Fig. 5.

Percentage of increase in mitochondrial activity of seedlings raised from NaCl primed seeds of three different varieties of V. radiata as compared to that of seedlings raised from non primed seeds. Mitochondrial activity in seedlings raised from non primed seeds of Pusa Ratna in 0, NaCl, PEG stress is 44, 11, 27 μmol of O₂ consumed/mg protein/min, respectively; for Pusa 9531 in 0, NaCl, PEG stress is 40, 37, 22 μmol of O₂ consumed/mg protein/min, respectively and for Pusa Vishal in 0, NaCl, PEG stress is 40, 17, 30 μmol of O₂ evolved/mg protein/min, respectively. The vertical bars represent SE of the mean value of recordings from three independent experiments each with a minimum of three replicates. Values super scribed with same alphabet is homogenous for each stress at 1 % level significance (p < 0.01; ANOVA)