Table 4.

Significance of the main factors (nutrient solution, biostimulant and salinity) and their interactions on content of glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch, hexoses and soluble proteins in leaves of MicroTom plants. Experimental design is as in Table 1.

	Glucose	Fructose	Hexoses	Sucrose	Starch	Soluble Proteins
	µmol g−1 FW	µmol g−1 FW	µmol g−1 FW	µmol g−1 FW	µmol g−1 Glueq FW	mg g−1 FW
Nutrient solution (N)	ns	*	ns	ns	ns	ns
100% BNS	10.17	2.56 a	12.73	2.05	2.76	12.24
70% BNS	10.70	2.25 b	12.47	2.26	2.76	12.21
Biostimulant (B)	***	ns	***	***	***	**
Control	13.73 a	2.38	16.11 a	3.04 a	3.22 a	13.42 a
Rygex	9.46 b	2.38	11.85 b	1.82 b	2.26 c	12.32 a
Superfifty	7.95 c	2.47	9.84 c	1.57 b	2.80 b	10.89 b
Salinity (S)	**	**	**	*	**	ns
S0	10.71 a	2.05 b	12.75 b	1.92 b	2.53 b	12.22
S1	11.60 a	2.68 a	13.49 a	2.22 ab	3.11 a	12.31
S2	9.05 b	2.51 a	11.55 b	2.33 a	2.65 b	12.14
NxB	***	ns	***	*	ns	ns
NxS	ns	ns	ns	*	*	ns
BxS	*	ns	ns	ns	***	ns
NxBxS	***	ns	***	***	***	**
100% Control S0	17.68 a	2.19	19.87 a	3.54 ab	3.61 ab	14.40 ab
100% Control S1	16.87 ab	2.43	19.30 a	2.66 bcd	3.42 b	13.46 ab
100% Control S2	9.60 cde	2.76	12.35 bcd	2.44 bcde	3.07 b	12.23 ab
100% Rygex S0	6.46 e	1.85	8.31 d	1.15 e	2.47 bc	11.19 ab
100% Rygex S1	7.17 e	2.66	9.83 cd	1.58 de	2.22 bc	12.39 ab
100% Rygex S2	8.15 de	2.73	10.88 bcd	1.93 de	2.03 bc	12.71 ab
100% Superfifty S0	8.20 de	2.60	10.80 bcd	1.45 de	2.46 bc	10.87 ab
100% Superfifty S1	8.54 de	2.93	11.48 bcd	1.86 de	2.91 b	11.27 ab
100% Superfifty S2	8.86 de	2.87	11.73 bcd	1.84 de	2.67 bc	11.64 ab
70% Control S0	9.45 cde	2.06	11.51 bcd	1.96 cde	1.16 c	10.61 ab
70% Control S1	15.72 ab	2.69	18.41 a	3.33 abc	5.18 a	13.92 ab
70% Control S2	13.08 abcd	2.12	15.20 abc	4.29 a	2.87 b	15.90 a
70% Rygex S0	14.98 abc	1.71	16.69 ab	2.21 bcde	2.33 bc	14.52 ab
70% Rygex S1	11.93 bcde	2.59	14.51 abc	2.16 bcde	2.05 bc	12.05 ab
70% Rygex S2	8.10 de	2.75	10.85 bcd	1.90 de	2.49 bc	11.08 ab
70% Superfifty S0	7.46 de	1.89	9.35 cd	1.20 e	3.15 b	11.74 ab
70% Superfifty S1	8.26 de	2.81	11.07 bcd	1.50 de	2.79 bc	10.41 ab
70% Superfifty S2	6.49 e	1.81	8.30 d	1.57 de	2.80 bc	9.29 b

ns, *, **, *** Nonsignificant or significant at p ≤ 0.05, 0.01, and 0.001, respectively. Different letters indicate statistically different groups (p < 0.05, Tukey’s post hoc test following ANOVA; n = 3).