Table 1.

Shoot and root fresh weight, shoot and root dry weight, leaf RWC, and Pro content in leaves of wheat (Triticum aestivum L) seedlings under different levels of pH. Means (±SD) were calculated from three replications (n = 3) for each treatment. Values with different letters are significantly different at p ≤ 0.05 when applying Fisher’s LSD test.

Treatments	Plant Height (cm)	Root Length (cm)	Shoot FW (g plant−1)	Root FW (g plant−1)	Shoot DW (g plant−1)	Root DW (%)	Leaf RWC (%)	Pro (nmol g−1FW)
pH 4.0	10.32 ± 0.23c	5.34 ± 0.04c	0.98 ± 0.003b	0.17 ± 0.001d	0.15 ± 0.002b	0.05 ± 0.001c	82.31 ± 0.53c	5.53 ± 0.09b
pH 5.5	13.17 ± 0.37b	6.18 ± 0.08b	1.06 ± 0.056a	0.21 ± 0.002b	0.16 ± 0.002a	0.07 ± 0.002b	88.67 ± 1.23b	1.08 ± 0.04c
pH 7.0	15.33 ± 0.57a	6.52 ± 0.10a	1.12 ± 0.014a	0.24 ± 0.001a	0.16 ± 0.002a	0.07 ± 0.001a	94.31 ± 0.44a	0.30 ± 0.01d
pH 8.5	10.52 ± 0.13c	5.32 ± 0.02c	0.93 ± 0.003b	0.18 ± 0.001c	0.15 ± 0.001b	0.05 ± 0.001c	81.12 ± 0.21c	6.57 ± 0.10a