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. 2017 Apr 7;8:453. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00453

Table 6.

Shoot length, tap root length, number of lateral roots, and total chlorophyll content of three transgenic plants and one control were subjected to different concentrations of NaCl (salinity) stress treatments.

Traits Treatment (mM-NaCl) Treatment mean Significance
(A)
Shoot length (cm) 0 11.71 A
Shoot length (cm) 100 8.79 B
Shoot length (cm) 200 7.54 C
Tap root LENGTH (cm) 0 3.99 A
Tap root Length (cm) 100 2.72 B
Tap root length (cm) 200 2.64 B
No. of lateral roots 0 22.31 A
No. of lateral roots 100 15.11 B
No. of lateral roots 200 8.83 C
Total chlorophyll 0 3.704 A
Total chlorophyll 100 2.212 B
Total chlorophyll 200 1.125 C
Traits Plant lines Mean of plants Significance
(B)
Shoot length (cm) L1-5 10.46 A
Shoot length (cm) L8-3 10.26 A
Shoot length (cm) L16-2 10.10 A
Shoot length (cm) Control 6.57 B
Tap root length (cm) L1-5 3.70 A
Tap root length (cm) L8-3 3.48 A
Tap root length (cm) L16-2 3.48 A
Tap root length (cm) Control 1.80 B
No. of lateral roots L1-5 18.67 A
No. of lateral roots L8-3 18.33 A
No. of lateral roots L16-2 16.70 A
No. of lateral roots Control 7.96 B
Total chlorophyll L1-5 2.41 AB
Total chlorophyll L8-3 2.66 A
Total chlorophyll L16-2 2.33 AB
Total chlorophyll Control 2.00 B

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.