Table 3.

Effect of salinity on total chlorophyll content (% reduction) of 13 purslane accessions.

Accession number	Total chlorophyll contents (SPAD value) (% changes)
	8 dS m−1	16 dS m−1	24 dS m−1	32 dS m−1
Ac1	4.78	3.98	4.78	3.98
Ac2	+1.87	+2.62	11.99	12.36
Ac3	15.02	9.01	9.61	6.31
Ac4	5.39	+3.29	12.57	21.86
Ac5	14.29	11.11	17.06	21.43
Ac6	2.36	+3.37	9.09	19.19
Ac7	17.08	18.63	21.12	39.44
Ac8	+3.64	+1.82	11.21	18.79
Ac9	11.38	13.01	23.59	25.14
Ac10	5.20	6.65	8.38	12.43
Ac11	0.32	3.90	16.88	18.83
Ac12	7.54	21.51	21.23	34.36
Ac13	4.51	4.23	5.07	16.34
Mean	6.45	6.55	13.51	19.72

The plus symbol (+) indicates % increase of chlorophyll contents.