Table 1.

Statistics of various traits related to drought tolerance.

Traits	Control					PEG treatment
	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	SD	CV(%)	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	SD	CV (%)
PH (cm)	19.46	38.57	28.11	3.96	14.11	14.47	30.41	23.00	3.32	14.43
SDM (g)	0.20	0.74	0.42	0.10	24.57	0.04	0.49	0.28	0.08	30.06
RDM (g)	0.03	0.19	0.09	0.03	36.52	0.01	0.11	0.05	0.02	40.35
PC (μg/g.FW)	2.96	253.23	42.12	39.04	92.70	14.42	4451.77	833.79	799.55	95.89
SOD (U/g.FW)	14.81	163.95	75.23	27.20	36.15	19.16	635.79	156.96	76.48	48.73
MDA (nmoL/g.FW)	8.68	34.79	15.37	3.82	24.87	10.73	86.80	26.55	11.12	41.87
SS (mg/g.FW)	3.16	22.84	6.30	1.86	29.55	4.89	72.32	20.57	11.78	57.27
HL (cm)	3.07	7.33	5.22	0.62	11.79	2.50	6.08	4.25	0.50	11.77
GP (%)	19.44	100.00	79.07	13.98	17.68	13.89	97.22	73.24	13.99	19.10

PH, plant height; SDM, shoot dry matter; RDM, root dry matter; PC, proline content; SOD, superoxide dismutase activity; MDA, malonaldehyde content; SS, soluble sugar content; HL, hypocotyl length; GP, germination percentage; SD, standard deviations; CV, coefficient of variation; FW, fresh weight.