Table 5 Effect of soaking two sugar beet seed cultivars with tryptophan and irrigated with different salinity levels on shoot parameters at harvest (180 days after sowing)
Treatment | Shoot parameters at harvest | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Salinity (ppm) | Try. (mM) | Length (cm) | Fresh wt. (g) | ||
DS-9004 | LP-15 | DS-9004 | LP-15 | ||
320 | 0.0 | 26.00 | 30.00 | 222.00 | 200.00 |
2.5 | 29.00 | 32.00 | 299.00 | 213.00 | |
5.0 | 28.00 | 31.00 | 279.00 | 203.00 | |
2000 | 0.0 | 24.00 | 26.00 | 217.00 | 177.00 |
2.5 | 29.00 | 30.00 | 273.00 | 198.00 | |
5.0 | 28.00 | 27.00 | 260.00 | 186.00 | |
4000 | 0.0 | 24.00 | 23.00 | 194.00 | 152.00 |
2.5 | 28.00 | 30.00 | 268.00 | 179.00 | |
5.0 | 27.00 | 24.00 | 256.00 | 169.00 | |
6000 | 0.0 | 23.00 | 18.00 | 189.00 | 148.00 |
2.5 | 25.00 | 27.00 | 230.00 | 173.00 | |
5.0 | 24.00 | 22.00 | 223.00 | 158.00 | |
8000 | 0.0 | 20.00 | 15.00 | 183.00 | 116.00 |
2.5 | 23.00 | 22.00 | 218.00 | 139.00 | |
5.0 | 21.00 | 20.00 | 195.00 | 127.00 | |
LSD5% | 0.32 | 5.95 | |||
Mean of main effects | |||||
Variety | DS-9004 | 25.27 | 233.73 | ||
LP-15 | 25.13 | 169.20 | |||
F sig. | a | a | |||
Salinity (ppm) | 320.0 | 29.33 | 236.00 | ||
2000.0 | 27.33 | 218.50 | |||
4000.0 | 26.00 | 203.00 | |||
6000.0 | 23.17 | 186.83 | |||
8000.0 | 20.17 | 163.00 | |||
LSD5% | 0.23 | 4.34 | |||
Try. (mM) | 0.0 | 19.08 | 149.83 | ||
2.5 | 22.92 | 182.50 | |||
5.0 | 21.00 | 171.33 | |||
LSD5% | 0.17 | 3.26 | |||