Table 1.
Effects of NaCl concentrations on seed germination of two soybean genotypes with different salt stress tolerance. Values denoted by different letters are significantly different at P < 0.05.
| Salt concentration (mM NaCl) | Clark (salt-tolerant) |
Kint (salt-sensitive) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final germination (%) | Rate of germination/day | Final germination (%) | Rate of germination/day | |
| Control | 97.2 a ± 1.92 | 47.8 a ± 1.81 | 98.6 a ± 2.14 | 36.2 b ± 1.64 |
| 100 mM NaCl | 96.2 a ± 1.30 | 34.4 b ± 1.58 | 91.8 b ± 1.87 | 26.4 c ± 1.67 |
| 200 mM NaCl | 93.2 b ± 0.83 | 23.0 c ± 1.42 | 87.6 c ± 1.04 | 16.4 d ± 1.34 |
| 300 mM NaCl | 68.6 e ± 2.40 | 6.81 e ± 0.37 | 79.4 d ± 0.89 | 1.47 f ± 0.54 |
| LSD at: 0.05 | 0.78 | 1.41 | 1.68 | 1.00 |