Table 4.

Shoot length, tap root length, number of lateral roots, and total chlorophyll content of three transgenic plants and one control were subjected to mannitol stress treatments.

Traits	Treatment (mM-Mannitol)	Treatment mean	Significance
(A)
Shoot Length (cm)	0	11.38	A
Shoot Length (cm)	200	4.93	B
Shoot Length (cm)	300	2.19	C
Tap root length (cm)	0	5.06	A
Tap root length (cm)	200	4.94	AB
Tap root length (cm)	300	4.56	B
No. of lateral roots	0	22.06	A
No. of lateral roots	200	13.75	B
No. of lateral roots	300	9.94	C
Total Chlorophyll	0	3.694	A
Total Chlorophyll	200	1.437	B
Total Chlorophyll	300	1.07	C
Traits	Plant lines	Mean of plants	Significance
(B)
Shoot Length (cm)	L1-5	6.97	A
Shoot Length (cm)	L8-3	6.64	AB
Shoot Length (cm)	L16-2	6.09	B
Shoot Length (cm)	Control	4.97	C
Tap root length (cm)	L1-5	6.1	A
Tap root length (cm)	L8-3	5.47	B
Tap root length (cm)	L16-2	5.32	B
Tap root length (cm)	Control	2.52	C
No. of lateral roots	L1-5	19.19	A
No. of lateral roots	L8-3	18.56	A
No. of lateral roots	L16-2	16.33	B
No. of lateral roots	Control	6.93	C
Total Chlorophyll	L1-5	2.353	A
Total Chlorophyll	L8-3	1.985	B
Total Chlorophyll	L16-2	2.206	A
Total Chlorophyll	Control	1.723	C

Based on Two-way ANOVA results, treatments mean (A) and plant lines data (B) were compared by Turkey-Kramer test at 5% LSD. The treatments were significant, different alphabet letters were indicated. Similar letters denotes non-significant.