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

Table 3

Mean biochemical and physiological response of Peking and LS678 soybean plants subjected to salinity stress.

Cultivar	Treatment	Phenolics (mg/g) ± SD	Flavonoids (mg/g) ± SD	Carbohydrates (mg/g) ± SD	Total chl (a + b)	Car	Antioxidant activity (%) ± SD
Peking	NaClA	3.084 ± 0.481^b	2.630 ± 0.661^bc	70.380 ± 0.319^a	2.89^b	1.47^a	44.20 ± 0.176 ^d
	NaClB	2.339 ± 0.240^c	2.371 ± 0.345^b	27.091 ± 0.426^e	1.88^b	0.23^d	34.54 ± 0.160^f
	NaClB + BA	3.980 ± 0.324^a	2.961 ± 0.694^a	38.221 ± 0.303^d	2.31^a	0.49^c	66.17 ± 0.468 ^b
LS678	NaClA	3.115 ± 0.454^b	2.113 ± 0.870^c	60.014 ± 0.120^b	2.99^a	1.02^b	56.01 ± 0.894^c
	NaClB	2.281 ± 0.394^c	1.008 ± 0.274^d	24.942 ± 0.745^f	0.87^b	0.24^d	37.27 ± 0.737^e
	NaClB + BA	4.026 ± 0.222^a	2.586 ± 0.466^cb	58.766 ± 0.097^c	2.13^a	0.52^c	73.93 ± 0.121^a

Chl- chlorophyll, Car- carotenoids, SD- standard deviation. Mean values within column followed by the same letter are significantly different at 5% value according to Duncan’s test.