Table 16. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid, or amino acid mixture on potassium/sodium ratio of shoot and root of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.

Treatments	K/Na ratio
	shoot		root
	G124	G119	G124	G119
Control	1.06±0.00	1.04±0.01	0.66±0.06	1.25±0.25
NaCl	0.91±0.01	0.99±0.01	0.62±0.04	0.67±0.07
Glutathione	0.99±0.02	1.04±0.01	0.65±0.09	1.66±0.02
Glutathione plus salt	0.87±0.00	1.22±0.01	0.94±0.05	1.13±0.10
Ascorbic acid	1.06±0.01	0.96±0.01	1.18±0.08	0.99±0.00
Ascorbic acid plus salt	1.12±0.00	0.93±0.01	0.88±0.10	0.48±0.01
Amino acid mixtures	1.10±0.00	1.02±0.00	0.99±0.02	0.83±0.04
Amino acids plus salt	1.27±0.01	0.92±0.01	1.24±0.01	0.74±0.07
F	286.6	201.4	38.1	34.2
P	**	**	**	**
LSD	0.02	0.01	0.11	0.19

^**Highly significant at P≤0.01.