Table 5. Effect of 100 mM NaCl with or without glutathione, ascorbic acid, or amino acid mixture on the shoot and root succulence of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.

Treatments	Succulence
	Shoot		Root
	G124	G119	G124	G119
Control	11.7±0.5	10.3±1.1	0.9±0.3	2.6±0.3
NaCl	10.6±0.3	8.5±0.2	1.4±0.1	7.6±1.5
Glutathione	11.2±0.1	11.5±1.0	1.5±0.1	4.3±0.1
Glutathione plus salt	10.7±1.9	10.8±1.1	1.2±0.1	2.9±0.1
Ascorbic acid	9.6 ±1.2	11.1±1.4	2.2±0.2	2.4±0.3
Ascorbic acid plus salt	10.3±0.9	11.6±2.0	2.4±0.6	4.3±0.2
Amino acid mixtures	8.7±1.2	8.8±0.9	2.9±0.1	22.3±0.6
Amino acids plus salt	7.4±0.6	11.3±1.1	1.9±0.1	2.6±0.1
F	5.94	2.99	20.30	31.38
P	**	*	**	**
LSD	1.74	2.10	0.43	0.98

ns=not significant.

^*Significant at P≤0.05.

^**Highly significant at P≤0.01.