. 2021 Apr 12;11:7992. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86401-0

Table 1.

Effect of PEG and its combination with NO and ABA (nitrate agonists) on length (shoot and root) and plant fresh and dry weight of 7-days-old B. juncea L. seedlings after 96 h exposure to the treatments.

Treatments	Shoot length (cm)	Root length (cm)	Fresh weight (g)	Dry weight (g)
Control	8 ± 0.46^bc	5 ± 0.25^b	0.077 ± 0.003^b	0.0057 ± 0.0001^ab
NO	9.1 ± 0.53^a	6.2 ± 0.30^a	0.105 ± 0.004^a	0.0071 ± 0.0002^a
ABA	8.9 ± 0.52^ab	6 ± 0.31^ab	0.095 ± 0.003^ab	0.0062 ± 0.0002^ab
PEG	6 ± 0.32^e	3 ± 0.14^c	0.036 ± 0.001^e	0.0024 ± 0.0001^c
PEG + NO	8.2 ± 0.47^bc	6 ± 0.25^a	0.065 ± 0.002^c	0.0060 ± 0.0002^ab
PEG + NO + ABA	7.8 ± 0.44^cd	5.8 ± 0.25^a	0.055 ± 0.002^d	0.0049 ± 0.0001^b
PEG + ABA	7 ± 0.39^d	5 ± 0.20^b	0.055 ± 0.002^d	0.0048 ± 0.0001^b

Values are mean ± S.E. of three independent experiments, each including four biological replicates. Different letters within the same column represent significant difference between treatments, where “a” corresponds to the highest value and “d” or “e” to the lowest value.