. 2021 Oct 27;10(11):2316. doi: 10.3390/plants10112316

Table 3.

Response of growth and yield traits of salt-stressed chili pepper to foliar spray with bee-honey (HB) supplemented with silymarin (HB-Sm).

Treatment	Growth Characteristics
	Shoot FW (g plant⁻¹)	Shoot DW (g plant⁻¹)		Root FW (g plant⁻¹)		Root DW (g plant⁻¹)
Control	81.2 ± 5.1 ^b	50.2 ± 3.2 ^b		23.5 ± 2.1 ^c		12.7 ± 1.1 ^c
HB	85.7 ± 5.9 ^ab	56.04 ± 0.51 ^ab		28.4 ± 3.5 ^b		14.5 ± 0.33 ^b
HB-Sm	91.4 ± 6.2 ^a	58.8 ± 0.55 ^a		31.4 ± 3.8 ^a		16.5 ± 0.32 ^a
Salinity (S)	34.1 ± 2.4 ^d	23.2 ± 0.22 ^d		11.3 ± 1.9 ^e		5.2 ± 0.18 ^e
S + HB	51.2 ± 3.7 ^c	34.5 ± 0.38 ^c		15.2 ± 2.7 ^d		8.1 ± 0.22 ^d
S + HB-Sm	77.8 ± 4.9 ^b	49.2 ± 0.44 ^b		22.8 ± 3.2 ^c		12.5 ± 0.22 ^c
	Yield Parameters
	No. of fruits plant⁻¹		Fresh fruit weights (g plant⁻¹)		Dry fruit weights (g plant⁻¹)
Control	8.2 ± 0.7 ^b		14.8 ± 1.5 ^b		5.4 ± 0.3 ^c
HB	8.7 ± 0.9 ^ab		15.4 ± 1.5 ^ab		6.1 ± 0.4 ^b
HB-Sm	9.4 ± 1.0 ^a		15.9 ± 1.6 ^a		7.1 ± 0.6 ^a
Salinity (S)	4.3 ± 0.5 ^d		7.2 ± 0.8 ^d		2.1 ± 0.2 ^e
S + HB	6.1 ± 0.6 ^c		10.8 ± 0.9 ^c		4.1 ± 0.3 ^d
S + HB-Sm	7.8 ± 0.8 ^b		14.4 ± 1.2 ^b		5.2 ± 0.4 ^c

Means (±SE) in each column followed by different letters are significant at the p ≤ 0.05 level based on Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) tests. Growth characteristics were measured in 50 days after transplanting (DAT) samples, while yield parameters were assessed at harvest (95 DAT). FW = fresh weight and DW = dry weight.