. 2009 Aug 8;104(5):925–936. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcp174

Table 1.

Leaf water content (in %; measured on fully expanded leaves) in seedlings of Atriplex halimus issued from a coastal site (Monastir) or an inland area (Sbikha) and exposed for 1 or 10 d to control nutrient solution or to a nutrient solution containing 40 or 160 mm NaCl or 15 % PEG

Treatment	Population	1 d	10 d
Control	Monastir	84·2 ± 0·7^a	83·9 ± 1·0^a
	Sbikha	85·3 ± 1·3^a	82·1 ± 0·8^a
40 mm NaCl	Monastir	83·9 ± 0·9^a	82·8 ± 1·1^a
	Sbikha	83·4 ± 1·2^a	81·7 ± 0·8^b
160 mm NaCl	Monastir	81·5 ± 0·2^b	77·9 ± 0·4^bc
	Sbikha	76·8 ± 0·4^c	72·5 ± 1·2^d
15 % PEG	Monastir	77·3 ± 0·8^c	70·1 ± 0·4^e
	Sbikha	84·1 ± 0·4^a	78·2 ± 1·1^c

Each value is the mean of six replicates ± s.e. of the means. For a given time, values sharing a common superscript letter are not significantly different at P < 0·05.