Responses of Jatropha curcas to Salt and Drought Stresses

Table 3

Leaf sodium (Na⁺) and chloride (Cl⁻) uptake of Jatropha plants irrigated with saline solution at electrical conductivity (EC) of 1.6 (control), 3.0, 6.0, or 9.0 dS m⁻¹.

Treatment	Na^+ (g kg DW^−1)	Cl^− (g kg DW^−1)
Control	10.5^cz	11.9^c
EC 3	23.6^b	17.0^b
EC 6	27.1^b	21.0^a
EC 9	34.6^a	20.3^ab

^zmeans in the same column with same letters are not significantly different tested by Duncan’s multiple comparison.