Role of Benzyladenine Seed Priming on Growth and Physiological and Biochemical Response of Soybean Plants Grown under High Salinity Stress Condition

Table 2

Mean yield responses in terms of flowering (Flw), number of pods/plant (MPP), pod length (PL), pod weight (PW), number of seeds/pod (NSP), and seed yield (SY) of Peking and LS678 soybeans grown under high amount of NaCl.

Cultivar	Treatment	Flw (%)	MPP	PL (cm)	PW (g)	NSP	SY (g/plant)
Peking	NaClA	98.2^a	38.2^a	3.95^a	1.33^b	3.0^a	20.30^c
	NaClB	35.5^f	11.8^f	3.55^e	1.06^e	3.0^a	9.22^f
	NAClB + BA	60.7^d	19.4^d	3.87^b	1.44^a	3.0^a	14.16^d
LS678	NaClA	94.5^b	40.9^b	3.72^c	1.22^c	3.0^a	21.40^a
	NaClB	40.1^e	13.4^e	3.62^d	1.11^d	3.0^a	10.75^e
	NaClB + BA	66.3^c	27.2^c	3.99^a	1.32^b	3.0^a	16.38^b

Mean values with similar superscript letters within columns are not significantly different at 0.05% confidence level according to Duncan’s test. NaCl_A refers to 0 mM, and NaCl_B to 250 mM of sodium chloride used.