TABLE 2.

Effect of sodium silicate priming treatments on water status and yield parameters.

Water status/yield parameters	Treatments
	Non-stress				Under water-deficit stress
	Control	20 mM	40 mM	60 mM	Control	20 mM	40 mM	60 mM
		sodium silicate	sodium silicate	sodium silicate		sodium silicate	sodium silicate	sodium silicate
Water potential (MPa)	0.540 ± 0.008e	0.511 ± 0.002f	0.494 ± 0.002fg	0.475 ± 0.004g	0.967 ± 0.017a	0.875 ± 0.004b	0.705 ± 0.004c	0.566 ± 0.004d
Osmotic potential (MPa)	1.110 ± 0.002g	1.114 ± 0.002g	1.127 ± 0.001f	1.1338 ± 0.002e	1.343 ± 0.004a	1.295 ± 0.003b	1.218 ± 0.003c	1.176 ± 0.005d
Turgor potential (MPa)	0.570 ± 0.007d	0.603 ± 0.004c	0.633 ± 0.001b	0.664 ± 0.002a	0.376 ± 0.013g	0.420 ± 0.006f	0.513 ± 0.001e	0.611 ± 0.005c
Plant biomass (g)	4.011 ± 0.094e	5.111 ± 0.075c	5.833 ± 0.110ab	5,923 ± 0.019a	3.560 ± 0.143f	5.142 ± 0.048c	4.564 ± 0,030d	5.504 ± 0.171b
100-grain weight (g)	2.962 ± 0.028b	3.764 ± 0.104a	3.419 ± 0.084ab	3.286 ± 0.054ab	2.223 ± 0.096c	3.387 ± 0.106ab	2.819 ± 0.104bc	2.869 ± 0.104bc
Yield/plant (g)	1.217 ± 0.022ef	2.415 ± 0.068b	2.654 ± 0.098a	2.693 ± 0.033a	1.097 ± 0.023f	1.352 ± 0.003de	1.417 ± 0.011d	1.898 ± 0.089c

Mean values of three replicates are presented. Within a column, means sharing the same letters are non-significantly different (p > 0.05 and p > 0.01) according to Tukey’s HSD test.