Salinity not only decreases the agricultural production of most crops, but also, as a result of its effect on soil physicochemical properties, adversely affects the establishment, growth and development of plants leading to huge losses in productivity (Mathur et al., 2007). The adverse effects of salinity are attributed to the osmotic effect, ion effect, alterations in ionic composition and diversion of photosynthates and nitrogenous metabolites from growth to energy supply on ion transport, osmotic adjustment, damage repair etc. due to stress (Greenway and Munns, 1980; Flowers, 2004)