Table 21. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid, or amino acid mixture on total soluble carbohydrates (mg/g dry wt.) of shoot of two barley cultivars at the preflowering stage.

Treatments	Total soluble carbohydrates
	G124	G119
Control	19.8±0.0	44.4±0.2
NaCl	4.5±0.2	26.7±0.2
Glutathione	20.6±0.1	27.6±0.2
Glutathione plus salt	12.7±0.2	30.1±0.0
Ascorbic acid	14.1±0.1	25.8±0.2
Ascorbic acid plus salt	12.4±0.1	34.7±0.1
Amino acid mixtures	13.8±0.1	30.8±0.0
Amino acids plus salt	9.7±0.0	35.4±0.0
F	4435.7	9681.6
P	**	**
LSD	0.34	0.18

^**Highly significant at P≤0.01.