Table 2.

Growth characteristics of regenerants of the date palm cv. Khalas subjected to salt stress after regeneration from salt-stressed cultures

Regenerants/characters		Shoot dry weight (g)	Root dry weight (g)	Total dry weight (g)	Dry weight shoot/root ratio
Control	0	0.795 ± 0.181a	0.365 ± 0.117a	1.160 ± 0.253a	2.18 ± 0.661a
Salt non-adapted (SNA)	100	0.222 ± 0.022c	0.180 ± 0.018d	0.403 ± 0.040e	1.23 ± 0.002b
	200	0.690 ± 0.075a	0.289 ± 0.051bc	0.980 ± 0.094b	2.44 ± 0.423a
	300	0.460 ± 0.082b	0.306 ± 0.055ab	0.766 ± 0.137c	1.50 ± 0.001b
Salt adapted (SA)	100:100	0.267 ± 0.029c	0.241 ± 0.026bcd	0.509 ± 0.054de	1.11 ± .0.001b
	200:200	0.300 ± 0.042c	0.231 ± 0.032 cd	0.531 ± 0.073de	1.30 ± 0.001b
	300:300	0.328 ± 0.055c	0.292 ± 0.049bc	0.620 ± 0.104 cd	1.12 ± 0.001b

Means followed by the same letter(s) are not significantly different at the 5% level of probability