Table 1.

Effect of exogenous Na-acetate on fresh weight (FW), dry weight (DW), water content (WC), malondialdehyde (MDA), other aldehyde, and electrolyte leakage (EL) in lentil seedlings

	Treatments	FW (mg shoot−1)	DW (mg shoot−1)	Water content (%)	MDA (nmol g−1 FW)	Other aldehydes (µmol g−1 FW)	Electrolyte leakage (%)
Expt I	Con	72 ± 3.3a	11 ± 0.1a	85.0 ± 0.6a	20 ± 1.8b	0.28 ± 0.02b	24 ± 7.8c
	S+R	46 ± 6.3c	9.8 ± 0.9b	78.8 ± 1.2b	47 ± 9.5a	0.71 ± 0.07a	85 ± 5.1a
	S+A5+R	65 ± 1.7ab	10.2 ± 0.2ab	84.4 ± 0.6a	19 ± 0.8b	0.23 ± 0.04b	49 ± 2.4b
	S+A10+R	60 ± 2.2b	9.8 ± 0.5ab	83.6 ± 1.1a	21 ± 0.8b	0.21 ± 0.01b	47 ± 2.4b
Expt II	Con	383 ± 0.02a	44 ± 0.7a	88.5 ± 0.5a	21 ± 0.5b	0.24 ± 0.02b	7 ± 0.8c
	S	310 ± 0.03b	37 ± 2.7b	88.0 ± 0.6a	27 ± 2.1a	0.40 ± 0.08a	44 ± 4.1a
	S+A	366 ± 0.04ab	45 ± 4.4a	87.6 ± 1.1a	20 ± 3.3b	0.32 ± 0.04ab	28 ± 4.8b

Mean (± SD) were calculated from three replicates for each treatment. Values with different letters are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05 applying Fisher’s LSD test