Table 11. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid, or amino acid mixture on malondialdehyde content (n mol/g fresh wt.) and membrane leakage (EC%) of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.
| Treatments | Malondialdehyde content | Membrane leakage | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G124 | G119 | G124 | G119 | |
| Control | 132.5±1.2 | 28.7±3.7 | 54.2±0.2 | 38.8±0.4 |
| NaCl | 186.3±4.0 | 205.8±0.0 | 94.1±0.2 | 91.1±0.1 |
| Glutathione | 62.0±6.4 | 11.6±1.1 | 54.9±0.8 | 31.6±0.9 |
| Glutathione plus salt | 104.6±2.0 | 163.5±1.7 | 71.1±0.7 | 47.0±0.0 |
| Ascorbic acid | 31.0±8.9 | 13.9±3.4 | 62.3±0.6 | 38.3±0.5 |
| Ascorbic acid plus salt | 93.0±2.3 | 37.2±3.0 | 67.2±0.3 | 67.3±0.3 |
| Amino acid mixtures | 46.9±2.1 | 69.8±3.4 | 25.9±0.1 | 29.3±0.0 |
| Amino acids plus salt | 32.2±4.1 | 131.7±3.7 | 51.6±0.4 | 79.3±0.5 |
| F | 437.83 | 2959.37 | 4707.67 | 2977.99 |
| P | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| LSD | 7.78 | 5.03 | 0.84 | 1.28 |
**
Highly significant at P≤0.01.