Table 5.
Effect of salinity on leaf relative water content of six turfgrass species.
| ECw
(dS m−1) |
Turfgrass species (relative water contents in %, fresh weight) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. vaginatum | Z. japonica | Z. matrella | D. didactyla | C. dactylon “Tifdwarf” | C. dactylon “Satiri” | LSD (0.05) | |
| 0 | 93.16 a | 89.48 a | 89.89 a | 87.33 a | 90.85 a | 90.18 a | 8.83 |
| 8 | 90.24 ab | 87.57 a | 90.97 a | 86.28 a | 90.14 a | 90.39 a | 6.29 |
| 16 | 90.23 ba | 85.22 a | 86.87 a | 84.78 a | 85.02 ba | 86.19 a | 6.64 |
| 24 | 87.84 ba | 84.92 a | 88.51 a | 82.42 a | 83.91 ba | 78.59 b | 9.92 |
| 32 | 86.04 b bc | 78.39 b | 84.09 a | 68.06 b | 78.70 b | 76.42 b | 9.97 |
| 40 | 79.77 dc | 72.28 c | 73.28 b | 63.46 b | 65.27 c | 64.85 b | 9.51 |
| 48 | 78.68 b | 66.30 d | 64.98 c | 55.35 c | 62.51 c | 57.30 c | 8.03 |
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| LSD (0.05) | 6.49 | 5.94 | 8.05 | 5.85 | 8.76 | 6.97 | |
Means within columns followed by the same letter are not significantly different at P = 0.05 (LSD test).