Table 2.

Total sugars in developing pods (~10–15mm long with presence of small immature seed/s), second youngest fully-expanded leaves (petiole+leaflets), stems and roots of chickpea (Rupali) subjected to control or 30mM NaCl treatments either without infusion or with stem-infusion with water or 0.44M sucrose (Ψπ=–1.1MPa)

Plants were grown in nutrient solution culture and NaCl treatments were imposed on 20-day-old plants for 97 d (20/15±2 °C day/night air temperatures). Infusion treatments were started at the time of flowering (42-day-old plants) and continued until maturity. Tissues were harvested after 28 d of infusion treatments. Values are means±SE (n=4). Two-way ANOVA was used to compare salt (S), infusion (I) and salt × infusion interaction (S × I) effects (***, significant with P<0.001; **, significant with P<0.01; *, significant with P<0.05; ^n.s., not significant with P>0.05). Different upper case superscript letters for means within a column or across a row indicate significant differences between means for salt treatments or infusion treatments at P=0.05, respectively, whereas different lower case superscript letters indicate significant differences for salt × infusion interaction at P=0.05.

Tissue	Treatment	Total sugars (µmol hexose equivalents g–1 EtOH insoluble dry mass)
		No Infusion	Water Infusion	Sucrose infusion	Mean	Significance
Developing pods	Non-saline	28.9a±2.0	28.7a±0.7	29.2a±1.6	28.9A	salt**
	30mM NaCl	22.5b±1.7	23.5b±1.4	30.3a±2.0	25.5B	infusion*
	Means	25.7B	26.1B	29.7A		salt × infusion*
Leaves	Non-saline	33.5±2.8	32.9±1.4	48.3±3.4	38.2A	salt***
	30mM NaCl	26.3±2.8	25.7±1.5	37.1±1.7	29.7B	infusion***
	Means	29.9B	29.3B	42.7A		salt × infusionn.s.
Stems	Non-saline	43.3±1.9	46.6±3.0	63.1±1.5	51.0A	salt***
	30mM NaCl	22.9±3.1	25.4±1.6	42.9±5.9	30.4B	infusion***
	Means	33.1B	36.0B	53.0A		salt × infusionn.s.
Roots	Non-saline	62.0±7.4	71.3±11.5	75.2±3.6	69.5A	salt***
	30mM NaCl	37.7±2.4	32.2±0.6	45.7±2.0	38.5B	infusion n.s.
	Means	49.9	51.7	60.5		salt × infusionn.s.