Though succulence is primarily an adaptation to water stress, it provides salt resistance to plants because it dilutes the ionic concentration and temporarily puts off the setting of severe water-deficit induced by salt stress. Root/shoot dry weight ratio of J. curcas was 0.67 under control conditions and was greater than that for aridity and salt tolerant seedlings of A. catechu (0.47) growing abundantly in saline desert of Kutch (Ramoliya et al. 2004).