Table 8. 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 and root of two barley cultivars at the seedling stage.
| Treatments | Shoot | Root | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G124 | G119 | G124 | G119 | |
| Control | 41.3±0.0 | 30.0±0.1 | 41.9±0.0 | 25.6±0.2 |
| NaCl | 30.9 ±0.1 | 22.7±0.2 | 21.8±0.0 | 9.6±0.1 |
| Glutathione | 36.3±0.0 | 26.9±0.1 | 28.9±0.0 | 26.7±0.1 |
| Glutathione plus salt | 35.4±0.0 | 29.2±0.0 | 22.5±0.0 | 29.2±0.0 |
| Ascorbic acid | 40.0±0.1 | 25.5±0.1 | 40.1±0.0 | 22.1±0.1 |
| Ascorbic acid plus salt | 35.7±0.2 | 26.6±0.1 | 27.8±0.0 | 36.6±0.0 |
| Amino acid mixtures | 40.4±0.0 | 27.9±0.0 | 27.5±0.0 | 26.2±0.1 |
| Amino acids plus salt | 41.3±0.0 | 26.6±0.0 | 43.9±0.0 | 27.2±0.0 |
| F | 2347.45 | 1316.51 | 19213.68 | 21155.64 |
| P | ** | ** | ** | ** |
| LSD | 0.22 | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.15 |
**
Highly significant at P≤0.01.