Table 8.

Salt tolerance shoot index (STI_S) and salt tolerance root index (STI_R) of two wheat genotypes at 2, 3 and 5 days of growth under salt treatments (90, 160 and 230 mM NaCl), combined (P-90 mM NaCl, P-160 mM NaCl and P-230 mM NaCl) treatments, and high voltage electrical discharge (HVED) pretreatment (P). Values are means of three repetitions (100 seeds/repetition) ± S.D. The different capital letters indicate significances among means of different treatments within the same genotype, while lowercase letters indicate significances among means and between genotypes under the same treatment at p < 0.05 using LSD post hoc-test.

Treatment	STI_S						STI_R
	2d		3d		5d			Bernarda	Tena
	Bernarda	Tena	Bernarda	Tena	Bernarda	Tena
90 mM NaCl	0.00 + 0.0 bC	0.00 + 0.0 bC	0.39 + 0.0 cB	0.19 + 0.0 dB	0.50 + 0.0 bB	0.28 + 0.0 dB	90 mM NaCl	0.46 + 0.0 bB	0.36 + 0.0 dB
160 mM NaCl	0.00 + 0.0 bC	0.00 + 0.0 bC	0.00 + 0.0 cD	0.00 + 0.0 cE	0.00 + 0.0 cD	0.00 + 0.0 cE	160 mM NaCl	0.00 + 0.0 bD	0.00 + 0.0 bE
230 mM NaCl	0.00 + 0.0 aC	0.00 + 0.0 aC	0.00 + 0.0 bD	0.00 + 0.0 bE	0.00 + 0.0 bD	0.00 + 0.0 bE	230 mM NaCl	0.00 + 0.0 bD	0.00 + 0.0 bE
P-90 mM NaCl	0.42 + 0.0 aA	0.43 + 0.0 aA	0.63 + 0.0 aA	0.54 + 0.0 bA	0.57 + 0.0 aA	0.43 + 0.0 cA	P-90 mM NaCl	0.57 + 0.0 aA	0.49 + 0.0 cA
P-160 mM NaCl	0.14 + 0.0 aB	0.14 + 0.0 aB	0.16 + 0.0 aC	0.12 + 0.0 bC	0.20 + 0.0 aC	0.19 + 0.0 bC	P-160 mM NaCl	0.27 + 0.0 aC	0.28 + 0.0 aC
P-230 mM NaCl	0.00 + 0.0 aC	0.00 + 0.0 aC	0.00 + 0.0 bD	0.04 + 0.0 aD	0.00 + 0.0 bD	0.01 + 0.0 aD	P-230 mM NaCl	0.00 + 0.0 bD	0.03 + 0.0 aD