Table 1.
Effect of NaCl (200 mM) on morphological criteria (shoot height(SH) [cm], root depth(RD) [cm], shoot dry weight (DW) [g] of and rootDW[g] A.gerrardii treated with and without 24-epibrassinolide. Data presented is the mean of 10 replicates.
| Morphological criteria |
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| Shoot |
Root | SH/RD | ||||
| Treatments | Height | DW | Depth | DW | SDW/RDW | |
| Control | 47.1 ± 2.11b | 1.6 ± 0.14b | 45.7 ± 2.07b | 1.26 ± 0.07b | 1.03 ± 0.04ab | 1.28 ± 0.01b |
| EBL | 64.7 ± 2.64a | 2.5 ± 0.18a | 61.2 ± 2.81a | 1.99 ± 0.12a | 1.05 ± 0.04ab | 1.27 ± 0.01b |
| NaCl | 18.1 ± 1.72d | 0.5 ± 0.07d | 19.3 ± 1.42d | 0.38 ± 0.02d | 0.93 ± 0.03c | 1.38 ± 0.02ab |
| NaCl + EBL | 33.8 ± 1.96c | 1.2 ± 0.11c | 29.4 ± 1.68c | 0.87 ± 0.06c | 1.15 ± 0.04a | 1.46 ± 0.06a |
| LSD at: 0.05 | 3.78 | 0.23 | 4.82 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.01 |