Table 2.

Photosynthetic pigment content of leaves 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	Chlorophyll a (mg/g dw)			Chlorophyll b (mg/g dw)			Total chlorophyll (mg/g dw)			Carotenoids (mg/g dw)
	0 stress	NaCl stress	PEG stress	0 stress	NaCl stress	PEG stress	0 stress	NaCl stress	PEG stress	0 stress	NaCl stress	PEG stress
Pusa Ratna	18.78 ± 0.86 (16.51 ± 0.95)	12.00 ± 0.76 (12.00 ± 0.83)	09.00 ± 0.36 (09.00 ± 0.45)	05.99 ± 0.21 (05.15 ± 0.35)	02.92 ± 0.11 (03.03 ± 0.21)	02.81 ± 0.08 (02.24 ± 0.01)	24.77 ± 1.66 (21.69 ± 1.34)	14.51 ± 0.55 (15.01 ± 0.63)	11.12 ± 0.55 (12.44 ± 0.31)	08.69 ± 0.42 (06.79 ± 0.31)	05.14 ± 0.32 (05.30 ± 0.21)	03.72 ± 0.11 (04.07 ± 0.13)
Pusa 9531	18.51 ± 0.56 (15.98 ± 0.13)	15.17 ± 0.85 (12.72 ± 0.65)	05.23 ± 0.13 (03.23 ± 0.12)	06.29 ± 0.42 (05.09 ± 0.32)	04.50 ± 0.32 (04.02 ± 0.34)	01.41 ± 0.01 (00.94 ± 0.01)	24.74 ± 1.57 (21.03 ± 1.06)	19.64 ± 0.75 (16.65 ± 0.65)	08.33 ± 0.44 (04.17 ± 0.12)	07.61 ± 0.31 (06.41 ± 0.22)	06.02 ± 0.22 (05.25 ± 0.08)	02.63 ± 0.12 (01.48 ± 0.06)
Pusa Vishal	24.20 ± 1.06 (20.82 ± 0.95)	09.96 ± 0.44 06.36 ± 0.83)	11.55 ± 0.84 09.16 ± 0.54)	07.76 ± 0.31 (06.31 ± 0.21)	02.64 ± 0.09 (01.62 ± 0.01)	03.64 ± 0.09 02.46 ± 0.02)	31.93 ± 1.24 (27.03 ± 1.04)	12.96 ± 0.14 (07.96 ± 0.23)	18.72 ± 0.45 (11.59 ± 0.54)	09.97 ± 0.42 (07.78 ± 0.31)	04.46 ± 0.11 (03.36 ± 0.09)	04.65 ± 0.07 (04.14 ± 0.08)

*The values in the parenthesis denote the value of photosynthetic pigments in leaves of 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).