Table 15. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid, or amino acid mixture on nitrogen content (mg/g dry wt.) of shoot and root of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.
| Treatments | Nitrogen | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| shoot | root | |||
| G124 | G119 | G124 | G119 | |
| Control | 0.55±0.0 | 0.33±0.0 | 0.25±0.0 | 0.36±0.0 |
| NaCl | 0.02±0.0 | 0.62±0.0 | 0.01±0.0 | 0.36±0.0 |
| Glutathione | 0.14±0.0 | 0.67±0.0 | 0.71±0.0 | 0.49±0.0 |
| Glutathione plus salt | 0.06±0.0 | 0.27±0.0 | 0.47±0.0 | 0.28±0.0 |
| Ascorbic acid | 0.16±0.0 | 0.22±0.0 | 0.09±0.0 | 0.41±0.0 |
| Ascorbic acid plus salt | 0.12±0.0 | 0.76±0.0 | 0.01±0.0 | 0.07±0.0 |
| Amino acid mixtures | 0.06±0.0 | 0.34±0.0 | 0.14±0.0 | 0.18±0.0 |
| Amino acids plus salt | 0.31±0.0 | 0.33±0.0 | 0.37±0.0 | 0.13±0.0 |
| F | 988.9 | 548.6 | 4247.3 | 1231.5 |
| P | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| LSD | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Highly significant at P≤0.01.