Table 1. The relative growth rate of plant height, root length and fresh weight growth rates of transgenic lines transferred to 100 mM NaCl for one week.

Transgene	Line	Plant height (cm) before stress	Plant height (cm) after stress	The relative growth rate of plant height	Root length (cm) before stress	Root length (cm) after stress	The relative growth rate of root length	Fresh weight (mg/plant) before stress	Fresh weight (mg/plant) after stress	The relative growth rate of fresh weight
Empty	p1300	15.87±0.21	16.17±0.32	+0.02	9.57±0.31	10.73±0.25	+0.12	206.33±7.37	185.33±5.13	-0.10
AtGGP	V21	16.06±0.25	16.40±0.43	+0.02	10.28±0.21	11.98±0.15**	+0.17**	218.38±9.76	251.01±4.58**	+0.15**
	V22	16.02±0.14	16.78±0.65*	+0.05**	10.17±0.15	11.77±0.32**	+0.15*	214.34±6.31	286.49±4.16**	+0.34**
	V24	15.47±0.15	16.80±0.26**	+0.09**	10.13±0.15	11.37±0.21	+0.12	208.21±8.79	241.67±7.81**	+0.16**
AtGME	V35	15.41±0.21	16.94±0.21**	+0.10**	9.67±0.40	11.62±0.13**	+0.20**	209.46±7.10	235.08±6.03**	+0.12**
	V36	15.20±0.36	17.18±0.23**	+0.13**	9.54±0.17	11.53±0.26*	+0.21**	202.33±8.22	247.29±7.21**	+0.22**
	V40	15.16±0.37	17.43±0.26**	+0.15**	9.23±0.46	11.05±0.32	+0.20**	193.37±5.03	207.67±5.51*	+0.07**

The data is presented as mean ± SD of at least twelve plants.

* and ** represent significant differences (Tukey’s test) at p≤0.05 and p≤0.01, respectively.