Figure 2.

Effect of increasing NaCl concentrations on biological parameters, photosynthetic pigments, and enzymatic activity of pea plants raised in pot soils treated with 0, 2, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 400 mM NaCl; seed germination (A), plant length (B), dry biomass at 90 DAS (C), dry biomass at 130 DAS (D), chlorophyll content (E), and nitrate reductase activity (F). Each value is a mean of three replicates where each replicate constituted three plants/pots. Mean values followed by different letters are significantly different at p ≤ 0.05 according to the DMRT test. Vertical bars represent means ± SD (n = 3), and error bars represent SD.