Table 13. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid, or amino acid mixture on potassium content (mg/100 g dry wt.) of shoot and root of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.
| Treatments | Potassium | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoot | Root | |||
| G124 | G119 | G124 | G119 | |
| Control | 20.8±0.7 | 17.6±0.3 | 0.8±0.1 | 0.4±0.0 |
| NaCl | 19.5±0.5 | 17.1±0.0 | 0.7±0.0 | 0.4±0.0 |
| Glutathione | 13.2±0.3 | 15.1±0.2 | 0.4±0.0 | 0.7±0.0 |
| Glutathione plus salt | 13.8±0.0 | 16.8±0.1 | 0.6±0.0 | 0.7±0.0 |
| Ascorbic acid | 16.8±0.0 | 15.1±0.1 | 0.7±0.0 | 0.4±0.0 |
| Ascorbic acid plus salt | 19.5±0.0 | 15.1±0.2 | 0.6±0.0 | 0.4±0.0 |
| Amino acid mixtures | 16.9±0.1 | 15.7±0.1 | 0.7±0.1 | 0.6±0.1 |
| Amino acids plus salt | 20.8±0.1 | 14.6±0.2 | 0.7±0.0 | 0.7±0.0 |
| F | 21.9 | 177.0 | 22.2 | 147.9 |
| P | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| LSD | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.25 | 0.12 |
Highly significant at P≤0.01.