Table 1. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid or amino acid mixture on the fresh weight (mg/shoot) and dry weight (mg/shoot) of shoot of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.
| Treatments | Fresh weight | Dry weight | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G124 | G119 | G124 | G119 | |
| Control | 746.3±18.6 | 599.6±47.4 | 63.7±04.2 | 58.3±2.8 |
| NaCl | 519.6±02.1 | 370.0±27.8 | 49.0±01.0 | 43.3±2.8 |
| Glutathione | 730.0±58.0 | 710.0±44.4 | 65.0±05.0 | 61.7±2.8 |
| Glutathione plus salt | 556.6±32.0 | 643.3±53.9 | 53.3±11.5 | 60.0±5.0 |
| Ascorbic acid | 540.0±61.0 | 663.3±27.5 | 56.3±1.53 | 60.0±5.0 |
| Ascorbic acid plus salt | 511.6±41.0 | 615.0±73.7 | 49.7±0.60 | 53.3±5.7 |
| Amino acid mixtures | 488.3±20.2 | 528.3±55.1 | 56.7±6.00 | 60.3±0.5 |
| Amino acids plus salt | 370.0±28.0 | 646.6±62.1 | 50.3±22.0 | 57.0±2.6 |
| F | 49.43 | 12.80 | 4.25 | 7.48 |
| P | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| LSD | 53.20 | 88.64 | 8.97 | 6.58 |
**
Highly significant at P≤0.01.