Table 2. Effect of 100 mM of NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid or amino acid mixture on the fresh weight (mg/root) and dry weight (mg/root) of root of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.

Treatments	Fresh weight		Dry weight
	G124	G119	G124	G119
Control	25.3±0.001	22.3±0.002	26.0±0.001	8.2±0.001
NaCl	12.3±0.001	11.3±0.001	9.0±0.001	7.4±0.001
Glutathione	25.0±0.001	43.0±0.001	17.0±0.001	10.3±0.001
Glutathione plus salt	21.3±0.001	20.3±0.001	17.7±0.001	7.0±0.001
Ascorbic acid	18.0±0.001	17.0±0.001	8.3±0.001	8.5±0.001
Ascorbic acid plus salt	17.3±0.001	22.0±0.001	7.5±0.001	7.3±0.001
Amino acid mixtures	21.0±0.001	22.3±0.001	7.3±0.001	11.0±0.001
Amino acids plus salt	16.0±0.001	18.0±0.001	8.6±0.001	8.0±0.001
F	8.25	288.2	193.01	21311.5
P	**	**	**	**
LSD	4.67	2.09	1.48	6.11

^**Highly significant at P≤0.01.