Marker-Assisted Introgression of Saltol QTL Enhances Seedling Stage Salt Tolerance in the Rice Variety “Pusa Basmati 1”

Table 4

Interrelationships of cation content and their proportions in root and shoots under unstressed (lower diagonal) and salt-stressed (upper diagonal) conditions. Cross correlations between unstressed and stressed conditions are given as diagonal elements.

Parameters^†	St: Na^+	St: K^+	St: Na^+/K^+	Rt: Na^+	Rt: K^+	Rt: Na^+/K^+	STS
St: Na^+	0.072	0.101	0.658	0.380	−0.130	0.545	0.494
St: K^+	−0.063	0.171	−0.625	0.186	0.567	−0.389	−0.437
St: Na^+/K^+	0.864	−0.534	0.107	0.197	−0.519	0.801	0.833
Rt: Na^+	−0.105	−0.161	0.013	0.227	0.405	0.465	0.201
Rt: K^+	0.052	−0.250	0.176	0.480	0.115	−0.537	−0.551
Rt: Na^+/K^+	−0.135	0.086	−0.148	0.521	−0.490	0.244	0.908

^†St: Shoot; Rt: Root; Correlation coefficients are significant at level; STS: salt tolerance score.