Table 1.

Shoot length, fresh weight and dry weight of three varieties of V. radiata seedlings under halopriming exposed to 0, NaCl and PEG-6000 stress. The data is an average of recordings from three independent experiments each with three replicates (i.e. n = 9). The data represent mean ± standard error

Varieties	Shoot length /plant (cm)			Fresh weight/plant(g)			Dry weight/plant(g)
	0 stress	NaCl stress	PEG stress	0 stress	NaCl stress	PEG stress	0 stress	NaCl stress	PEG stress
Pusa Ratna	18.47 ± 0.51 (17.83 ± 0.43)	11.07 ± 0.60 (08.93 ± 0.31)	10.73 ± 0.66 (07.30 ± 0.32)	0.2911 ± 0.01 (0.2152 ± 0.01)	0.1907 ± 0.01 (0.1297 ± 0.01)	0.1588 ± 0.01 (0.1240 ± 0.01)	0.0291 ± 0.01 (0.0261 ± 0.01)	0.0192 ± 0.01 (0.0126 ± 0.01)	0.0175 ± 0.01 (0.0155 ± 0.01)
Pusa 9531	17.00 ± 0.75 (13.53 ± 0.64)	09.73 ± 0.43 (09.63 ± 0.32)	03.93 ± 0.21 (03.87 ± 0.18)	0.2180 ± 0.01 (0.1988 ± 0.01)	0.2010 ± 0.01 (0.1660 ± 0.01)	0.0750 ± 0.01 (0.0660 ± 0.01)	0.0130 ± 0.01 (0.0100 ± 0.01)	0.0170 ± 0.01 (0.0160 ± 0.01)	0.0246 ± 0.01 (0.0200 ± 0.01)
Pusa Vishal	18.67 ± 0.75 (17.57 ± 0.78)	06.30 ± 0.51 (04.63 ± 0.38)	06.97 ± 0.65 (05.93 ± 0.42)	0.2921 ± 0.01 (0.2919 ± 0.01)	0.1312 ± 0.01 (0.1107 ± 0.01)	0.1585 ± 0.01 (0.1298 ± 0.01)	0.0194 ± 0.01 (0.0179 ± 0.01)	0.0154 ± 0.01 (0.0110 ± 0.01)	0.0181 ± 0.01 (0.0139 ± 0.01)

*The values in the parenthesis denote the value of respective parameters in the three varieties of V. radiata seedlings raised from non-primed seeds exposed to 0, NaCl and PEG-6000 stress. All the values were significantly different as estimated by two way ANOVA test (p < 0.01).