, photosynthesis, respiration and metabolite accumulation, which negatively affects the growth and yield of legume plants by its inhibitory effect on biological nitrogen fixation, less supply of photosynthates to nodules (Bekki et al, 1987), reduced supply of respiratory substrates to bacteroids (Delgado et al, 1994) and modifications in the diffusion barrier of oxygen (Serraj et al, 1994). Moreover, during exposure of plants to salt stress conditions, enhanced synthesis of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) occurs (Jalill et al, 2009), which resulted in production of stress hormone ethylene (Arshad and Frankenberger, 2002).…”