Table 14. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid, or amino acid mixture on sodium content (mg/100 g dry wt.) of shoot and root of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.
| Treatments | Sodium | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoot | Root | |||
| G124 | G119 | G124 | G119 | |
| Control | 18.0±0.0 | 16.4±0.2 | 1.23±0.03 | 0.36±0.03 |
| NaCl | 23.3±0.1 | 17.7±0.3 | 1.26±0.07 | 0.68±0.01 |
| Glutathione | 15.3±0.1 | 13.0±0.1 | 0.71±0.09 | 0.45±0.06 |
| Glutathione plus salt | 15.9±0.1 | 13.4±0.1 | 0.67±0.06 | 0.67±0.01 |
| Ascorbic acid | 15.8±0.0 | 15.6±0.1 | 0.63±0.03 | 0.46±0.01 |
| Ascorbic acid plus salt | 17.4±0.1 | 16.2±0.0 | 0.72±0.10 | 0.94±0.04 |
| Amino acid mixtures | 15.6±0.1 | 15.3±0.1 | 0.69±0.07 | 0.78±0.03 |
| Amino acids plus salt | 16.4±0.0 | 15.9±0.1 | 0.63±0.03 | 0.99±0.07 |
| F | 834.3 | 292.9 | 42.2 | 87.7 |
| P | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| LSD | 0.26 | 0.27 | 0.12 | 0.07 |
Highly significant at P≤0.01.