Table 3.

Effect of NaCl stress on the appearance of the first two cotyledonary leaves of tomato seedlings

Treatments	Number of seedlings		Percentage = Seedling number showing the first two cotyledonary leaves/total seedling number*100
	After 4 days	After 6 days	After 4 days	After 6 days
T0	3 ± 0.587a	8 ± 0.577a	37.5	100
T2	2 ± 0.577a	4.33 ± 0.88b	25	59.3
T4	1.33 ± 0.66a	3.33 ± 0.667b	12.5	37.5

T₀, T₂ and T₄ represent tomato seedlings grown on MS medium under 0, 50 and 100 mM NaCl stress

^*Data are mean of 5 replicates ± standard error

Different letters in the same column mean significant difference at the p < 0.05 level by Duncan’s new multiple range test